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Books and music
Oct. 18th, 2023 01:21 pmLast night, we went to see Walk Off The Earth live at the Troxy in Stepney. It's a weird venue, with three tiers of sideways-facing booths in the middle of the balcony. We sat in one of those, which meant we had to twist round to see the stage and were a bit in each other's way. However, the show was great - Ryan Mack made for an appealing and enthusiastic support act and WOTE were awesome. They did a medley of 26 Beatles songs, which was epic - and also a medley of their own hits, with four of them all playing the same giant custom guitar at the same time. Gianni's saxo-didge solo was pretty amazing too! Lots of positive energy and bouncing around - always good value!
We recently watched the new TV show - Strange Planet, which is about blue beings experiencing all aspects of life on a rotating orb. They have a stylised and quite formal way of speaking, which uses very literal descriptive language (eg - two-wheeled foot-pusher for bicycle, and personal star-dimmers for sunglasses, etc) which is very appealing. I recently bought the collected comic books (by Nathan Pyle) and finished one yesterday. It was very funny and a good way to extend my experience of spending time with the beings.
I recently discovered the podcast Nothing Much Happens, which is a way of training your brain to get to sleep quickly by listening to bedtime stories in which, you've guessed it, nothing much happens. And it really works! So well, in fact, that I rarely get to hear much of the story at all, which is a shame because they're really lovely. I discovered there's a book (by Kathryn Nicolai) so I bought it immediately. Now I can read the stories in their entirety and learn the main points of a few of them to use to send me back to sleep if I wake up in the night. I cannot recommend the podcast highly enough if you have trouble sleeping (I used to wake up a lot in the night but now I mostly sleep right through and get back to sleep very quickly if I do wake up, using the techniques described) - and the book is a beautiful accompaniment.
We recently watched the new TV show - Strange Planet, which is about blue beings experiencing all aspects of life on a rotating orb. They have a stylised and quite formal way of speaking, which uses very literal descriptive language (eg - two-wheeled foot-pusher for bicycle, and personal star-dimmers for sunglasses, etc) which is very appealing. I recently bought the collected comic books (by Nathan Pyle) and finished one yesterday. It was very funny and a good way to extend my experience of spending time with the beings.
I recently discovered the podcast Nothing Much Happens, which is a way of training your brain to get to sleep quickly by listening to bedtime stories in which, you've guessed it, nothing much happens. And it really works! So well, in fact, that I rarely get to hear much of the story at all, which is a shame because they're really lovely. I discovered there's a book (by Kathryn Nicolai) so I bought it immediately. Now I can read the stories in their entirety and learn the main points of a few of them to use to send me back to sleep if I wake up in the night. I cannot recommend the podcast highly enough if you have trouble sleeping (I used to wake up a lot in the night but now I mostly sleep right through and get back to sleep very quickly if I do wake up, using the techniques described) - and the book is a beautiful accompaniment.
