Watched Sinners. Very enjoyable if slightly daft film. Loved the mash up of genres, and the superb musical sequences. Not convinced it really needed the vampires though.

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This #doctorwho season has been great, up until that finale. What a mess of an episode. Wasted villain, poor pacing, confusing plot, nothing resolved, and yet another novelty regeneration.

Yesterday I attempted to make a Victoria sponge. Thought it came out quite well.

Spent some of the bank holiday weekend watching a couple of great films Flow, and Anatomy of Fall. Both excellent, both very different.

Catching up on Tarantino films, and finally watched Inglourious Basterds.
Thought it was pretty boring, too long, and too many 2d characters.
Best part was probably Christopher Waltz’s evil/comedy Nazi, and David Bowie’s Cat People on the soundtrack.

Made a Biscoff cake! Need to get better at icing, other than that it went quite well.
Was a hit with the Biscoff fans in the houses.

Visited “Interlaced” a curious exhibition of “Textile and Computational” art at All Saints Church in Cambridge today.

Finally got round to watching Alien prequel Prometheus. A confused, but watchable film that tries to be both philosophical and action sci-fi, but fails at both.

Michael Fassbender is superb as an android, ironically the only character with any depth.

Not sure if I’ll bother with Alien Covenant.

Just rewatched Aftersun, after initially watching it yesterday. What a mesmerising film, and better with the rewatch. Great use of music to provide setting, and hint at the plot, including a spectacular scene set to Under Pressure, that will stay with me for a long time.

Hmm, guess I'm a cross between a "6 music dad" and "centrist dad". Don't do vinyl, but I do have strong views on economic growth. 🤔

Looks like I listened to a lot of #thecure this year! The new album is great, and proper gloomy (in a good way 🤣)

Ooh, look how I’ll be counting down to xmas! #liquorice

My evening commute is starting to get a little spooky.

Have been listening a lot to Moin’s new album You Never End.

Looping post rock riffs, mesmerising drums, and interesting vocals samples give the whole thing an almost dub like feel. Reminds me of Burial, but with guitars. Highly recommended.

Today's ToDos:
✅deactive Twitter/X account

Looks like I'll be staying here for a while. 😀

Watched the Nicolas Cage revenge thriller “Mandy” last night.

A Mansonesque religious cult, a Cenobite biker gang, a chainsaw duel, trippy animation, bloody violence and a King Crimson and Jóhann Jóhannsson soundtrack provide quite the ride.

Highly recommended if any of that sounds appealing!

Seen on holiday recently. Didn’t dare feed it.