9sep25

OPERATIONS: I need to lay out an entire story structure today, and figure out how to create some stories for a couple of artists I know within some significant format restrictions. So daytime is hammering the keyboard and night time is emails and scribbling in the notebook. I barely touched my notebooks over the summer aside from general notes, so this is very much a sign of “back to work.”
STATUS: 8hrs sleep; Bee, Rabbit, Apple Watch and messaging apps are on, inbox 85 at present, and I just remembered that in a few hours I have to start a venison daube….
READING: CHOKEPOINTS, Edward Fishman (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Night Tracks
LAST WATCHED: I got halfway through SATURDAY NIGHT (2024) before realising i wasn’t really watching it. SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE was never a thing over here in the UK, it wasn’t even screened over here until relatively recently. The actor doing Dan Ackroyd captured his voice uncannily, and seeing Nicholas Braun play both Andy Kaufman and Jim Henson was actually kind of amazing, but the dialogue, particularly from the Lorne Michaels character – “It’s a whole new kind of entertainment!” – was so painfully on the nose that I kind of tuned out. It was, however, very nicely made, and I’ll probably give it another go one day.

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