ah ok. Not the glossy 80s pop stylings of Crooked Mile though.

We are half-way through House of Cards series 3 (I know, the last people in the universe etc. and we only finished Breaking Bad 6 months ago..) and the drop-off is starting we fear.

I posted a ‘dump your cultural crud here’ a few weeks ago, and from that offered the Netflix drama Another Life which I bailed on after about 40 mins of lazy and derivative plotting and ‘come ons’… however wish […]

Bought Word 8 or 9 and then a subscriber. Even had my memories of Cramps shows published as part of the Lux obit.

As my work intersects with topics discussed here, always prefer to hide under my moniker here […]

Poor/contrary Cathal as Microdisney are also very poorly represented, We Hate You South African B…..s and Crooked Mile are prominent by their absence.

‘Obsessing over the 2.57% of our needs not met by Spotify’ – Afterword t-shirt.

A bonkers spoken word piece about a night on the town that goes epically wrong:

Worth thinking about whether CD players will still be made in 2030, that’s perhaps pessimistic but by 2040 (19 years away) it’s a good question. In 2000 you could still buy videos in HMV, the last VCR was made in 2016.

True that. B-side also ace.

Well that is wierd @bamber as all i can see are the 3 Fiction albums. What country are you in – I didn’t think that Spotify was that country-specific anymore. This could be a bit like when I order my dad’s online […]

Well actually Rolled Gold and the Complete Parlophone recordings from The Action are on there. So we need specifics rather than blanket statements.

That is a biggie, well biggie round here at least.

A few

De La Soul – want to reconstruct the history of golden age rap? There will be a big hole as 3 Feet High and Rising and De La Soul Are Dead are both NOS.
Comsat Angels -nothing past the first three on […]

I know virtually no Spanish other than by osmosis, but it didn’t diminish my enjoyment. It’s a tremendously slow and painstaking burn, but the payoff is great.

Ah yes -‘number 11’ not ‘1’ and the Bernie Gunther is 12 not 2. Corrections corner.

Really interested to hear from people who watched the TV series of City and the City without reading the novel first – could you work out anything about what was going on?

Not many people – apart from historic performances – wanting to go back to vinyl for classical. I’m munching my way through the complete Sibelius symphonies at the moment in a CD boxset from Warners (Helsinki […]

Adam Curtis is a reliable source of instrumental goodies and this beautiful piece from Aphex Twin is from his latest magnum opus Can’t Get You Out of My Head: