Mix #13

This first song by Nino Ferrer is so bloody good. I hope you all agree. 

The rest of this playlist delves into a fair bit of older stuff: Erykah Badu, The Three Degrees, Neil Young, Parliament, Blind Willie Johnson, Nick Drake, a Devo interlude, Paul McCartney , Nick Cave (his Primavera set was incredible!), Section 25 (new to me), Nu Shooz.

Plus new Haley Bonar - though she's just going by HALEY now, Young Fathers (love seeing how far these guys have come & rightly so), Oneohtrix Point Never, Junglepussy, Beach House, Mitski, Janelle Monae, Christine & The Queens, The Goon Sax, Amyl & The Sniffers, LUMP. I might have to buy the Kadhja Bonet, Kamasi Washington and Kali Uchis albums - a lot of good stuff on there! 

Mix 13

Juno Calpyso

Other highlights from Primavera last month were Thundercat, James Holden & The Animal Spirits. We visited Casa Vicens - Gaudi's first house and after visiting Barcelona 6 times previously, I finally went inside Sagrada Familia - what a wonder. 

Earlier this month I also visited Mersea Island and lunched at The Company Shed. So much food, it's BYOB (B standing for bread and wine here).

I watched my first Agnes Varda film, Cleo from 5 to 7, part of the BFI's season. Get involved

Fire will attract more attention than any other call for help - Unarticulated thoughts

Gillian Anderson quoting Margaret Atwood: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” And more recently Courtney Barnett quoting that

The Guardian Q&A: What is your biggest fear?
My answer is, to me, very obvious. 
I think about it every time I walk home alone in the dark which is several nights a week. 

From The Black List (ref 1): Of the scripts they host, 2,400 were tagged “associated with rape.” That’s about 5% of their scripts. But of those scripts, 72% were penned by men. 

The screenplay dialogue for Frozen - a film about two sisters - is 57% male. That isn't a huge difference but remember what the film is about. In a sample of 2000 scripts, 1206 films had over 60-90% male dialogue, 307 films were over 90% male (ref 2).

A conversation with friends gets onto the film 'The Gift'. A male friend thinks for Jason Bateman's character, the uncertainty as to whether his wife (played by Rebecca Hall) had been drugged and raped and that their unborn child was not his was the worst thing that could happen to you (not that Rebecca Hall's character was raped, just that the child wasn't his).

Thinking back to my teens, watching the video for 'Stacey's Mom' on TV during the day and the scene where the boy is implied to be masturbating in the toilet. Had I seen a similar scene with a girl masturbating in this normalised way? That video came out in 2003 and was viewed on normal telly, in 2015 'The Diary of a Teenage Girl' was given an 18 rating, not a 15. 

Mary Beard's manifesto 'Women & Power' explores how women have been silenced (in public at least) since Ancient Greece. 

A queer woman came up with the term INVCEL to try and help lonely people. This has now been shortened to INCEL. (ref 3)

Nothing answered here but there is a thread.

"Fire will attract more attention than any other call for help" - I saw this written down in one of Jean-Michel Basquiat's notebooks at the Barbican exhibition. 

References:
1. https://jezebel.com/heres-a-study-of-sexual-violence-in-tv-and-movies-1819622854 

2. https://pudding.cool/2017/03/film-dialogue/

3. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/76h59o