there's something unpleasant in the air. nothing seems to be going right. idk
i "finished" the secret project. tell you about it next week. it's only going to arrive slightly late.
murder on the dancefloor was fun. sounds good i think.
saturday was the movie night. watched Spotlight (2015). very good movie, great as a spiritual successor to All The President's Men. deeply uncomfortable subject matter. i don't want to watch it again but i'm glad i did which is the whole point.
sunday we gardened. was going well until something went ping in my wrist. there'd been a stabbing on Lavender Hill and the pharmacy was inside the police cordon.
a friend's in hospital. his wife separately had to go to A&E. we stayed with her until midnight and drove her home.
there aren't enough hours in the week to do everything i want to be doing. i don't have enough money to be doing everything i want to be doing. trying to get more hours in the week means i'll have even less money.
last night i went to bed with a migraine and this morning i woke up with a slightly less bad migraine then decided to come into the office. this is going to be a brief one.
monday, as usual, choir. going over "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" and "To The Moon And Back". we're in phones away going over the entire setlist mode at the moment. i had been worried that we'd get everything down in time but we're truly getting there. tonight a subset of us are practicing Murder On The Dancefloor. i'm hyped. come watch us yeah?
tuesday: back to back meetings all day. just one more meeting bro, just one more meeting, just one more then i swear we’ll be on the same page, i just need one more meeting bro, just let me have one more meeting
wednesday, took Kettricken to the vet for a routine, 6-monthly checkup. i'd thought it odd timing. so did the vet, they had no idea why their reminder email went out then. she hates being taken to the vet. i hate causing her distress. sorry :(
Sophie was away friday/saturday. i stayed at home and worked on her secret birthday project. which might become a secret christmas project jesus fuck i'm running out of time
i write this on the train home from the choir. we got back from camping this afternoon. i have been in ten london boroughs today, that feels like a record. please let me sleep now.
busy week: moving a cat cage from streatham hill to wandsworth road; meeting a new catsitter Haasje who is the loveliest and made sure kettricken loved her too by the end of the weekend; moving andy and piers’s camping gear from wandsworth road to nunhead.
and then camping. we’re getting it down to a fine art. our tent goes fwoomp, it takes literally two minutes to put up fully. i can turn a bag of logs and a box of matches into a campfire. the replacement stainless steel mesh i put eyelets in for the portable bbq works great. i’m pretty sure i have a phobia of wasps.
they’re shipping some Curves by rail just over there.
in summer the choir apparently scatters to the four winds. monday there were about ten of us, and the person teaching To The Moon And Back wasn’t one of them. we just sat on the floor and ran through basically our entire setlist. a lot if which i don’t know yet! really gonna have to learn them before our gig in october.
so a friend worked on Deadpool & Wolverine. her partner couldn‘t make it to the cast & crew screening, so she put a message out on our Discord. sorry folks, i am More Online Than You,
film was pretty good? i dunno, if you're at the point where you write three (3) fourth-wall-breaking breaking jokes about how long the film is that’s a sign you should cut a few pages.
go see it before you get spoiled, if you care about that kind of thing.
oh yeah i turned 0x21! lovely presents, lovely people at the Angel Oak, and thank you for indulging me in deciding to move us out into Peckham Rye Common to sit under the tree with the fairy lights when the pub got too loud. and thank you for staying there past midnight. love you all
we’re back doing our movie night, where we pick a random person and they pick something from their list of ten(ish) films they think everyone should see before they die. JoJo was chosen. her list is mostly full of grim Danish films and A24.
let’s just pretend I’ve been doing these the whole time and don’t have to recap the last checks notes two years
after a disastrous few weeks at the choir trying to learn No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) by Donna Summer feat Barbra Streisand (weird disco key changes, stupidly wide range, way too much funk rhythm) we moved onto To The Moon And Back by Savage Garden. it’s a lot of fun! we got through most of it in one session, we’ll probably finish tonight?
i’m really starting to get comfortable with my singing voice, it’s a great feeling. even just warming up and singing something once a week makes a huge difference. ASYMPTOTES vocals when
thursday was the father in law’s 60th birthday party, at a Very Fancy Restaurant in Orpington. i’d been completely dreading it, i’m not close at all with that side of Sophie’s family, and i knew there'd be a bunch of people i'd met 1 (one) time, a decade ago. but it was actually super lovely! i ate too much and burnt my tongue on the chocolate fondant but somehow avoided both a physical hangover and an anxiety hangover.
my regular board game group are five sessions into The King's Dilemma, a cool legacy-ish game where you're playing as the king's advisors in Definitely Not Westeros. it does some really interesting things with limited game mechanics, and (unlike Seafall, the last legacy game we played) the rules are really well explained. almost too well explained tbh, for a game mostly built around just voting, they're 25 pages long and pretty verbose. but i prefer that over the several index cards of houserules we had to maintain for Seafall where it simply didn't explain how a bunch of its separate systems interacted.
after that, Piers (a very much non-sportsball person) hosted the sportsball final. before the match everyone agreed with the prediction it would be 2-1 to Spain after ninety minutes of England's usual "pass it around a bit, get crowded out, lose possession to unforced errors, occasionally get lucky". and hey what do you know
okay maybe a little recap, as a treat. i've got a new album out! when i released IN PROGRESS i felt completely musically spent and didn't make anything new for eighteen months. but after SYNCRETISM i still somehow had fresh ideas?
it's extremely hype, i learnt a lot of hyperpop/future garage/progressive house production techniques. the whole thing came together mostly over one weekend (#humblebrag). chee says it's my best work and i'm inclined to agree with them.
you can listen now on all good streaming services and Spotify but please consider buying it on Bandcamp because that actually gives me money
