Listening to my Wee Red Bar record fair haul, the highlights being Exhibitionist by Jeff Mills on CD and Pay It All Back volume 1 on vinyl.
I like the TFEH Presents gigs at the Fruitmarket. This time it was the Bohman Brothers with support from []. I hadn’t heard of the Bohman Brothers before but their tour got a mention in Stewart Lee’s monthly newsletter. The show was very funny (a rural disturbance in West Linton, 8 foot man-eating woodlice etc. etc. ).
At vinyl listening group the theme was death row records, i.e. what you would request they play while you’re awaiting execution. I picked A Brave Man Once Said by Fierce Ruling Diva, Somethin’ Else by Eddie Cochran and Bela Lugosi’s Dead, which I always used to say I wanted playing at my funeral.
Reading A Very Short Introduction to Consciousness by Susan Blackmore, which seems to advocate the consciousness is an illusion theory. I’ve been well aware of most of the arguments for this theory for a long time (e.g. actions precede thoughts) but rejected it because of my own strong self of self and the need to believe in free will (which has its own problems). For now at least I am back in the illusionist camp (I know, I’m fickle).
Watching A Real Pain. We enjoyed this current movie on a rare trip to the Fraser cinema in Tranent. I was impressed by the Kieran Cullin interview in the Guardian a few weeks ago and thought he did a great job of being a real pain 😉 We all know people who are full of life and what a pain they can be, but it’s only in recent years that I’ve really started to appreciate that they’re not up all the time and they can be suffering real pain.
I also watched the BBC 1984 play from 1958 with Peter Cushing as the lead. It’s a story I’m pretty familiar with through many re-readings and viewings of the 1984 movie. I liked it but was surprised at the explicit post nuclear exposition at the beginning and also how long it takes to get to Winston’s captivity.
And we both watched Amandaland and Am I Being Unreasonable on their return to the BBC and neither seemed particularly funny this time round. Ho hum.