Currently reading: The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction (Reading the City) edited by Jim Hinks, Masashi Matsuie & Michael Emmerich 📚

This week’s Flickr Friday theme of Childhood Memories gave me the opportunity to do this. Luckily nobody saw me playing with Action Man in the garden. 😳

Track 18 May 2020 at 14:30 - Walking Track - ViewRanger 🔗 – 5 mile circular route.

The best Japanese film of every year – from 1925 to now 🔗 — Excerpt: It’s a foolish endeavour to try to determine the best film, year by year, of any filmmaking nation, let alone one with so extraordinary a cinematic history as Japan. 🎥

Track 14 May 2020 at 14:45 - Walking Track - ViewRanger 🔗 – afternoon walk.

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Einstürzende Neubauten (43), Florestan Trio (18), Busch String Quartet (17) & David Bowie (14) via tweekly.fm

Covid-19 surveillance tech explained: 6 ways governments are monitoring the virus – and you 🔗 — Excerpt: Governments across the world face the same dilemma: how to contain the spread of Covid-19 while at the same time re-opening their shuttered societies. The stakes are immense. Open up too early and the death toll could sky-rocket, putting health systems under enormous strain.

Brace yourself for the most dangerous idea yet: most people are pretty decent 🔗 — Excerpt: Right now, more than ever, we need a hopeful view of human nature. While we’re right to keep our physical distance from those around us to stop the spread of the virus, we also need to believe that it’s these same people who will get us through it. We need to trust them.

🎵 My Top weekly artists: Mark Padmore; Paul Lewis (2), Michael Riesman & Philip Glass Ensemble (2), Rudolf Firkusny (2), Abbado, VPO, Norman (1) & Bartok Quartet (1) via tweekly.fm

Watched: Suicide Squad, 2016 - ★★★½ 🎥

Watched: The Game, 1997 - ★★★½ 🎥

🎵 My Top weekly artists: EOB (28), Radiohead (14), Kavus Torabi (10), Laura Marling (10) & Sigmatropic (9) via tweekly.fm

Intense Santorini 🇬🇷

Evening games.

Lockdown just got serious - teaching my wife and daughter to play chess - their first game… ♟