Unclassified: Adelle Stripe’s Listening Chair
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The blu-ray dropped in price so I treated myself. It’s not a perfect film – scenes run a hair too long, there are moments when you realise this was in fact made for pennies, it touches on cliche a few times. But it is made with huge ambition, that shot of the upside-down Statue of Liberty is going to be considered one of the most iconic images of this period, and I like the ending better than most people. It’s a film to study. And I always buy copies of the things that fascinate me.
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Updated my phone to iOS 26 last night and now everything is blurry and hard to read. Had to set my phone wallpaper to block black so I can see the text under the app icons. Great job, Apple.
OPERATIONS: Need to process a contract later, but right now I’m tidying two scripts and putting them in the hopper to file on Wednesday, because it seems pretty much everyone went to some convention in New York this weekend.
STATUS: inbox 74. Everything hurts.
READING: THE BLAZING WORLD: A NEW HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND, Jonathan Healey (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: The Early Music Show
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In a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, researchers report a sulfuric surprise in rock samples taken from the moon‘s Taurus Littrow region during Apollo 17. The analysis shows that volcanic material in the sample contains sulfur compounds that are highly depleted of sulfur-33 (or 33S), one of four radioactively stable sulfur isotopes. The depleted 33S samples contrast sharply with sulfur isotope ratios found on Earth, the researchers say.
NASA’s Artemis II Mission Is Crucial as Doubts Build That America Can Beat China Back to the Moon
morning computer: some useful things first thing in the day.
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Leaves are starting to drop now.
New newsletter is out, containing a piece of old short fiction because there wasn’t time for anything else this week.
OPERATIONS: two scripts in front of me and I want them both in decent condition by EOD. I have another one I need to get in shape by end Tues, so I have the rest of the week for new work.
STATUS: I’ve taken the Fitbit off for a couple of days. Inbox 73.
READING: THE BLAZING WORLD: A NEW HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND, Jomathan Healey (UK) (US+) – this book is mad
LISTENING: New Music Show
LAST WATCHED: RUMOURS (2024), dir. Guy Maddin and the Johnsons
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Comments closedLATE JUNCTION: At home With Kate Carr
Jennifer Lucy Allan pays a visit to the London studio of field recordist, sound artist and founder of the Flaming Pines label, Kate Carr. As well as taking it in turns to share new music that is exciting them both, Kate demos the current favourites from her array of homemade instruments including a rubber-band noise box set-up and a new contraption that involves twenty speakers arranged inside pipes.
CONNECTED:
- here and there, 29jun24
- Today In Sounds
- OVERHEARD, MURMURATIONS, Ruby Colley
- previous mentions of Desert Oracle
Bloody Ploughman apples are always the last to ripen.
OPERATIONS: two scripts to get into. Last night I started the arrangements for another reprint project. Looking at the boards to see how behind I am on everything.
STATUS: 7hr 41m sleep. Cranking through the inbox (101), a bunch of which is just sorting receipts. Bought a blu-ray player for the living room last night. Next week we find out if we can actually connect it to our old living room tv. A placeholder newsletter is already in the pipe – my brain has just been useless this week. Today I am forcing myself into motion.
New clothes, correct watch (Dan Henry).
Dropping the Fitbit today.
READING: THE BLAZING WORLD: A NEW HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND, Jomathan Healey (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Classically Black with Laura Mvula and the CBSO
LAST WATCHED: watched a bit of THE PRODUCERS, watched a bit of ALIEN, both of which are always pleasures to return to.
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OPERATIONS:
STATUS: My brain is maggoty and I really need to build in some time off at some point. 7hrs sleep.
READING: THE BLAZING WORLD: A NEW HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND, Jomathan Healey (UK) (US+)
LAST WATCHED: probably poor old Newsnight, now on a production budget of a tenner
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Comments closedLaszlo Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature today, proving that the arc of the universe does sometimes bend towards justice. I’ve made various notes about his work over the years here, and here are some of them:
- THE LAST WOLF (And HERMAN), Laszlo Krasznahorkai
- THE WORLD GOES ON, Laszlo Krasznahorkai
- The Apocalypse Is Now
- Morning Computer: Dead Time
- The Author Himself
- The App Sore
- Satantango Box
- accessions 4apr25
- Accessions 29sep24
- Accessions 23sep24
“Hi, look, someone knocked over all this stuff and dragged it around the garden and I can’t imagine who that it but it is definitely time for First Lunch”
GREAT NEWS: my favourite, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, has FINALLY won the Nobel Prize in Literature!
STATUS: 7hrs 51m sleep, my brain has been mush all week and I’m starting to grudgingly accept that I may need a day or two off. Inbox trashfire of 95, mostly receipts and newsletters… planning to head out of the house later to buy cheeses.
READING: THE BLAZING WORLD: A NEW HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND, Jomathan Healey (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: John Luther Adams ‘Become Ocean’
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