Overslept by a full hour.
One of the best takes on DIGGER that I’ve seen, CONTAINS ALL THE SPOILERS
On the newsletter: the complete first part of COLLIDE by me and artist Jerome Eyquem.
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So DIGGER was… interesting. I avoided all reviews before I went, so I was watching the film clean. In case anyone’s reading this who hasn’t seen the film yet, I will simply say that the trailers for the film are not the film.
I think it’s built to be watched twice. The first time, the twists hit you and you grapple with disappointment and your patience is tested. I want to watch it again with more attention to the details, while I’m not fidgeting in my chair, my investment in the first thirty minutes atomised by the first big twist.
I’ll probably right some proper notes on it in a month or two. Right now, I don’t want to break it for anyone reading this who plans to see it. I will say that the film is gorgeously shot and designed, and that in no world was this ever intended as Oscar bait for Tom Cruise. It’s just too odd for that, and he knew it.
And you will have to be quick, because I have the feeling that it is going to make zero dollars and will be accelerated towards PVOD sharpish.
Comments closedSo hear me out: Handmade smoked cheddar, charcoal crackers, quince paste, organic Transylvanian walnuts, organic figs, and a small glass of Muscat Petits Grains Passerillés is actually the perfect dessert course.
I’m off to see DIGGER in a minute, and have avoided ALL the reviews and takes so that I can go in clean. As previously noted, the trailers have a strong DR STRANGELOVE vibe, and I’m curious to see if that holds. Iñárritu is far from a bad director, Jez Butterworth worked on the story and the cast is strong, including really nice guy Riz Ahmed and the brilliant Jesse Plemons.
Still getting tropical nights here. In October!
PRE-ORDERED: BOOK OF CAROLS, Sarah Davachi
OPERATIONS: just got a script out the door. Done refits on the newsletter template for the stuff that’s coming. Tomorrow is a scriptwriting spurt – there’s a personal job hanging that I think I can finally nail together in a single long session.
STATUS: first week of full reset has been hard, but starting to show benefits slowly.
READING: READING: RED SHEET, James Ellroy (UK) (US+). I also read 50 pages of FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE and a little bit of a Jon Fosse book. Been thinking a lot about Fosse this week.
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Comments closedTennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has been taken to hospital after an attempt to execute her by two lethal injections failed, her lawyer says.
Her legal team filed an emergency motion to halt the convicted murderer’s execution as it was happening, saying: “Ms Pike has lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat and is audibly snoring.”
They killed you twice and you’re snoring.
Yesterday was an utter failure. The deli was closed because I was given the wrong opening times on Monday. So I went to a pub that will go unnamed. And could not obtain a glass of wine because the fortysomething chimp behind the bar appeared to not know what wine was, showed me a bottle of vermouth and asked me if it was wine, looked at a cork in a bottle like it was insurmountable black magic, and then laughed and informed me he didn’t have “one of those things” to open the bottle with.
Get a hobby and let that guide your style choices. Fishing? Gardening? Skateboarding? All of these things have style codes and legacies that you can pull from and use to inform what you wear and how you wear it. Being online is not a hobby, so don’t want to dress like a guy who looks at posts a lot. |
It is now nearly 3pm, and I have spent the last three hours wandering around town, buying cheese and meat, drinking wine and coffee and chatting with people.
OPERATIONS: newsletter is already locked and in the scheduler.
STATUS:
READING: RED SHEET, James Ellroy (UK) (US+). I also read 50 pages of FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE
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Big sky on Monday night.
I have fresh herbs, so I’m making herb salts this week. I also have a bulb of black garlic so I can knock up a jar of black garlic butter for herself.
Next up, making a jar of cold ginger tea. This is easy: take three or four inches of ginger, chop it up, juice a lemon, throw it all in a jug, pour a pint of boiling water over it, wait fifteen minutes, stir a couple of teaspoons of honey into it, strain, cool and jar.
Right. I’m off to buy cheese. Will do this properly tomorrow.
OPERATIONS: figured out a script step last night, so I’m working that through today while also figuring out the progression on another script, and thinking about how to extend the working days. Just loaded all of COLLIDE 01 into the newsletter for Sunday. Had a weird work-related half-revelation late last night, and am eyeing a couple of new notebooks (including the Roterfaden) hungrily.
STATUS: watching the weather radar so I can leave the house once the next band of rain passes. It is weirdly hot. 20C when I went to bed at midnight last night.
READING: RED SHEET, James Ellroy (UK) (US+). I also read 70 pages of FLIGHT FROM TIME ONE Monday night, and that book is so insane it may end up being a newsletter entry or several posts here.
LISTENING:
I’ve been low-online long enough that I have missed buying some CDs that I may have wanted, including a new Laura Cannell that went up for pre-order on the 24th and appears to have sold out instantly, which annoyed me.
DRINK: Birds and Bees summer ale, as it’s still warm here!
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First day of reset. Index cards, paper, pens.
- Haunted Ambient Mix, which I need to remember I need to listen to at the end of the week!
- Researchers trying to use AI to build an “Out-of-this-World-Model” that will allow AI equipped spacecraft to “‘dream’ dozens of potential futures and control the system outputs to “step” toward that dream future” of docking with low earth orbit space stations
The deli was randomly closed – fuck you, Dan – so I stopped in at the Pipe of Port for the first time since it reopened. It’s a basement bar/restaurant that’s been in Southend since God was a boy.
Fried cauliflower, hummous, vegetables, pomegranate and smoked salmon. Rain would approve of everything but the salmon.
OPERATIONS: I got two pages done and sent before I went out to lunch. I have some copying over from a notebook and some scripting to do, and I really need to reply to some emails…!
STATUS:
READING: RED SHEET, James Ellroy (UK) (US+).
LISTENING: right this second, HAPPINESS, Paavoharju + Joose Keskitalo. Making a conscious choice this week to listen primarily to CDs.
LAST WATCHED: Mock The Week, I think. I’m glad it’s back. Now I want some cable channel to bring Frankie Boyle’s New World Order back.
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Comments closedTerrible day yesterday: ill and brain-fogged and too much to do. Missed the gig at the Jazz Centre I had tickets for. But I did make it to Konsztrukting Soundz in the evening.
I didn’t actually have high hopes for the night – free jazz and skronk saxophones are NOT my thing – but it was actually incredibly good. Drone saxophone! A trio of a guitarist doing Sunn O)))-ish doom drones, a saxophonist staying in the deep registers and an experimentalist drummer smashing his way around the edges – amazing. Site notes.
STATUS: starting today, a complete reset.
READING: RED SHEET, James Ellroy (UK) (US+). First Ellroy I’ve read since the incoherent BLOOD’S A ROVER and damn this is a return to form.
LISTENING: just about to go through the catalogue of The Owl Service, a band whose existence I only learned of last night.
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Running late today.
ACCESSIONS:
Apparently this thing is 1200 pages long.
THE ROUSE, China Mieville (UK) (US+)
I’ve seen reviews for DIGGER start to appear, and, as with MEGALOPOLIS, it makes me want to see it more. Which is not something I thought I’d ever say about a Tom Cruise film.
READING: finished TENTACLES LONGER THAN NIGHT, Eugene Thacker (UK) (US+). Wondering if it’s time to descend into some of the Very Long books I have in the pile.
LISTENING: Posterior Vitreous Detachment (Video Soundtracks Vol 1) by Seymour Glass
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I imported a new supply of beard oil from my current favourite source, Fires Of Freyja in North Carolina USA. HEKS, I didn’t order – they threw it in for free! Such lovely people.
OPERATIONS: notebooks, all day. Development and script layouts.
STATUS: Eyestrain! Hence notebooks – I need a day of less screens.
READING: TENTACLES LONGER THAN NIGHT, Eugene Thacker (UK) (US+)
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