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complete day in a homebody lifetime

by katharine eastman

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My second thing of the year so far and I like it a lot and doubt if there are enough days left in 2024 for me to be able to do something as good again. So I shall just be quiet and enjoy its peace - it is music for the days when you do nothing but read a book, when you don't need to go out, when no one calls, when you remember the quiet daily routine that you want for a thousand more years, and if you treat your body kindly like this then maybe you'll get a few dozen more of those years.

I made this album yesterday. Unfortunately I did nip out and go to Asda and got caught up in their Protein Bar dept and because of the promise of 50p-Off and Low-Sugar I bought a few and I never resist temptation - I ate them all at once. Two hours later I was totally wired. I am highly sensitive when it comes to coffee - one strong cup can send me into a depersonalised/derealised other world - not as bad as Ketamine, but in that direction.

And these hi-protein bars with their weird chemicals took me to a similar bad place - I got the shakes and sweats and hungers and could've been sick if I'd tried just a little - so I went to bed at 5pm, slept straight away, woke at 3-30am - about an hour ago.

Lesson learned. Live the quiet life. Don't eat that poisonous shit. Even this much technology is too much. Decades ago I would've made an album like this and put it on to two cassettes and sent it to my two musical friends and they'd've actually played them and heard them and told me about them and I'd've believed them, and it would have been days and days for all this to happen, all the while I'd've been reading and listening to other quiet music and doing very little. This would've been enough for ages.

We old people must be discredited by the modern world because we bring the bad awkward news that life was happier when it was just "less" and slower and quieter. If you are young you will only have my word for it - and it will seem impossible - how could life've been better back then, before mass porn and mass screen addiction and everything so Now and so Much of it and so perfect-looking ? But it was. There are only two good things about the Tories - their £2 bus fare thingy (though I'm sure we'd've had something similar/better under Labour), and the fact that they have made life so much more awful for everyone at such a fast speed these last couple of years that even young people have been able to notice the change - no one can miss it - it's the way it's been for so long, only more so.

And I'm not immune. Decades ago this would've been one of only about twenty new albums I'd've heard all year, and the only album I'd've made. But already, less than 24 hours after making it, I feel the need to make something new.

recorded here yesterday, photo here yesterday

(this is the complete un-mucked-about thing that got chopped up at random into short bits and which appeared yesterday as A Day In A Homebody Life by Simon Aulman)

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released January 14, 2024

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