morix @morix@loci.onl

@lancasterpilgrim nice, yeah it really feels like this is the week the light starts to lift up a little. We'll get the daffodils on the hill soon.

Still one to two more months of winter to go however :)

Left the office to lighter blue skies and bird noises, I'm glad the light is starting to return as the year goes on. #seasons #land

@mrvi well fuck sticks this is unexpectedly shit :( Yeah I can see that being rage but not necessarily useful rage, because as you say, not your story to tell.

Pass on care to the hurt person in question as best you can and quietly vent off the rage elsewhere :(

Local news: for anyone headed along the A6 to Galgate there's lights by the Uni that are sucking and jamming up traffic and they'll probably be there all week

@lancasterpilgrim this sounds like you need a heavily edited version with just the good bits, time for a scathing review?

sidenote: I've never read Child's work, is it worth a punt?

@lancasterpilgrim having read the summary page I presume it's occasion insights into Lee Child's writing then lots of asides and fan wank?

Damn Dreamboy is delivering on weirdness, also unashamably queer: centring a gay male relationship, features explicit BDSM (dubcon), and features a segment with Zebra flavoured drag queens.

Also the strange and spooky local girls are interestingly odd, and the town just feels unsettling.

Atmosphere reminds me a little of Twin Peaks (normative town secrets revealed as weird) and all kinds of mythos (dream sharing, giant fish, noises in the darkness) #dreamboy #podcast

And related to this I'm just giving the new album "After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house" released this year as Nivhek a good listen to while working this afternoon, it feels definitely different from the previous (Grid of Points) so I think I may have to buy it.

"Grouper’s Liz Harris Explains the Art of the Paradox and the Beauty of Mistakes" by Ben Ratliff, April 27 2018

Grouper are a band I (and @dragon) listen to pretty regularly because there is just something about the atmosphere, the long, slow, melodic themes and drifting haunting vocal sounds where voice is stacked almost like instruments.

Reading this interview gives some interesting context, with woods and sea feeling like important components.

https://pitchfork.com/features/profile/groupers-liz-harris-explains-the-art-of-the-paradox-and-the-beauty-of-mistakes/ #music #grouper

(paid for by Yorkshire tea who would like to look very green and plant some trees to further this image - interesting how looking green is becoming fiscal good sense for large companies eh?)

Places of sanctuary, opportunity, menace and death’ – why forests in fiction grip our imaginations - by Amy-Jane Beer
https://www.theguardian.com/yorkshire-tea-amazing-trees/2019/feb/13/places-of-sanctuary-opportunity-menace-and-death-why-forests-in-fiction-grip-our-imaginations

a whirlwind tour of stories and myths and the psychology impact of woods and forests, quite a nice gentle read and probably of interest to most people on the instance.

#myth #trees #magic