susie drew (she-her)

How it feels to realize that’s how the light gets in

The core of her project was, therefore, the sheep rather than the murder, though the book couldn’t exist without both. “Taking them seriously as sheep was really important,” she told me, as was not imposing human morals onto their perspective. “It was quite important to me that they don't have [our] moral background to work with. They have values, but they're not moral values; they're more like practical values. I find that refreshing, because it takes away a lot of things we take for granted, and it helps me to look at things the way they are or the way they would appear to somebody who doesn't come with all that moral baggage.” Though, of course, she does recognize that a truly realistic novel about the consciousnesses of sheep would be “grass and nothing else.” Fiction writers are allowed some creative embellishment.

In our latest, @morgan-leigh interviewed Leonie Swann, the author of Three Bags Full (originally published in German as Glennkill), aka the source for the film The Sheep Detectives. If you enjoyed the movie this weekend, read (or listen to) this piece—and then read the book! 🐑

This movie messed me up

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There's an awesome documentary that follows Icelandic band Hatari in the run-up to and during their 2019 Eurovision performance in Tel Aviv, that shows how and why they decided to go to Eurovision (despite the boycott) and show their support for Palestine while in Tel Aviv against the Eurovision rules and the Israelis' best efforts to stop them.

It goes more in-depth in to their history and their politics in general, their visit to Palestine and their working together with Palestinian artist Bashar Murad and their consulting with lots of Palestinians for this event, its really great. Also is full of scenes with Israelis being terrible power-tripping pathetic assholes, of course.