One thing I haven’t really talked about is I’ve taken a new commitment (unpaid, for/with awesome people/projects who totally deserve support!) and it’s taking up a bit of my time. There’s a milestone just passing now and I might get a small reprieve for more personal projects. I’ll tell you, I’m looking forward to it. Because today’s work also included designing the programs for the 7th Street Theatre‘s upcoming movie, a job I’ve been doing for the 3+ years since I moved back. My various work is resulting in pain through my right arm.
Anyway, summation: Ralph and I have both, for various and mostly unrelated reasons, been working harder than usual. We’re barely catching up on our sleep, let alone getting time to ourselves to decompress. Patience: I know times of busyness and stress pass.
Running helps. It’s lovely. I swear I enjoy this time most when I’m listening to depressing and/or violently loud music. Highlights from today: Beck’s “Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime” (by the way I have been told by more than one person I remind them of Kate Winslet’s character Clementine from the associated film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Flattering!) and Imogen Heap’s “Hide and Seek” (vocoder not autotune, fools), which is goddamned poetry by the way*:
Oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover/
The sweeping insensitivity/
Of this still life.
I totally love listening to songs about divorce while happily married. It’s like walking up to a cliff and looking over.
* And since I don’t have a TV, it hasn’t been ruined for me by the cheesy use in Pretty White Kids With Problems shows and their parodies, w00t.
“Oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before the takeover”, I like it.
I like to listen to violent music when I run. It’s part of the catharsis. Breaking Benjamin is my favorite.
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I haven’t heard of them; will check it out!
I absolutely LOVE that Imogen Heap song! It was featured in the movie “The Last Kiss” as well. They also do a wonderful little lullaby that I’ve been singing to my daughter since she was the size of a bean called “Lonely Little Petunia” which was featured on one of the soundtracks for the HBO series “Six Feet Under.”