“I am smoking. A. Faaaag."
Status:
Rest day. Made another cut on the bath panel project and my sister came over for a catch up (all is well) but otherwise did nuffink. Although I’ve got a stinging headache this evening so maybe I did too much.
Listening:
- Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’ | The Ezra Klein Show - (Two Kleins, etc.) This is one of those “if you click on one thing…” links in that I got a lot out of it and would recommend it to all. It mostly serves as a digest of her book Doppelgänger, specifically the stuff about the far-right reactionary mirror world of Steve Bannon et al. But there’s plenty more and it concludes with some good thoughts on community, reflecting on the resistance in Minneapolis and elsewhere, and diagnoses of why the billionaires are backlashing. “I think they’re angry that they no longer get treated like gods. And that feels like being terrorised to Mark Andreessen." Just put aside an hour and listen. Transcript and audio on NYT is unpaywalled at the moment, via Sentiers who has more commentary.
Reading:
- ‘Wow, people were so angry at Labour!’ Green MP Hannah Spencer on politics, plumbing, smears and snobbery - “The common ground that a lot of us have, that anger and that frustration, boils down to the same thing. It’s being treated like shit by people who are absolutely laughing at us.”
- Reason and Passion - David Hume blows into his hand, making farting noises in objection to Plato
Booking:
- We are making a film about Mark Fisher - It’s showing in Birmingham as part of the Flatpack Festival at the newly refurbished Edge, both of whom I have a lot of fondness for, so I’m going to make my best effort to attend.
Watching:
- Laura Kampf (36:15)
Music:
- Four Tet - Couldn’t sleep and needed something chewy but calming to occupy my brain so decided to work through the Four Tet back catalogue. Somewhat amusingly Apple Music have conflated his albums with those of 4tet, a Czech vocal harmonising four piece who do cover versions, so when their interpretation of the Addams Family theme came on I thought “that’s a brave choice”. Took a while to find the Czechs on the web and in doing so discovered there are quite a few musical four-pieces doing a play on Quartet. (I, of course, had never seen the connection and thought it was something to do with the Vietnam war.)
Telly:
- Deadloch
- University Challenge - My brain shut down a couple of times to protect itself.