Lav gives good side-eye
Status:
Didn’t get to sleep til gone 7am which hasn’t happened for a long time. My mind was particularly serene and clear though, so it wasn’t a stress thing. Just didn’t sleep. Of course because I don’t have actual insomnia I slept through most of today but don’t feel too bad for it, all told. Let’s see if the melatonin works tonight…
A chain of thoughts found me thinking about my old friend Andy Roberts who died in 2005 and whose memorial gig was twenty years ago this Feb (some photos I took). Andy was one of those people who effortlessly crossed over between worlds. He was a fantastic cartoonist and massive comics nerd whilst also being an achingly cool musician as part of the band Linus. And he was also a really lovely man, so kind and generous and interested.
On a whim I looked up his daughter who must be about the age he was when I knew him and am delighted to see she’s a visual artist working in photography and doing some really interesting work. The resemblance is, of course, quite striking.
Overnight listening:
- In Our Time: The Great Gatsby
- Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince
- Night Tracks
Music:
- Ye Nuns - Nun More Black - more info, and one of the steps that got me to thinking about Andy (Charley Stone played at his memorial)
- Linus
Reading:
- Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?
- Trump’s assault on the Smithsonian: ‘The goal is to reframe the entire culture of the US’ - the doctrine that politics is downstream of culture, so you need to control cultural production, is behind this far-right obsession with museums and the arts.
Watching:
- Ants Pants: Odd ends, side jobs and stuff - vol25 2:32:55
- This Is How You Get JARHEAD Sequels 45:02 - A new Dan Olsen video essay is always something to celebrate, even a minor entry like this.