FlyTheNest

With his deserted cityscapes and isolated figures, the US painter captured the loneliness and alienation of modern life. But the pandemic has given his work a terrifying new significance.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:This is a good read.

https://www.esquire.com/uk/life/a319156 ... -timeline/

Just one of the things pointed out is that supermarkets only usually provide us with 60% of our food, the rest we get from restaurants, takeaways, other shops, markets etc.

So when nearly 100% of people suddenly tried to get all their food from supermarkets it was inevitable that it would result in empty shelves. Of course panic buying idiots didn't help but the capacity to deal with this was never there in the first place. An extra 40% of demand would have emptied those shelves regardless.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:So how is everyone holding up?

I must confess this is already beginning to suck, had tickets booked for a gig tonight that I'd been looking forward to, where I would have met friends, had a few drinks, enjoyed the music, had a laugh. And while I'm fully cognisant of the enormity and seriousness of the situation we all find ourselves in is it entirely selfish to feel a wee bit pissed off?

frog222 wrote:Went to my (very small) town supermarket today, no tomato seeds to be found .GRRRRRRRRR !

frog222 wrote:Give it sinking-in time dear Sky .

Rising exponentially at 299 today in France, and c180 in the UK .

More DEAD tomorrow . xx

PorFavor wrote:I've grown a fig tree from a supermarket fig (don't know what any of that was about as I don't like figs and the thing made a bid for world domination) a peach tree from a peach stone, and many other things have proved successful.

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:This is the band I missed tonight.

The ticket was only £12 and it's money already spent. I've no idea what venues and ticket agents are going to do but I'd rather it was split between the band and venue than refunded to me because I'll hopefully still be around after all this wanting to see music and so would like for there still to be bands and places they can play.

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John Crace said an interesting thing in his weekly roundup today - he had a few opera tickets and was given the option of refund or donation - he said that if there was a sliding scale and he could donate 10 or 20% he would have done but if it's shit or bust he needs the money back.

Back in the day, sometime in the first years of this century when I wasn’t listening to anything much, somebody made me a ‘chillout’ compilation tape – I have a feeling it was just a cassette made straight from a compilation CD. I hated it, couldn’t understand or see the point at all, it was weak and wet and it went nowhere and it was somehow hookless, didn’t catch you, did nothing to draw you in deeper. Even when I wasn’t playing, it struck me as music to switch off to and disengage from and I couldn’t see the point of that at all, not even in some silly shallow way.

I don’t have a ‘chillout’ playlist, but I have a ‘floating’ one – not a list that changes, comes and goes like the tide, but a list of songs to float away with, and this I think is my favourite song on that list. I played it on here before, when it came up on random about a year ago, and I think then it was the first time I’d listened to it since forever, but it’s been an absolute regular since then. Why disengage when instead you can use and abuse music to submerge into yourself? This song lets you float on the water, but you’re not in some pool, sun shining, drink waiting on the side, you’re all at sea, and the waves rage high and deep, and there is an almost endless nothing beneath you, and there be monsters, and you will be tossed up and down and around by the passion of it all, and if you look then you may not make it out to the other side such is the terror of the experience from the inside… but keep your eyes closed, and allow the sea to take you, and trust in the run of your emotions, and you’ll eventually be tossed on some further shore somewhere, for sure, all the better for the voyage and willing yourself to repeat it.

adam wrote:I was looking for more songs but got distracted by this, which is rather good.