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Dig Out Your Soul
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Government tyranny in action 😭
Bluesky UK's warning screen, when you go to read DMs: You must complete age assurance in order to access this screen. The laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult before accessing certain features on Bluesky, like adult content and direct messaging.
November 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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My other recommendation would be two-parter The '80s / The '90s by Robbie Williams. It's an unrepresentatively good bit of a weird and unpopular album, and it goes into the history of Take That and the beginning of his solo career, from his perspective.

- youtu.be/g-vCOJ9d2oc
- youtu.be/0_AW-0gEtDA
Back cover of the CD for the album Rudebox by Robbie Williams.
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Very happy with my evening's work 🎃🕯️🎶
Pumpkin on my bookshelf, lit with a candle, carved to look like rock legend Arthur Brown. The same pumpkin, with the lights out.
November 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The ones that hurt are Sananda Maitreya's brilliant and infamous second album, Adamski's live recorded debut, and John Cale's potential best '80s album. (The hip-hop of the year also gets nitpicks from me.)
John Cale's cover art for the Words for the Dying album, an orchestral album mostly set to his arrangements of Dylan Thomas poetry. He stands in front of handwritten words, with orange text in front of him.
October 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Where can I buy Roger Cobb's low cut sweater from House (1985)?
William Katt in one of many outfits that has him halfway shirtless, in House (not the Japanese one).
October 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Two of Us is me and my brother's song. I'm at his open mic rn 😊 Might sing that tonight...
Me and my musician brother, acoustic guitar in his hand.
August 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Not kidding
August 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I miss Rosalía brand Coca-cola, that was delicious 😋
Rosalía holding a small can from her brand collaboration with Coca-Cola.
July 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Some intellectual on Twitter pissed me off, so today's soapbox bit comes in screencap form 🧐

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[@NEEMOAHTOAD, quote tweeting a post about material from a Backyardigans pilot being found:] You guys ever think about how 75% of films from the silent era have been lost to time and the only “lost media” the internet ever seems to recover are shit related to baby shows or like TV bumpers that were only lost cuz nobody gave a shit about them [Me, quote tweeting that on my account @YetChannel, 1 of 3:] People in online archival communities only look for slop..." type takes are such an only reading the headline understanding of the scene. Consensus-important stuff has a low chance of becoming available to hobbyists by process of attrition, because of what lives in the category. [2 of 3:] If something's gonna turn up by asking around enough, you need to have living people to ask, multiple hands that the wanted work passed through, and inexpensive replication. For something to slip through the cracks enough to be searched for is the other half of the Venn diagram. [3 of 3:] Anything that fails to hit that second circle is just a broadly wanted item, not specifically an internet community, however dedicated and online the people looking for it actually are. Weird that this is the grudge people have, when those hobby communities have *actual* drama. [Followup thread from me, 1 of 3:] As someone who's put archival work (especially transcription) into both master work and shovelware, it's interesting to try find distinguishing criteria between the two. I'm a casual folk songs fan, so I've given plenty of real craft, irreverent takes, and stock music my time. [2 of 3:] And shovelware really can give you so much at a glance. What's the classic Australian song list? If you'll accept TV show themes and ad jingles, alongside pop and folk tracks – this long segueing boogie-rock covers album from 2008 is happy to tell you. [Playlist on YouTube, as linked above: Switched On Oz - 36 Non-Stop Aussie Greats by Joe "Fingers" Webster & His River City Swaggies.] [3 of 3:] A strong example of something I can't recommend for audio pleasure, no sir. But also would never have found if I wasn't on the deep-dive, that I consider v. informative about the past. Would love to know if it was actually meant for classrooms, or just to sell at petrol stations.
June 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Btw, who decided on this interface?
Screencap of my Bluesky profile, as I see it. There's a button that says '1 label has been placed on this account'. Clicking it brings you to the pronouns box I find sorta handy to attach to my bio, though I wonder why a third party had to implement it. But that feature I brought on has an 'appeal' button—implying I could be subject to comparatively unflattering labels that I didn't choose for my account in future.
June 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Pub jukebox so far:
• (Get a) Grip on Yourself – The Stranglers
• Reward – The Teardrop Explodes
• Have a Nice Day – Stereophonics
• In the End – Linkin Park
Me in the pub garden, with a non-alcoholic shandy.
June 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Intrigued by that second suggestion. I always get super cheap ones like these, for the sake of this repeated point of failure.
Pink JVC over-ear headphones.
June 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Brewster's Millions
Movie poster, Richard Pryor sinking panicked into a pool of banknotes, while John Candy relaxes beside him.
June 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Looking it up, I'm surprised to see more than the local outlets covering the story. People figure it's the artwork here. It depicts the artist I think, rear-on nude in the middle-distance, in a field where watermelons are growing. Click if you want, don't if you don't:
soundcloud.com/zohara-music...
Top listings in a Duck Duck Go search for the phrased 'Oi Va Voi cancelled Bristol', showing links from the following: Jewish News, Bristol 24/7, Bristol Post, The Jewish Chronicle, The Times, article repost sites PressReader and Magzter, local entertainment listings site Headfirst, and the band's own Instagram post on the subject.
May 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Lovely trip to the Sound Check exhibition at The Pit today. Feeling of how history continues to happen, as you look through people's gig photos and documents. Lots of contributors, they really filled the walls of the place 🎶

(Picture from the bf.)
A-board with the exhibition poster, placed outside the entrance.
May 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Exercise for the reader is to think about: If we help the youth through challenging times through good advice/ mentorship/ social provision with our taxes, and there are still Gamergate types out there, what we'd see on the PowerPoint slide in the famous comic?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Pe...
Famous comic by Joel Pett, as described at the Wikipedia link.
May 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Now happy to share my nominations, which I did think were mostly pretty basic music nerd choices, and also leave out some of my favourite artists whose eligible work was unexciting.
Screencap of the form, where I've listed the following albums: Tokyo Rose by Van Dyke Parks Neither Fish Nor Flesh by Sananda Maitreya Disintegration by The Cure Paul's Boutique by Beastie Boys Batman (soundtrack) by Prince End of the Innocence by Don Henley What's That Noise? by Coldcut The Sensual World by Kate Bush Words for the Dying by John Cale
April 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Bluesky ate this one earlier, so:

I wondered what a live recording of someone's DJ mix from the '80s, released as their debut album, would sound like – in content and overall sound. You'd think the purpose would be to prove Adamski's the hardest in the game... Maybe he was, but this is very breezy.
Cover for Adamski's 1989 live debut album Liveandirect.
April 26, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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You know what I haven't put on in like four months?
Release poster for DJ Shadow's 2006 album The Outsider.
April 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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This is what I'm looking at myself:
www.discogs.com/master/89959...
Discogs screencap, showing the single releases for Autobahn. Three of the section of the list shown were released in the UK, each issued in 1974. While 1975 releases do exist, none shown on the site are specific to the UK.
April 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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What was the first video game that you truly loved?
Ren from the '90s cartoon Pirates of Dark Water fights an enemy in a jungle setting, in the first level of the awesome swashbuckling Sega Genesis platformer adaptation.
April 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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John Cale's Honi Soit is challenging at best, and mostly just unfinished sounding. And it bears this really half-assed Andy Warhol collage that they added a bunch of colours onto before putting out to customers.
Cover for John Cale's Honi Soit, with his monochrome name and face hovering over a photocopied looking passport, with overlays of pale blue, bright yellow, and salmon pink block colour.
April 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Got up to 2011 in the Sananda Maitreya album chronology.
Album cover for Sananda Maitreya's The Sphinx, superimposed over Homer's face in a screencap of a well-known scene of The Simpsons, where Bart is saying to him: "No offense, Homer but your half-assed underparenting was a lot more fun than your half-assed overparenting..." and Homer replies: "But I'm using my whole ass..." (Parenting is a theme on the album sometimed, but to be clear I'm talking about the writing process.)
April 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Having now read that, it does sound like an awesome watch 🙂

As for the Wikipedia article (always fun to find one you can fit in a whole screencap), is it simply incorrect that a series of twelve films exists then?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_M...
Screencap of the linked Wikipedia article, the part of note being the following sentence: The film is one of a series of twelve "visual symphonies" set to classical music by Murphy [citing references 3-5], and was advertised as the first dance film to be synchronized with a sound score [reference 5 again].
March 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I think that was a later decision. Wikipedia provides one motive here.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_o...
Screencap of the following paragraph, from the linked article: In a 2018 interview with Vulture, Joel expressed disappointment that the album did not yield any hit singles beyond the title track. He further attributed his decision to stop releasing pop albums to the lack of airplay. "The thing was, I put a lot of work into River of Dreams and it was as if the business had left me behind because there are substantial songs on that album that never went anywhere. So I said, 'What's the point of putting myself through writing and recording if it doesn't mean what it's supposed to mean out there in the world?'"
March 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM