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Will there be a PA? There are things I could attempt musically if so.

It being admitted that the moon landings were fake would also be a remarkable turn-up for the books.

It would be the most fucking awesome reveal if it turned out that dinosaurs were fake all along, they\ve been such a settled fixture of my world picture since I was tiny.

Yeah, I don’t think anyone regards Melda MDrummer as cutting-edge sonics. Shoegazeatronica seems a decent characterisation of those tunes in both intent and execution. Create a mood (sombre, wistful) and loiter there. And Somerset/Herefordshire is of course my spiritual home. I started playing...

After a month or so of Elden Ring I'm ready for an open world porn game

I assume somebody saw the stacked bodies in that Abu Ghraib photo and thought "hawt!"

It's about King Arthur, of all things. This bit's on Guinevere: Hard not to see her now as Lady Di or archetypally-adjacent: as robustly coiffed as tender hearted, with a weakness for sporty sort who makes away with prizes. Most tellings closet her in nunnery at close of play, love-weary if...

Had fun lately writing bits of something much bigger that doesn't exist yet and which I don't have to write the entirety of myself, just knocking out a bit here or there when I have the time, typing it straight into my phone. It's not all good but some of it is good, and as good as stuff I've...

At it again. An attempt at down-tempo late-80s "conscious" AOR - Sting, Kate Bush, John Martyn making a divorce album with Phil Collins. Everyone's been reading concerning articles in the New Internationalist, and is rehearsing for the next Amnesty benefit gig. It was a thing, a whole thing, and...

There once was a Bishop of Birmingham who buggered the boys while confirmingem All the gabbling of God so excited his rod that he pumped his episcopal spermingem There once was a vicar of Tring's who talked about God and such things but his real desire was a boy in the choir with an arse like...

"Barren Leaves" by Thom Gunn Spontaneous overflows of powerful feeling: Wet dreams, wet dreams, in libraries congealing.

The Dark Souls games let players leave messages inscribed in the landscape for others to read - “precious item ahead”, “strong foe ahead”, “why is it always poison” etc. - you have to pick nouns from a list and slot them into pre-prepared templates. A common annotation in the new Elden Ring...

Last one, a song about Cressida Dick, titled "Dick's out" Sonny Jim, we're just warming up Sonny Jim, we're just warming up Make you drink from the bitter cup Sweet little buttercup My boys are all with me I'm the bully of this town And if I'm going down, honey, Then, honey, you're going down...

The lines of division run down the middle of institutions - so, neither left nor right “controls” the media, but one tranche of the BBC is a liberal redoubt while another is a state propaganda machine. All institutions are bound in some way to serve and protect the status quo, and make juicy...

It does also generate a kind of impatience - "oh, fuck the vulnerable, we're just having a laugh" - which becomes part of the affective signature of edgy dissent.

Mixed feelings about this. Downstream of stupid culture war shit is actual state and street violence, but that doesn't mean the stupid culture war shit isn't stupid shit much more than it is, itself, violence. I guess there's a tendency to telescope the causal chain and just go for the people...

A significant vector of dissent today is insistence in the reality principle against the professional management of appearances. It used to be voguish on the left to denounce The Spectacle, but I think we’ve all trauma-bonded with it to some extent. Most of the things raised up as emblems of...

My hopes of being vindicated in never learning to drive by the replacement of human drivers by our new robot overlords have been cruelly dashed. At this rate I may have to cave in and book some lessons so I can spend hours doing something unfathomably dangerous to myself and others inside a...

Churches can be quite diverse, obviously apart from the all reciting the words of the Nicene Creed in synchronisation part. Also fairly voluntary association, apart from all the kids forced to go by their parents.