Graphic PointCast WORK/LIFE cover with a cream timecard, cobalt clock, orange punch mark, chartreuse field, and black schedule lines bending out of office formation
ORIGINAL POINTCAST COVER / TYPE, CLOCK, TIMECARD

WORK/LIFE / ISSUE 001 / BLOCK 0555

ANOTHERMANICMONDAY

Eighteen tracks for clock-in comedy, friction, flow, identity, and the part where work has to return you to your actual life.

The first WORK/LIFE issue begins with the joke everyone knows, lets the clock become strange, and refuses to pretend a working day resolves cleanly.

EDITOR’S NOTE / 09:12 PT

Monday is a feeling. Worklife is the subject.

The first issue starts with The Bangles because the joke is better than pretending. From there, the playlist becomes less about Monday and more about the agreements hiding inside a working life: the clock, the name badge, the money, the room, the body, the exit.

The order is not a productivity hack. It is an opening essay made of recordings: funny, angry, elegant, popular, strange, and unresolved.

tracks
18
runtime
1 hr 10 min
movements
4
automation
none

LOCAL-ONLY INSTRUMENT / NO ACCOUNT / NO SEND

Where are you in the day?

09:12

Open one thing. Let the day become specific.

OFFICIAL SPOTIFY PLAYER / PUBLIC PLAYLIST

Press play. Keep the order.

Spotify supplies playback. PointCast does not proxy or restream audio.

THE EXACT ORDER / FOUR MOVEMENTS

A timesheet with better notes.

01

Clock in, laughing

The obvious opener, one ambient trapdoor, and two ways of admitting what time it is.

  1. 01

    Manic Monday

    The Bangles · Different Light (Expanded Edition)

    The joke is familiar because the arrangement still makes the complaint feel buoyant.

  2. 02

    The Big Ship — 2004 Remaster

    Brian Eno · Another Green World (2004 Remaster)

    Before the inbox, a three-minute room with no fluorescent ceiling.

  3. 03

    Monday Morning

    Fleetwood Mac · Fleetwood Mac

    The week comes back with harmonies, momentum, and a tiny deadline.

  4. 04

    9 to 5

    Dolly Parton · 9 To 5 And Odd Jobs

    A perfect pop machine whose grievance never got ironed out.

02

Who are you at work?

A name badge comes loose. Identity, refusal, rhythm, and one genuinely lovely day.

  1. 05

    You Can Call Me Al

    Paul Simon · Graceland (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

    The business card, the soft middle, the question of who exactly showed up.

  2. 06

    Watching The Wheels — Remastered 2010

    John Lennon · Double Fantasy

    A cheerful refusal to let productivity explain a whole person.

  3. 07

    Once in a Lifetime

    Talking Heads · Remain in Light

    The org chart dissolves and the life underneath it looks very surprising.

  4. 08

    Workin' Day and Night

    Michael Jackson · Off the Wall

    The fastest way through the to-do list, with the cost still audible.

  5. 09

    Lovely Day

    Bill Withers · Menagerie

    Not motivation. Company.

03

The fluorescent middle

Long hours, blue light, a live room, busy earning, and a town running on pressure.

  1. 10

    The Working Hour

    Tears For Fears · Songs From The Big Chair

    The middle of the day gets six and a half minutes of weather.

  2. 11

    Blue Monday

    New Order · Substance

    Machines, repetition, resentment, precision: the conference room becomes a club.

  3. 12

    This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) — Live

    Talking Heads · Stop Making Sense (Live)

    A live room that remembers people are the reason to build a room.

  4. 13

    Busy Earnin'

    Jungle · Jungle

    The title is on the nose; the groove is too good to file a complaint.

  5. 14

    Town Called Malice

    The Jam · The Gift

    Work leaves the office and becomes housing, streets, family, and pressure.

04

Exit interview

Work speaks plainly at the end: labor, options, the office invitation, and the knife.

  1. 15

    Workin' Woman Blues

    Valerie June · Pushin' Against A Stone

    The body keeps a more accurate timesheet than the office.

  2. 16

    Career Opportunities — Remastered

    The Clash · The Clash (Remastered)

    A job board read at exactly the correct speed.

  3. 17

    Step Into My Office, Baby

    Belle and Sebastian · Dear Catastrophe Waitress

    Charm, hierarchy, performance review, and a wink that does not clear the paperwork.

  4. 18

    Working for the Knife

    Mitski · Laurel Hell

    No false Friday ending. The first issue keeps one honest edge.

THE PUBLICATION CONTINUES / MONDAY DOES NOT OWN IT

Next: the desk, the lunch hour, the manager, the invoice, the exit.

A PointCast publication about jobs, tools, ambition, boredom, management, money, lunch, clothes, commutes, exits, and the emotional weather of getting something done.

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