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a day in a homebody lifetime

by Simon Aulman

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winter napery 04:32
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ulcer woman-throat 03:41
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goodwin sands aquarium 02:17
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you are lovd marvellus cratures 04:25
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god dwarf human isomorph 02:47
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how but so against 04:07
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only paint mountains 03:35
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lofi obviously, simple of course, quiet certainly, any few seconds would tell you what the whole lifelong entirety of it sounds like

I like this one a lot, which won't carry any weight because (i) there was one only a couple of days ago which I also liked a lot, and (ii) the ones I like a lot aren't the ones that my adoring fans like a lot or at all. That's fine - I feel that that born-on-the-wrong-planet belief is part of the pleasure.

Yesterday I walked on over to watch Poor Things. The trailer had made me think I might almost like it. But the director's previous films made me unsure of anything. I know I've seen Dogtooth but can't remember it or how I felt. I really really tried to like The Lobster - but it couldn't make me care about it. I didn't like The Killing Of A Sacred Deer. And much to my surprise - mainly because it starts so badly and takes ages to get good - I liked The Favourite. And very embarrassing, because it won Oscars or something, and as a non-audiencer in all fields I feel it obligatory to dislike anything that is liked by "experts".

And right from the first minute I absolutely loved Poor Things. It's a film that celebrates eccentricity, the people who live outside convention. It's quite funny and fun - as life is when you don't care what many people think of you. It dips in the middle and feels tired, but then picks up again towards the end. It is a tad too long, but if it was any shorter then it would feel trivial. I always divide cinema films into those that I will buy on DVD, if they come out on DVD, and those I won't - and this is one that I hope to buy.

It was a good day - another in my ongoing descent into being a recluse and not needing other people. So it was doubly irritating that on my walk to/from the cinema it seemed that absolutely everyone on the pavement seemed determined to change direction and walk into me. One after the other, I looked at a person ahead of me who seemed to be steering a good course and I just knew that they would suddenly turn and almost bump into me - and they did. Some days people clear a path ahead of me and I can walk fast. Yesterday they crowded round me and mobbed me. Although I do feel increasingly unmoored from sanity, I still know that it must be coincidence or just my imagination that these days are so different.

With my knee continuing to improve, I can now walk at my normal fast speed. But the world won't let me. I shouldn't care. All I do when I'm out is want to stay out, and when I'm in I want to stay in - too many people outside, no one inside, this is an album that reflects the quietly serene mood that overwhelms me when I go nowhere and move unhindered around the house and it is almost as good as the time when I was married.

recorded this morning, photo ditto

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released January 13, 2024

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