nights are drawing in and i'm practising piano, specifically this. looks easy but easy to get wrong. currently being played at half speed! lol
Wednesday 27 October 2021
Wednesday 20 October 2021
paola hermosin
a perfect combination to remind me of how much i'm rubbish at both playing guitar and spanish. i love watching her fingering in this
Tuesday 19 October 2021
danish films
reviews. well, why not? i do like a vengeance movie and i like the two leads in this. what you get tho is really nothing like what the trailer suggests (i'm guessing it was made with a more, dare i say it, english language audience in mind). a great ensemble cast, well scripted and solid characterization plus they dodge the usual tropes in favour of something that touches on a host of other subjects. i read elsewhere that this shouldn't really work but it does. stupid, funny, touching and tragic all at the same time.
Monday 18 October 2021
schema therapy
turns out i'm finding clinical psychology really interesting. who knew! this, on schema therapy. great vid, awful sound
Sunday 17 October 2021
cajonmaster - bossanova
felipe at cajonmaster is one of my favourite cajon channels. and i'm needing some bossanova in my life!
tongue stuck
i fine it wearyingly difficult to keep any language alive in the uk but it doesn't mean i've lost any of the enthusiasm for the languages themselves. this article on rumpus about maintaining a language, in this case romanian, for me possibly the most fascinating of the romance languages and certainly, i think, the most neglected
Saturday 16 October 2021
hannah arendt
decent article from lapham's on hannah arendt. which does that thing, not so often found, thTat makes me want to read the biography but, more importantly, the source text
Friday 15 October 2021
Thursday 14 October 2021
Wednesday 13 October 2021
sourdough library
there's niche and there's niche. but a sourdough library is a world heritage project. what a resource! and a nice wee podcast about it on atlas obscura
Tuesday 12 October 2021
Thursday 7 October 2021
Monday 4 October 2021
Sunday 3 October 2021
Saturday 2 October 2021
Friday 1 October 2021
jacob aue sobol