I need to get macro on those raindrops and capture the worlds inside them.
Status:
Rest day. Brother-in-law Jeff dropped of a drive today with my Flickr account on it, downloaded using the script that gave me the fear last week and converted into a static website which can be hosted anywhere. It all ran smoothly, because of course my fears were unfounded, and he enjoyed the distraction, so all was good. I can now cancel my Flickr pro and if they delete everything it’s not the end of that world, cos I’ve got a copy.
I don’t resent paying. I’m just not using it anymore and they (quite fairly) put the price up. Shame it’s so all or nothing, but them’s the ways of things.
Overnight listening:
Music:
- Dogs by Nina Nastasia - blast from the John Peel days. Glorious. All Your Life is a masterpiece.
Reading:
- Discourse 2000: Quick, let’s make love, before you die: Death Planet - back to deconstructing obscure and rightfully forgotten 2000AD stories from 1978, this one drawn by one of the Eternaut guys but that can’t save it.
- ‘Soon I will die. And I will go with a great orgasm’: Xan Brooks interviews Alejandro Jodorowsky - what was your first contact with Jodo? Mine was a poster for Santa Sangre on the stairs of Forbidden Planet in 1989 which made me think, age 16, I should remember this, it might be important. It was.
- Thar She Blows - Erik Davis is teaching a course on Moby Dick, a book I suspect I will never read but still remain curious about. This is a nice introduction to its weird, Lovecraftian cosmic horror dimensions. “The Abyss that stares back with a creaturely eye”
- John Gyford’s memories of the Festival of Britain and Space House - Phil Gyford excerpts his dad’s contributions to a book on rebuilding post-war Britain.
- I research how people creatively express ‘queer joy’ online – here are three tips for trying it yourself - I’ve long believed that straight weirdoes can learn a lot from gay weirdos, for reasons I wrote about in 2022.
- Jason Williamson Interviews Ben Wheatley… and Vice Versa - “There is a line in it about envelopes, and afterwards we were like, ‘Fuck, when was the envelope invented?'"
Watching:
- Building a kitchen from scratch 19:14 - ostensibly a permaculture channel but I like his soothing voice so will happily watch him do DIY.