Week 48: New vinyls, Dispatch, and more Strudel music

Weeknote #48.25, from November 24 to November 30.

Listened #

We received the vinyls for Blood Incantation's Absolute Elsewhere and Rosalia's LUX (my favourite record of 2024 and what is likely to become my favourite of 2025, respectively). So these 2 have been in heavy rotation this week.

Watched #

• Continued I Love L.A.
• Continued Pluribus.
• Finished Ghosts' season 2.
• Finished Animal Control's season 1 and started season 2.
• Started and finished Stranger Things 5's Volume 1. It's kind of all over the place both in performances and plot, and even though you can see most of the big moments coming, they still pack a punch.
• Die, My Love in Filmhallen. A tough one; looks great, specially the night scenes, fully moonlit. The performances are fantastic but it all feels very abstract and therefore hard to connect with.

Played #

• ⭐ Continued Dispatch, with episodes 2 and 3. Playing it with my wife. The writing, performances, and animation are phenomenal and the music and needle drops are oh-so good. We're trying to take it slow but it's hard! (Started playing it last week but forgot to mention it in the previous weeknote).

Read #

• Your URL Is Your State by Ahmad Alfy.

Created #

• Wrote a new song in Strudel! I wrote it as a gift to a very good friend - so I will only share it after I present it to them - and I'm very happy of the result! Now I need to figure out how to "render" it into a proper soundwave file so I can upload it to Bandcamp.