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
Storm Eunice hit two days ago and it was actually kind of scary to be told by the Meteorological Office “hazard to life from flying debris”. we shut the cat in, charged our battery packs, made sure we had enough candles and butane and didn’t go outside.
around the corner a row of houses’ garden walls fell down and are blocking the pavement. the vent on the boiler flue is still going ham rattling as i type.
(sorry, this bit’s pretty nerdy, skip on if you don’t care)
i built a new eurorack case. this one’s designed to be a portable live techno set in a box. it’s massively inspired by the mylarmelodies Suggested System video with the same premise, except:
a year or so ago, when i still had a therapist, we worked out that i often lose habits because i felt guilty about not having done them, and that guilt transferred to the thought of starting back up again, and she gave me permission to not do that
i have a studio space
on trafalgar road, in greenwich, there’s an iceland. above the iceland is this 70’s pebbledash concrete box. i don’t know what it used to be, it’s a very odd building inside. now it is twenty-two small spaces, full of artists, makeup artists, florists, and me.
i’ve put all my music gear (really just a midi keyboard and an ableton push) in there, and my big eurorack, and my soldering stuff and large collection of electronics parts, and a large peace lily, and i cycle there and make things. it’s really just an expensive way of tricking my brain into hyperfocusing but god damn does it work, i actually get stuff done there.
holidays always throw my habits entirely out of the window. i also managed to gate posting my next weeknotes on having edited my photos from camping, which was a terrible thing to do to my brain.
2. whistlestop tour
went camping
went and saw my parents in Yorkshire
went and saw my in-laws in Cornwall
went to the welsh borders and bathed in a hot tub watched by sheep
went camping again but this time it was sort of a festival
i just barbecued some smoked mackerel fillets and oh my god. then they got rained on and we ate them in the car
last time we came here apple maps navigated us to a dead end seven miles away and then said “you have arrived”, very clearly nowhere near the pin on the map
imagine being gaslit by apple maps
this time we got it to give directions to the pub in the village
we put a kettle on and almost immediately ran out of butane. and then it got rained on
i love it here
2. i sold a lens to a friend of a friend
i basically never sell anything apart from to CeX
the whole deal was struck via twitter dm, it was very civilised
i spent half an hour scouring the office for a box of the right size that i hoped might have been abandoned on March 12th 2020
eventually i found an amazon box for a logitech mouse. thanks gallal
