Day got held up by an external drive that’s suddenly decided to stop being visible to File Manager or Disk Management, even though I can see it in Device Manager. God forbid I should get through a day without stress.
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Le Jardin (S4E2)
Comments closedMurayghat emerged after the decline of the so-called Chalcolithic culture (ca. 4500–3500 BCE), a period known for its domestic settlements, rich symbolic traditions, copper artifacts, and small cultic shrines.
Researchers believe that climate shifts and social disruptions may have led to the collapse of the culture, and in response, Early Bronze Age groups began creating new forms of ritual expression.
I have bought myself blue jeans for the first time in thirty years. I have already had my mid-life crisis so I presume this is encroaching dementia.
TODAY:
- Bloomberg Daybreak: Europe Edition (China-UK Hacking Exposed, Reeves Needs £50 Billion, Griffin: AI Lacks Edge)
- Politico London: “You’re in spy territory now.”
- Donald Trump said he authorised a covert Central Intelligence Agency operation in Venezuela.
OPERATIONS: Moving on to new things today and pretending I don’t have two unfinished scripts on deck. And figuring out Adobe Sign again.
STATUS: 8hrs 31m sleep, and it’s time to admit to myself that I have no scripting energy left. Inbox 87. Just had to ask the Echo what day it is.
READING: THE BLAZING WORLD: A NEW HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND, Jonathan Healey (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: Too Tired to Say Anything (Went Ways)
MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company or Inkwell Management. Link in masthead to join my free newsletter.
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
Gorgeous day. This is probably all I’ll see of it.
OPERATIONS: need to nail down eight pages and file them and then deal with half a dozen other things I haven’t gotten around to. Looking at a shared drive and hoping it will be fully populated by the end of the day.
STATUS: inbox 78, all is quiet
READING: THE BLAZING WORLD: A NEW HISTORY OF REVOLUTIONARY ENGLAND, Jomathan Healey (UK) (US+)
LISTENING: The Moderns 387 (music podcast)
MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company or Inkwell Management. Link in masthead to join my free newsletter.
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Add harvesting the rhubarb to the endless to-do list. I started trying to reclaim the garden, what, three or four years ago now? I now have a sense of what I can and can’t grow, and am starting to think about winter planning, and finding some flowers that will actually grow and draw in pollinators.
Windy day. The mancub hates the wind – he doesn’t like his precious furs ruffled, apparently – and keeps nipping in and out to see if the wind’s gone away.
READING: finished HERESY: JESUS CHRIST AND THE OTHER SONS OF GOD, Catherine Nixey (UK) (US+) last night
LISTENING: Spaceman’s Transmissions
MISSION CONTROL: I can be contacted via the Cheng Caplan Company or Inkwell Management. Link in masthead to join my free newsletter.
Comments closed- Too Tired To Say Anything: Trick Work (podcast)
- AD ASTRA (2019) (rewatch, partial)
- Bloomberg Daybreak Europe: US Shutdown Begins As Stocks Drop & Gold Rallies On Funding Standoff
- (i have a terrible habit of listening to podcasts with one earbud while playing music in the office)
- Arrived: Vivolife Thrive raw cacao protein powder
- 12 Booker Prize 2025 nominees share their writing spots
- Odd Lots: Tarek Mansour on Kalshi’s Plan to Create Markets in Everything (prediction matkets)
- Sibelius’ Karelia Suite Intermezzo 1:
Late Junction: Railway Junction
It’s “All aboard!” as Verity Sharp presents an eclectic selection of sonic odes to rail travel, 200 years on from the first ever passenger railway journey in the UK. Expect an archival adieu to the steam locomotives from Carnforth, Lancashire, echoes of a station piano recorded during a transit interlude, and a ticket inspector’s nod to the quiet solitude of the trans-European night train cabin in the form of contemporary field recordings.
A London Dreaming: Iain Sinclair’s Lud Heat At 50
Late Junction: radiophonic lullabies and distorted dreams
Jennifer Lucy Allan presents your weekly dose of adventurous explorations in sound. There’ll be distorted cello sounds from Seattle, composed by Nirvana’s cello player Lori Goldston, who hopes to give her listeners room to breathe and dream. Leo Chadburn also brings a dream-like labyrinthine recollection of misty quarries, disused railway lines, and shadowy monumental factory buildings, via closed-mic spoken word, vibraphone, wine glasses and drones. Plus a sonic dedication to “Radium Girls”, female factory workers exposed to radioactive luminous paint, courtesy of Phew, Dieter Moebius and Erika Kobayashi, composed in the shadow of the Fukushima nuclear accident in 2011.
What Roland Allen, author of the excellent THE NOTEBOOK, uses.
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