A perfect day for DNTEL

a night stand situation, summer 2012

Ugh Facebook, I am only staying because of the memories feature, where the app will surface a collection of all the posts you shared that day since you have been using it. I guess I am not the only one and obviously, they do this deliberately, it prompts you to use the app once a day, increases the stickiness of the service, and makes you think twice about deleting your account.

The posts it surfaces for me, reach back to 14 years ago, which is quite scary – and, you guessed it, often quite cringy. But sometimes, it serves me little gems, mostly when it reminds me of music or books that I enjoyed a long time ago. Today, among other things, it surfaced a post from 10 years ago in which wrote “A perfect day for DNTEL” and linked to the album on Spotify. DNTEL is a project by Jimmy Tamborello, who is much better known as being part of the band The Postal Service.

The location of the post is tagged as Prenzlauer Berg, so I probably sat in L’s and my apartment high above the train tracks, on a summer day, the windows open– and listened to DNTEL’s album called “Aimlessness” from the same year. It was a Friday and back then working from home was not really a thing, so maybe I had the day off? Or Facebook got the location wrong and I was actually toiling away at my desk at the agency? Working on a pitch presentation or ideating social media campaigns that seem so very ridiculous when you think back at them now.

Anyhow, today I am sitting in my apartment in Zurich, the window open, the same record coming from my headphones, thinking how nice it is that past-me left all these snippets of herself on social media for me to dig back into. To be reminded of what enthused me so much, I deem it worth sharing on Facebook on July 13th, 2012.