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weeknotes 22

I realised I've skipped weeknotes 18 - what a mess. Do I go back and re-number?

I'm looking forward to

Films 🍿🎥✮⋆˙

This week I watched News From Home (1976), Blue Velvet (1986), Tampopo (1985) and The Monkey (2025).

I can't explain how much I like Tampopo - it's so weird and wonderful, absolutely everything I like about the movies. The start is just perfect:

I've been feeling 🫀🩹🥀❤️‍🩹

Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗

I've been reading 🍵📖

I've been reading Indelicacy by Amina Cain. I picked this up on a whim from a charity shop, and almost re-donated it because I thought I'd never get around to it - I'm glad I didn't. It's a short book with very short chapters, making it ideal to read when you're got a free couple of minutes. It's about a woman finding her way to being a writer - in a period setting, but we're so inside the protagonist's head we don't get more than a vague sense of time or place. We meet her as a cleaner in the museum where she writes about the paintings, and the way writing and the process of it is described in this book is very alluring

I thought and wrote and by evening I had only managed a single good paragraph. Another person would have written five pages. But I liked that paragraph and that gave me hope. And maybe more important, I began to feel that I could see my writing - not the words or the paintings - somehow in between. That I had made a new thing.

I enjoyed this substack post about bouldering at the crag with a beautiful lino print.

Photos

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See you next week ~ 👋

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