Thursday, 20 July 2017

Days 158 and 159

Aka Saturday 8 July and Sunday 9 July aka a very lazy weekend.

I tried my prochlorperazine prescription again to see if anything had changed and it would have a positive effect, but no, like before it just made me feel worse. Kinda like being drunk, but without any of the nice effects of being drunk.

I watched a few films on Netflix, but they were pretty much just meh. So meh, that I can’t remember what they were, except for Here Alone

Here Alone is obviously very low budget, but it does make the most of it. It has a very small cast (effectively just three people) and one location (the woods) and does a great job of showing the consequences of an apocalyptic effect on a family. It also packs in more emotion than an entire season of The Walking Dead.

I also spent a load of time backing up my hard drive, which was dull but necessary and at least I’ll have everything if the hard drive goes down.

Also, this was the 20th anniversary week of Primal Scream’s Vanishing Point album being released. 

Vanishing Point is probably my favourite Primal Scream album and is the album that got me into the band. I can still remember being in my student flat, listening to Mary-Anne Hobbs Breezeblock show and hearing Kowalski for the first time (with that heavy, heavy bassline) and being blown away.
The album is really eclectic, with rock ‘n’ roll, house, dub, ambient and more sounds in the mix and was really complimented by the B-sides and remixes. And this article does a better job than I could of explaining how good the album is:


I also read Batgirl #12, Mother Panic #8 and Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye #9. Batgirl is a great little done-in-one-issue superhero story involving a teleporter murder, ghosts and swimming pools.



Mother Panic and Cave Carson are both in the middle of multi-issue storylines and are developing/continuing those storylines, setting up dominoes to be toppled in later issues and building momentum. Cave Carson also has a nice little discussion on the nature of reality.  







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