Assemblage

Having watched several Netflix and Apple+ series to different degrees of completion it seems that a new format is emerging, this being the result of all the parts of a TV show being assembled by people who have never watched TV. There are actors and stories and sets and jokes and running gags and action and a big thing at the end, and each component is as perfectly rendered as it is completely unconnected to anything else in the time it takes to watch it roll past on a screen. Frankentertainment was once a symptom of rushed production. Now it's coalesced into a genre. 

My recent non-fiction reading includes Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition by Daniel Okrent; Why We Remember by Charan Raganath; Cue the Sun! by Emily Nussbaum; Slow Productivity by Cal Newport; Plunder by Brendan Ballou. (I might have mentioned these before.)

I'm listening to M83, Space Biology, Magdalena Bay, Boards of Canada, Rihanna, Nine Inch Nails, Yellow Magic Orchestra and Khruangbin.

I'm writing and I want very little to do with the world.