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Author: Warren Ellis

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13jul23

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I have a single blueberry.

I really have to find the time to feed all the plants and re-organise out there, but it’s tough right now – time away from the keyboard is time I can’t get back, and I have a lot to finish. And I’ve managed to lose a project notebook I was working in a few weeks ago. God only knows where it got to, and I just have to hope I transcribed all the useful stuff in it before it vanished.

ON DECK: So much! Humid heat has been driving me out of the office by 430pm, and this old ThinkPad is starting to glitch just the tiniest bit, so I need to build in a couple of hours to see if I can cure it.
INBOX: 77.
LISTENING:



LAST WATCHED: the only thing I remember looking up for last night was Newsnight.
OUTSIDE: SAG-AFTRA are apparently going on strike later today, which makes me doubly grateful we locked in DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT when we did, and that we just have post and music to do. I have the feeling it’s going to be a long strike.

12jul23

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I grew this nigella from seed, and it finally bloomed this morning.

Yesterday. I wrote a status post, scheduled the 11pm night music post, and immediately lost broadband. Local mobile data service, from a different provider, went dead five minutes later. All while I was saving a forty-one page document, whose save hung and working on the newsletter in-browser. The broadband finally came back that night. So now I am really fucked for time, because I had a bunch of stuff to do that relied on a connection. Why can these things never happen on a Sunday night?

ON DECK: Everything I had to do yesterday and everything I have to do today!
INBOX: 80
LISTENING: It’s going to be Julian Cope’s ODIN all day. Great for thinking. One of my favourite records ever.
LAST WATCHED: yeah, the tv service went down too

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Moving slow today. And it wasn’t 21 – the weather station two roads away had it at 24, and it’s now touching 25. There is no rain. The garden is not well.

ON DECK: scripting all day, and then I have a phone conference on bloody Zoom
INBOX: 72.
LISTENING: right now, just Night Tracks. I have listened through everything in my Bandcamp email folder. Anything I like the look of gets added to my Bandcamp wishlist folder, which I use as a bookmarking system. But right now I just want curated music radio while I try and get my brain spun up.
READING: TLS and LRB.
LAST WATCHED: some of OCEAN’S THIRTEEN, which I like for its visual style. There are some wacky shots in there, and some entertainingly nuts editing, especially with overlays employed. I need to go back again and take some screenshots of the latter, for consideration in terms of visual information density. There’s a bit where Soderbergh floats biohazard symbols over a scene…


OUTSIDE: OUR EXPERIENCE AS SLAVES TO THE EVERYTHING MACHINE CAN BE CHANGED

A Day Another Day

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This just popped into my head, but I couldn’t for the life of me remember who did it. Took me five minutes of desperate googling. The Strange Death Of Liberal England! Putting it here so I don’t lose it again. I do love a grand and grandiose guitar pop anthem, and this is a big one.

random notes 10jul23

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  • the ooh.directory recently updated blogs list is what I have instead of social media if I’m in the mood to “waste” time on my phone
  • found a blu-ray of TENET on Amazon for three quid. Perhaps this will goad me into transcribing my idiot notion that it is in fact the best Christopher Nolan film. Although I do want to see OPPENHEIMER, as apparently it does some interesting stuff with form.
  • NATURAL BORN KILLERS did a lot of formal game-playing, but I think Oliver Stone couldn’t have gotten there without JFK, whose more measured games with form make it an aesthetically preferred film for me – and, I suspect, it ages better than the day-glo full-tilt three-thousand-cut complete-Nineties of NATURAL BORN KILLERS
  • but you do kinda miss people fucking around with form to get actual narrative-first effects. Not the meta for meta’s sake so much. (Which I probably did a lot of myself, but we’re allowed to play the instruments if people just leave them laying around, for the simple curiosity of finding out what they sound like. Just maybe don’t devote years of your life to the vintage kazoo you found stuck in a condemned building’s drainpipe one time)

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