Hopstretch

Highly recommend this if you like Roxy Music, Prefab Sprout, The Blue Nile etc.

Happy Birthday!

They put this video online again recently, I think because it kind of feels like the ride we are all on at the moment?

Happy Birthday! Sorry it's under these conditions.

She was ridiculously hot. One of my cousins is involved with producing this band in South Africa. They sing mainly in Afrikaans, but they got the spirit I think? Dronk op Liefde means Drunk on Love.

PC.

Hi. I have a very, very, very annoying teen gamer who is JUST SO INCREDIBLY FUCKING LOUD on his headset. It's driving everyone else in the house crazy. My sense is he's not hearing his own outgoing hooting and screeching over the game sounds -- how do I boost his voice level in the headphones so he gets better volume feedback and I don't have to FUCKING KILL HIM? Please.

Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk. Cancer.

Drunk and maudlin.

It was and it is!

Yeah, didn't The Jackpot feature some nasty plagues? Have you read The Peripheral, which is set in the same fictional universe? I've been revisiting all of Gibson's stuff recently.

Ze 1975?

One of the takeaways from this is that Jonathan Richman is really, spectacularly odd. God bless.

Needed this today. In light of the new music ...

Love you Al, but I am not upvoting tofu.

As discussed elsewhere.