It’s been good today but I’m more tired than I ought to be at this time. My little cough is back and I couldn’t get to sleep last night. I think the lack of booze will lead in the long term to much better sleep but in the short term I can’t go and spike my chamomile with a shot of whisky to make sure I go down. Last night all the thoughts all the time until I somehow tricked my brain off.
When I woke up I constructed a little vocal booth with filming capabilities on my stairwell. It’s the quietest bit of the house now that Christine is no longer here. When she was here I tried recording there and she kept coming out of her door as she thought I was talking to her. Today it was peaceful. I could have had the cats come through the back sheet and break the world but it was their morning snoozy time so I got away with it, and the upshot is that I’ll be going into a studio before long and recording a short story. It’s a nice idea, pleasant visuals mixed with ASMR. You can watch someone tell you a story. We did that all the time as kids, how could I ever forget Jackanory? Or Mister Davies reading us The Animals of Farthing Wood, or was it Shane? I will enjoy preparing for that, and delivering something lovely. And its work. Doing what I do. Tick.
Then I went and spoke to a lady about a panda.
There’s an artist I collaborate with periodically and she has another bananas idea up her sleeve. We had a coffee and a very good deep conversation and I’m really feeling that we can come up with something satisfying and strange together.
Phonecalls from The Netherlands and Dubai with other old friends and I ended up checking an old friend’s flat – he’s been away a while. Came home with his coffee grinder. I’m going to experiment as I’ve considered getting one for a while now.
In its way it was a full day, with lots of beginnings. I’m happy it went like it did.
But yeah, I’m disproportionatey tired. So I’ll follow the impulse and get myself to sleep early, so long as I can shut my brain up. Maybe a quick blitz of electric blanket to make it cosy…
AlBarclay 