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dusting the battleship for prints

by Simon Aulman

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(LATER - yep I am coming round to this one quite a lot - find myself playing it for minutes at a time, sometimes longer - all its distortions and clunkiness and amateurishness are what I love - it's a constant battle against technology and "progress" to keep things this surrendering)

nope not feeling it much with this one, though it ticks most of my boxes. Being as I've got more reclusive recently I've started talking more to myself and half of me says that I'm just going through a numb shrugging too-cool-for-school phase - when I actually was at school I was unfashionably upbeat and enthusiastic about life - I even (god help me) had old-fashioned things like "hobbies" - I would just get totally distracted by passing insects and would want to know what they were.

But now, decades too late, I'm going through that sullen-seeming phase. So yesterday I watched Dune Part Two - I was never going to love it, but even for a sci-fi-ophobe I did like the loud music and the fighting in the baddy amphitheatre and the explosions, far more than all that dreary goody-goody chatter in the desert - of course the baddies are always far more interesting/charismatic than the goodies.

But it'd just been an escape from a boring time mixing with people. It's a genuine question - but has everyone become boring ? Sure sure sure, I'm sure I'm incredibly boring to everyone who meets me - I know it's true, I know I don't try, I've never been interesting, I've never been interested in anything much, that young time with flying bugs was just a weird adolescence that people used to have a million years ago before smart phones and all the porn and games and gambling and messages made everyone solitary and not needing anything at all.

Via a different route I've reached the same place - impossible to be impressed, impossible to feel any desire to impress - this was made far faster than it takes to hear, a cover done in the swinging of five casual blurred arms - and I know that already it sounds too enthusiastic, like it's trying too hard. But I do know how to feel again - and could do it if I wanted - it'd involve some random disaster - if you thought that this was created by someone on the Titanic we both might feel at one remove what it's actually like to feel anything much.

recorded this morning, cover crayoning this morning

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released March 2, 2024

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