I have been wrestling madly with distraction lately, and it has been getting the upper hand, which usually means there's some big thing I need to do or write. (I'm fairly sure that in this case there are several such things, but I'm also genuinely overbooked and still grieving, so...those things will come when they come.) Stuff that has kept me going:
There is plenty of other band news—a flood of it, you might say—but it merits a separate post, so we'll leave it at that. Take care of each other, friends.
- Watching my neighbors mobilize to protect and support each other. I was able to put in some volunteer hours last week, and we collected tips for CyclingxSolidarity at last weekend's show at Gallery Cabaret. I love this city so much.
- Rediscovering Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series through the prequel books (which somehow I was unaware of until a couple of weeks ago?!). I'm enjoying them so far—particularly the way he explores the everyday structures and workings of his menacing authoritarian state, much as Andor did for the original Star Wars trilogy. I love a fantasy series that grapples with the very real banality of evil. And the flood in La Belle Sauvage so perfectly captures the surreal nature of a world-altering cataclysm.
- Speaking of floods: They Might Be Giants were live on KEXP, and of course it was delightful.
- I always enjoy Austin Kleon's thoughts on creativity, but this line, from his Tuesday newsletter, got me where I live: "Middle age is really the time, I think, that the tamped-down parts of yourself, anything you’ve ignored, any dreams you left behind, come first trickling then bursting back up out of the place you’ve put them in, and the foundation of the structure you’ve build to survive in the world and get to this point starts to get washed away."
There is plenty of other band news—a flood of it, you might say—but it merits a separate post, so we'll leave it at that. Take care of each other, friends.
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