Always under pressure
Feb. 14th, 2021 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12Thank you all so much for your comments on my last post. They are in large part responsible for my vastly improved mood this weekend.
Other good things:
Cooking
Helping Matthias assemble our new exercise bike, and using it to work out for a bit today
Buying lots of novellas (new Aliette de Bodard! The novellas by Zen Cho and Nghi Vo that I'd been putting off buying due to the cost!) and other nice things online
Crepes for breakfast, and fresh flowers in the living room
Watching the rain fall on the windows
I also come bearing (music-related) links: one newspaper interview, one new-to-me song, and one old song that I remembered last night.
As you may recall, I love Massive Attack inordinately. I therefore very much enjoyed this interview in The Guardian with Robert Del Naja, in which he says a lot of stuff that I agree with about the dangers of uncritical nostalgia:
'Certain groups attempted to engineer a culture war and divide opinion to keep us distracted from the fact that even though a few statues have been removed [in the wake of BLM protests], they’re still in power and it still isn’t working. Their version of the world is a failure and it’s their ghosts that are being exorcised.'
Matthias put me on to this fantastic song. The video clip feels very early 2000s Massive Attack, in fact. (Warning for lots of visuals of body horror, surgical implements, and eye trauma.)
For some reason, this led (via some Youtube segueing) to this song:
And so on I go.
Other good things:
I also come bearing (music-related) links: one newspaper interview, one new-to-me song, and one old song that I remembered last night.
As you may recall, I love Massive Attack inordinately. I therefore very much enjoyed this interview in The Guardian with Robert Del Naja, in which he says a lot of stuff that I agree with about the dangers of uncritical nostalgia:
'Certain groups attempted to engineer a culture war and divide opinion to keep us distracted from the fact that even though a few statues have been removed [in the wake of BLM protests], they’re still in power and it still isn’t working. Their version of the world is a failure and it’s their ghosts that are being exorcised.'
Matthias put me on to this fantastic song. The video clip feels very early 2000s Massive Attack, in fact. (Warning for lots of visuals of body horror, surgical implements, and eye trauma.)
For some reason, this led (via some Youtube segueing) to this song:
And so on I go.
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Date: 2021-02-14 08:07 pm (UTC)Glad you're feeling better. ♥
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Date: 2021-02-14 09:34 pm (UTC)The Cho and the Vo were uniformly excellent; I hope you enjoy them.
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Date: 2021-02-15 11:11 am (UTC)Really looked forward to more of what Vo produces. Definitely one of my favourite discoveries of 2020!
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Date: 2021-02-15 08:00 pm (UTC)So far, I’m not regretting the decision.
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