barkingstars

I have almost nothing to report this week. Being someone who has the same reaction to sunshine as Count Dracula, I could not go outside in the hot weather. Sleep was hard to come by and o found it a challenge to enjoy anything very much. In short, I was in survival mode, and my prize is to live through another week in which we will probably see more incredibly high temperatures. Anyway, my whining is even boring myself now so moving on to about the only cultural things I did this week…

Books

I finished reading another Philip Marlowe book, The Lady in the Lake. As always, the writing and dialogue are irresistible.

Music

I spent a few hours this week trying to faithfully recreate Tainted Love by Soft Cell. I wanted to recreate the track, partly as a learning exercise, and also as a way of building up familiarity with my synths and equipment. I was very happy with its accuracy and it was a fun exercise. The most striking thing is the track is unbelievably basic. That isn’t a criticism as I think there is a lot to be said for simplicity, but I don’t think I had appreciated how it was possible to do so much with so little.