I Just Read About That…

SOUNDTRACK: DUA LIPA-“Thinking ‘Bout You” (Field Recordings, August 31, 2016). 

The title “Field Recordings” seems to be a catchall for videos that they’re not really sure what to do with.  This video clip is from a show called Noteworthy (which ran all of ten episodes from July 2016-September 2016).

Dua does sing from the balcony [Watch Dua Lipa Perform ‘Thinking Bout You’ On A Balcony In New York City] and the sound is pretty great (I like that you can hear sirens at one point).   But the video is apparently clips from the documentary because there’s scenes of her walking around the city.

A day after performing “Hotter Than Hell” on The Tonight Show, rising pop star Dua Lipa performed another one of her songs, “Thinking Bout You,” for a much smaller audience: our Noteworthy video crew. Enjoy this extra from our Noteworthy documentary on Dua Lipa and be sure to watch the entire documentary here.

I can’t imagine why this particular singer whom I have never heard of in any other place has a documentary made about her.

Her voice is fine, a rough edged pop singer. And the song is pleasant enough.

[READ: January 31, 2018] “The Revisionist”

This is an excerpt from Mellis’ novel The Revisionist. And boy what a gloomy depressing book this sounds like.

The narrator’s last assignment was to conduct surveillance of the weather and report that everything was fine.  She was set up outside of the city in a lighthouse. She was tempted to take her own observations, so she did.

Now how about this for a paragraph

I saw a family driving to the country on vacation. Behind them, a bomb went off. Through my headphones, I noted the rushing sound of radiation cruising low across the land. The father, who was driving, saw the mushroom cloud in his rearview mirror. The others didn’t turn around, so they never noticed.

What?

The family gets to the campsite.  The dad is freaking out, the family is making fun of him.  Finally he admits that he saw the nuclear attack.

Then the story jumps to something else–they had quarantined the part of the country most affected by the bomb.  She published a report showing that radiation was harmless. She was promoted.  But the reports were fraudulent.

Escape schemes were formed.  One man sold plots of land on Start Over Island and made a ton of money.

People left their mutated children, but side effects followed them to the island.

Eventually she delivered a 178 page report on her findings

Continuing growth in greenhouse gas emissions is leading to a higher standard of living that will result in a global utopia by the end of the century.

The president quoted liberally from my report, hailing it as an objective docket.  But sometimes real events were harder to believe than the made up ones.

I will not be reading this novel.