Aka 1st to 7th Jan 2018.
This week I:
1. Re-watched Luke Cage Season 1, which was a Christmas
present, and on second watch it doesn’t seems as drawn out as it did when I
watched it on Netflixs. Maybe that’s because the first time I was watching it
more for the story and plot, when the second time it was more about watching the
performances and enjoying the actors being Luke Cage, Misty Knight, etc.? I also
watched the sixties film One Plus One/Sympathy For The Devil, which is half the
Rolling Stones recording Sympathy For The Devil and half revolutionary tableaus,
which, to the modern eye, are preachy, pretentious bullshit, the kinda thing
you think of when you’re a teenager and first exposed to new ideas and beliefs.
I also started on the Person of Interest boxset, more of which later.
2. Read some comics, including Nimona, which is one of the best
comics/graphic novels I’ve read in years. Noelle Stevenson has created a really
funny, touching and moving story. It’s the tale of Lord Ballister Blackheart, a
‘villian’ getting revenge on Sir Ambrosius Goldenlion and the Institution of
Law Enforcement and Heroics. Lord Blackheart is joined by Nimona, as his sidekick,
but it soon becomes clear that she is not quite what she seems and may be more
dangerous and deadly than Lord Blackheart and that the heroes they are fighting
may be less than heroic. As the chapters progress the story builds and goes
from being a straight-forward, light-hearted comedy to something more morally grey
and dramatic and heart breaking and life reaffirming. I can’t recommend Nimona
highly enough, it’s a great story.
3. Made chocolate bowls with my nephew. They’re pretty
straight forward to make – melt some chocolate, coat some balloons with the
melted chocolate and then put on the refrigerator to chill. The only thing to
be careful about it is to wait for the chocolate to cool enough before dipping the
balloons in, if it’s too hot the balloon will pop and spray chocolate everywhere!
4. Brought and listened to Andrew Weatherall Qualia LP,
which I’d been after for a few months, but it had only been available on vinyl,
but it’s now on Bandcamp. Qualia is a mellow affair, mixing, mainly, techno and
post-punk/disco-not-disco, that, for me, works best as a headphone or post-club
listen. Kinda like the songs are more movements of one big piece rather than individual
songs collected on an album.
5. Took some pretty pictures during my morning constitutional
walk:
6. During my walks I’ve been consolidating my feels about
the EU Referendum and the negotiation talks. For me the biggest issue is that
over a quarter of those eligible to vote didn’t vote. The turnout of the
46,501,241 people eligible to vote was 72.2% (33,551,983 people), so 27.8% (12,949,258
people) didn’t vote. Of those who did vote, 51.9% (17,410,742 people) voted to
leave and 48.1% (16,141,241 people) voted to remain, which are the figures that
most people use when they say “the people have voted” or “we implement the will
of the people”, but they forget that the real figures are 37.4% voted to leave,
34.7% voted to remain and 27.8% didn’t vote at all. And these figures,
including those who didn’t vote, are the ones we should be using. Leaving the
EU is such a big decision that we can’t take it (or not take it) when over a
quarter of the population didn’t bother to vote! We can’t base this decision on
the wishes of 37.4% of the voting population.
Data taken from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/eu_referendum/results
7. Brought some new comics on New Comic Book Day:
8. I also brought some iron tablets, because I read that
they can help counter fatigue:
9. And I brought a maths book, because I found out that I’ve
forgotten how negative numbers work and how to add them together!
10. Brought Portishead’s Third LP, which isn’t bad. It’s
very Portisheady and atmospheric, but not memorable. It’s been a couple for
weeks since I listened to it and I can’t remember any of the tracks, just that
I liked it.
11. I also brought The Craft on DVD. I vaguely remembered it
from the nineties, but I had recently read an article on nineties horror films,
which included a chunk on The Craft, which inspired me to get the DVD. And it’s
a really cool nineties flick about teenage witches, the weirdest thing is that
you’re watching stars in one of their films, e.g. Neve Campbell before Scream
and Wild Things and Robin Tunney before The Mentalist and Prison Break.
12. I ordered and got the Wildstorm 25th Anniversary
book and Will Pop Eat Itself, a book about sampling in music. I’ve read about
half of the Wildstorm book and it’s weird reading new stories about characters
that have been absent for a while (and are only just now coming back in the
Ellis book, The Wild Storm).
13. I also did some drawings for my nephew while he had breakfast:
14. And I did some crosswords:
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