a writer's notebook
Good morning from PANDEMIC-CAM 19. All is well. I have a lot to do today. Brain finally started adjusting to the new madness last night. I tried listening to the radio this morning and there was so much fear and horror in the voices that I switched to music. Time to go deep.
Inbox at an unwieldy 26, and I need to run out for supplies at some point today, so it’s time to get at it.
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I used to do these on the regular, but ran out of time. Made for a useful mental reset this evening, so…
SPEKTRMODULE 54
Easy Does It
37 minutes and 19 seconds
This is an ambient / haunted music podcast curated by Warren Ellis, who is a writer from England.
I am at @warrenellis / warrenellis@gmail.com
and
http://warrenellis.ltd & http://orbitaloperations.com
We are #SPEKTRMODULE on social media.
It lives at spkmdl.libsyn.com
1) logotone by Dirty Knobs
2) “Overture No.5” – Marc Ertel (from [Overtures] – http://pitp.bandcamp.com )
3) “time keeps me in her shadow” – Visionary Hours (from Coalescence of Form – http://hiddenvibes.bandcamp.com )
4) “gnbell” – Kemper Norton (from oxland cylinder – http://kempernorton.bandcamp.com )
5) “Future Ghost” – Alphaxone, ProtoU, Onasander (from Shadows of Forgotten Legends – http://cryochamber.bandcamp.com )
6) “Virtual Goddess F.A.E.” – Seffi Starshine (from Virtual Goddess – http://houdinimansions.bandcamp.com )
7) “Stasis Sounds for Long-Distance Space Travel (Extended Hypersleep Program 4 – City At Night)” – 36 & zakè (from Stasis Sounds For Long-Distance Space Travel – http://pitp.bandcamp.com )
8) logotone
Comments closedNo CD, and I’m fucked if I’n buying a cassette for reasons previously noted, but this is big oceanic drift energy.
Comments closedOut today in all good comics stores and bookshops, by myself and Jason Howard.
The last TREES project for the foreseeable future, as Jason is moving on to other things. I think we were both pleased with how this one turned out. He did a fantastic job. We hope you like it.
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This is where my old friend Irene usually tells me “tag your porn”
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I don’t have a notebook problem YOU have a notebook problem
10am: wake up painfully after massively weird dreams in which I recalled things I learned in previous dreams that I cannot do in real life, like drive a car (badly) 10.10am commence loading espresso 11.10am protein shake with cinnamon and cacao 11.20am oh my god Inbox 35
Today is time for action. Time to get my shit together. Like other writers, I’m keeping my social media on a while longer, but will maintain a little distance from it, because, yes, it’s time to get my shit together and start thinking.
Comments closedWell, today’s been another dead loss. Hails of messages and emails (thanks to all who checked in with me because, I presume, I am so old that a cough on a breeze coming from ten miles away could drop me in my tracks), clearing up from cancelled travel, sending money to precarious nearest and dearest, and observing at my local food hall that apparently in the time of plague the third thing to hoard behind toilet paper and hand sanitiser is chicken pieces.
I’ve generally avoided talking about this, because my brain is in a blender as it is. But now it feels like it might be worth doing at least some kind of partial personal log of these times. Someone said to me today, “I’m freaked out that you’re freaked out. You’re usually so unflappable.” And, I admit, it got to me yesterday, I put all the news feeds back on, watched borders close, started hearing about confirmed cases within two or three degrees from me.
I mean, I’m Generation X. We all assumed this was coming, and we’ve all been ready for decades to cut you for clean water. And, since we were the generation left to roam the streets, let ourselves in and sit around alone for hours, we are entirely prepared for all this, because we learned the tools and emotions were dunned out of us early.
It’s still a weird moment.
Anyway, I’m fine, and will likely continue to be so. Tomorrow, I need to fully shake it off and go into deep work mode.
3 CommentsSomnov releases several experimental ambient pieces a month. A fascinating, continuing exploration. All digital-only, all streamable.
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Second Run DVD really do provide an amazing service. Between them, BFI and Artificial Eye I’d be bankrupt tomorrow if I didn’t hold myself under tight control.
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Well, the rest of my planned travel just got cancelled, production is seizing up everywhere, and our Wednesday night restaurant just closed for the week. I’m trying not to put more talk about this thing into the feeds, because I am extremely privileged and disappointments, sadnesses and annoyances are really not the worst other people are feeling. But, damn, it’s getting weird, right? Of course, as a professional writer, self-isolation is pretty much my standard day. But I could really do without the extra stress and sleep deprivation. Again: not the worst.
Inbox 27, because everything’s going nuts. I’m about to turn off most of my feeds, put a film on the big screen, put some new music on, and go into some deep work. After I walk into town to see if it’s gone fully 28 DAYS LATER. Let’s hope people aren’t hoarding wine.
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