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AirPods with cameras in is a good thing because for a year they’re all anyone will want and proper earbuds will get cheaper. And then there’s a fair chance that anyone with camera AirPods will be shunned as unnatural and there will be a whole Conversation about them and I can ignore it all and read a book while listening to music over IEMs. Which I had no idea even existed until around 2013, when Fred Armisen was sitting in the airplane seat opposite me and using IEMs to review footage on a tablet, and when he took them out I leaned over and asked him what the hell those weird earbuds were.

OPERATIONS: I need to nail down a long essay today.
STATUS: I should be thrilled that it’s temperate again
READING: finished THE KILLER’S MARK, MW Craven (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: CELLOSCAPES, Emma Caterinicchio & Pete Swinton

LAST WATCHED: FLUX GOURMET (2022), which probably hits a bit different if you DON’T go and see a lot of experimental and improvised music gigs. And I’m not sure how many people can relate to third-division writers with gastric issues, but I personally wanted the ailing protagonist, a bad writer with a bad stomach documenting the performances of sonic artists exclusively using culinary techniques to make sounds, to win everything and become king. The film is actually very good, earthy and jagged and trippy with a marvellously gross ending. It’s just an incredibly niche satire. Sonic catering. Double-barrel it with THE MENU, made in the same year, or, perhaps more fittingly, Peter Greenaway’s THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER.

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