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What's getting me through Melbourne Lockdown #4
It feels as if every successive lockdown collapses in on the other one, and so by day ten of the four locks down I’m feeling like it’s been a month and I’ve forgotten what my coworkers look like.
Here’s how I’m getting through the Melbourne Lockdown 4.0
First thing I do every morning is download theCoronacast Podcast where Tegan and Dr. Norman Swann give me the latest on the virus, vaccines in reassuring, friendly Scottish tones.
Listening to music in the shower. Multiple times a day as needed. A hot shower is the ultimate reset.
Using the app DrumJam when I practice to infuse my playing with more groove.
Getting recommendations from the Movie Therapy podcast (where two movie critics give advice and prescribe movie recommendations for listeners who send in questions. This led me to watch the bang up classes Roadhouse which I - to the shock of everyone including myself - loved) and (my favourite) Bang On with Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe.
Speaking of Myf content, there’s a new longer (and better IMHO) season of Spicks and Specks (Aussie music trivia game show) which was shot during last year’s epic lockdown and you can sense how excited everyone is to be in the same room and see faces and hear live music so there is this joy infused right into it.
Watching Drag Race Down Under and then following Art Simone’s instagram stories.
Toothbrushing podcast listens (short, calming): The Best Advice Show which is just random pieces of advice for everything from food to break ups and Poetry Unbound (which I’ve written about before) and is so soothing and lovely and turns my brain and empathy on.
At the end of the day I sort it all into a log book so I can sense the repetitions and variations that tell my brain one day is different from the rest.