Bzangy Groink

Year: 2021

  • Albums Of The Year 2021

    What do I want? I WANT TO FUCKING DANCE! Furthermore, I want an album that skips between classic, honey-soaked Miami bass and the bestest electro of my wasted youth. Thank fuck FBC and Vhoor have delivered even more than that and given us the supreme, ultra, bastard apex PARTY ALBUM of 2021. If this doesn’t…

  • Crimbo In The Studio

  • My New Startups

    Marketing meeting: “Just putting these out there, moving forward I think there’s a possibility of high SEO synergy allied with full-spectrum organic penetration of that app my kids are always on, the little twats.”

  • Tell Me

  • Some Indian

    Just got this charming comment on my Your Woman video: After a lifetime of this shit, I am not surprised.

  • Baby Dinosaur

    I just had a proper Abe Simpson hypernap and… …I had a pet diplodocus! Like this: Diplo was wearing lil woollen knitted jimjams to keep him warm so I very gently turned him onto his back in order to access his belly for rubs by. He very much appreciated this, making high trilling sounds and…

  • Does Anyone Miss Halt And Catch Fire As Much As I Do?

    I need to watch the whole series again with someone who gets it. But most people who are old enough to get it stopped feeling emotions two decades ago. And the people with emotions are too young to really get it.

  • My First NFT

    Here’s is my first NFT offering, the first person to offer me ONE MILLION SPOUNDS receives the PNG file. I promise I haven’t copied it much. And pngs are un-copyable anyway. Also, there’s no NFT as I cba. It’s yours in Zuck’s EvilCloud FOREVER. #bargain #HighArt #FuckNFTs

  • The Best TV Shows Ever

    At the minute, this is a bare list. If I ever have time, I’ll flesh it out with them new-fangled hyperlinks and maybe an under construction gif. Ladies and genitals: BEST TV EVER LIST 2021 EDIT – Charles Smith very kindly converted this to an IMDB list. Thank you, Charlie!

  • Last Ever Palfrey

    Tom, the head honcho, was at work and told me the whole business is moving out of town. I felt quite sad, don’t know why. They’re not closing, just re-locating. I guess it’s because it feels like another nail in the coffin of Derby’s city centre shopping/dining culture. BUT it’s not shutting… just moving! STAY…

  • First Shoot With Iyisha

    Although I’ve known her for years from Mosh and other Derby nightlife escapades, this is the first shoot we’ve ever done. She’s a natural, the photosession just powered by, looking forward to working with her again.

  • BILLY CORGAN AND HIS MASSIVE ORGAN

    Is there anything funnier than the petulant pettiness of pet rockstars? I watched this earlier: After I finished giggling at two grown men essentially saying the other smelt of pooh, I pondered something I’ve thought for years. Why isn’t there a Viz strip about Billy Corgan? In particular, I always thought there should have been…

  • The Curse Of Atemporality In Tech-Saturated Late-Capitalist Cultures

    Consider… … the sea of muddy kids in the crowd, a sea in movement as well as density. So many humans, packed into a small space together, bobbing around every which way. Shit-eating grins, sodden jumpers. And not one phone in sight. Don’t worry, this isn’t some Back To The Land, Look Up-type post, entreating…

  • Ladybird Invasion

    I saw some familiar round shapes on one of my windows and thought, ‘Oh, there must be a little nest or something.’ Came downstairs, looked at my patio windows and… loads of ladybirds! I don’t know why they all came out at one go, I’ve never seen that happen before. Is this another climate change…

  • Tory Councillor Is A Nazi

    This Tory councillor is a Nazi, an actual fascist. Hitler-loving scum. But you won’t hear about it on the TV and radio 24/7 like the campaign against Corbyn that the Guardian and their Blairite friends orchestrated. Funny that, eh?

  • Telex – Haven’t We Met Somewhere Before?

    I only know about Telex cos my mate who worked at WH Smiths with me lent me their album ‘Birds And Bees’ (called ‘Sex’ everywhere else, apparently). I knew nothing about the band, it was 1982, who knew anything about musicians back then? If they weren’t in Smash Hits or on the Oxford Road Show…

  • HOW SMALL IS ANNA KENDRICK?

    Currently watching Ben Affleck opposite Anna Kendrick in The Accountant: He’s either the size of a small house or she’s the size of a large cat. WTH, his head is the size of HER ENTIRE TORSO. They wouldn’t need trick shots / CGI if they played Gandalf and Bilbo, fuck me. WHAT IS GOING ON?

  • On Sleep Deprivation

    deep breath So, I’ve not been sleeping much because I’ve had a weird bastard cold. I’m getting around 3 hours a night. This morning I woke with bad jaw gland pain at around 6am and went to take 2 paracetamols and 2 ibuprofens. I use different shapes to help me differentiate which is which. But this…

  • Loach On Starmer’s Treachery

    The people who fell for the lies of the Blairites about Corbyn were just being good little Guardian readers, you can’t blame them for not knowing about politics. As one of my fave folk tunes says: Raise the scarlet standard highBeneath its folds we’ll live and dieThough cowards flinch and traitors sneerWe’ll keep the red…

  • Just One Platonic Cornetto

    My proposition today: the idea of a Cornetto is far better than the reality. Or should I say, the ideal of a Cornetto is something that cannot be matched by the faint, 4D shadows that our universe’s Cornettos exist within. It’s hot. You imagine a Cornetto. You imagine unpeeling it, hoping the little chocolatey end…

  • Baby Me

    I don’t know if the below link will embed or not, let’s give it a go: https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/858542 Ahh, dang it. Anyway, have a click to see me with HAIR and a very high voice. (By the way, the text below is not accurate, don’t believe any of it.)

  • When I Invented Silent Gigs / Discos

    Have a look at this interview from March 1997: (Source: New York Times) If you look up Silent Disco on Wikipedia, you get this: In May 2002 artist Meg Duguid hosted Dance with me… a silent dance party at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago where she created an outdoor club installation complete with velvet ropes and glow rope…

  • Kate (2021)

    So, I just watched ‘Kate,’ an action flick on Netflix (not bad, I’d give it a solid 8.5/10) and I thought I’d pop and see the score. Hmmm… seems quite low… I wonder why? Then I see this review: There’s a load of reviews like this, sometimes the woman-hating is better disguised than this, mostly…

  • Class Rank (2017)

    “Annihilating an ecosystem for political appearances is not my modus operandi.” So, how do you know when you’ve just watched a great film? Not a good film but a great film? Film is such an accretion of magical sleight-of-hand, such an array of hidden talents that I think you have to feel it. In your…

  • American Heritage

    White North Americans have an identity vacuum that manifests as claiming to be Scottish, Irish, Welsh or whatever without any actual connection to those places, cultures or even recent lineage. It always turns out to be an ancestor fifteen rows back that they home in on and ignore the rest of the DNA mixed in…

  • Back On My 3D Rendering Bullshit Again

    Enjoy! Nick it for your desktop pic if you like!

  • Why Your iPhone Should Cost £44 Million Pounds

    I was chatting with my niece about the London Science Museum and I said that my fave exhibit is the Cray X-MP. She’s just got a brand-new iPhone 12 so I thought it might be fun to compare their stats. This is the result: I’m quite surprised Apple don’t charge that much.. 😛

  • Rage Of The Gammons!

  • Sainsburys Funds Hate Speech

    Join Stop Funding Hate and help fight the scum monetising racism.

  • Olly Who Ha

    The *only* reason #OllyAlexander shouldn’t be the new #DoctorWho is that he should be too busy playing #MartinGore in a long-overdue #DepecheMode biopic. He’s a great actor AND singer and even looks like young Martin, he’d be #PerfectCasting

  • Helios 44M 58mm f2 Test Shots

    Check out the gallery above for some Helios 44M 58mm f2 test shots. First impressions: it’s way sharper than I expected and I could easily become re-seduced by the simplicity of on-barrel focus and aperture controls. Putting the EM1 into Manual mode and judging shots by the lightmeter also made me very nostalgic. The Helios…

  • Skater Girl (2021)

    I don’t often give out 9 stars out of 10 but ‘Skater Girl’ thoroughly deserves each one. If, like me, you’re part of the South Asian diaspora, you’ve grown up watching Bollywood. I’m very used to the feel-good films, the corny-but-cute rom-coms, the classics with their high drama and soaring scores. ‘Skater Girl,’ though it…

  • Tomboy (2017)

    I was expecting this to be quite throwaway and was really only drawn in by Weaver and Rodriguez. But then, up pop Shalhoub, Lapaglia etc. ~ there are no bad performances in this film. That being said it veers between B-movie with an A-movie cast and arthouse, Looper-esque weirdness. That’s not an insult as I…

  • Look What I Got…

  • Garden May 2021

  • Black And White Garden

  • Orange And Synfs

  • Fairchild Semiconductor On Bandcamp!

    And it’s part of my complete discography on there! 🙂

  • New Album On Spotify!

    Enjoy!

  • New Album!

    https://music.apple.com/gb/album/fairchild-semiconductor/1569165293 Out on Apple Music now… other sites sooooon…

  • Coming Soon…

  • IDF Murder 17 Year Old Obaida Jawabra

    Ramallah, May 17, 2021—Israeli forces shot and killed a 17-year-old Palestinian boy today in the southern West Bank.  Obaida Akram Abdurahman Jawabra, 17, was shot dead by Israeli forces with live ammunition today around 8 p.m. local time in Al-Arroub refugee camp located near the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Obaida sustained a…

  • Framing The Discourse / Lying By Omission

    There was a huge march in London today. Against Israel’s brutal attacks on civilians in Gaza and in defence of the Palestinians. But if you just glanced at the front page of the BBC, this is what you’d see: When you click through, THEN and only then, do you get this: Thousands of people have…

  • Israel Destroys Associated Press Building

    The strike came about an hour after the Israeli military ordered people to evacuate, according to reporting from The Associated Press. The building also housed other offices and residential apartments. The senior advisor to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu told NPR that Hamas military intelligence used the building, but provided “no evidence to back the claim.”…

  • Asterpoops

  • Fight The Power

    I just sent this to a mate: Here’s an example of the idiotic Tory raving on IMDB: Pure racism, pure sexism, pure flagshaggin, Brexiteer, Trumpet bullshit. These are the idiots who complain about black people in fantasy films or books – dragons, no problem. BLACK PEOPLE – HOW DARE THEYYY? Similarly, military action-type films like…

  • Five Years

    I can’t believe it’s five years today since my Daddy died. The time seems both too long and too short. I feel like too much time has passed and his presence is fading from this world, which feels horribly unfair. I also feel it’s too little time and I still feel raw in my loss.…

  • Kill The Bill

    A study by the Human Rights Watch variously accused 83 governments of having “physically assaulted journalists, bloggers, and protesters… arbitrarily banned or broken up protests… enacted vague laws and measures that criminalize spreading alleged misinformation or other coverage of COVID-19… [and used] counterterrorism and other measures pre-dating the pandemic, to arbitrarily arrest, detain, and prosecute critics.” In…

  • Check Out These Science Fiction Authors

    So, I did a list for a mate of SF authors I think everyone should read. I tried to stay away from the obvious greats (like Iain M. Banks) and very huge names but a few slipped through, of course.Please take the time to check out these authors if you love science fiction: Justina Robson…

  • Get Out There!

    doing leftism exclusively on the internet gives you brainworms. like yeah read theory, talk to people on social media, but at some point you have to go outside. please. the things you say and believe about politics have repercussions in the real world and you have to live in that world to understand what those…