Status:
Sleepy sleepy sleepy today. No energy at all, and content to just lean into that.
A few people in my streams are moaning about the clock changes but I have to say it never bothers me. I wake up at some random time anyway and get used to the lighter or darker evenings within a couple of days. If I had to choose I’d say summertime hours all year round, but that’s just because I’m rarely if ever up before double figures so it doesn’t bother me what time we assign to sunrise. Couple this with my relative immunity to SAD and I’m easy really. This has been a counting-my-blessings paragraph.
I’ve started copying these daily status paragraphs into monthly digests on my long-dormant other blog, just to see how they read. Inspired by the format of Alan Bennett’s diaries which flit between the mundane and the profound, though clearly not of that pedigree. Will sit with it for a bit and then quietly publish if I’m happy with them.
Reading:
- Why we made a film about Mark Fisher called We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher - I remain healthily skeptical about the film itself until I get to see it (which might be in a while since they’re sticking to in-person screenings right now) but I very much enjoyed this rationalisation for its existence, being a neat rundown of Fisher’s life and work and the meaning behind it, and do applaud the motivation to move it on to whatever the next stage might be.
- Warren Ellis' notes on Hail Mary - Some interesting observations, particularly on scriptwriting choices, and no major spoilers that weren’t in the trailer, I think.
- A lot of Opportunities: Pet Shop Boys' Please revisited - We’re at the stage where albums that came out when I was 13 going on 14 are having their 40th anniversary retrospectives. Loved this bit: “recurring themes in Tennant’s writing, namely doomed love, self-doubt and a tension between nihilism and intellectual indoctrination."
Skimming:
- Long COVID Treatment Guide - A summary of treatments, supplements and medications that have been tested on people with varying forms of Long Covid. Reading it started to trigger my symptoms but it’s intended to be discussed with a medical professional so I’ll send it to my occupational therapist and we can talk about it next time we meet. (Sent to me by a fellow LC sufferer.)
Watching:
- Snakes and Ladders (52:59) - audio of Alan Moore’s performance playing over panels from the comic adaptation by Eddie Campbell.
- I spent 2 weeks restoring this chair (29:54)
Listening:
- How Reading Made Us: 3. How Reading Made Our Politics - Slept through half of it but to be honest I’m not too bothered to re-listen.
Music:
- Angine de Poitrine - Apparently this weird duo are blowing up with “the kids” and I’m delighted to see weird shit like this can still make an impact. It’s sort of like what if Lightning Bolt were a microtonal motorik comic published in one of Fantagraphics' weirder anthologies, except more so? Here’s their website.