Andy Miller
@iammilliam.bsky.social
I like books. Wrote ‘The Year of Reading Dangerously’. Now writing ‘Inventory: An Unreliable Guide to My Record Collection’. Co-host Backlisted podcast @backlisted.bsky.social. I don’t only like books. No DM please.
Wow, and for the 58th year in a row. What are the chances?
January 1, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Wow, and for the 58th year in a row. What are the chances?
I'm not sure why exactly, but today is proving unexpectedly difficult. 2025 was the devil I knew, I suppose.
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I'm not sure why exactly, but today is proving unexpectedly difficult. 2025 was the devil I knew, I suppose.
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Agree. I've lived in Croydon since 2012. Perfectly safe despite its reputation. Yes it has its problems, but they are issues of socio-economic deprivation not safety.
And yes, everyone says thanks to the bus driver. Yes people are wishing you happy new year on the street.
And yes, everyone says thanks to the bus driver. Yes people are wishing you happy new year on the street.
I live in a majority non-white working class area and I have never felt safer. What is really damaging London is money: high rents, chainification and blandification, the forces of gentrification pushing long standing working class and/or ethnic minority communities and local businesses out.
January 1, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Agree. I've lived in Croydon since 2012. Perfectly safe despite its reputation. Yes it has its problems, but they are issues of socio-economic deprivation not safety.
And yes, everyone says thanks to the bus driver. Yes people are wishing you happy new year on the street.
And yes, everyone says thanks to the bus driver. Yes people are wishing you happy new year on the street.
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A special New Year's Day INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, hit 2026 running with Pulp, Dog Day Afternoon and The Fallen Women, support the podcast.
This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'.
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This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'.
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January 1, 2026 at 9:28 AM
A special New Year's Day INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, hit 2026 running with Pulp, Dog Day Afternoon and The Fallen Women, support the podcast.
This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'.
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This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'.
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Having now also listened to said album I have to concur with Andy's astute opinion. And, to reiterate, no, it is not Geese, but I was reminded of a goose.
Listening to one of the albums of the year. It is absolutely terrible and you have all lost your minds.
January 1, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Having now also listened to said album I have to concur with Andy's astute opinion. And, to reiterate, no, it is not Geese, but I was reminded of a goose.
A special New Year's Day INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, hit 2026 running with Pulp, Dog Day Afternoon and The Fallen Women, support the podcast.
This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
January 1, 2026 at 9:28 AM
A special New Year's Day INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, hit 2026 running with Pulp, Dog Day Afternoon and The Fallen Women, support the podcast.
This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
This week: Jarvis Cocker, 'The Loss Adjuster'.
www.patreon.com/backlisted
Meet the new year, same as the old year.
January 1, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Meet the new year, same as the old year.
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2) Before him the volcanoes, precipitous, seemed to have drawn nearer. They towered up over the jungle, into the lowering sky--massive interests moving up in the background.
December 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
2) Before him the volcanoes, precipitous, seemed to have drawn nearer. They towered up over the jungle, into the lowering sky--massive interests moving up in the background.
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1) He stopped after a awhile: all was calm. No one had come after him. Was that good? Yes, it was good, he thought, his heart pounding. And since it was so good, he would take the path to Parián, to the Farolito.
December 31, 2025 at 3:58 PM
1) He stopped after a awhile: all was calm. No one had come after him. Was that good? Yes, it was good, he thought, his heart pounding. And since it was so good, he would take the path to Parián, to the Farolito.
Everyone knows about the Buggles thing so let’s skip that. One of the inventors of MTV was Michael Nesmith, whose birthday it was yesterday. The channel also gave us Jackass, which you don’t like but I do. I’m trying to build on the discourse established by John here.
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Everyone knows about the Buggles thing so let’s skip that. One of the inventors of MTV was Michael Nesmith, whose birthday it was yesterday. The channel also gave us Jackass, which you don’t like but I do. I’m trying to build on the discourse established by John here.
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I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
Listening to one of the albums of the year. It is absolutely terrible and you have all lost your minds.
December 31, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Listening to one of the albums of the year. It is absolutely terrible and you have all lost your minds.
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Friend of mine was mugged at knifepoint in North London - assailant demanded a fiver (it was a while ago..), she only had a tenner which she handed over. He rummaged in his pockets and gave her five quid change.
December 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Friend of mine was mugged at knifepoint in North London - assailant demanded a fiver (it was a while ago..), she only had a tenner which she handed over. He rummaged in his pockets and gave her five quid change.
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I was once sympathetically mugged on Catharine Street in Liverpool, when my assailant took my last tenner, but gave me £1 from his own pocket after I told him I needed bus fare to get to a job interview first thing the next morning.
December 31, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I was once sympathetically mugged on Catharine Street in Liverpool, when my assailant took my last tenner, but gave me £1 from his own pocket after I told him I needed bus fare to get to a job interview first thing the next morning.
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I wait for the evening and the wine and that's all.
December 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I wait for the evening and the wine and that's all.
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Wild! Reminds me of when some jittery guy tried to mug me after school as I was getting off a bus. Grabbed my backpack, shook everything out, and was so upset to find only my dirty gym clothes and schoolwork. “Don’t you have any diamonds or a gold watch!?”
December 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Wild! Reminds me of when some jittery guy tried to mug me after school as I was getting off a bus. Grabbed my backpack, shook everything out, and was so upset to find only my dirty gym clothes and schoolwork. “Don’t you have any diamonds or a gold watch!?”
I’m a handmaiden, odalisque and muse to the Incredible String Band.
Well, now I'm an English professor...
December 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I’m a handmaiden, odalisque and muse to the Incredible String Band.
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In a similar vein, a homeless woman in Glasgow once shouted “Christ hen, you look as bad as I feel” as I walked past Superdrug.
December 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
In a similar vein, a homeless woman in Glasgow once shouted “Christ hen, you look as bad as I feel” as I walked past Superdrug.
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A friend was once sobbing in the street after a breakup and a man drinking in the doorway of a shop lifted his tinnie and said to her "could be worse love, could be married to me"
December 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A friend was once sobbing in the street after a breakup and a man drinking in the doorway of a shop lifted his tinnie and said to her "could be worse love, could be married to me"
As I walked past a homeless man in the doorway of a shop on Hammersmith Broadway, he told me to “Cheer up mate, it might never happen”.
Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”
December 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
As I walked past a homeless man in the doorway of a shop on Hammersmith Broadway, he told me to “Cheer up mate, it might never happen”.
Happy birthday to Jeff Lynne (78), frontman of the Idle Race, and Michael Nesmith (RIP), leader of the First National Band. 🎂
December 30, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Happy birthday to Jeff Lynne (78), frontman of the Idle Race, and Michael Nesmith (RIP), leader of the First National Band. 🎂
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This is Virginia Astley's beautiful new record The Singing Places. It can be ordered from her Bandcamp page, I think. One of the many delighful things about this music is that the field recordings of birds, from chiffchaff to wren, are listed in the credits in the order that each species appears.
December 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is Virginia Astley's beautiful new record The Singing Places. It can be ordered from her Bandcamp page, I think. One of the many delighful things about this music is that the field recordings of birds, from chiffchaff to wren, are listed in the credits in the order that each species appears.