EarBliss, 04may2020: TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, by Angelo Badalamenti.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Brief Notes on Finishing: Montaigne / WESTWORLD.

Wrote a log line for the first time in more than a decade and it’s not awful. (Pats back, returns to work.)

It’s taken three years and more than a few sticky tabs, but I’ve finished reading Montaigne’s Complete Essays.

Looters Are Taking Advantage of the Worldwide Lockdown to Rob Cultural Heritage Sites—and Selling Their Stolen Wares on Facebook, via artnet News.

Covid-19’s future: small outbreaks, monster wave, or ongoing crisis, via STAT News.

Brad Bird Gets Animated About Musicals as New Host of TCM’s ‘The Essentials’, via IndieWire.

Biden campaigns from his basement. Harding ran for president from his porch, via The Washington Post.

The newsletter is in the ether and the week is done. Back to work.

Good morning.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I Am My Own Worst Enemy (No Shit, Right?).

Thinking that it’s time for one of my occasional purgings/refreshings of RSS feeds. Getting a little stale.

EarBliss, 01may2020 (the ”title may be ill-timed to the current situation but whatever it’s absolutely beautiful music” edition): A PLAGUE TALE: INNOCENCE (Original Soundtrack), by Olivier Deriviere.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… CHUNGKING EXPRESS, Revisited.

‘Hanna’ Teaser: Amazon Announces Release Date for Season 2, via IndieWire.

Microsoft’s big Xbox Game Pass bet is starting to pay off, via The Verge.

Europe flooded with cocaine despite coronavirus trade disruptions - Reuters, via Reuters.

Not quite all there - The 90% economy that lockdowns will leave behind, via The Economist.

The Internet Likes Kim Yo Jong a Little Too Much, via Foreign Policy.

Status.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… SitRep, 30apr2020 / “Responsible Re-Start” Edition

Under pressure to reopen this fall, school leaders plot unprecedented changes, via The Washington Post.

Nick Cave & More Sign Open Letter Warning Of ‘Cultural Wasteland’, via The Quietus.

Nothing to See Here? How Not to React to North Korea Rumors, via 38 North.

Rural Counties Account for Increasing Share of New Covid-19 Cases, via The Daily Yonder.

Marooned on Mesozoic Madagascar: Researchers discover 66-million-year-old ‘crazy beast’, via phys.org.

Watching, 29apr2020: NIGHTFALL, dir. Jacques Tourneur (1956). (First Criterion Channel pick; could do a lot worse than a Tourneur adaptation of a David Goodis novel.)

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… I (Have, Can, and Will Let Myself) Watch Movies.

Now that I have the Criterion Channel, the next step is letting myself take the time to sit down and enjoy its treasures. Relaxing has never been my strong suit.

The Criterion Channel is available on XBox One - had to search for the app in the store, though. Day=made.

Meanwhile, at Parenthetical Recluse… Of These First Baby-Steps with Drafts.