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Sayonara, Japan. Thanks for all your kindness, your sento, your seafood, your fast trains and your warm toilet seats.
A picture of the many, many vermillion/orange Torii gates at the Fushimi Inari Shrine, Kyoto
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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Dude!!!
Autumn at Mt Fuji. An urban landscape of playing fields and light or sound arrays, trees in autumn colours, houses and factories along a train line with the perfect volcano cone of Mt Fuji rising majestically in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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So I met Pepper the mini hedgehog at a hedgehog cafe
Wasp Summer in a blue-brown jumper, rust skirt and brown felt hat holding a cute white mini Hedgehog called Pepper in one hand at a Tokyo Hedgehog Cafe
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Greetings from Shibuya.
Wasp Summer in Shibuya. I look real. Shibuya looks like a background but is very real. It just looks like this.
November 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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In Matsumoto, I ate at Yakitori Toritomi on Nawatedori, a shopping street famous for its frog shrine and many frog statues. Owner Lei and her friend Shining Head told
me I was punk for travelling solo and kawaii for my travelling clothes.
Lei who runs the excellent Yakitori Toritomi on Matsumoto's Nawatedori street cooking liver and heart yakitori for me. She is lovely. Nawatedori (frog shrine street) in Matsumoto at night with single story old-school Isakaya and shops lit by lanterns which spill a golden light onto the street The anime frog statue at the start of Nawatedori in Matsumoto near the Black Matsumoto Castle. Matsumoto Castle by night reflected in the moat. It is a ridiculously scenic and imposing black and white 5-tiered fortified castle on a moat with big heavy gates on 2 sides. Would have been hell to attack, but easy to defend.
October 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Day 2 in Japan and I have seen wonders already.
2611m Mt Okudainichi in the Chubusangaku National Park in the Northern Japanese alps. This imposing grey granite peak is dusted in snow under a perfect Delft blue sky. A puff of cloud, like smoke rolls in at the head of the legendary Sea Of Cloud. In front is a wide field of pristine white snow and between it and the mountain is a stand of dark green alpine trees including pines, beeches and cedars. The view from the Kurobe Cable Car over the lake formed by the Kurobe Dam in a deep, sunlit valley surrounded by 3 astonishing granite peaks with light snow on the crags. The water is a deep jade and pine trees and yellow flowers climb up the sides of the valley. Double rainbow over the outlet spray of the Kurobe Dam across some frankly astonishing lower peaks speckled with beech and other alpine trees turning autumnal orange Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori designed Takasugi-an (the "Too Tall Teahouse") perched 6m high on chestnut trunks with no discernible way of getting up to the first platform which leads to a cheerful yellow plaster room with a jaunty Studio Ghibliesque black metal roof and chimney. It is ringed by Buddhist memorial places and near the Suwa Grand Shrine, apparently the oldest Shinto shrine complex in Suwa, near Chino, Japan.
October 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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OMG It's working!!
View from an aeroplane across the wing to the tarmac and other planes as we taxi towards takeoff
October 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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A huge metal tureen containing liquid cheese as a hotel buffet snack option
October 26, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Australia represent! Many absolutely critical albums for me but these two above all:
Clouds' Penny Century (think Breeders/Sundays/Lush) and You Am I's Sound As Ever (think Replacements, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden)
Cover of 1991 album Penny Century by amazing Australian power pop band Clouds. Art is 4AD like deep purple mottled background with an abstract brass washer and 80's comic-book lettering in purple, green and white The cover of 1993 album Sound As Ever by awesome Australian rock 3-piece You Am I. Produced by Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. The cover features a live black and white photo of bassist, drummer and guitarist under stage lights and a slightly 60s graphic cover design with You Am I in red and Sound As Ever in green
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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A caption says, "This (participating in strike action) is the most attractive hobby a man can have according to women" above a photo of 3 men in warm jackets, beanies and German verdi union fluorescent yellow vests. The one in the red jacket is waving a verdi flag in front of a board that says Warnstreik!
September 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Me reading yr posts
A Kessar Lyre, a stringed instrument made by putting a bridge between two animal horns grafted onto a human skull with hair, and tensioning strings from the bridge through the eye sockets. In the Music Instrument Museum in Málaga, Spain.
August 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The Wiki summary for Lawrence Vavra is different to the actual page which was edited to omit artists association with Blink 182, Air, Infected Mushroom and Steve Aoki.

Wonder if it's the same dude? One could bolster ones business interests with AI slop streams.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrenc...
Wiki summary for Lawrence Vavra which was edited on the actual page to omit artists Blink 182, Air, Infected Mushroom and Steve Aoki.
August 15, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Interestingly, the name on the credits is Lawrence Vavra. I found the wikipedia for media entrepreneur, private equity investor and Bay Area bar/restaurant owner of the same name. The heavily-edited page omits older references to Air, Blink 182, Infected Mushroom and Steve Aoki. Same guy?
Lawrence Vavra is composer and producer of a likely AI slop album titled Don't Break Easy and credited to The Horrors. It isn't I found a wikipedia entry for a 'media entrepreneur and private equity investor' and 'Bay Area bar and restaurant owner' of the same name whose heavily-edited page omits older references to associations with Air, Blink 182, Infected Mushroom and Steve Aoki. Wonder if they're the same?
August 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I found this EP of bland, likely AI-generated pop slop on #Tidal purporting to be by UK band @thehorrors.co.uk and indexed under their name as a new release. It isn't them. It's released by a company called Fifty Five Music whose sales pitch is 'making music creation accessible'. Or fraudulent.
An EP of bland, likely AI generated pop slop with the title Don't Break Easy from a company called Fifty Five Music purporting to be from UK band The Horrors but definitely isn't and indexed under their name on the Tidal streaming service. Fraudulent.
August 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The one really good photo I made at the Alhambra in the Nasrid Palace last week. Astonishing as the first time I saw it, the detail, craft and devotion is dizzying
Detail of extraordinary pale coloured honeycomb plaster work in the Nazrid Palace of the Alhambra, with an equally remarkable carved dark wooden ceiling above it to the left.
August 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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This possibly the most intense musical instrument I have ever seen at Music Instrument Museum #Malaga #metal🤘
The Kessar Lyre, a stringed instrument made of a human skull and goat horns with the strings strung from a rod between the horns through the eye sockets. Found at the Music Instrument Museum Malaga's prehistoric music room
August 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Is #Berlin ready for #TheMostWutheringHeightsDayEver flashmob? Join me today at 14:00 at Görlitzer Park to learn how to Wuther. With love and gratitude to our Wuthermothers #Shambush and our goddess Kate Bush.
Musician Kate Bush in a still from the iconic red dress video for her song Wuthering Heights, a pouting brunette with red lips, green eyeshadow and flowers at her neck and temple
July 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Can't wait to play with my band tonight. It's been a hell of a working week and I need to sing harmony.
A poster for Berlin codmic Americana band The Jolie Blondes. It shows four musicians sitting in front of a wall of guitars
July 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Tidal gave me this as the next song. New to me

youtu.be/oFHixodeO8w?...
Candy Claws song Fell In Love (At The Water) screenshot from Tidal of green and brown children's illustration artwork
July 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Enjoying the Berlin Balkonia Summer life.
A flaked blue-painted chair and a pair of feet on a blue cushion are framed by lots of leafy, green tomato plants and clematis on a Berlin balcony late on a long Summer's evening. It's relaxing in Balkonia.
July 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Hot Bruce Springsteen with a singlet and powerful muscular arms playing the high strings on a telecaster while pointing the guitar at the sky
June 1, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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It is but with Currywurst, not Döner Kebab
A picture of a red Hela Gewürz Curry Ketchup bottle on a white background
May 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Jeff Tweedy from Chicago band Wilco speaking with a white speech bubble
May 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Unexpected fandom crossover with two Jedi in the queue for Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii yesterday. @kidaphex1975.bsky.social and I got suitably prepared and rocked the fuck out to Echoes and One Of These Days. I hope the young Jedis enjoyed themselves.
A young female and male Jedi in line at the movies to see Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii. She is wearing a light saber and monk's robe. He is wearing a white tunic and bandolier and has a shaved head. They are adorable.
April 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Highly recommend documentary A Day Without Women showing at cinemas now about the Icelandic National Women's Strike in 1975
Screenshot of a still from Icelandic documentary A Day Without Women/Ein Tag Ohne Frauen, about how the 1975 national women's strike or "day off" was organised. Inspiring! It shows a middle aged woman with short brown hair and pearl necklace standing near a bus turning and thinking about what she helped achieve and what's happened since
April 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM