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lil 16 page zine that i made at the coffee shop this weekend! a sort of pick your path style mini game, because i love wizards + interactive fiction. hope you get out of the wizard dungeon!!

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Josef Albers-color study for homage to the square

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Footwork

The first in an ongoing series about wandering around. This one's about lycra phantoms, cars, human contact and the weirdness of chapping strangers' doors to tell them the good news.

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I Inside I Inside the Old Year Dying

Over on my blog I've been fool enough to write about the way PJ Harvey's latest album conveys change through stillness: "Summer into Autumn, youth into adulthood, life into death, old self into someone else."

I also tried to pick three favourite tracks despite thinking you really need to listen to the whole thing - preferably on repeat!

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Very funny to me that the only people I've seen talk about Barbie in relation to White Noise are Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig themselves.

Beyond the shared personnel, they're both hyper-stylised stories about plastic consumer landscapes destabilised by the idea of death. Hell, they both even have dance routines set in the heart of consumer-space! If I've missed anything in The Discourse, let me know.

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Carrie (1976)

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Hello, I keep forgetting to post here!

I made a wee horror comic. It’s a 16-page nightmare about not being able to leave the house. It’s riso printed! It wasn’t going to be about lockdown but it kinda ended up being that a little. It’s more about being untethered and feeling frozen in time. I wrote it shortly after I found out I have combined autism/ADHD, which are two often conflicting things (needing constant stimulation but also! often overwhelmed by stimulation). I wasn’t going to explain the whole zine to you but it’s actually nice to talk about it. I’ve been fussing over it all year.

You can buy it in my shop!

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Some mornings you wake up feeling a little My Bloody Valentine.

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Enikő Katalin Eged (Hungarian, b. 1992, Budapest, Hungary) - Black Cat White Cat, Paintings

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Ethel Greene. “The World’s Greatest Parking Lot”. Oil on canvas, 1969

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VISIONS by Hugo Barros. Year unknown.

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Six Feet Under rewatch: round 1!

Having blitzed The Sopranos and The Wire during lockdown, I felt like it was time to re-watch another classic from the era. Turns out Six Feet Under hold up well enough to prompt a return to blogging.

Here's what I've written so far:

Six Feet, Infinite Dimensions - on Nate's hair and the foundations of the Fisher home.

"I made a terrible decision and brought us to a horrible place" - about how the show has one foot in old TV and one in the world to come.

Comic Book Men - where a ropy episode from season 4 makes me pine for life before the Funkopop apocalypse.

Reckon I'm gonna do another three posts, one on the show's handling of bisexuality, one exploring some dead dad feelings, and one where I talk about endings. In the meantime, if you want to imagine what the proposed reboot might look like you could do worse than consider this r/relationship_advice post.

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Illogical Volume 2022

Twenty two songs I've enjoyed this year, compiled on a platform that likes stacking cash more than feeding artists or sharing good medical advice.

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WATTERS

Great to see Watters step into bigger and bigger shoes like he's on the footwear version of David Byrne's journey. Shout outs to the man in his ongoing war with Kelvin College!

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I picked three of the best tracks from Richard Thompson’s Bloody Noses EP here but it’s a short record and you could listen to it all - “a lesson in how much racket one beret-wearing pensioner can make”.