October 18, 2019

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Still thinking on the same thread as last week about being inspired by other people in my life, and wanting to do more ambitious things.

Links:

Enemy’s Review of Holly Herndon @ the Barbican : https://www.nme.com/reviews/live/holly-herndon-live-review-barbican
Utopian Drivel : https://huw.substack.com/

Bad Gays : https://badgayspod.podbean.com/

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Inspiration and Setting Bigger Goals

Hello everyone, I am back again! Another output of my weekly hour long burst of intensity. I must admit once again that as I sit down to make this show and type the first words into this google doc, I have no idea what is going to come out from my fingertips. A few people have asked about how fast I write the 1k words needed to make this show, and the answer is that it’s all first draft, and the words on the page are exactly what poured out of my brain. The audio essays I’ve made this year I have been pleased with, as it has honed my ability to offload or data dump an argument that has been gestating in my head throughout the week.

Sadly or perhaps thankful for the last couple of weeks, I haven’t had anything that has occupied my thoughts. I tend to be much less inside my head when i’m extremely busy, with the run up to unsound, then the week away etc. This week I have mainly been up to my elbows in wordpress building a new personal website, consolidating many parts of my previously deliberate desperate online presence. But regardless. The thing I have been thinking about mainly this week has carried over from the last. My friends inspire me.

I went to see Holly Herndon this week perform PROTO at the Barbican in London. And yet again I cannot escape the feeling of being inspired by seeing people achieve and execute. Doing and sharing the things they love and are passionate about. The performance was fantastic, it was a real pleasure to see Holly, Mat and the whole ensemble enjoying the show as much as the audience. And of course you couldn’t shake a stick at the audience without a segment of London’s creative scene falling out. I went with my friend Jen, a photographer, who had no idea what to expect when the lights went down and her review of the show was that it was emotional. And I cannot agree more. Keep up the good work team.

Speaking of inspiration. My good friend and comrade Huw Lemmey has been making work that excites him over on his newsletter at Utopian Drivel – Found over at huw.substack.com. That inturn inspires me. We spent many hours talking about our creative lives earlier in the summer, when hiking mount montserrat outside of Barcelona where he lives and has said some kind words about permanently moved in his newsletter previously.

Through encouragement he has recently started making audio versions of his newsletter. An audio show which is perhaps the opposite of this one. Permanently Moved primarily being an audio project that has spawned a zine (which if you haven’t seen it this year can be found at thejaymo.net/zine). Whereas Utopian Drivel is an outlet of a writer who has moved into creating audio.

This week is his second audio experiment and its fantastic. He is talking about his experience of Barcelona and the cities response to the jailing of the pro independence politicians for sedition. Here’s a clip from the opening of the show:

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I think you’ll agree that it’s just fantastic. And is a huge inspiration to me. I highly recommend you all head over to huw.substack.com right away and subscribe, or if you prefer your audio content about villains and gays. Huw is also the co host of the bad gays – A podcast about evil and complicated gay men in history. Links to both in the show notes.

I’ve said several times here that I have other audio ideas that I want to work on. One of which, an audio comic, is in progress. But since Huw published that newsletter recorded with the same field mic that I reviewed last year in episode 1810, I now want to do something ambitious. A good project to work on as the days get colder and the nights get longer. I just need to execute. Move things from the world of ideas and manifest them through action.

Because at the end of the day that’s what matters, I was talking to a writer recently who was telling me they have a complicated relationship with readers who get in touch with something like “how did you get in my brain?” “reading your work was like I actually got around to publishing some of the things that I mean to blog about!”

As if there’s some equivalence between having thoughts about something and actually writing them down. Its hitting publish that matters if we wan’t to shed our fears of being ordinary.

In the beginning this show as it is now is today, was a goal.