Five Fine Things....
*in which I inflict my taste on you, dear reader
Photo Credit: Weird Medieval Guy.
Here is a list of five things that I have been enjoying lately! This is a fortnightly haphazard list of stuff that’s inspiring or interesting me ranging from books and poems, to websites and media, from TV shows and films, to music and podcasts to other Subtsacks and philosophies to actual sights - natural or otherwise- to exercises or lack thereof (see here).
I’d love to hear of some of the things that are currently enriching your life too so please do comment below and thank you for reading! Also do check out some guest Fine Things with David Horgan Art here and musician Mark Vernon here, (more to come and do get in touch if you’re keen to be my guest).
Please do like, subscribe and pass along, friends! Finally, for something completely different here’s some fictional bits and bobs and here’s a personal essay about pawn-shops.
Love,
Emma
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Revisiting! 90s nostalgia classic one hit wonders including Bran Van 3000’s Drinking in L.A. and Babyloon Zoo’s Spaceman. Was mainstream music and indeed were music videos better, (and weirder-in a good way), in the nineties, or am I just ageing? Let me know your thoughts below.
Reading! the short story collection Natural Histories by Guadalupe Nettel. Tight, nuanced, animal, and relationship focused tales. One of those collections one reads and thinks - wow how is she doing this?
Pondering! the appeal of hit American TV show Gilmore Girls. A show that was and remains hugely popular and that is re-watched again and again by SO many, but why oh why?
Enjoying! Weird Medieval Guy on Twitter/X, (yes I know X is rubbish but this account makes it all worth it!), which features such beauties as the above and below. All the images are from real Medieval books and scrolls and the addition of Olivia M Swarthout’s captions only adds to the humour. She has also recently released a book inspired by the account.
Photo credit: Weird Medieval Guy: Bodleianlibs.
Reciting! the poem February by Margaret Atwood which beautifully articulates the sludgy month that is this the second of the year. Ostensibly about cats and stodgy food Atwood widens her scope outwards towards the life principle, mortality, and growth.