Wasn't even sure if I was going to get around to making a post! This weekend got away from me. Not that I really did anything but here we are at 9:30 on a Sunday evening and I'm not quite sure how that happened.
One quick link before I get started -
- Chromeography - "In praise of the chrome logos and lettering affixed to vintage automobiles and electric appliances — those unsung metal emblems and badges that are overlooked, forgotten, damaged, lost to time or the dump." Chrome script is so beautiful!
In my Weekly Wrap Up #23 I wrote about finding out that my hip pain was due to advanced degenerative joint disease (osteoarthritis). My doctor wants me to see a surgeon about a hip replacement while I want to stave that off with some phyiscal therapy. He reluctantly agreed to prescribe the PT. I had my first PT appointment last week and the physical therapist also said I really needed to go see a surgeon because what I've got going on is not something that can be fixed. I realize that and I realize that hip replacement is in my future but I don't want to do that NOW. I just want to get a little bit stronger, get some range of motion back and hopefully be in less pain. I've already had 2 visits and I'll continue going 3 times a week for a couple of months.
Listening
It was Bandcamp Friday and I took the opportunity to clear some more things off my wishlist and into my collection. I bought 9 albums and one single track:
- Neurodancer EP | Mitsunobu - untz untz untz electronic house-y music
- Lowrider | VESMYR - had this on the wishlist for quite a while. This is a demo record by a Slovakian group but it is super awesome and sounds too good to be a demo. Stoner/desert rock.
- Freemixed Nuts Vol 04 | Scour Records - compilation of breakbeat/electronic/funk artists
- Chick-A-Boom (single track)| Joe Bataan - this is the only single track I bought. Joe Bataan is known as the King of Latin Soul. Love the 60s sound of this.
- El Bueno Y El Malo | Hermanos Gutiérrez - Instrumental guitar album by a pair of Swiss-Ecuadorian brothers. Each track is like a movie soundtrack, a super chill acoustical journey.
- Tell Everybody! (21st Century Juke Joint Blues From Easy Eye Sound) - another compilation album, this one with the bluesiest of delta blues.
- Aşk | Altin Gün - another one that's been sitting on the wishlist for a while. Dutch-Turkish psychedelic rock band from Amsterdam. It's synthy and psychedelic. I'm totally not doing them justice - go to the link and read about them if it all intrigues you.
- A Flat City | Son of Dave - Harmonica, beat box, blues and funk are some of the tags on this album and ... yes. That is what it is.
- SSR Records: In Retrospect | Hi Scores - Tracks created between 1990-1996, a mix of house, breakbeat, electro and trance music.
- pool water blue | glaciære - I heard the first track from this album on one of King Possum's shows and really liked it. Very chill synth/vaporwave.
Reading
I finished To Visit the Queen, the second book in Diane Duane's Feline Wizards series. I quite enjoyed it and felt it wasn't as wild as the first book. I was all set to start the last book in that series but one of the library books I had on hold became available.
Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young is a fantasy/mystery/romance/magical realism novel and I think I must've found out about it from the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books website. I do enjoy these kinds of books but I'm kind of still in the world-gating, cat wizard frame of mind and I'm finding it hard to get into. But it's a library book and I only have it for 8 more days, so I feel like I have to read it now.
Watching
I've been trying to hold off on watching season 4 of Slow Horses but I caved and watched episode one this weekend. Other than that, I've been watching a lot of random stuff on YouTube.
OK, I think that's about it. It's now 10:15, time to get to bed since I have work tomorrow.