Writing
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How Soon is Now by Richard King
A few notes about, and quotes from, the book, plus a long Spotify playlist of tracks mentioned.
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w/e 3 June 2018
A new site for my work, and swimming lanes compared to shared space road designs.
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‘The Actor’s Art and Craft’ by William Esper and Damon DiMarco
My notes on the book that recounts a year’s worth of Esper teaching his variation of the Meisner acting technique.
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w/e 28 May 2018
David Byrne’s ‘How Music Works’, Ben Moor’s ‘Pronoun Trouble’, and ‘The Split’.
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w/e 20 May 2018
‘Uncharted’ 1; Elmore Leonard’s ‘Glitz’; Chamberlin, Powell and Bon; and ‘Silicon Valley’ season three.
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Invalidating items from Django’s cache
I poked around at Django’s per-site and per-view caching to work out why I couldn’t invalidate pages from the cache. I eventually worked out how to do it.
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f/e 13 May 2018
‘Fortitude’ season two, 1980s ‘Top of the Pops’, and reading Iain M. Banks’ ‘Consider Phlebas’.
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A kind of modern desperation
On whether writing weeknotes could help me get back into more frequent blogging again. (Answer: they didn’t, quite.)
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Exploring City of London Councillors data
I scraped data about the City of London’s councillors, and their interests and gifts, and made a site to browse and search it using Datasette.
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A nice picture
On liking images that are broken, Pure CSS Francine, and Afghan war rugs.
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Mike’s poetry and heart
Mike Johnston on The Online Photographer wrote a nice piece about the things he misses from the photography practices of his younger days, and much of it feels very similar to how I sometimes feel about the internet.
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Sara Renberg - ‘Night Sands’
I’m enjoying this album which possibly isn’t like That Dog. And I liked Leif Vollebekk too.
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Fortitude, Shetland and This Country
On season one of ‘Fortitude’, season four of ‘Shetland’, and ‘This Country’
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Describing events in code
Describing how I thought about writing code to catalogue 28 years of visits to cinemas, theatres, gigs, etc. and the decisions I made.
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28 years of events
I’ve catalogued 28 years of visits to cinemas, theatres, gigs, etc on my site. Here’s a summary of it all.
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Run out of metaphors
On Phoebe Bridgers’ album ‘Stranger in the Alps’ and comparing some of the lyrics to Mark Kozelek.
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w/e 25 March 2018
Martha, ‘Transparent’, ‘Call Me By Your Name’, and ‘Always Coming Home’.
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f/e 18 March 2018
Trying to combine two kinds of acting, and ‘Transparent’.
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Mini music genres: UK music press
Some songs that mention the ‘NME’, ‘Melody Maker’, etc.
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w/e 4 March 2018
Different levels of programming knowledge, and ‘Lady Bird’.
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w/e 25 February 2018
Museum in a Box, ‘The Shape of Water’, ‘Search Party’ and ‘Battlefield 1’.
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Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
My notes on “The Last Book on Screenwriting That You’ll Ever Need”.
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w/e 18 February 2018
‘The Memory of Water’, ‘Red Star Over Russia’, The Story 2018, and quitting things.
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w/e 11 February 2018
More acting classes, part-way through another laborious personal project, season six of ‘Spiral’, and episode recaps.
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w/e 4 February 2018
‘Feud: Bette and Joan’, ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’, ‘Game of Thrones’ season seven, and Femi Temowo and Engines Orchestra.