Jonny Numb

Maybe I should clarify what this “Writing Cocoon” thing means. (That would make for a good post, yeah?)

Something I like about my current abode is the fact that the basement came with a little office space, complete with a cool distorted window that looks out at street level (or, in this case, the driveway).

On the other side of the office wall, I transformed half of the basement into my “man cave” (due to lack of a better term). After moving in, I put down carpeting and set up my ancient 32″ flatscreen (from 2009, but it keeps appreciating and doesn’t have a ‘motion smoothing’ option!).

I treat the office as a dedicated space to sit down and focus on writing. That entails whatever play/screenplay/movie review/blog post I may be working on. I look at it as a place to isolate and ‘unplug,’ and if you’ll forgive the pretension of this analogy: “it serves as the cocoon from which a beautiful butterfly will emerge!”

Hope that clarifies things a bit.

This afternoon I’ll be in review mode: revising my take on 2022’s Where the Scary Things Are, and compiling my notes for the current late-night movie phenomenon, Skinamarink.

In any event, today’s inspirational listening pleasure comes courtesy of Psyclon Nine’s most recent album, Less to Heaven. I like how frontman Nero Bellum is leaning a bit more into the experimental, meandering programming that’s marked his two (excellent) solo albums.