0.12.0 - I can't get no sleep (Week 12 Wrapup)

This week: G Flip, Eels, East 17, Britney, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Jurassic 5, DJ Format, Run The Jewels, Gemma Heyes, Incubus, Johnny Flynn As I write these words, it is 5.38am, and I've been awake for about two hours - certainly at least long enough to listen to two albums since I dragged myself out of bed so I wasn't also disturbing Catherine's sleep as well as my own; I'm sure anxious insomnia isn't a gift I should be sharing. But I'm going to choose to consider my brain's response to the continuing collapse of western society as a very well-hidden blessing, as I have a busy Sunday planned so this early start gives me a chance to get a jump on getting this blog post written and up in good time before I start cooking a Palestinian mezze meal for my friends and spend the afternoon playing Rock Band 3 with them, which promises to be a very welcome distraction so long as I am able to stay awake through it. It's been a pretty rugged mental health week b...