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One for all you fashionistas out there!
‘Red and green, should never be seen.Except upon an Irish Queen ‘.
Do you agree?
Yesterday’s prompt was [rowdy](https://www.deviantart.com/tereyaglikedi/art/1256426875?action=published). Honestly I am not so sure what this word means, I went with what I thought it means. I hope it’s right.
I am a fan of the Baumgartner Art Restoration Channel, and yesterday I gave another art restoration channel a go. This was a guy from Manchester, and while he talks funny, I actually enjoyed his stuff more. It’s crazy how many English dialects there are, when the places the dialects are from aren’t even very far from one another.
I also watched a short news clip about a guy with an AI chatbot girlfriend. He said if people want to try, they should give it time because it took him 6 months to establish the relationship. That seems like a lot of effort.
I bought salted lemons yesterday for the first time. Have you ever used them? I think they’re common in Moroccan cooking? I don’t know if I have ever cooked Moroccan before, but maybe now’s a good time.
I’ve been playing some old flash games. They really brought back some memories from my childhood.
Watched a Netflix-movie last night, House of Dynamite. Was exciting, who fired the missile, is it really a nuke, how will they retaliate, interesting story, decent acting. And then, a few minutes before the missile would impact, the movie just stopped.
WTF is that about? They ran out of money? The actors just quit? I have to fill in the rest myself? The Martians fired the missile, it wasn’t a nuke, but a bomb with a zombie-virus, and they retaliated by nuking Peru? It was an introspective story of the human psyche and how we deal with uncertainty? I *hate* open ends. Two hours of my life gone. Well, consider this a warning. Don’t watch.
The NBA season started this week, and Victor Wembanyama has put in two incredible performances. Everybody already knew that he has potential to become the greatest European basketball player ever, but honestly just greatest full stop is on the table.
His team, the San Antonio Spurs, have an early game on Sunday which starts at 22:30 in my time zone, so it’s reasonable to watch. Which I really want to watch. He literally trained with Chinese monks in the summer, I want to see the new and improved Wemby.
But, the Mexican grand prix starts at 22:00 on Sunday… And I really want to watch Verstappen terrorise the McLarens too.
What do people think about Japan’s new first female prime minister? Assumed office 4 days ago.
Don’t know too much apart from she is against same sex marriage for some reason, but ok with gays. Margaret Thatcher is a huge role model.
I’ve ended up in the Chopin craze again thanks to the Chopin Competition, only wanting to play a lot of pieces by Chopin now. It reminds me how I basically only played Chopin for years earlier before growing a bit tired of him. Coming back is like rediscovering an old friend or dream, particularly the nocturnes. My interest in composers particularly comes in waves and can stay with one composer for a longer time period, like the year or so I only played Rachmaninov, before moving on to Scriabin. Some just catches my fascination so much with their soundscape, either it’s Mozart, Liszt, Schubert, Schumann, Janacek or Dvorak. Often it’s just for a short time to just get through and discover to not play it again for a very long time if ever. I realise I would probably do badly as a professional pianist with this tendency.