week notes #43 - chewing on hard tack
Back 2 basics.... back to week notes. Delayed as usual 💕
Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗
I've been making more of an effort to meet up with friends since moving house, which has been nice but a bit hectic. It'll be good to get back into a routine again in the new place.
When I met up with friends on 2nd November one of them suggested as it was the day of the dead we talk about our dead loved ones... this was an unexpected but nice coda to the evening. We talked about our grandparents, and shared memories.
For a film night I attempted to make hard tack by winging it. The resulting biscuits were very cracked and probably too thick, but they were fit for purpose (to provide a prop for the night) (and also weirdly moreish?). My boyfriend made a giant bicorn hat out of the tv box which makes me laugh whenever i look at it.
I went on a short walk for Guy Fawkes night to see some fireworks, and a longer bristol perambulation on the weekend to beat the bounds (combined with pub crawl). I may try and write this up for this month's indieweb carnival, where you at?
Films (and TV) 🍿🎥✮⋆˙
I watched 31 horror films in October... this week I've been relaxing.
I watched Master and Commander, during a film night hosted at my house. My boyfriend made the aforementioned cardboard bicorn hats and I made the aforementioned rustic hard tack (and some grog). It's a very fun action film, and we watched the making of documentary on youtube afterwards - they really don't make them like this any more. I wish I had been an actor on this film sent to sailor boot camp.
I saw Wildwood and Primetime in cinema, both of which I was middling on for different reasons.
Wildwood is a masterpiece of hand-done animation, but it's so good you can forget it's made by hand, and the story and dialogue is a bit lacking compared to the animation.
I didn't really know what to make of Primetime. The way it recreates that period of time is really compelling, and the performances are great, but... what's the message? Reality tv is bad? People are hypocrites? I'm not sure it's saying anything new, and I was uneasy with it's lack of engagement with actual child victims of internet grooming.
I've been feeling 🫀🩹🥀❤️🩹
Jealous and insecure. Put out by other people in ways that shouldn't matter to me! Petty, in general.
I'm looking forward to
My calendar is full of meet ups with friends over the November/December period, which I'm excited about.
I've been reading 🍵📖
I've just finished Salem's Lot by Stephen King for book club, and have been reading the associated short stories (from Night Shift) Jerusalem's Lot and One for the Road. I love King's sense of place and community, you really settle into the town and people which makes the horror all the more effective. There is an intro in my book where King talks about this being an updated version of Dracula, mixed with the comic book vampires from his childhood, and it works pretty well. The one place it lets me down is the treatment of the women. I don't think Kind can't write good women characters - most of his characters feel real. But considering Mina in the original Dracula is a large part of the book and pivotal to the plan to eradicate Dracula, King not knowing what to do with his female lead and ultimately cutting her out of the finale is very disappointing.
I've started reading Helen of Nowhere by Makenna Goodman.
Misc
Here is a children's show from 1997 which explains Guy Fawkes night, and then a longer one about kids in Bristol building bonfires in the 70s.