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‹MUSIC› I’m still caught up in The Smile: today I listened to their third LP titled Cutouts. It was released in 2024 the same year as the second album (there were only 9 months between them). Cutouts is filled with outstanding moments (I had to more attentively seek out these moments in Wall of Eyes). The band goes further, I mean literally to Middle-Eastern vibes in Colours Fly, also they dare to be more frivolous especially on The Slip. Zero Sum was an instant favourite of mine when I first heard the album, but Don’t Get Me Started is pretty damn good too with its raw energy. In general, these songs are more playful and find them more captivating. Obviously, Pitchfork considers the other two albums better than Cutouts. I can’t decide yet which is better: this or The Light for Attracting Attention, their first release. Tomorrow the deliberation continues!

Aaand, obviously it was just today that I realised, Max Richter will play in Müpa this March. It’s sold out already, but I’m crossing my fingers that something will turn up on TicketSwap .

‹ARTICLE› Early morning in the freezing cold I went to the gym, so I gave my audio-article choice no thought at all, just started this one about prenups. Well, it was informative enough with some celebrity gossip. It achieved its primary goal: filled the silence while my face froze off.

‹DIY› As a beginner in knitting (I started 3 weeks ago) I reached a milestone: I finished my first beanie! I mean my first wearable beanie. Let’s say I did a test run, but I made so many stitching errors, that I put it away as a token of my endurance.

‹BOOK› I haven’t started anything new today since Nabokov was still on my mind so I watched an interview with him and started a longer one in German. I must say I had a good laugh at his expense; he takes every opportunity (or creates new ones) to shit talk Freud. In the preface in The Luzhin Defense, in the closing interview in the book, and just a couple of minutes in the interview he mentions Freud and seemingly he cannot hold back. Like of a parody, but hey, a genius can act out almost anyway he wants.