Jonathan Key @Jonathan_K@octodon.social

This is why I read Futility Closet:

"My notes say that Iegor Gran’s Les Trois Vies de Lucie can be read straight through, recto pages only, or verso pages only, yielding three different stories, but I haven’t managed to find a copy to check."

https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/01/26/more-odd-fiction/

And so I went to download Mosaic, only to find that it's area restricted (i.e. not available in the UK)

I'll be downloading Steven Soderbergh's new film, Mosaic.
https://www.watchmosaic.com/
1) It's Soderbergh
2) It's Soderbergh playing with ergodic narrative (@tomabba)
http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/steven-soderbergh-interview-mosaic.html

Music:

Amadou & Mariam's Dimanche a Bamako

- My response was "This sounds like Manu Chao". Turns out it was produced by him. There you go.

Orchestra Baobab's A Night at Club Baobab.

Having spent the weekend in part around a bunch of teenagers, I'm wondering again whether teens have distributed memory: "Remember you did this?"; "Yeah, then you did that"; "Then she arrived," et al.

Finest recommendation of the week, for me, was Wonderunit's Storyboarder (https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/). Looks to be a fine example of scratching your own itch. So many startups misinterpret the idea as "**** you, I know what *I* would pay for". There's a generosity to well designed software that invites people in. Well done them. https://wonderunit.com/storyboarder/

As someone who owns some old Dennis Wheatley "crime dossiers", Unbound's rerelease of Torquemada's puzzle novel Cain's Jawbone looks fascinating.
https://unbound.com/books/cains-jawbone

Three recent "why did nobody ever tell me" discoveries:

1) The Quiet Earth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_(film)

2) Michael Rother
https://open.spotify.com/album/1Uspaex3xwlAEqKwG6lVnm

3) Solarpunk
https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965

Brian Eno interview, "PUNK", Summer 1977

Eno: [...] the most embarrassing aspects of the things you do are normally the ones that are most interesting in the long run. The places where you are exposed, where you feel uncertainty are the places where you are normally doing something that's quite innovative for you - or where you've uncovered an aspect of yourself that you previously managed to hide, perhaps.

http://www.moredarkthanshark.org/eno_int_punk-summ77.html

All about #solarpunks. Much as cyberpunk hit an aesthetic hot button, a more optimistic, socially and environmentally conscious future view is a kindness to everyone.
https://medium.com/solarpunks/solarpunk-a-reference-guide-8bcf18871965
http://solarpunks.tumblr.com/

Unexpected, splendid collaborations #1, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Lloyd Cole:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5pmAeZmQ2SsinfCK35A9fB

Building timescales mess with policy. Bradwell B nuclear power station being commenced while the energy conversation really feels as though it's turned elsewhere.
http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/15589265.Engineers_set_to_work_on_power_station_site_as_developers_work_towards_the_new_nuclear_plant/

I recall struggling with Kim Stanley Robinson's vaunted Red Mars trilogy, but it now feels as though its best conversation has begun. If we do travel to Mars, does it become ours, or do we become its? https://www.space.com/37679-lucianne-walkowicz-talks-mars-ethics.html

Don Martin's beautiful sound effect for the man in the iron mask sneezing: "AHH-AHH ahh ... THOONOONN" http://www.madcoversite.com/dmd-alphabetical.html