Work and lack of sleep create a gap and then you get out of practice of posting. Oh well time to get back into the swing of things.
Work is taking up the majority of my energy at the moment – customers, a release and new opportunities for the company are lurking just out of reach at the moment and an uneasy sense of hope. This is one thing you learn in business – things always take much longer than you think they well. Always.
I got to see Chris Morris’s superb My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117. Most people will know Morris’s work from Brass Eye and The Day Today but he is also responsible for the strange, disturbing and dream like Jam (tv) and Blue Jam (radio). My wrongs is a short film (~12 minutes) taken from one of the radio monologues. The main character is a hapless man led astray by a dog and later on a baby that talk to him. Morris’s humour ranges high and low – from the Beckettian absurdity of the central character to the childish fun taken in saying rude words and the comedic contradictions of Monty Python. Its not for everyone but if you like this kind of thing this is a must see.
I’ve being working on my music a lot more and I’ve dusted off my Micro Modular. I havent’ really used it for a while and its great fun to be programming it again. I have spent more time making noises than music though. Milo really likes all my synths and things as well – he stands at the end of the desk where he can just reach the end keys or switches patches on the modular.
Music wise I’ve been listening to a lot of Bill Nelson. I have no idea why this guy is not more widely know. Highly prolific (he wrote 150-200 songs for his current wife when he was courting her) he produces quirky pop songs that are quirky and catchy in equal measure. Continuing on my exploration of offbeat English pop – I have also discovered they highly idiosyncratic Robert Wyatt.
Having Milo removes a large amount of my reading time but I am currently reading Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer. I have been meaning to read this book since I was a teenager and have owned it for many years now so its good to be actually getting down to reading it. No doubt I will have more comments when I have read a bit more.
Posted by Mark at February 26, 2003 10:05 AM