weeknotes 23
Spring is here and everything feels better 🌱☀️ Sorry this is late again!
I'm looking forward to
My mini SSD should arrive tomorrow so I can start setting up my home server 💽
Midnight movie showing of Eraserhead next Friday!
Films 🍿🎥✮⋆˙
This week I watched Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), I'm still here (2025), The Man Without a Past (2002) and Gloria (2013). I also went to a South West Silents double bill of Man with a Movie Camera (1929) and The Cameraman (1928), and watched Toute une nuit (1982) and Mulholland Drive (2001) on Sunday.
The two Akerman films - Les Rendez-vous and Toute une nuit - I had vastly different experiences with. Liked the first one a lot, which follows Anna, a filmmaker, in her meetings with various men, some women and her mother. Akerman's enigmatic woman are fascinating in how much they refuse to show you about their motivations, leading you to project on to them. Unfortunately the second movie and the short before felt like a boring mess to me. The same technique (slow shots with v. little dialogue) split across so many vignettes and actors left you with nothing to care about or hold onto. Akerman's now on her last strike for me 😅
I enjoyed all of the other films, particularly Man with a Movie Camera and my Mulholland Drive rewatch.
I've been feeling 🫀🩹🥀❤️🩹
Continuing with meditating page. Trying to explore meditation techniques in a bit more depth, to stop me falling into mentally planning my day or day-dreaming.
Looking into no smartphone use/ getting a dumbphone. Americans trying to do this are really dismissive of how Whatsapp is used in Europe - I'm not even interested in giving up Whatsapp, given that it's how I talk to my family and friends, one of the things I actually want a phone for. So I'm focusing on cutting down my smartphone use instead for now.
Been feeling a bit blue and troubled about my relationship... Not sure what to do about it, so I'm going over my worries again and again which doesn't help.
Things I've done ✎ᝰ.📓🗒 ˎˊ˗
Climbing on Sunday - more social than physically exerting, but fun!
I went home on Wednesday.
I went as a guest to my friend's gym to swim and go in the sauna Friday. I had a migraine, but it was mild enough to still enjoy it.
I've been reading 🍵📖
Passing by Nella Larson. Incredible book, about two childhood friends from Chicago, one who has passed as white and married a white man, and the other who has stayed within the black community, married to a black man. The writing about relationships is so insightful and the personal stakes of all the interactions make the novel very tense and gripping.
Links
All of the list of Personal things on marble thoughts's February round up.
Sylvia's post on self-hosting OpenBSD - a good reminder to document my own self-hosting plans.
Pan's post about bookmarks.
Photos
No photos this week...
See you next week ~ 👋