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Now I feel like Kafka with a bad migraine
After a run of welcomely lovely days, it was perhaps inevitable but deeply resented that I should hit a couple that sucked on toast, logistically, emotionally, resource-wise. I lost one completely to driving to a doctor's appointment that could have been virtual and too much of this afternoon and evening was spent in the kind of frustrated flat uselessness that I hope counts as convalescence because otherwise it's even more of a waste than it feels to me. Without spending that much time in the car, I have been listening to a lot of college radio. Girl in Red's "I'll Call You Mine" (2021) turns out to be a queer outlaw ballad while Jay Som's "Float (feat. Jim Adkins)" (2025) is a sweetly affirming house party. I was doing all right with the Divine Comedy's "Achilles" (2025) until it pulled out Housman and Patrick Shaw-Stewart and then the video was directly in the line of Jarman. I am unduly entertained by the reference to methylene blue in Jealous of the Birds' "Tonight I Feel Like Kafka" (2016).
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I shared it with my father and he found "Invisible Thread" (2025) from the same newly released album, which I found beautiful and instantly made me wonder about the age of the singer-songwriter's children.
And I liked "Tonight I Feel Like Kafka" too--I Liked the line "baby don't touch me, I'm made of chalk." I heard the methylene blue line but am burdened by my lack of knowledge of what methylene blue is--but if it's paired with cyanide, it's got to be good!
It reminds me of Decoy (1946)! It's also just a good line.
Enjoy the rest of the music!
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I was interested in the wooden-house-in-the-woods aspect of the visual storytelling (Wakanomori having commented when I first met him on how exotic wooden houses seemed to him). The ax in the chopping block, the quilt with the white stars on blue in the background in the house, all of it was very frontier-American feeling, but of course the singer is English and the girls/young women were very visually English faces too. This isn't a problem! It was just interesting that visually, they decided to set it in a faraway-from-England-feeling location.