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

[sovay]

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.

Comments

[choco_frosh]

Yay sleep, boo most everything else. (Well, not getting to hang out with your parents, obvs.)

[sovay]

Yay sleep, boo most everything else. (Well, not getting to hang out with your parents, obvs.)

Autolycus is doing well. I very strongly yay that.

*hugs*

[sholio]

What a nice picture! I'm glad sleep is happening again.

[sovay]

What a nice picture! I'm glad sleep is happening again.

Thank you! I'm hoping it keeps up.

[gwynnega]

I'm glad you got some sleep!

[sovay]

I'm glad you got some sleep!

Thank you!

I bought a stack of books, I didn't read a thing

[kore]

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

Re: I bought a stack of books, I didn't read a thing

[kore]

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).

Re: I bought a stack of books, I didn't read a thing

[sovay]

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

I'd heard other songs of theirs, I just hadn't seen the video, but I don't believe I'd heard this song: thanks!

[vass]

I am glad that Autolycus is clinically beautiful.

[sovay]

I am glad that Autolycus is clinically beautiful.

Thank you. We do tell him.

[asakiyume]

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.

[sovay]

That's a super photo--super architecture, super light and shadow, super textures, super focal point

Thank you! I can take credit for almost none of it!

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.

Especially since I saw the remake first, and then went back to discover what it had added or amended. or left out.