I’ve been reading Human Acts by Han Kang. It’s a sad and touching book about the Gwangju massacre and its effect on people. A couple of months ago I read The Vegetarian by the same author, she’s quickly becoming one of my favourite writers.

A bunch of CD’s I bought from a flea market the other day. Kate Bush, Blur, Morrissey, Hellacopters, The Flaming Sideburns… in my home city scoring decently priced 2nd hand vinyls is rare, but plenty of CD’s for 2-5 euros.

Proving that something doesn’t work can be valuable data, too. Especially in research close to industrial interests… celebrate failures!

Absolutely, a lot of people watch it as entertainment. For myself and the people I know it’s crazy, campy and funny entertainment first, a singing competition second and politics etc. a distant third.

AC: Shadows, still enjoying it after ~28 hours. Couldn’t finish Valhalla due to it just having too much of everything, let’s see if this one’s different. Also, started playing Doom Dark Ages, seems fun!

Old guy enjoying the sunshine

I recently started dabbling in making music, and yesterday I set up a new drum pad MIDI controller (Akai MPD218) and played around with it a bit. Much more satisfying to have physical pads and knobs instead of just using the DAW with mouse and kb.

Same, no complaints here.

Yeah, and not only paying in but actually working the labour intensive health/elderly care jobs.