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Ian Mason | @thedimpause

the dim pause

Watched: Freud’s Last Session, 2023 - ★★★★ 🎥

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Finished reading: Crickonomics: The Anatomy of Modern Cricket by Stefan Szymanski and Tim Wigmore 📚

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Finished reading: An Instance Of The Fingerpost by Iain Pears 📚

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Watched: Marty Supreme, 2025 - ★★★★½ 🎥

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🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Dove Ellis (10 plays), Mitropoulos (10), Goose (9), Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano (1), Collins, Swedish Chamber Orchestra (1)

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Watched: Blink Twice, 2024 - ★★★½ 🎥

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Listening and watching in 2025

Some annual summaries!

Podcasts

From Overcast:

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Watched: F1, 2025 - ★★★★ 🎥

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The Fire Doors performing at The Dublin Castle, Camden on Saturday 3rd January 2026

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The Fire Doors

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The Dublin Castle, Camden

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The Fire Doors

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The Dublin Castle, Camden

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Small venue, sold out and pretty packed

🔗 They’re among the best in British indie. So why have Field Music become a Doors cover band?

Saturday 3rd January 2026 🎵

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Freud Museum

20 Maresfield Gardens, London

The final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud, a pioneering child psychoanalyst.

A historical study room is filled with antique furniture, rugs, busts, and art pieces, creating a rich, classical ambiance.A room featuring a couch draped with patterned textiles, surrounded by bookshelves, framed pictures, and busts on a shelf.A richly decorated study features bookshelves filled with numerous books and artifacts, alongside a wooden table displaying various sculptures and items.A cozy library features bookshelves filled with books, tribal masks on display, and a comfortable seating area with a red upholstered chair.A bookshelf filled with various books is adorned with three sculpted faces vertically aligned in the center, accompanied by a wooden step ladder in the foreground.A room features framed ancient art on the walls, clay vessels on a wooden cabinet, and a bookshelf filled with books.A sculpture of a child sits on a wooden vanity, reflected in the mirror, with decorative figurines surrounding it.A peaceful garden scene featuring tall trees, a circular flower bed, and a lawn on a clear day.A large red brick house with multiple windows is partially obscured by a bare tree, while three people stand on the sidewalk in front of a hedge and a sign.A red-brick house with large windows and a blue door is surrounded by greenery under a clear blue sky.A red-brick building with white-framed windows is surrounded by trees and greenery, with a signboard for the Freud Museum at the forefront.

Visited Saturday 3rd January 2026

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Currently reading: The Odyssey by Homer 📚

About to start Book 6 of The Odyssey. Progressing - at a fairly slow pace that suits me 😄 - alongside the Instant Classics Podcast Book Club episodes. Emily Wilson’s translation is a pleasure to read.

Tell me about a complicated man.

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Watched: Pluribus Season 1 📺

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