November 18, 2025: Log 8
morning workout
sent out job application
knitted more for december market
1.5hr evening walk
today's art
Unwound - Repetition
The title of this album fits perfectly with Fingernails on a Chalkboard. In all truth, this was a fun listen. Punky and noisy, but for the most part, good to listen to while still making statements in its lyrics that are true to the genre. I did find Go to Dallas and Take a Left a little too polyphonic and distorted for my taste, but someone looking for an angrier, punk-ish sound would probably choose that as a stand-out track on the album
Beth Gibbons - Lives Outgrown
Listening to this is like remembering the ache of growing pains. I can feel the hot rubber of a cracked playground swing in summer and the cuts in the soles of my feet from running barefoot. I can hear the muffled shouts of a family argument. I can smell burnt sugar and suncream and the starch of a school uniform. It's an uncomfortable entrapment in a past state stale for its lack of assumed good. This album is, in a word, brilliant
Fargo (1996)
For some reason, I expected this to be a wintery version of Thursday Murder Club - lighthearted and crisp and low-stakes. Which, for the multitude of people who have seen Fargo, know how far that is from the truth. I was very pleasantly surprised, and enjoyed it more for the fact that it's a good movie that stands outside of the mystery/crime genre
