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Essential Listening: The Best Albums Of 2021
Amidst the threat of yet another lockdown, cancelled Christmas parties, the prospect of me spending my first Christmas ever alone and potentially no football on Boxing Day (which is a defacto referendum on whether greed for the few is more … Continue reading
Posted in Essential Listening
Tagged Aphex Twin, B12, Bandcamp, Berlin, Blade Runner, Bodytronixxx, Booka Shade, Boxing Day, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Can, Covid, DJ Sprinkles, Early Transmissions 1991-95, Easy To Build Hard To Destroy, Essential Listening, Floating Points, Gage, Gayest Tits & Greyest Shits: 1998-2017 12 Inches & One-Offs, Gnod, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, LFO, LGHTR KRU: Nite Mode Vol.1, Live In Stuttgart '75, London Symphony Orchestra, Merry Christmas, Michael Karoli, Midtown 120 Blues, MMM (Errorsmith & Fiedel), On The Edge, Pharaoh Sanders, Pink Floyd, Planet Love Vol. 1, Pool, Promises, Skee Mask, Soulseek, Spacemen 3, Spirtualised, Squarepusher, SS Hacienda, Steve Jobs is scum to us audiophiles, Stockhausen, Sun City Girls, Tago Mago, Tangerine Dream, Terre Thaemlitz, Tresor 30, Underground Resistance, Vaporwave, wearing a garish shell suit while on acid and ecstasy, Will Long
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My wee Black Friday hypocrisy
So I received Black Friday emails titled ‘check out our great Black Friday discounts’ in early November this year. What’s more grating, the slow creep of Black Friday becoming a month long event, or the Christmas fanatics who start counting … Continue reading
Posted in Odds & Ends
Tagged Anti-consumerism, Black Friday, Bonkers Italian man, Christmas tat in early autumn, Covid, Diversity, Egalitarianism, Electric pepper grinder - USB rechargeable botches!, Email circulars can get tae fuck, Hypocrite, Idealism, Inclusion, Junk mail, Mellowed, Narcissism, Obese cat versus the cat flap, Protect the NHS - shop online, Small print semantics, Socialism, Stay at home - avoid crush injuries, The Art Of Easing, Trotskyist conviction, Veganism, Yearly Sony OLED ballers
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Sons Of Anarchy is perfect background TV
Let me state right away that Sons Of Anarchy isn’t terrible, just flawed. Partly it’s a victim of heightened expectations, which explain why I tried it to begin with. I saw it regularly mentioned alongside the gold standard of television … Continue reading
Posted in TV
Tagged Baltimore, Basil Exposition, Better Call Saul, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan and Danny Dyer in the same paragraph!, Breaking Bad, California, Covid, Danny Dyer, FBI, Gus Fring, IRA, Katey Sagal, Mad Men, Married With Children, MC, Michael K Williams, Mommie Dearest, Netflix, Omar Little, Roger Sterling, Ron Pearlman, Shakespearian delivery, Shampoo, Sons Of Anarchy, Stockholm Syndrome, The Sopranos, The Wire, TV, Warren Beaty
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Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard 