Bzangy Groink

Year: 2023

  • Albums Of The Year 2023

    As ever, I’ve had to whittle this list down to a manageable twenty from over one hundred albums that could have made it. It was a fucking good year for new music! Ooh, and this time, the album links to where you can hear it, every platform, one click. Just to be on this list…

  • Saturday 16th December Derby Ceasefire Now Protest

    Saturday we assembled at the Spot, marched through town and then had a demo outside the Council House. The weather was with us and everyone was in good spirits even though were were a few EDL knobheads we passed on the way. Click above to see all the pics!

  • Derby Banner Drop CEASEFIRE NOW Protest 10/12/23

    Show’s how a small demo can have a big impact – we got loads of beeps of support from passing cars. Thankfully, the rain held off till the demo had finished, perfect timing.

  • No Ceasefire, No Vote! 7/12/23

    Tonight, we went and picketed at the Council House, hoping to get councillors to stand up for Gaza and vote for an immediate ceasefire. It was bloody freezing and I got soaked. Thank fuck my OM-1 and lens are both weather-sealed. They both took a drenching tonight, as you can tell from the pics above.…

  • Israel Has Destroyed 98,000 Civilian Buildings In Gaza

    Go to the interactive aerial map here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67565872 See for yourself what genocide looks like. What dropping two Hiroshima’s worth of bombs on a tiny piece of land looks like. “Satellite images commissioned by the BBC reveal the extent of destruction across Gaza, showing that nearly 98,000 buildings may have suffered damage. The satellite images…

  • Israel Resumes Genocide, With Full Backing Of US and UK

    Well, thanks to our cancerous Western govs, the genocide is back on. Yes, they “paused” a genocide. I wonder if Israel will be able to murder 50,000 civilians by Christmas. I’m sure they’ll try their best, urged on by #GenocideJoe, of course. I mean, it’s only brown people, after all. Our lives obviously aren’t worth…

  • Meike 35mm f0.95 Test Shots

    These shots are completely unedited, straight out of the camera, no cropping, not even contrast / exposure tweaked. The Meike is a cool little lens, if you’re an MFT owner, give it a go!

  • Garden November 2023

    I needed some quiet, gentle time today so I took these pics.

  • CEASEFIRE NOW! – Derby Protest 19/11/23

    Today, Robbie and I thought we’d missed the demo (I couldn’t walk much so he waited patiently at The Spot with me) and then, BOOM, it arrived and we all piled in the Derbion. You can see from the pics above that some rascally kids had set of flares inside so it was smoky but…

  • I Stand Corrected: Israel is JUST AWESOME!

    GAZA, 15 November 2023 – “Today I visited the Gaza Strip to meet with children, their families and UNICEF staff. What I saw and heard was devastating. They have endured repeated bombardment, loss and displacement. Inside the Strip, there is nowhere safe for Gaza’s one million children to turn.  “In Gaza, more than 4,600 children have reportedly been killed, with nearly 9,000 reportedly injured.  Source:…

  • When It’s Okay To Slaughter Thousands Of Babies

    I posted my vid from Saturday’s Gaza Ceasefire demo on YT and, predictably, got told to go to Palestine / stop supporting terrorism / it’s a complex situation I don’t know about. 2023: when there are apparently two sides to murdering babies. This is how much Israel has poisoned the discourse – we’re *discussing* whether…

  • SAT 11 NOVEMBER 2023: NATIONAL MARCH FOR PALESTINE – CEASEFIRE NOW!

    Today, I marched alongside hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who want to save the lives of people they’ve never met. The police say 300,000 so I’d say that probably means there was a million of us, judging by how they’ve lied about the last 39 years of marches I’ve been on. We want an…

  • Derby Silent Vigil For Palestine 5/11/23

    Another weekend, another global wave of protest against the genocide currently being carried out by Israel on Gaza. And yet more Israel-appeasement from the Western leaders. NEVER forget the names of the cunts who supported the murder of innocent babies. Never forget the glee of Sunak, Braverman and their ilk, who couldn’t wait to bow…

  • Derby Palestine Solidarity Protest 28/10/23

    I wasn’t well enough to do the march but I still made it to the demo outside the council house. The feeling was different from the last protest; this felt more desperate, more crucial. I guess because every new morning brings new horrors from Gaza, new atrocities carried out by Israel that are directly politically…

  • Halloweeeeeen Bzangy Groink DJing Playlist 26/10/23

    ooooOOOOoooohhhh! Halloween Special Groink, hence waaaay more old tunes than normal cos I wanted to play a slew of ancient spooky / gothy tunes. Cos Goths own Halloween. Top spooooky tune tonight was October Country’s 1968 bop, ‘My Girlfriend Is A Witch’: Tonight, youse hoird: Artist Title Year Niji Sounds of the City 2023 aDUBta…

  • Mastosilence = Death

    Mast has this reputation of being left wing. But the silence in my Home feed about the war crimes being committed against Gaza at this very moment shows the lie of that reputation. I guess liberals will liberal and follow their respective media’s hysteria to the letter. If you posted about the horrors that Hamas…

  • Sad Girl In Birds

    On the way home from seeing my Mummy, I popped into Birds at the Oakwood Precinct as I fancied some of their sausage rolls. The girl who served me was around 5″2′, nineteen, maybe twenty and quiet. Not in an unfriendly manner, just reserved. My first job was on a till, I know how much…

  • Free Palestine Derby Demo 14/10/23

    Today, I went on the local demo in support of the innocent people of Gaza and against the war crimes Israel is currently carrying out against them: Israel may be on the verge of a “mass ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians in Gaza in the wake of the bloody Hamas attack, a United Nations expert has warned. … Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on human…

  • Goth Garden October 2023

    There was some lovely sunshine the other day.

  • End The Occupation

  • These Things Happen – The Sarah Records Story

    I got my copy of this book yesterday and, being a massive fucking bighead, the first thing I did was skim where I was quoted. Omg, I’m such a twat. BUT I think the rest of the book will be EXCELLENT. If you’re an ancient #C86 #Indiepop fan, then this is the #SarahRecords book for…

  • Cinematography

    Soo… … I was watching #AGoodDayToDieHard and I noticed that the cinematography was beautiful. Seriously. Any frame you pause looks like an intricately composed and lit still. The mix of ambient, reflected, hair and edge lighting is soooo well done. And then there are the scenes where lowlight is balanced against club lasers, distant car…

  • Sheroes (2023)

    This film is exactly as good as any of the Fast & Furious films, Expendables or Megs 1&2. It is WAAY more fun and watchable than the last Jurassic Blah film. It is not as good as The Bourne Identity or Oceans Thirteen. It is not trying to be The Bicycle Thieves or The 400…

  • Bzangy Groink DJing Playlist 28/9/23

    HOOOOOOWWWAAAAAHHH! Tonight’s TOP NEW TUNE was En Sista by Swedish wonders, Nära Döden. Here it is: And if you don’t like that, you smell of TORY SEWAGE. Tonight, youse hoird: Artist Title Album Year Duration Gum Minor Setback Minor Setback 2023 03:29 LUMER Nightmare Without End Nightmare Without End 2023 04:05 Palehound The Clutch Eye…

  • Electric Daisy DJing 22/9/23

    I had such a fun time on Friday night, DJing at Electric Daisy in Derby. Although it had pissed down earlier on, we were lucky with the weather and it was a fine, slightly chilly night. Both Hexial and James Glew did cool sets of very catchy, flowingly melodic bleepy bloopiness. And I did my…

  • What Took You So Long?

    Sooo… as it was getting near the end of S11E10 of #Futurama (All The Way Down), I thought… they’re not, are they? And, yep, they did. They copied one of the plot points from @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz #GregEgan’s #PermutationCity which came out in 1994. So, my theory that #ScienceFiction moves from hardcore to mainstream in around thirty…

  • Bring Back The Blitz Spirit (Of Taxation)

    The current biggest con is the disparity between the 1% and the rest of us. Upper-middle-class people are brainwashed into thinking they’re the 1%. They’re not – they’re paupers compared to the actual people ruining the planet. The clue is in the number. The 99% us need to join together and remove 99.9% of the…

  • Capitalism Is Poverty, Socialism Is The Answer

    You know those capitalist evangelists, those disruptive entrepreneurs that insist that capitalism will fix everything and we’ll be in this amazing future of AI-generated infinite wealth er… for.. everyone. Apparently, they’re full of shit.

  • No Fancy-Schmancy For Me!

    So, I was trying to book a fancy restaurant and nearly committed till I saw they had a dress code which said no sports clothing / trainers. I have an abdominal hernia which means I have to wear certain types of top for comfort, polo shirts usually. And the oedema in my feet means that…

  • Greg Egan – Scale

    I just finished Scale by Greg Egan and, as usual, I’m left with a hurty brain but also an intriguing story. So, yeah, wild premise that’s not fantasy it’s (very) Hard SF. Here’s a link to The Science Of Scale. (WARNING – heavy physics in that linky.) So there’s all that but the actual story…

  • Bzangy Groink DJing Playlist 31/8/23

    The best new song was a WHOLE ALBUM tonight and that was the magical, wonderful, scintillating, shimmying, jazz-handsing Subspace Rhapsody by the cast of Strange New Worlds / crew of the Starship Enterprise. I cannot emphasise how much I love this episode. I’ve watched it four times now and each time, I notice more little…

  • Mastodon Is Full Of Twats

    I posted this lol: And I got this amazing reply from a twat: Name redacted because, let’s face it, this person must have a tough enough life already, misunderstanding everything the universe throws at them. Fuck me, Mastodon is full of absolute cunts, innit?

  • Fuck The World

    How I know I’m now officially a Grumpy Old Git: I find the medicalisation of every aspect of human behaviour within a previously normal spectrum to be increasingly odious and ridiculous. And, obviously, I blame American culture and, specifically Big Pharma. The more “patients,” the more pills, the more profits. Wilhelm Reich was right: how…

  • Babylon (2022)

    I was curious about Babylon. So many reviews utterly panned it. Said it was confused, shouty, simplistic and, most damningly, not as good as the films it referenced. Twenty minutes in, I was hooked and in that mindstate which is a bit like the stares. If I’d been at the cinema, I would have been…

  • Only Bops In The Building

    Theme tunes lately, by which I mean the last ten years, have been poor to nonexistent. But I never skip the theme tune to Only Murders In The Building because it’s a bop. So I googled the composer… … it’s Siddhartha Khosla who was also in Goldspot who made one of my fave ever albums,…

  • Bzangy Groink DJing Playlist 27/7/23

    Tonight’s best new track was Close The App by Elijah x Jammz: And you also hoird: Artist Title Masta Ace Certified Steve Reich Six Marimbas Still Mountains New Hampsterdam Seven Impale HUNTER Focus Hocus Pocus Kvelertak 1985 Young shushu Shushu Champloo (feat. Big L) Post Animal Aging Forest Blksmiith Satellite from days of old, lead…

  • Porn

    Do you ever see a porn pic and instead of being aroused (or maybe alongside it), your breath is literally taken away by the person’s absolute, unstoppable, punch-in-the-solar-plexus beauty? I just saw a pic like that and actually had to say “FUCK!” out loud. My heart is still thumping a little fast in my chest.…

  • Kink Test 2023

    Just trying to see if I’ve changed much since her. Link here. And take the test yourself here. Well, it’s definitely changed since the last time I took it. And if you’re a certain person reading this, you know why. And *thank you.* I love you and miss you. I’ve just written a song about…

  • Muffin Break July 2023

  • Visions For The Future

    I am an extremist because I actually believe in democracy. Who should run a country? The people of that country. I don’t believe we need a privately-educated Oxbridge elite to rule us. But we’ve been trained to think we do. Being an MP should be a normal, dull community duty. Wages capped at that of…

  • The Matrix Resurrections

    Currently re-watching #TheMatrixResurrections and loving it. It could slip into being too meta / post-modern / empty bricolage and yet it does not. “Nothing can breed violence like scarcity.” For those of us who were inoculated with Marxism early and are now fat and old, there are extra layers of nostalgia, pathos and deep regret.…

  • Nostalgia For The Good Timeline

    Oh fuck, I just did a nostalgia post about #JetsetRadio and I got immediately misty-eyed about the positivity and optimism whenever I remember that game and it’s superneon colours. … and I realised I was remembering what the world felt like to me pre-9/11? Nothing was the same again. And we’ve had 2016 and Covid…

  • Billionaire Black Holes

    Obviously, I’m not an Elon lover but… Great wealth is like great mass. I think it fundamentally warps the social fabric around it, drawing in all manner of people for one reason only: they want your money. Billionaires are black holes of wealth. They’re so wealthy that they’ve become social singularities: there is no relationship…

  • Televisionaries Again; Marxism Versus Terrorism

    Book rec for today: Televisionaries. It’s a fascinating read for commies (and very probably anarchists). I remember seeing a doc and some of the RAF are now full Nazi, which didn’t surprise me. As for why Marxists don’t use terrorism, click here.

  • I DO NOT Want A Lego ‘The Lady Vanishes’

    SO – I bought Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes on iTunes and was appalled by the crappy encoding. This amazing film was rendered into a blocky, cyberdelic nightmare of hanging faces and shifting backgrounds. I complained. Apple told be to get bent. SO… I complained again. And they caved. Never give up. Be the squeaky wheel…

  • Halt And Catch Fire, A Transrealist Triumph

    (I wrote what’s below in response to be very heartfelt post about HACF on Reddit. Obviously, I can’t repost someone else’s words. But it was lovely.) Your post is beautiful. I was born in ’66 so I thankfully grew up with no net, no social media on which to display my kid stupidity and have…

  • On Mr Zuckerberg’s New Threads

    2008Zuckerberg: ‘Hey, we’re a cool new app – can we have your time and personal info? We won’t fuck you with it.’ Me: OKAY! You’re so cool and hip and cool! Lemme give you my entire personal life! THEN~ Cambridge Analytica, Trump, Brexit ~ 2023Zuckerberg: ‘Hey, we’re a cool new app – can we have…

  • Bloody Eye 2023

    So, I just checked and I posted about my tomato eye previously in 2006 and 2005. I’ve definitely had them in between but I haven’t really been keeping track of them, which is a bit silly. To aid this, I’ve created a spangly new post category just for these annoying sub-conjunctival haemorrhages: Bloody Eye. Nothing…

  • Bzangy Groink DJing Playlist 29/6/23

    Tonight’s best track was TWO TRACKS by Knower which I played cos their new album was released this month and you can buy it here. Here’s their superbop, I’m The President: Tonight, youse hoird: Federico Durand Niebla, montaña, pinos Carlos Dengler Desert Flora Viva Voce Alive with Pleasure Protomartyr For Tomorrow Theo Parrish Once I…

  • Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E3

    I’ve been watching Star Trek for at least fifty years. From when there was just the one Trek, through The Animated Series, the films and then the various spin-offs. The only ones I’ve given up on were Picard and Lower Decks, not bad considering the sheer amount I’ve watched. I’ve just watched perhaps the best…