Watching ‘Arrival’ because I want to concentrate on something highly creative, not really understand things and cry a lot

Spent today cooking brisket for 10 hours and eating it for 5 minutes.

Worth it.

Is there a Shazam but for whistling a tune you don’t know the name of?

I’ve read so much Cormac McCarthy lately I’ve started to be able to finish off the second half of the homilies as soon as I hear a wise mid-westernism kick in!

You gotta footnote your own footnotes. You should footnote that

A shot of pages 120-121 wherein the footnoting technique used to dimensionalise the narrative layers and authenticate through pseudo and true references become severally diverse: inserted mirror-text boxes, upside down margin refs. Just- a lot.

I’m rereading Danielewski’s House of Leaves.
I navigated its labyrinth once yet somehow find myself becoming familiarly lost again.
Less than a fifth of my way in and already the corridors of thought fracture, expand, race.
I wonder if I need to leave a thread to find my way out

I leched over this just last night..
Nearly allowed it to dictate my choice of dinner despite having eaten pasta two meals in a row.
But it will be made… oh yes…

#toptip
Never misplace anything again by always keeping it in the first place you looked the last time you lost it

My daughter relented and watched a film with me last night- ‘over two hours!’
She’ll watch endless episodic entertainment- like me- but a film’s a commitment isn’t it.
Anyway, it was One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
She was moved as hell- wildly furious at Ratched, adored Chief-McMurphy f’ship 🙌

Well worth it

I’m very much enjoying Kaos on Netflix.
Brilliant contemporisation of Greek mythology.
Got me flicking back through the two greatest reference books of all time:
The Routledge Handbook of GM and Betty Radice’s Who’s Who.

Nicely put! If you have to have someone else believe it, you’re either shaky in yourself or grifting!

You ever have a belief system you imagined yourself based on reconciling experience with feeling, one that you didn’t read in less than an hour somewhere?
That’s all your own, shareable but unreplicatable?

You have. It needs protecting.

BB?

My daughter’s school had them at y7. Most secondaries do now I thought - their ‘flight path’

This has been a summer of binges:
(Rewatches)
The Wire
Hunderby (hush a ho)

And got round tos:
Curb your Enthusiasm
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Tight writing- actors bringing it

God made them kissing fools but forgot to give them lips

Sounds like a great genre. Love English (Northern) folk horror - currently taking it easy with a Ken Follett

I am now ‘take a tray out of the oven and forget it’s hot within five seconds’ years old

I was boasting to my 15yo that my iPhone 8 was still going strong, whereupon its vibrate simply stopped.
I scoured help pages, all to no avail.
A ex-colleague, now working at carphone warehouse, offered a great discount on a new one.
The universe was talking…
Reader, I hit it.
It’s fine now! #Fonz

Readers, writers,
Does anyone know of a narrative, novel even, from the perspective of the land? Or sea? Or sky?

I mean, I said I was migrating here from ‘there’ but tbh I didn’t think I was that influential

Yup. Landed yesterday. I can only say positive things! Main reason I migrated. See and say what you like, not what you don’t.

Am I excited about the Alien: Romulus interquel? A bit. I’m too old to get giddy.

Am I rewatching all the Alien films in preparation?
Of course!

And I only learned the word interquel recently due to this film. Like it.

Purity is
a word that’s read
and understood before
it’s used by other mouths

or
a thought considered,
reasoned, known, before
it’s folded into words

or
a feeling, felt
and left inside, before
it’s thought in reasoned terms

or
a boomerang, held
and slung, before
it loops back, lands beyond you

Did one session of yoga to get back some well-being - sound bath thrown in

Add this to a chat a few days ago with a couple singing praises of Sri Lankan food

Have now been obsessing over a shopping list of ingredients for ten different dahls - processed food repulses me

Have I been hypnotised?

Might re-read it- inscribe myself into its poesis of generational blurring by being my own ancestor in the same house… or something like it

Just joined bluesky.
Not a snap decision; a good opportunity for curation and development.

Am currently migrating my poetry list of journals and writers onto here- UK and beyond.

Insta for other things - but I like the look of this already. It’s made out of words, which I’m fond of.

No need to have read DCop - no allusions used to illuminate it. Writer wrapped a fresh and stunning story around its bones is all.
I loved it completely.