Shrinks and synthesizers
Doing plenty of writing of a variety of kinds for most of the day. Filed free of the desk manacles at lunchtime for a walk in the park. No snow, but frosty ground and the ponds icy, and the fish deep under the ice in the winter sunlight.
In the evening off to babysit Oskar and Klaudia, had a nice chat with Anna before she went out. Went in to chat to Oskar, who is transforming into a proper boy now. When Anton returned, he made pizzas for us and talked feverishly about his new craze: synthesizers and synthesizer music. He has downloaded synthesizers onto his iPad and has a keyboard to plug in, on this set up he is learning chords, listening to tutorials about the structure of synthesized sounds and about attack, sustain and decay, sound envelopes and so on. While we ate admirable pizzas we also listened to Kraftwerk, music for which Anton has found a sudden and powerful affection. It is a long time since I have seen Anton so be-crazed.
After listening to excerpts from The Examined Life, by Stephen Grosz on Radio 4 I downloaded it from Audible today, and am delighted to hear it read by the same person, the velvet-voiced Peter Marinker. I'm lapping up these absorbing stories from 25 years practice as a psychoanalyst told in a straightforward and thought provoking way.
Home to Lorraine already snuggled up in bed. Full of late night pizza, I could not sleep so ended up listening to The Examined Life for a couple of hours in the night.
Below a famous Kraftwerk cover, and a look I expect Anton to be adopting shortly. Especially the lipstick.
In the evening off to babysit Oskar and Klaudia, had a nice chat with Anna before she went out. Went in to chat to Oskar, who is transforming into a proper boy now. When Anton returned, he made pizzas for us and talked feverishly about his new craze: synthesizers and synthesizer music. He has downloaded synthesizers onto his iPad and has a keyboard to plug in, on this set up he is learning chords, listening to tutorials about the structure of synthesized sounds and about attack, sustain and decay, sound envelopes and so on. While we ate admirable pizzas we also listened to Kraftwerk, music for which Anton has found a sudden and powerful affection. It is a long time since I have seen Anton so be-crazed.
After listening to excerpts from The Examined Life, by Stephen Grosz on Radio 4 I downloaded it from Audible today, and am delighted to hear it read by the same person, the velvet-voiced Peter Marinker. I'm lapping up these absorbing stories from 25 years practice as a psychoanalyst told in a straightforward and thought provoking way.
Home to Lorraine already snuggled up in bed. Full of late night pizza, I could not sleep so ended up listening to The Examined Life for a couple of hours in the night.
Below a famous Kraftwerk cover, and a look I expect Anton to be adopting shortly. Especially the lipstick.
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