Fi lopped the fruit trees today.
Status:
Had a visit from an old friend of my mum’s today. They met at university about 60 years ago and had always stayed in touch, going on family holidays together in the 80s. All my parents friends seemed to get divorced (it was the vogue) and when this one did she went to live in a communal living community and has stuck with that kind of alternative living ever since. Of my mother’s friends I think she’s probably the one I got on with the best, partly because she understood all the nonsense I was interested in, but also because she and my mum seemed to be cut from the same cloth. That cloth may have made radically different garments, but it was the same cloth.
So it was lovely to see her, albeit frustrating that I wasn’t capable of having the level of conversation I wanted to. I’m very aware that she’s one of the few connections I have left to my parents and their lives, but there was no way we could get into all that in the time allocated. I suspect I’ll now be experiencing feelings for a few days and will try to embrace them as best I can. She’s staying with my sister (who is just down the road now) so we might be able to meet up again tomorrow if I’m up for it. Hope I am.
Overnight listening:
Music:
- Dame Area - friends Julia and Joe went to see them at the Hare & Hounds this week and it looks like the kind of gig I would have enjoyed back in the day. Liking what I hear.
- Steinski & The Mass Media - The Motorcade Sped On - Apparently this was given away with the NME in 1987, which is definitely not where I hear it. I suspect it came my way through some Coldcut set or other in the 90s. Magnificent piece of work though. (via Woodrow)
Reading:
- The Old Internet is Still Here - Interesting theory that the old internet is still the same as it was back in the day, it’s just the rest of the landscape has gotten bigger and louder.
- ‘We need messier maps’ - Notable to me for the last section about Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map, of which I am a great fan, with some nuggets about it’s creation. “What I think has been lost is the flexibility that was central to Fuller’s original idea. When Life magazine first published his map, they showed several different versions of how the world could be arranged. The posters you can now buy … show just one. The sense of possibility … has been reduced to a single authoritative image."
Watching:
- Ants Pants: Splitting Everything - The Firewood Movie pt2 (3:08:53) - “Welcome to another episode of “Wood”.
- Neighbours (1953) (8:07) - A classic animation I vaguely remember seeing on TV.
Telly:
- Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
- Scrubs - I am getting quite irrationally bugged by the new opening credits where JD swipes his tablet towards the big screen to move an Xray onto it. In the old show he clips it onto a light box, so this new one is to show we’re in the modern digital era. Except that shit is sci-fi! It’s not possible to swipe an image from your tablet to a screen like that! I mean, it should be, but it’s not! Which means Scrubs season 10 is taking place in a sci-fi universe, which I can work with I guess.