Endings, Beginnings
I completed my course of radiotherapy today. No doubt I’ll have more to say about it as the results become clearer in time and when I’ve had some time to reflect, but it’s worth recording the date.
I have been lucky. The radiographers treat anywhere between 180 and 240 people per day using 6 machines. and I know from chatting to people in the waiting room that some of those people have much more significant and life-changing cancers than me and face more intense side effects. Cancer, and the waiting rooms, are great levellers.
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Team Doolally
Late to the party, I caught up with Dept Q, scandi-noir transplanted to Edinburgh with a magnificently sweary Matthew Goode taking the lead in a very strong cast. I binged it over two nights and am looking forward to the next series when it finally appears. Also, I enjoyed playing the game of spotting Edinburgh locations and noting when they did not match geographically.
At a loose end, I revisited Matrix : Resurrections which I thought I’d written about here previously but seemingly not. The first part of the film is funny and clever; unfortunately the second half is a boring retread of stuff we’ve seen before. It was a good earner for most of the Sense8 cast who appear in it, cast adrift when that series was cancelled, but not a particularly good film overall. I suspect that had a lot to do with it being the work of only one Wachowski: Lana.
In other news, Jon Anderson, erstwhile lead singer of Yes, is touring this year. He is 81. Touring with the Band Geeks, the show will be dominated by Yes classics played at their original tempo. I have, of course, already bought a ticket.
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Here’s one from my schooldays.
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