ALONE for the weekend
By Alex Ness
10/12/2025
A WEEKEND ALONE
As I can't drive at night, and have a difficulty driving at night, when my son is off for the weekend, he often visits friends. My wife often goes to see family in Northern Minnesota. I tend to then feel depressed. I try hard to endure, but my natural outlook is self hating and fatalist. My philosophical outlook is Christian but, while I have hope, I kind of assume while the Messiah and God are perfect, I am nothing. As such, being alone SUCKS.
WHAT DO I DO?
For years I have dug deep in how the world ending war can happen. So I plan to watch 3 films that show how things happen, in a sort of logical pattern. First the spies. Then the events with both side coming close to Armageddon, and lastly, the after effects of what we should never have done.
The Manchurian Candidate Thirteen Days On the Beach (again)
The world we now live within is an afterthought, no one expected to survive the Cold War. But we did. Why I am moved by movies like this is, most movies have a moment where you feel ah, I am going to be ok because they do something or say something that doesn't, actually, move you. That stands out and you feel like that gives you a moment to breathe and step outside the narrative. I think all three of the movies mentioned above, don't do that. On the Beach is especially dark. But that is why I watch it, I want to see a way to escape from it. I might not, but that is why the art in the making is so brilliant.
Comics
Of recent comic releases I have recently enjoyed the Godzilla vs Comic universes, but the quality hasn't been universal. I buy and enjoy Savage Dragon. A new comic, with a past of great comics, a wider series came out, two of them, actually Speed Racer & Racer X. And I loved Speed Racer/Racer X in the past. These books are written in a way that Speed Racer & Racer X never came close to in the past. The key to Speed Racer is hope. The key to Racer X, is intrigue, and curiosity fulfilled.
As such, however different, mature, and good all the editions I've read, this one promises so much more. I rarely buy comics, since I haven't a lot of money. But I have found a couple new works that will keep me entertained.
Books
I have mentioned this theme before, but seems more close to reality in the present. I don't want a war any more than anyone else. But I could see it happening, and in approaching times. Therefore, all three of these works aims to explain why various things could happen, and why they could be worrisome, even if not world ending. Future Wars has a quality about it that is undeniable. The Next War is dated, but it also doesn't quibble with how things will happen, and why. Red Army is fiction, purely, but it present a scenario that might truly occur. Certainly not for the same reasons, but the world is tired of following the leader, and nuclear weapons equalize the world's way of war.
Future Wars The Next War Red Army
Music
I have spoken, written, shared music of the collective of the Swallows. I like their music and that of the off shoots. I love the quality, the content, the share ability, everyone I've shared their music with has thereafter called themselves a new fan. I will be listening to their music, it has stirring melodies, heavy depth into layers of sound, and brilliant lyrical masterpieces. In concert they are magnificent, and I am finding life harder and harder to get out on my own. The neck breaking and getting old in other areas has left me focused on the CDs I have, and friendships I've made.
Swallows J.Briozo Aaron Kerr's Dissonant Creatures
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