Mostly digging through past albums of bands I already like. My music taste has largely fossilized. And I realize that the artists I claim to enjoy, I’ve rarely explored their whole discography. So I try to do that. And when I feel like I’ve exhausted favorites, there are plenty of not-quite-favorites to give a deeper look at.

So I’m not looking for new groups too often. But when I am, these resources are useful:

• https://everynoise.com/engenremap.html
• https://www.gnoosic.com/
• Wikipedia (just looking at genre pages, or other bands that members of my favorite groups have been in or toured with, or super groups, etc)
• https://www.metal-archives.com/
• Pandora (used to be pretty good, but I haven’t used it much recently so idk)

So glad they don’t. A lot of modern layouts would do well to change to something simpler.

There’s a certain strain of thought that runs through my mind sometimes, that space is just too big and too empty to really be worth going into. Like the moon and Mars, maybe a couple other in-system planets, are the only things close enough for realistic human trips in lifetimes. And the trips so far have shown us that yes, those are just big balls of monotonous dirt. You ever kinda landed in that state of mind?

In spite of all that, I do still get excited about it, and really enjoyed following Artemis. Excited to see us (maybe, hopefully) land on the moon again soon. It’s remarkable that humans are able to rise to that challenge, and I hope we don’t ever entirely stop.

The premise doesn’t feel true for me. I’m in the US - Verne and Wells both seem well known generally. But that’s highly anecdotal of course.