The theme I was using on this site before utterly broke core functionality, so I’ve switched to the default Twenty Twenty Five from WordPress – in case you’re wondering why things look a bit differently around here now. I’m not 100% happy with where it’s at, but it’ll do for now.
Life
Work was busy this week and it included a day spent in Bristol, so I didn’t have tons of other stuff going on. I did manage to briefly make it to Tafwyl — an annual two-day open air festival celebrating the Welsh language — on Sunday evening. I specifically went to see a gig by Mared (if you read my previous weeknotes, you’ll recognise her from my playlist ). I am so glad I’ve finally seen her live, it was incredible.
The farmer’s market on Saturday was good fun, too, and I may have bought too much Sicilian food. But it also came with the upsetting news that the cheesemonger no longer carries my favourite Alpine cheese, because Brexit🤮 has made importing it too cumbersome and expensive.
I did find time to try something new this week, too: I made a short spoken word video of an older poem where I’d played with sound. Spoken word has never really been my thing, and any wish I may have harboured to ever attempt it was soured by a lecturer during my undergrad who once proclaimed that “if you can’t perform your poem, it’s not poetry” — it infuriated me so much I switched modules. Anyway. The video has had 350 views already, which is mad. Maybe I’ll do more?
Entertainment
I spent most of my evenings watching movies this week because I was home alone for a few days. La Cocina is a work of art; Gladiator II is an absolute mess; Deep Cover has absolutely no business being as hilarious as it is; A Working Man is a run-of-the-mill Jason Statham action film for the most part though I loved how the kidnapped woman got to fight back several times; Only God Forgives is the very definition of style over substance; and The Man in the White Suit was fine for a Sunday morning but nothing I’m ever going to rewatch (though, yeah, it definitely was ahead of its time in portraying just how evil corporations are).
Added to the rotation
- Ein Rosenkavalier: Fundbüro
- RIAN: Hausparty
- CONNY: Warum Es Nicht So Bleiben Kann Wie Es War
- No Monster Club: The Trundling Path
- Petrichor Ltd: What You Want From Me
- Shaolin Cowboy feat. Manon: Réveiller
- Mark Owen: Rio
- Freya Ridings: Bitter
- Ella Hunt: Mother’s Chair
Links
Part of me is really into the idea of just disappearing off of the internet (a weird statement for someone with a blog, I guess) and I equally admire and am exhausted by the lengths that some people go to to be invisible (obviously, yeah, some people do have major security concerns).
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