Weather’s changed and there’s now a definite sense that Autumn’s begun. It’s cooler – almost cold – and darker during the day and we’re experiencing sudden showers. By the end of the week the children were both back at school (fairly happily, which is a relief) and I’m getting to grips with how things seem to be for me at the moment. The week has included some end of school holiday tidying and organisation. It’s alarming how much I loose track of time and find myself looking back over the days wondering where all my time has gone). Weirdly, I’m beginning to realise that waking at around three in the morning is more than a temporary thing now; it has to be a marker of aging (and, more than likely, a reason I’m feeling exhausted around 9 o’clock in the evening). I’m not reading nearly enough. We played a LONG family game of Munchkin – and the next day that we got some of the rules wrong which caused the game to go about five times longer than it should have done.<\/p>\n
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I\u2019ve managed to extract myself from the clutches of social media and learned not to have an oversized emotional reaction to things happening in the wider world that I can do nothing about. Maybe this is just getting older, but it\u2019s been a six-year process of figuring out where I stand and who I am in relation to this vast semiotic megastructure that is culture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
TV and Movies I watched<\/h4>\n
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- Ancient Aliens<\/strong> – I watched one episode (honestly!) and only because it featured Jacques Valee. It was filled with repetitive bombast! Terrible.<\/li>\n
- Jordskott<\/strong> – Finished the first season of this Swedish supernatural police drama. Yes, I enjoyed it when it wasn’t chasing its own tail.<\/li>\n
- The Watchers<\/strong> – A movie that takes itself far more seriously than it should. Vast forests in Ireland that aren’t on any map?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Music I listened to<\/h4>\n
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- Loula Yorke’s September Mixtape<\/strong><\/a> – wonderful start of each month.<\/li>\n
- Hildegard von Bingen<\/strong> – after listening to Laura Cannell’s The Ritual’s of Hildegard Reimagined<\/a> and reading a fascinating New Yorker piece about her, I’ve been listening through what I have of Hildegard’s music and building a playlist. (I prefer the instrumental work, if I’m honest).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Podcasts, audiobooks and audio dramas I listened to<\/h4>\n
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- Temporal<\/strong> – I’ve listened to the first (of six) parts of Julian Simpson’s new audio drama. Simpson is without question one of my favourite writers.<\/li>\n
- The Final Beginning<\/strong> – Second Doctor audiodrama set between War Games and Invasion of the Dinosaurs. David Troughton performs the role his father played flawlessly. I REALLY enjoyed this.<\/li>\n
- The Department of Midnight #3: Song to the Siren<\/strong> – Third episode of Warren Ellis’ short audiodramas starring James Callis as a science\/paranormal investigator. This episode is a weird crime that has taken place in a locked room.<\/li>\n
- \u017di\u017eek And So On<\/strong> podcast – excellent interview with Anna Kornbluh on her book Immediacy<\/em>. Kornbluh seems a brilliant thinker.<\/li>\n
- Scriptnotes<\/strong> podcast – interview with Ryan Reynolds about his involvement with the creation and scriptwriting of the Deadpool movies. Reynolds comes across as a genuinely nice human being.<\/li>\n
- William Ramsey Investigates<\/strong> podcast – 2019 interview with Tom Mellet about Peter Levenda, Hal Puthoff and Jacques Vall\u00e9e in early ufology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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