- Gin and tonic because it’s Wednesday and you washed the dishes
- Gin - There aren’t many types of booze which let you saunter into history like gin. Mothers Ruin. The subject of many a Hogarth print. It’s Dutch actually. Naval strength. Saturday afternoons because it’s raining.
- Sunlitt app - This is an app where you check where the sun and shade is at different times of the day all in beautiful 3d. That’s it. It just looks cool. That’s it. Sort of useful if you’ve looking for a house maybe? What does this mean for place and space you ask? I have no damn idea, but you can see where the shadows go which has got to count for something.
- Space - One often doesn’t think of the utter absurdity of life or our very existence throughout the day. But when we confront ourselves with the very idea of the infinite and how little we matter in it, it gives us a measure of pause and perspective we often aren’t confronted with in our lives. Until recently I generally thought of space as a thing was bullshit, but now see it in the afore mentioned circumspect manner.
- AppleTV screensavers - You know them or maybe you don’t. I love them. I can watch them for ages, just like you’re flying over Dubai or the Grand Canyon or wherever.
- Pointless drawing tools because software can actually be fun and not for some side hustle bullshit like Sandspiel
- Love is Blind, Habibi - Imagine you didn’t want to stop at the AppleTV screensaves of Dubai but wanted to drop down into the lives of Arabs not just from the Gulf but from across the region in a courtship process, in equal parts Arabic, English and French simultaneously. But such a fascinating glimpse into another approach to life and family but through the same Love is Blind lens if that makes any sense.
- In the Distance (Hernan Diaz) - Pretty decent misery romp through colonial US expansion dealing with language, aging, identity and all the other fun stuff that would happen if you had a less grim version of Cormac McCarthy.
- How to Survive a Car Crash in 10 Easy Steps A journalist navigates a world forever changed by her traumatic brain injury. - Christ is this crazy. A journalist has a brain injury and records it first person.
- Bodkin - It sounds shit and is even slightly annoying when you start watching this Netflix series about a podcast about a series of murders in rural Ireland, but then you can’t stop watching because it gets pretty damn good. Oh and the plot twists are swinging out at you like they have to these days.
