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a million times a trillion more ([personal profile] dolorosa_12) wrote2021-02-14 02:14 pm

Always under pressure

Thank 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.
    regshoe: Redwing, a brown bird with a red wing patch, perched in a tree (Default)

    [personal profile] regshoe 2021-02-14 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
    It's good that you're feeling better! Those little things like flowers and rain can be so meaningful, and of course new books are always a good thing. :)
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    [personal profile] naye 2021-02-14 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
    You got so much done! And oh, crepes and rain on the windows. I am happy we're having a wintery winter, but I look forward to hearing the sound of rain again.

    Glad you're feeling better. ♥
    chestnut_pod: A close-up photograph of my auburn hair in a French braid (Default)

    [personal profile] chestnut_pod 2021-02-14 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
    New books, huzzah :D

    The Cho and the Vo were uniformly excellent; I hope you enjoy them.
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    [personal profile] merit 2021-02-15 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
    Enjoy the novellas! I purchased the Vo and de Bodard novellas though went through the library route for Cho's latest ($14AUD+ is... a lot for an ebook novella). Tor.com interesting pricing strikes again! Fortunately, my library system buys most of them in any case.

    Really looked forward to more of what Vo produces. Definitely one of my favourite discoveries of 2020!
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    [personal profile] lirazel 2021-02-16 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
    So glad you're feeling better and have so many nice things going on!
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    [personal profile] aimedatthestars 2021-02-17 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
    Oh I read Fireheart Tiger this weekend and adored it.