Year: 2025
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Albums Of The Year 2025
Well, another absolute fucker of a year, wasn’t it? I retreated a lot this year, into comfort eating, into old Stargate and definitely into music. This list originally had 92 albums on it. It made me sad to delete so many albums that I have genuinely loved this year but I know that people think…
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It’s That Time Of Year
I’m compiling my BEST ALBUMS OF 2025 list and I’ve put my fave track from each album on a playlist. I loved 91 albums this year. As ever, this year has been a great year for music but dull year for chart music. Which is what happens when everything is under the thumb of only…
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How Awfully Tiresome For You
A Night To Remember is, in every way, a better film than Titanic. The clincher is when it soo accurately depicts the awfulness of a rubbish cuppa. Brutal. [EDIT] Just re-watching Titanic and it’s soooo… corny? Whereas A Night To Remember feels like a documentary, Titanic feels smug. First big wince is Zane with the,…
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Stargate 200
Just watched 200 again and, wow, I wish other SF series had the same laidback brilliance and joyful spirit as SG-1 does. The milestone of reaching the 200th ep is celebrated *perfectly* and it feels like the whole cast and crew are celebrating with us, the audience. It’s brilliantly written, directed and acted from start…
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The Cummunist Manifesto
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Computer World 2025
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SEASONS GREASONS!
Here’s me top MERRY CRISIS SEASONS GREASONS films! 1. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)2. The Bishop’s Wife (1947)3. Scrooged (1988)4. The Holdovers (2023)5. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)6. The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)7. The Shop Around The Corner (1940)8. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)9. A Christmas Carol (1951)10. The Snowman (1982) what’s yours?
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Cultural Erasure
As a brown man who’s been making music in the alternative scene since 1982, the racism in the scene is *huge.* And part of that is the erasure of non-white people from musical subcultures.
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Rock City 9/11/25 To 7/12/25
Japes aplenty.
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Controlled Explosion What?
As a brown man, I’m very glad the police have pointed out the people who they raided / control explosioned in Derby are Poles. Though I know this won’t stop the Regormless frothing about MUSLAMIC SHARIA TWAIN TERRORISM.
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The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
I was twenty or twenty-one when this film came out. Though I was older than Danny Embling, 1987 was the year of my first (requited) love. And, like Danny’s, it was complicated. This review is of the film I know, the film I love. It won’t be the same film as you watch, unless you’re…
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A New Hope?
Just re-watched tv series #TheExpanse (yes, I’ve read the books) and the last scene always kills me. The Rocinante with that backdrop. I’m not saying it’s as utopian as Trek but at least it’s hopeful. I hope humanity makes it. Looking around at now, I doubt we will. But I hope we do.
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Mishra’s 80% Rule
During a gentle convo on Mastodon, I had to define where I stood on the hive mind of Pluribus, the new AppleTV show. This is where I believe Mishra’s 80% Rule applies. Which is that 80% of people are twats. Not the same people all the time, it varies. So, when you get onto an…
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Totally Predator
I’m still really chuffed that Dan Totally Rad Show, #DanTrachtenburg, is now Dan Totally Brilliant Director Of Prey, Black Mirror, The Boys etc. ? The only warm geeky feels I can compare it to is when #ComputerChronicles used to be hosted by #GaryKildall. #CP/M #DOS #CLIs
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144 Hours Of Longing
I rewatched Three Thousand Years Of Longing, wondering if it would live up to my hyperbolae of two years ago: If anything, I fucking undersold it. Solid weeping since it ended. That kid crying where you can’t catch your breath. After last week, I feel even more this. I love this film.
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Rock City 27/9/25 To 19/10/25
Recent clubbing shenanigans at City.
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Lunch With Nat
Had yet another tasty lunch at Rask. That quiche is soooo yummy!
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Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Thirty years and four days ago, this perfect pop song was released: When Corgan wrote 1979, he managed to tap the same panchronic nostalgia as Mitchell did with River or Waters did with Time. Every time I listen to it: :’-( Remembering when I was 12, remembering when I was 29, remembering when I was…
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Fuji XV100VI Test Jpegs
Trying to shoot JPEG-only with the XV100VI and, so far, I’m enjoying the removal of possibilities. That’s the shot – take it or leave it. Click on the pic to have a look.
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RIP Dave Ball
#SoftCell were a crucial band for me when I was 14. They innovated in so many fucking areas but I guess that was what we expected back then, not Billionaire Farts and Nepo Baby Burps. fuck me, we need a revolution these cunts have got to go what if you’re not old like me? you…
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Sunshadow, Hardaker & Zux, JJ Lovegrove, Ada Blue @Dubrek, Derby, 17/10/25
Whoop whoooop! So, last Friday I went to the above gig and I had the BESTEST time. I really, really needed a night out like that, omg. First up was Ada Blue who I’d seen with her full band at Whatstandwell Festival. I was sooo impressed then and that positive memory was confirmed tonight by…
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Old Bowling Balls And Balls
Meanwhile, FORTY FUCKING YEARS AGO: #CamperVanBeethoven #TakeTheSkinheadsBowling #FuckMeImFuckingOld #HowOldAreMyBalls #OfTheThreeOfUsWhoIsSenior
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MooltiCrank
I’m sad so it’s mostly cranking for me lately. #HaveFunWatchingMeWeepAndTugStarmerYouAbsoluteCunt
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Cornell Censors Professor
Link Gotta keep waging that propaganda war, eh? #IsraelIsATerroristState #BoycottIsrael #IsraeliWarCrimes #FreePalestine
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Apple’s New Windows Aero
Oh yes! GLASS ALL ROUND, EVERYONE!
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Paris September 2025
Last week, me and my bestie Nat went to Paris and ate EVERYTHInnGGGG. I was over gigging for Paris Popfest 2025 (which was awesome, by the way) so we thought we’d stay a bit longer and sample some of the world-renowned cuisine. Oh My God I had cakes which were like being kissed by angels,…
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Garden Macros 31/8/25
Trying out a new macro lens in the garden today, got some nice plants buglets!
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Good News, The Vovos, Delivery Live @ JT Soar, Nottingham, 27/8/25
Wednesday just gone, me and Robbie took a leisurely drive to JT Soar in Notts where we saw three lovely bands. We were a bit late but managed to catch the last few songs by Good News: I’ve never seen them before and they were cool – funky bass and drums with sung/spoken bits that…
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Universal Hamas
Remember, folks, *everyone* is Hamas now. The UN, UNRWA, Unicef, Save The Children, Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International – all HAMAS. If you oppose apartheid and genocide, if you oppose schools, universities and hospitals being bombed, you are HAMAS. #FreePalestine
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Huel = Bachelor Chow
Why didn’t the Huel people do a link up with whoever owns Futurama now and just call themselves Bachelor Chow? I mean… come on… IT’S RIGHT THERE. Also, I could kill a cold Slurm right now.
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Words And Music Festival 2025
I was honoured that Rob Pursey and Amelia Fletcher asked me to play this wonderful festival, the weekend just gone. I had a fabulous time despite being in pain a lot and getting cramp that sent me hilariously out of tune during Your Woman. But I kept on singing, the show must go on! I…
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Everything Is US Propaganda
From GI Joe to NCIS to Hurt Locker to Hawaii Five-O to Transformers, so much of American entertainment is meticulously constructed Islamophobia. And the rest is copaganda. Who benefits from this? What are they mis-directing us from?
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Birthday Croots And Nat
I had a lovely birthday time watching Nat horse whispering at Croots Farm Shop. And, obviously, we came home with loads of birthday goodies. ?
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July 25th Snaps
Just some snaps I took in my garden when I wasn’t feeling well enough to venture out.
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BLOCK And BLOCK Again
Just a reminder: You don’t owe anyone the time and energy it takes you to type a reply. You are not a free encylopaedia. You have limited time and energy, don’t waste it on sealions, trolls and other associated fuckwits. Block freely, throw out blocks like confetti at a wedding. Engage with good faith arguments…
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#WhiteSplaining
Oh, no, I think it’s *perfectly fine* that a white man is telling a black woman just how wrong she is on racism and how she doesn’t understand it. It’s very good of him to explain it to her, he’s so much better informed! #FuckKeirStarmer #KeirStarmerIsARacist #KeirStarmerIsAZionist #KidStarver
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Sparge Delfin
Just watched the season finale of #Murderbot and I am a lachrymose jelly, a sobbing pudding of tears. arghhhhh I didn’t think the show would make me cry as much as the books. I was wrong. #AllSystemsRed #MarthaWells #ScienceFiction #SanctuaryMoon
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Run Out Of Books AGAIN
I just emailed JS Dewes to complain huffily that her books are too addictive and for her to hurry up and write more. C’mon, authors, we need at least A BOOK A WEEK! Stop swinging the lead! https://www.jsdewes.com #TheDivideSeries #Rubicon #ScienceFiction #MilitaryScienceFiction #MilitarySF
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Open Broadcaster Software
How fucking amazing is #OBS ? If you’ve ever used it, bung them some money here: https://obsproject.com/contribute OpenBroadcasterSoftware #Twitch #YouTube
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Aglais io – Peacock Butterfly
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Derby Museum Of Making
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In Our Millions
Hungary, the USA, Britain – ordinary people round the world are marching IN OUR FUCKING MILLIONS against our governments and for humanity. If I was in the ruling class, I’d be hurrying up that rocket to Mars, to be honest. FUCK #KeirStarmer FUCK #Trump Fuck #Orban #CapitalistHellscape
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Films On Film
People really hated on Babylon when it came out and I never quite got why. To me, it seemed to be a likeable update of Bogdanovich’s 1976 Nickelodeon ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_(film) ). Yeah, some of the jokes don’t land for me and some of it seems a little forced but I love the sentimentality of it and the…
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Haaretz On War Crimes
Not a word of this in the UK media. Nothing. I’ve been checking all day, nothing.
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Beekeeper Unleashes The Bees
In *today’s* #WatchDogsLegion was a prophecy, not a video game: (Source: Vice)
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Aphorism The 1st
Even Michelin-starred restaurants have a wobbly table.
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White Supremacist Was Just Feeling Out Of Sorts
A man has been found guilty of murdering 14-year-old schoolboy Daniel Anjorin with a samurai sword in Hainault last year. Monzo had gone into a cannabis-induced psychosis before the attack, and had killed and skinned his pet cat before heading to Hainault, north-east London, the court was told. Giving evidence at his trial, he said…
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Kid Harmer, Keir Starmer
Civilians butchered, babies left to die, aid workers and journalists deliberately targeted by Israel: KEIR STARMER – This all seems fine to me. Carry on! Pop group says something about genocide: KEIR STARMER – This is an outrage! Ban them! Pull all their gigs! They’re TERRORISTS!
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I Welcome Our New Political Experts
SUDDENLY, suddenly all you cunts who have been SILENT about Gaza are posting your learned opinions on how dangerous Iran is and how maybe it’s just as well we’re illegally bombing them. NOW you have an opinion, NOW you’re an expert on international relations. Fuck me.
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Indiepop Collaborators In Genocide
There’s a great slice of white middle class people (which we know is the scene) who are Tories with a veneer of leftness. They would stand silent as me and you were rounded up by fascists. Then they’d go back to fondling their McCarthy 7″s and saying how much they hate capitalism. If this hasn’t…