Days 2517 and 2518

 Aka Saturday 9^th and Sunday 10^th October 2021

This weekend I listened a lot of music:

…‘Shake The Foundations’, which is chock full of enjoyable post-punk with a discoy/funky bent tracks, although I struggle to recall the individual tracks (but I am writing this over two months later! Yes, I a behind yet again!)…

…Turin Brakes ‘The Optimist Live’, which recreates the studio album in a live setting, to enjoyable effect…

…the DJ Harvey comp ‘Mercury Rising (Volumen Tres)’, chock full of those mid-tempo Balearicy house/disco tracks, perfect for dancing too, enjoying a drink and chat, or just chilling at home. And Chris Massey remixes of Lindstrøm’s 'Blinded By The LEDs', a classy discoy track/remix, PBR Streetgang’s ‘Trans Pennine Express EP', which is a stunning EP, top-notch electronic tracks, perfect for the dancefloor and the home...

...and Jump - Funkatarium (Bonar B Edit), a nice little dance track…

…and I finished reading ‘The Future Starts Here’ by John Higgs, which was a great, and hope-inspiring, read. Mr Higgs looks at some of the big issues facing us, such as how A.I. will affect us, climate change, the real world vs the virtual world, and how generational changes will affect how the future works out. Taking the common idea that we are doomed and there’s nothing we can do to change things, Mr Higgs looks at how we got here and why things aren’t as bleak as they are painted. One of my best reads this year.

I also invented Nathan, a name I’ve given to the symptoms I’ve been experiencing as a way of dealing with them. The theory goes that by giving them a name, they are no longer mysterious things that are happening to me and are out of my control, but are a know quantity, Nathan, that I can deal with and manage. We’ll see how it works, but so far, so good…and I did Saturday’s G2 Crossword:

…well my physical health might still be in flux, but the little grey cells are firing on all cylinders as we only had to cheat on one of the 22 clues for Saturday’s grid. The little grey cells blitzed through the clues, learning that ‘Thirsk’ is a ‘North Yorkshire racecourse’…