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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2022-02-23 07:30 pm

I think it would keep people more able to deal with weird situations

My father provided transport to the cat's appointment this afternoon, so while Autolycus was medically deemed a beautiful boy, we wandered around the former H.P. Hood Plant. I didn't have my camera, so I have no images of the railyard on the other side of a newish wooden fence where the old factory siding gives onto stacks of rails and ties and pieces of track and rather mysteriously a sign for the Mishawum station in Woburn, but my father captured a picture of me on the loading dock of a derelict building that looks out in the same direction.



Because this week has unavoidably featured being inside buildings, I happened to be looking at a television yesterday when the chyron read "Russian Invasion." I don't want to be flippant about it and I don't want to pretend to knowledge, but the last time I caught an invasion announced on TV, we're still living with its war. It's not something I want to see. This, especially not.

I meant to mention some days ago that I am charmed by Pom Pom Squad's shot-for-shot remake of the video for Nada Surf's "Popular." I had not actually seen the original.

I slept almost seven hours last night, which is almost more than I got in the previous week total.
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[personal profile] choco_frosh 2022-02-24 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Yay sleep, boo most everything else. (Well, not getting to hang out with your parents, obvs.)
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[personal profile] sholio 2022-02-24 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
What a nice picture! I'm glad sleep is happening again.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2022-02-24 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad you got some sleep!
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I bought a stack of books, I didn't read a thing

[personal profile] kore 2022-02-24 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
For a while Nada Surf was only (very) popular for that ONE song, Popular, which was a bit of a burden because they actually do some other really nice songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RgteX-IJNw
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Re: I bought a stack of books, I didn't read a thing

[personal profile] kore 2022-02-24 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Also, the NS version doesn't make me nostalgic exactly, but it really forcefully reminds me of the deadpan ironic 90s thing that was in the air everyone breathed and seems to have disappeared completely. I don't mean Irony is Dead or any dumb thing like that, it's just a style I don't see much anymore (then again, I don't get out that often).
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[personal profile] vass 2022-02-24 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
I am glad that Autolycus is clinically beautiful.
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2022-02-24 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a super photo--super architecture, super light and shadow, super textures, super focal point ;-)


I'm fascinated by those two videos, fascinated by what changes Pom Pom Squad's remake *does* make and how that subtly (and not so subtly) alters the feel of the message. Like you, I'd never seen the original either (though I'd heard the song), and it's interesting seeing what *that* one was doing too.