This entry is gonna be really short, I think.
It's truly reached the hot season here in the Blighty. I might have no future thanks to global warming but at least I can enjoy my unrestrained summer fun (that is if all the grass doesn't die again, like it did a couple years ago. I still remember that year very clearly). I've still been doing a Lot of reading. I finished Carrie super quick (not what I expected based on her pop culture status but I really enjoyed it) and a lesser known book called Pew by Catherine Lacey. I got it from a community bookshop I'd never been in before because it had a really nice book cover (it's not often I really appreciate a book cover!! Usually modern book covers are pretty boring to me so as a graphic designer in studying I very much value a good cover). It was pretty short, very inteesting themes and setting, but with an ending I found super vague and confusing? Not necessarily a bad thing, but it's a big shame so few people have read this book so there isn't any wider discussion on what any of it means. I guess it's silly to try and figure that out though - the whole plot of the book is about being unable / refusing to be cleanly defined and figured out.
The biggest con though of Blighty Summers (apart from the everything) is that I've been a lot more overstimulated than usual. I'm already very easy to overstimulate, but it's gotten worse. It sucks, because the most common way MY brain reacts to overstimulation is to get angry. It's fuckin embarassing, like... I promise I'm chill and nice it's just that at the slightest set of inconveniences will make me want to bite and hit and yell at you and through restraining this I come off like a cunt who can't tolerate your precense all of a sudden. As long as I have my music I mostly be okay.
I've been recently trying to experiment more with, well, experimental music. Swans, Xiu Xiu, stuff like that. I really love To Be Kind and I've relistened to songs off that album a bunch (my favourite being the really really long one that feels like you're in a cult), but Soundtrack for the Blind(?) and The Sacrifice have been just alright. Throbbing Gristle is great but I've already been listening to them from time to time. I still need to finish Girl with Basket of Fruit by Xiu Xiu. I first tried to listen while I was doing the dishes and it utterly threw me - I went in blind on purpose and it was about the last thing I expected - but after relistening to a few of the songs I'm starting to like them. Especially the title track and Pumpkin Attack on Mommy and Daddy. I seek songs that have a very sensory quality to them, unique noises that have a lot of texture (I'm lucky Patricia Taxxon made a new album recently because she does that on purpose!). Aside from that I've been on a big Harley Poe kick too - but I guess they're experimental too in a slightly different way... I've kept yearning to make that kind of music myself. I've thought about what name I'd use, what logo/mascot, what kind of vibe I'd go for, even samples I'd wanna use. The only problem is that I have absolutely no idea how to make music. Lol!