James Maxwell-Smith
@bobsynthesis.bsky.social
Maker, designer, amateur luthier, music obsessive, Procrastinator.
It sounds crunchy outside ❄️🌨️
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
It sounds crunchy outside ❄️🌨️
Finally bought Wilco's Cruel Country. It's been impossible to get hold of on CD for a reasonable price. On sale on the Wilco's web site, but p&p made me take a sharp intake of breath!
November 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Finally bought Wilco's Cruel Country. It's been impossible to get hold of on CD for a reasonable price. On sale on the Wilco's web site, but p&p made me take a sharp intake of breath!
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SST describing landlords as an *industry*.
Soooo what do landlords produce? Nothing. They produce nothing. They do not convert labour or goods to something else and add value.
They are nothing more than middlemen who inflate the cost of housing and skim yields from a human need.
Soooo what do landlords produce? Nothing. They produce nothing. They do not convert labour or goods to something else and add value.
They are nothing more than middlemen who inflate the cost of housing and skim yields from a human need.
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
SST describing landlords as an *industry*.
Soooo what do landlords produce? Nothing. They produce nothing. They do not convert labour or goods to something else and add value.
They are nothing more than middlemen who inflate the cost of housing and skim yields from a human need.
Soooo what do landlords produce? Nothing. They produce nothing. They do not convert labour or goods to something else and add value.
They are nothing more than middlemen who inflate the cost of housing and skim yields from a human need.
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#NowPlaying Tomorrow's Harvest. It's so long since #BoardsofCanada released their last album that I'm starting to think I bought it on 8-track tape.
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#NowPlaying Tomorrow's Harvest. It's so long since #BoardsofCanada released their last album that I'm starting to think I bought it on 8-track tape.
I think I must of been asleep or something for those years, because I hardly know anything anyone's posting #5debutalbum1014
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I think I must of been asleep or something for those years, because I hardly know anything anyone's posting #5debutalbum1014
An Evening with The Fast Show at the Usher Hall👌
November 8, 2025 at 11:18 PM
An Evening with The Fast Show at the Usher Hall👌
Although I was a bit nonplussed about the recent Geese album, Cameron Winters solo album is strange and compelling. Totally marmite I suspect and doesn't really sound like his band at all. Gentle and slightly odd. Liking it.
November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Although I was a bit nonplussed about the recent Geese album, Cameron Winters solo album is strange and compelling. Totally marmite I suspect and doesn't really sound like his band at all. Gentle and slightly odd. Liking it.
Anyone with arachnophobia, look away now. The picture I took this morning of what my daughter has named "legatron"
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Anyone with arachnophobia, look away now. The picture I took this morning of what my daughter has named "legatron"
Hells bells! Just made some roast tomatoes salsa with some unidentified tiny finger chillies from hell. Oh and I've touched my nose 😬
November 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Hells bells! Just made some roast tomatoes salsa with some unidentified tiny finger chillies from hell. Oh and I've touched my nose 😬
Just replaced the faulty usb on my phone. All very modular and easy, the problem is the board contains the mic and head phone jack. Now the jack is faulty... I think I'll live with it.
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Just replaced the faulty usb on my phone. All very modular and easy, the problem is the board contains the mic and head phone jack. Now the jack is faulty... I think I'll live with it.
I haven't enough time to listen to all the music, radio shows and podcasts I want to. It's a bit distressing.
November 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I haven't enough time to listen to all the music, radio shows and podcasts I want to. It's a bit distressing.
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With Halloween a couple of days away I thought it’d be a good time to repost this series from early this year, where I reimagined a bunch of songs by US alt-rock bands as covers for old horror comics.
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
With Halloween a couple of days away I thought it’d be a good time to repost this series from early this year, where I reimagined a bunch of songs by US alt-rock bands as covers for old horror comics.
I love Wilco, and this list is pretty sound I'd say. The only thing I disagree with is Ode to Joy, but it may be a slow, slow grower.
On this day in 1996, @wilcohq.bsky.social released their second album, Being There. A sprawling set of alt-country, ragged-assed Stones boogies and questing, less generic pieces like Misunderstood, see where it landed in MOJO editor @johnmulvey.bsky.social’s pick of Wilco’s best albums...
Wilco's Best Albums Ranked
MOJO charts the long-playing progress of Jeff Tweedy and co. 10. Kicking Television 9. Cruel Country 8. Wilco (The Album) 7. Ode to Joy
www.mojo4music.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I love Wilco, and this list is pretty sound I'd say. The only thing I disagree with is Ode to Joy, but it may be a slow, slow grower.
Boo @michaellamonato.bsky.social like you've never mentioned Melbourne suburbs!😉
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Boo @michaellamonato.bsky.social like you've never mentioned Melbourne suburbs!😉
Happy fuck circadian rhythms day everyone (special shout out to all the parents out there)
October 26, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Happy fuck circadian rhythms day everyone (special shout out to all the parents out there)
Every time I see Alabaster DePlume's name, I just assume that they must be a character out of Nathan Barley.
October 16, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Every time I see Alabaster DePlume's name, I just assume that they must be a character out of Nathan Barley.
I consider myself a Beastie Boys fan, but only just listened to the Hot Sauce Committee part 2 for the first time tonight! Nor have I listened to The Mix Up. Anyone else a fan of something and have massive holes in listening/viewing/reading?
October 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I consider myself a Beastie Boys fan, but only just listened to the Hot Sauce Committee part 2 for the first time tonight! Nor have I listened to The Mix Up. Anyone else a fan of something and have massive holes in listening/viewing/reading?
No amount of AI will produce anything that resembles the charm and graphic style of these posters. Utterly beguiling.
bsky.app
October 14, 2025 at 2:18 PM
No amount of AI will produce anything that resembles the charm and graphic style of these posters. Utterly beguiling.
@georgianamax.bsky.social it's got the hotel we stayed at!
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
@georgianamax.bsky.social it's got the hotel we stayed at!
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Comin' up at 9pm...
Dry chat ✔️
Paraphrased internet articles ✔️
Recommending shows on other stations ✔️
Self-inflicted technical difficulties ✔️
Great music ✔️
See you on the ice! ✨
tunein.com/radio/Sheffi...
Dry chat ✔️
Paraphrased internet articles ✔️
Recommending shows on other stations ✔️
Self-inflicted technical difficulties ✔️
Great music ✔️
See you on the ice! ✨
tunein.com/radio/Sheffi...
October 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Comin' up at 9pm...
Dry chat ✔️
Paraphrased internet articles ✔️
Recommending shows on other stations ✔️
Self-inflicted technical difficulties ✔️
Great music ✔️
See you on the ice! ✨
tunein.com/radio/Sheffi...
Dry chat ✔️
Paraphrased internet articles ✔️
Recommending shows on other stations ✔️
Self-inflicted technical difficulties ✔️
Great music ✔️
See you on the ice! ✨
tunein.com/radio/Sheffi...
People have been doing this and I was looking through my concert photos, and apart from the ones I took semi professionally for a mates band, 95% of them are trash. Blurry smudges, no good. Anyway here's a half decent one of well, I don't know?
September 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
People have been doing this and I was looking through my concert photos, and apart from the ones I took semi professionally for a mates band, 95% of them are trash. Blurry smudges, no good. Anyway here's a half decent one of well, I don't know?
Excellent! Just in time for summer! Oh...
September 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Excellent! Just in time for summer! Oh...
I think the band Wednesday may be my favourite "new to me" band. Just for the line " we watch a Fish concert and the Human Centipede, two things that i now wish I never seen"
Great mix of alt rock à la Dinosaur Junior, Pavement and some country music.
Great mix of alt rock à la Dinosaur Junior, Pavement and some country music.
September 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I think the band Wednesday may be my favourite "new to me" band. Just for the line " we watch a Fish concert and the Human Centipede, two things that i now wish I never seen"
Great mix of alt rock à la Dinosaur Junior, Pavement and some country music.
Great mix of alt rock à la Dinosaur Junior, Pavement and some country music.