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Sunday Update 07/08
Reading
Following on from The Dispossessed, I've swung back into non-fiction, and am now working my way through the brick that is The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 by Robert Graves & Alan Hodges. I didn't realise when I bought it that it was a) so long or b) so old (originally published 1940, making it less the modern retrospective that I was expecting and more a contemporary report), but so far it's proving interesting, and serving its purpose on my project-related reading list. (My current project is heavily inspired by this interwar period in the UK.) I expect I'll be reading this for a while yet, though perhaps I will pick up something fictional in parallel if it gets too dry.
Film
Caught Speed Racer (2008) at the cult cinema on a whim this week. From friends' past live-posts of the film, I was expecting "cheesy so-bad-it's-good", but actually this is a perfect rendition of a live-action film based on a wacky cartoon. The CGI is eyemelting (and at 2008 levels of realism), but the Wachowskis really lean into that aesthetic and in doing so knock it right out of the park.
Writing
Couch to 80K continues! Now into Week 3, which is about mask work - one of my least favourite weeks, as this topic doesn't really resonate with me, and I knew that going in, but I'm using the podcast schedule as a bootstrap to keep myself in a routine and adding in different exercises around it. The Long Week-End has sparked some ideas in what used to be a blank placeholder space, and I've been making lists of things like potential character names and place names, so that I have a pool to draw on. Generally continuing optimistic!
Social
Misc. enjoyable events this week (writing group, picnic, birthday, brunch catch-up), but one of my favourite friends announced plans to move to a different city in the medium term, so I'm feeling a little down about that. Still feeling a bit on the lonely side in general, but trying to have faith in the process and keep putting myself out there to talk to people - something's gotta click eventually.
Following on from The Dispossessed, I've swung back into non-fiction, and am now working my way through the brick that is The Long Week-End: A Social History of Great Britain 1918-1939 by Robert Graves & Alan Hodges. I didn't realise when I bought it that it was a) so long or b) so old (originally published 1940, making it less the modern retrospective that I was expecting and more a contemporary report), but so far it's proving interesting, and serving its purpose on my project-related reading list. (My current project is heavily inspired by this interwar period in the UK.) I expect I'll be reading this for a while yet, though perhaps I will pick up something fictional in parallel if it gets too dry.
Film
Caught Speed Racer (2008) at the cult cinema on a whim this week. From friends' past live-posts of the film, I was expecting "cheesy so-bad-it's-good", but actually this is a perfect rendition of a live-action film based on a wacky cartoon. The CGI is eyemelting (and at 2008 levels of realism), but the Wachowskis really lean into that aesthetic and in doing so knock it right out of the park.
Writing
Couch to 80K continues! Now into Week 3, which is about mask work - one of my least favourite weeks, as this topic doesn't really resonate with me, and I knew that going in, but I'm using the podcast schedule as a bootstrap to keep myself in a routine and adding in different exercises around it. The Long Week-End has sparked some ideas in what used to be a blank placeholder space, and I've been making lists of things like potential character names and place names, so that I have a pool to draw on. Generally continuing optimistic!
Social
Misc. enjoyable events this week (writing group, picnic, birthday, brunch catch-up), but one of my favourite friends announced plans to move to a different city in the medium term, so I'm feeling a little down about that. Still feeling a bit on the lonely side in general, but trying to have faith in the process and keep putting myself out there to talk to people - something's gotta click eventually.