This year I got into barbells.

This year I quit the only job I’ve done for more than a year and went back to school.


Papers


Books

  • Exhalation
  • How to Actually Change Your Mind, v3
  • The AI Does Not Hate You
  • Ficciones
  • Scarcity
  • Cyberiad
  • Math with Bad Drawings
  • Wolf Hall
  • Infidel
  • Money for Nothing
  • Samsara


Worst book: Justine by Lawrence Durrell.


Essays


Films / TV

  • The Favourite
  • Eighth Grade
  • Bodied
  • Seven Samurai
  • Hunt for the Wilderpeople
  • Truth and Justice
  • The Royal Tenenbaums
  • Redline
  • The Irishman
  • Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
  • Mob Psycho 100
  • One-Punch Man (Season 1 only)
  • Watched the Simpsons systematically for the first time.


Podcasts

  • Rationally Speaking
  • FLI


Albums

  • The Ballet - Matchy Matchy
  • Richard Dawson - 2020
  • Tyler, The Creator - IGOR
  • Kristin Hersh - Crooked
  • 環境音楽 = Kankyō Ongaku
  • Hakushi Hasegawa - Air Ni Ni
  • Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
  • Pilgrimage and Rampages by Johnny Morrice
  • The Goat Rodeo Sessions
  • Square Enix Jazz by Yasumasa Kumagai, Hikari Ichihara et al
  • FTL by Ben Prunty
  • https://eveninblackouts.bandcamp.com/album/romantico


Games

  • FTL
  • Slay the Spire


Songs

  • Dear Pilgrim’ by Swamp Spice
  • ‘The Old Man’s Back Again’ by Scott Walker
  • Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light (Live with Bassoon) by Mountain Goats’
  • ‘Battle Medley’ - FFRK
  • ‘When I Grow Up’ - Tim Minchin
  • ‘The Impossible Dream’ - Andy Williams, not Sinatra
  • ‘Turn It Off’ by Parker & Stone
  • ‘Under Cherry Blossoms’ by Duboi
  • Myself When Young by Lawrence Tibbett
  • Stone Jam by Mary Halvorson. Gets good after 3mins.
  • You’re Shining - Hixxy mix
  • I Got The - Labi
  • Handbags and Gladrags - Big George

Deals

  • Yeast Flakes 1kg (£20)
  • Moto G7 Power (£170)