A gap in today’s relentless August (!) drizzle 🌧
Let’s BBQ Beyond Burgers!
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Emma-Jean Thackray (14), Gary Kemp (11), Furtwängler, BPO (2) & José González (1) via tweekly.fm
First time I’ve noticed an animated album cover in Apple Music 🎵
The women redefining the sound of UK Jazz 🔗
I’m looking forward to seeing Emma-Jean Thackray at the Green Man Festival next week, been listening to her album Yellow quite a lot recently 🎵
🏏 stats:
We have a new record. Haseeb Hameed’s nought is the 14th duck by a top-three England batsmen this year in England’s 10th Test. It’s the most Test ducks in a calendar year by any team, breaking the 13 by England in 1998.
And I was looking forward to seeing Hameed 😞
Barely a week after I started to try out Gala I’ve just posted my first photograph to Glass.
The image aptly illustrates my relationship with the increasing number of social photography platforms. 😉📷
I’m @TheDimPause there too.
Looking forward to seeing Haseem Hameed bat for England again. Probably tomorrow. 🏏
In defence of Extinction Rebellion 🔗
The pundits of the various leftist movements have spent thousands of words telling us how much better their red climate movement would have been (more working class!, more intersectional!, more militant!) than XR if only they’d got round to doing it.
Watched: The Matrix Revolutions, 2003 - ★★★ 🎥
Just learned that this is called a Forest Bug, Pentatoma rufipes.
A living woodland crest, the forest bug is a shieldbug that loves nothing more than the sap of oak trees.
Also known as a red-legged shieldbug.
Distracted from distraction by distraction
I’ve just read this article in by Oliver Burkeman The Guardian:
It is an edited extract from his book Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It, published on 26th August 2021.
I recognise and certainly experience a lot of the symptoms of being distracted that he is pointing out.
Social media is engineered to constantly adapt to our interests. No wonder the rest of reality seems unable to compete
We mustn’t let Silicon Valley off the hook, but we should be honest: much of the time, we give in to distraction willingly
When we succumb to distraction, we’re motivated by the desire to flee something painful about our experience of the present
What we think of as distractions aren’t the cause of our being distracted. They’re just the places we go to seek relief
The title of this post comes from Burnt Norton the first of T.S.Eliot’s Four Quartets:
Distracted from distraction by distraction
Filled with fancies and empty of meaning
Tumid apathy with no concentration
Watched: Night Moves, 2013 - ★★★½ 🎥
🎵 My Top weekly artists: clipping. (31), Bob Dylan (14), Field Music (12), Gary Kemp (11) & Laundromat (11) via tweekly.fm
Break in play
Like mother, like daughter 😉
