Boringdolls
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I've been thinking all day about what I wanted to say about the 10th of January 2016. What I was feeling when the news broke, how I spent the day etc. Then I found this comment I wrote on the bowiesongs blog that I had completely forgotten about:
January 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I've been thinking all day about what I wanted to say about the 10th of January 2016. What I was feeling when the news broke, how I spent the day etc. Then I found this comment I wrote on the bowiesongs blog that I had completely forgotten about:
And so DB's birthday wraps up with a sudden snowstorm, which I can only imagine is a Thin White Duke reference.
January 9, 2026 at 2:14 AM
And so DB's birthday wraps up with a sudden snowstorm, which I can only imagine is a Thin White Duke reference.
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At the center of it all, and at the end. "Blackstar": bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/b...
Blackstar (★)
But, lo, as you would quaffoff his fraudstuff and sink teeth through that pyth of a flowerwhite bodey behold of him as behemoth for he is noewhemoe. Finiche! Only a fadograph of a yestern scene. Ja…
bowiesongs.wordpress.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:54 PM
At the center of it all, and at the end. "Blackstar": bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2026/01/08/b...
There will surely be a lot said today about ★, the final David Bowie album, on its tenth anniversary but one question I suspect won't be asked enough is... how's everyone's die-cut LP sleeve holding up?
January 8, 2026 at 12:22 PM
There will surely be a lot said today about ★, the final David Bowie album, on its tenth anniversary but one question I suspect won't be asked enough is... how's everyone's die-cut LP sleeve holding up?
On Béla Tarr: I saw The Turin Horse at a film retreat outside of Newcastle in 2014. I mean I saw a lot of films that weekend but that was the one that really stuck in my mind. I need to make time to watch more of his work.
January 8, 2026 at 1:53 AM
On Béla Tarr: I saw The Turin Horse at a film retreat outside of Newcastle in 2014. I mean I saw a lot of films that weekend but that was the one that really stuck in my mind. I need to make time to watch more of his work.
It's midnight but no surprise Blaze smh.
January 8, 2026 at 12:03 AM
It's midnight but no surprise Blaze smh.
Happy 10 year anniversary to that leak of Blackstar that turned up online a day before the official release but apparently had some audio glitch throughout. I remember downloading it but never actually listening to it.
January 7, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Happy 10 year anniversary to that leak of Blackstar that turned up online a day before the official release but apparently had some audio glitch throughout. I remember downloading it but never actually listening to it.
Regret not getting this tbh
January 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Regret not getting this tbh
It's wild to me that you can just go to Tesco and buy a toy of Nack The Weasel from Sonic Triple Trouble.
January 7, 2026 at 8:10 PM
It's wild to me that you can just go to Tesco and buy a toy of Nack The Weasel from Sonic Triple Trouble.
So is that new Bowie doc just pedalling the old "David lost his way in the 80s and 90s and only got good again when he did Glastonbury" story? Because if that's the case I'm not interested.
January 6, 2026 at 12:28 AM
So is that new Bowie doc just pedalling the old "David lost his way in the 80s and 90s and only got good again when he did Glastonbury" story? Because if that's the case I'm not interested.
Should've posted this a couple days ago but…
Waltz In Orbit by Ray Cathode (Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin). The b-side of their only single "Time Beat". A few weeks later Martin would meet The Beatles. Fagandini would continue at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop before becoming a TV producer.
Waltz In Orbit by Ray Cathode (Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin). The b-side of their only single "Time Beat". A few weeks later Martin would meet The Beatles. Fagandini would continue at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop before becoming a TV producer.
Ray Cathode - Waltz In Orbit
YouTube video by MrJJBonanza
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
Should've posted this a couple days ago but…
Waltz In Orbit by Ray Cathode (Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin). The b-side of their only single "Time Beat". A few weeks later Martin would meet The Beatles. Fagandini would continue at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop before becoming a TV producer.
Waltz In Orbit by Ray Cathode (Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin). The b-side of their only single "Time Beat". A few weeks later Martin would meet The Beatles. Fagandini would continue at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop before becoming a TV producer.
Just watching a 70s documentary about Termite Terrace and I'm obsessed with this bit where Chuck Jones makes it very clear that femme Bugs Bunny gives him the horn.
January 4, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Just watching a 70s documentary about Termite Terrace and I'm obsessed with this bit where Chuck Jones makes it very clear that femme Bugs Bunny gives him the horn.
You don't need a TV licence to listen to BBC Radio.
I had to argue this with two different people this week. Might've just been a coincidence but just in case.. now you know.
I had to argue this with two different people this week. Might've just been a coincidence but just in case.. now you know.
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
You don't need a TV licence to listen to BBC Radio.
I had to argue this with two different people this week. Might've just been a coincidence but just in case.. now you know.
I had to argue this with two different people this week. Might've just been a coincidence but just in case.. now you know.
I don't need to know what Starmer is saying about all of this. It's all war crime madlibs at this point.
January 3, 2026 at 8:54 PM
I don't need to know what Starmer is saying about all of this. It's all war crime madlibs at this point.
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"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"
The US reminding everyone once again that it's the worst and most dangerous nation on the planet, as it is wont to do.
January 3, 2026 at 3:01 PM
The US reminding everyone once again that it's the worst and most dangerous nation on the planet, as it is wont to do.
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Eno diary, year's end 1995. Thanks, Brian: it's been fun looking back 30 years with you.
December 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Eno diary, year's end 1995. Thanks, Brian: it's been fun looking back 30 years with you.
More 2025 thoughts: I was a little apprehensive about there being a new Stereolab album. The other post Mary Hansen albums were missing something that I was worried they might never get back. But overall I think they found a good balance of playing to their strengths while maturing their sound.
Stereolab - Melodie Is a Wound (Official Visualiser)
YouTube video by Stereolab
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
More 2025 thoughts: I was a little apprehensive about there being a new Stereolab album. The other post Mary Hansen albums were missing something that I was worried they might never get back. But overall I think they found a good balance of playing to their strengths while maturing their sound.
The Bowie store in 2034:
December 29, 2025 at 6:41 PM
The Bowie store in 2034:
I think I can hear an owl responding to cockerel calls. Embarrassing!
December 26, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I think I can hear an owl responding to cockerel calls. Embarrassing!
giftgiftgift, by laughmotel & nathan t dean
3 track album
laughmotel.bandcamp.com
December 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Boards of Canada - Some Old Tunes (1985-1996)
YouTube video by three dee melodie
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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I've not seen much talk about it since it's release but the fact that an album of unheard Erik Satie compositions came out this year is WILD.
youtu.be/FaKC1gXme3U?...
youtu.be/FaKC1gXme3U?...
Ouverture pour "Pousse l'amour"
YouTube video by Alexandre Tharaud - Topic
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I've not seen much talk about it since it's release but the fact that an album of unheard Erik Satie compositions came out this year is WILD.
youtu.be/FaKC1gXme3U?...
youtu.be/FaKC1gXme3U?...
Taking a look back at some of the new music I heard this year and this song by Alice Boyd still just stops me in my tracks each time I hear it.
youtu.be/FP4Uvkl8fQE?...
youtu.be/FP4Uvkl8fQE?...
Alice Boyd, The Listening Planet (feat. NATURE) - All We Are (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Alice Boyd
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Taking a look back at some of the new music I heard this year and this song by Alice Boyd still just stops me in my tracks each time I hear it.
youtu.be/FP4Uvkl8fQE?...
youtu.be/FP4Uvkl8fQE?...