Lucid Frenzy
@lucidfrenzy.bsky.social
Another recent arrival from the Bad Place. Brighton-based. Middle-aged. Likes: complaining, nerd stuff, Dr. Who & other British SF, Modernist art, alternative music, but mostly the complaining.
It’s 1971! The crucial thing about Can, at a time when too many bands went flashy and fancy, they evoked the force of repetition. As bassist Holger Czukay put it, “when you repeat something you change it”. And all powered by Jaki Leibeziet’s awesome drumming!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0g...
Mushroom
YouTube video by Can - Topic
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November 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It’s 1971! The crucial thing about Can, at a time when too many bands went flashy and fancy, they evoked the force of repetition. As bassist Holger Czukay put it, “when you repeat something you change it”. And all powered by Jaki Leibeziet’s awesome drumming!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0g...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0g...
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Their argument is literally “won’t somebody please not think about the children.”
Mike Johnson expresses concern that requiring the Epstein files to come out "could ruin the reputations of completely innocent people, such as those who may just have known Epstein but knew nothing of his crimes or whose names he exploited and used to try to get close to his intended victims."
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Their argument is literally “won’t somebody please not think about the children.”
Anyone know of a good history of the early novel? Not just the social stuff, about greater literacy the rise of the printing press and all that? A formal history of how the novel developed structurally. When did it first break from the faux memoir thing, and so on?
Any pointers gratefully received!
Any pointers gratefully received!
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Anyone know of a good history of the early novel? Not just the social stuff, about greater literacy the rise of the printing press and all that? A formal history of how the novel developed structurally. When did it first break from the faux memoir thing, and so on?
Any pointers gratefully received!
Any pointers gratefully received!
I’m not surprised they can be this cruel.
I’m not surprised they can be this hypocritical.
What surprises me is they still haven’t worked out that if they get in a Nigel Farage lookalike contest with Nigel Farage then Nigel Farage is going to win.
I‘m surprised they’re this stupid.
I’m not surprised they can be this hypocritical.
What surprises me is they still haven’t worked out that if they get in a Nigel Farage lookalike contest with Nigel Farage then Nigel Farage is going to win.
I‘m surprised they’re this stupid.
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I’m not surprised they can be this cruel.
I’m not surprised they can be this hypocritical.
What surprises me is they still haven’t worked out that if they get in a Nigel Farage lookalike contest with Nigel Farage then Nigel Farage is going to win.
I‘m surprised they’re this stupid.
I’m not surprised they can be this hypocritical.
What surprises me is they still haven’t worked out that if they get in a Nigel Farage lookalike contest with Nigel Farage then Nigel Farage is going to win.
I‘m surprised they’re this stupid.
It's still 1970! Most know this story… Earth, a fairly run-of-the-mill Blues Rock band, recorded a track which they found to have a new sound. And rename themselves Black Sabbath after it. It’s (or is pretty close to) the first Doom track...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVd...
BLACK SABBATH - "Black Sabbath" (Official Video)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath
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November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It's still 1970! Most know this story… Earth, a fairly run-of-the-mill Blues Rock band, recorded a track which they found to have a new sound. And rename themselves Black Sabbath after it. It’s (or is pretty close to) the first Doom track...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVd...
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
It’s 1970! Though also today, as we're cunningly timing this to Neil Young 80th birthday. When it became obvious the young *weren’t* taking over, the past became the new future, and music a self-conscious stirring together of all traditional American styles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PG2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PG2...
After the Gold Rush
YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic
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November 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It’s 1970! Though also today, as we're cunningly timing this to Neil Young 80th birthday. When it became obvious the young *weren’t* taking over, the past became the new future, and music a self-conscious stirring together of all traditional American styles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PG2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PG2...
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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
It’s still 1969! With it’s frenzied guitar and barbed-wire vocals, its staccato series of apocalyptic sights, ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’ is like a Bosch painting if drawn with Grosz’s spiky pen. What’s more the 21st Century so far has turned out exactly like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ska...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ska...
King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
YouTube video by Music Archive
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November 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It’s still 1969! With it’s frenzied guitar and barbed-wire vocals, its staccato series of apocalyptic sights, ‘21st Century Schizoid Man’ is like a Bosch painting if drawn with Grosz’s spiky pen. What’s more the 21st Century so far has turned out exactly like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ska...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ska...
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Reposted by Lucid Frenzy
In shock news, Four Eyed Gav went to an art show. In equally shock news, he found that critics didn't really get Neo-Impressionism. (Yes, that's the dotty one!)
lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com/2025/11/radi...
lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com/2025/11/radi...
‘RADICAL HARMONY: HELENE KROLLER-MULLER’S NEO-IMPRESSIONISTS’
A blog on film, music, comics and visual art... or anything which might be able to induce a lucid frenzy.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
In shock news, Four Eyed Gav went to an art show. In equally shock news, he found that critics didn't really get Neo-Impressionism. (Yes, that's the dotty one!)
lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com/2025/11/radi...
lucidfrenzy.blogspot.com/2025/11/radi...
It’s 1969! One night, Sandy Denny started singing the trad tune ‘A Sailor’s Life’. One by one, the rest of Fairport Convention started joined in. They’d done trad tunes before, but never so electrified. They played it live that night and put it on their next album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi8...
A Sailor's Life
YouTube video by Fairport Convention - Topic
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October 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
It’s 1969! One night, Sandy Denny started singing the trad tune ‘A Sailor’s Life’. One by one, the rest of Fairport Convention started joined in. They’d done trad tunes before, but never so electrified. They played it live that night and put it on their next album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi8...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi8...
I used to think...
...you won't believe this but...
...I used to think a ceasefire meant ceasing to fire.
Boy, I feel stupid now.
...you won't believe this but...
...I used to think a ceasefire meant ceasing to fire.
Boy, I feel stupid now.
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I used to think...
...you won't believe this but...
...I used to think a ceasefire meant ceasing to fire.
Boy, I feel stupid now.
...you won't believe this but...
...I used to think a ceasefire meant ceasing to fire.
Boy, I feel stupid now.
So Gillian Welch was playing Brighton, on a night I couldn't make. "She'll be back", I reassured myself. Fifteen years later she was in London, which seemed close enough. And of course it was worth the wait! Including this track...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSt...
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Revelator, The London Palladium 26th Oct 2025
YouTube video by David Murphy
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October 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
So Gillian Welch was playing Brighton, on a night I couldn't make. "She'll be back", I reassured myself. Fifteen years later she was in London, which seemed close enough. And of course it was worth the wait! Including this track...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuSt...
It's 1968! And the Doors' 'Five to One' sums up the dark tone, the classic line “no-one here gets out alive” lending itself to their best-known biography. The hopeless idealism of the past couple of years was starting to seem hopeless and idealistic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzp...
Five to One
YouTube video by The Doors - Topic
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October 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
It's 1968! And the Doors' 'Five to One' sums up the dark tone, the classic line “no-one here gets out alive” lending itself to their best-known biography. The hopeless idealism of the past couple of years was starting to seem hopeless and idealistic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOzp...
So I read me more Roger Zelazny, thanks to all who gave suggestions. Two random observations…
There’s a whole lot of immortal and/or super-human characters, which can’t help but feel like wish fulfilment. Its odd to think he co-wrote a book with Dick, whose protagonists were always regular schlubs.
There’s a whole lot of immortal and/or super-human characters, which can’t help but feel like wish fulfilment. Its odd to think he co-wrote a book with Dick, whose protagonists were always regular schlubs.
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
So I read me more Roger Zelazny, thanks to all who gave suggestions. Two random observations…
There’s a whole lot of immortal and/or super-human characters, which can’t help but feel like wish fulfilment. Its odd to think he co-wrote a book with Dick, whose protagonists were always regular schlubs.
There’s a whole lot of immortal and/or super-human characters, which can’t help but feel like wish fulfilment. Its odd to think he co-wrote a book with Dick, whose protagonists were always regular schlubs.
It’s 1968! Were Black singers inherently raw and impassioned? Nina Simone was always poised and measured – if no less incendiary. Her albums were often wildly eclectic. While Aretha Franklin sang Soul and nailed it, Nina Simone defied genre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI...
Ain't Got No, I Got Life - Nina Simone
YouTube video by drMandinga
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October 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It’s 1968! Were Black singers inherently raw and impassioned? Nina Simone was always poised and measured – if no less incendiary. Her albums were often wildly eclectic. While Aretha Franklin sang Soul and nailed it, Nina Simone defied genre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI...
1st episode of Star Trek: Brave New Worlds.
Guys, seriously? The state of America today and you’re still doing the same smug liberal interventionist thing? How you’re able to help out the foreign primitives with your enlightened attitudes and superior firepower? Now I need to take that taste away.
Guys, seriously? The state of America today and you’re still doing the same smug liberal interventionist thing? How you’re able to help out the foreign primitives with your enlightened attitudes and superior firepower? Now I need to take that taste away.
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
1st episode of Star Trek: Brave New Worlds.
Guys, seriously? The state of America today and you’re still doing the same smug liberal interventionist thing? How you’re able to help out the foreign primitives with your enlightened attitudes and superior firepower? Now I need to take that taste away.
Guys, seriously? The state of America today and you’re still doing the same smug liberal interventionist thing? How you’re able to help out the foreign primitives with your enlightened attitudes and superior firepower? Now I need to take that taste away.
When you're *this* close.
October 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
When you're *this* close.
Four Eyed Gav has only recently returned from the astral plane after seeing Friday's spacey set by The Utopia Strong. Featuring Kavus Torbay (from Gong), Michael J York (ex of Coil) and Steve Davis. Yes, that Steve Davis!
Footage from Brighton, but another night.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-aS...
Footage from Brighton, but another night.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-aS...
The Utopia Strong - Brighton 2/4/23
YouTube video by James Sedge
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October 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Four Eyed Gav has only recently returned from the astral plane after seeing Friday's spacey set by The Utopia Strong. Featuring Kavus Torbay (from Gong), Michael J York (ex of Coil) and Steve Davis. Yes, that Steve Davis!
Footage from Brighton, but another night.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-aS...
Footage from Brighton, but another night.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-aS...
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It’s 1967! No, honest! It will never stop being hilarious that the first Velvet Underground album came out in the supposed Summer Of Love. ‘Venus In Furs’ is one of the tracks recorded in Hollywood, their presence in enemy territory spurring them on.
youtu.be/AwzaifhSw2c?...
youtu.be/AwzaifhSw2c?...
velvet underground - venus in furs
YouTube video by Hernan Melgarejo
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October 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It’s 1967! No, honest! It will never stop being hilarious that the first Velvet Underground album came out in the supposed Summer Of Love. ‘Venus In Furs’ is one of the tracks recorded in Hollywood, their presence in enemy territory spurring them on.
youtu.be/AwzaifhSw2c?...
youtu.be/AwzaifhSw2c?...