Week Notes 2025-W29

Wins ⭐

• Put on an event on Friday night. We hardly sold any tickets in advance and 2 acts pulled out on the day. It was looking a bit bleak initially. When it came down to it, the turn out was alright, the room was full enough and the vibes were good. I was particularly impressed with Liverpool band Ancient Hostility and the experimental films of Things Found and Made.

Art 🎨

• Made a little progress on some studies in Krita. Working on the habit of getting started with something early before the day gets in the way.

Reading 📚

• Just been reading the internet mostly this week.. yeah.. I know.. but like.. peoples small blogs and stuff with RSS - not trash.

Writing ✍🏻

• Had to rebuild my Hugo site on Monday - deleted all the old posts (still have the markdown files locally). I would have had to go through all the old posts and adjust the formatting of the internal links. A lot were just event promotion or art dumping with little accompanying wordage anyway. I’d prefer an almost clean state with just a few recent posts and build from that. That took more time out of my week than it should but I think I understand this theme better now.

• Published recently on the blog:

  • I’m ditching Letterboxd
  • A new theme, a new hope

Health 💪🏻

• Upped my average daily steps but not as many runs as I’d like - I could blame the weather..

Watched 📽

• The Ugly Stepsister (2025)
  • A Norwegian ‘The Substance’. Similar themes of unattainable beauty standards with some gruesome body horror. It’s a dark fairy tale/horror take on the Cinderella story. It’s good, not for the squeamish. One you may need to recover from.
• The Flash (2023)
  • Mostly annoying multiverse stuff but was surprised to hear Michael Keaton’s Batman is in it, so I had to check out those bits.
• Dexter Resurrection
  • I’m liking the female detective who “sees things others don’t”. No idea what’s going on with Uma Thurman’s character yet? - some kind of secret society for serial killers?
• Narcos
  • I don’t know why it took me so long to get around to watching this. Already feeling very absorbed after the first few episodes.

Interesting 🤔

• Trying out olauncher on my phone. It’s a really simple, minimal Android launcher without any icons and just text.

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