A fat quince on the dashboard of his Triumph Herald
hello,
Have you got your Interesting ticket yet? If you're going to get one, please get it now, it'll make me less anxious. If you need some persuading ask yourself where else you can go to hear short talks about Elsie do Wolfe, dust, pensions and not being a vegetarian. Thank you.
And on with the things.
Marta Salongi's performances are extraordinary. Such a simple idea but the execution is incredible. Lovely music. Lovely gear.
I know we're supposed to hate TikTok but I've somehow trained mine to be largely wholesome and wonderful. For instance; Audrey Hepburn believes in pink and Gabor Mate believes in Pooh. In a world of too much content TikTok helps me find the good bits.
Something else from Lori Gottlieb's Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Probably useful at a personal level, certainly useful for organisations.
"Doing something prompts you to do something else, replacing a vicious cycle with a virtuous one. Most big transformations come about from the hundreds of tiny, almost imperceptible, steps we take along the way.
I started every month last year with a bit of Ronald Blythe's Next to Nature. I'm thinking I should do it again. This sticks with me the most. None more English.
"John Nash, who may have planted the tree, liked to place a fat quince on the dashboard of his Triumph Herald, there to scent the car out."
And here's Wendy Eisenberg (from). I've a feeling this might be a repeat, but it's worth it.
"For a long time I’ve told myself and other people that I enjoyed being bad at things. This was often a lie. I like excelling, preferably in a rare way. I like practicing. I like discovering and refining technique, all the classic trappings of an obsessive personality alchemized into something constructive, if not useful. This year I actually learned to enjoy the beginning stages of things. I started skateboarding, thanks to my partner, and am still terrible at it, but every new thing I learn, every new way I use my body, feels personal, and creative, and entirely non-productive."
PROMOTIONAL NEWS
Spotify's spectacularly tin-eared artist email tells me that March was "full of high notes" because I had "10 listeners" and "compared to last month that's an increase of 100%". I'd like to see Swift hit those kind of growth numbers. I got so excited I made a slightly mournful dance track. It was called Vibeshifter for most of its existence and then, at the last minute, became Grey Green Archipelago. Not sure why. Listen on Spotify, Bandcamp or even YouTube.
I'll give you back your day
russell
(There are 981 of you. In 2014 the Hai Yang Shi You 981 oil rig was at the centre of the Hai Yang Shi You 981 standoff)