I won’t feel bad for them. Survival of the fittest, isn’t it? And I, on my new 25k SirVelo am the fittest, as evidenced by all the KOMs I have. (Which is all of them).

Those KOMs will only be broken by me on next week’s 25k SirVelo.

It would seem that none of their dental surgeries are doing very well, so they have to actually work rather than fuck about online.

Saw an article by David Frost in the Torygraph earlier. I genuinely can’t imagine having the energy to get so irate for money about such inane shit.

opting for the hard copy

I’m in the middle, downloading lossless music to put on my iPod.

Any new tech that emerges should be viewed as either “How will they use it to scrape all my data?” or “How will they sell this to the military?”

Or both.

The Tories.

Yeah, fuck this guy. I like Anti-Flag, and Justin did some really good acoustic stuff a few years back, but I guess they’re now added to the pile of music I won’t listen to any more.

It’s a shame for the other guys, but their response was solid.

I saw my wife playing this years ago, and always fancied having a go, but never got around to it.

So a few months back we got it going so it could stream to our Apple TV and off I went. Spent a few weeks playing it in the evenings and having a nice time.

Then Ubisoft put out an ‘update’ to it, that broke it completely. A massive update for a ten year old game. Cunts.

So I guess I’ll never finish it, because fuck Ubisoft.

I inherited my Nan’s Dyson DC25 when she went to live in a care home. Used it a few times and it was fine, but figured I’d strip it down and give it a damn good clean out.

The fucking thing damn near sucked up my carpet.

It’s still going strong now. Had to replace the little nubbin that drives the brush bar a few weeks ago, but other than that it’s still solid. Not bad for a 15 year old vacuum cleaner made to modern standards.

Assistant to the General Manager.

I once saw the two eras of Genesis referred to as Boring Genesis and Shit Genesis, and I was never able to fully disagree.

Kinda confusing when they rebranded as The Folksmen though.

I went to a number of hardcore punk gigs in the late '90s, where there’d be 8 bands on the flyer, because they’d all take to the stage, spend 20 minutes blasting through their entire 30 song catalogue, then down tools and fuck off to the bar.

It was glorious.

This is where I am with 65daysofstatic. I’ll always have the records up to Wild Light, and I’ll always love them, and while replicr, 2019 is too ambient and experimental for my tastes, I love that they’re doing what they find interesting and fun.

Kinda the same with John K. Samson, in that as much as I want him to make more music, to reform The Weakerthans and tell more stories, I respect that he’s moved on from it for now. All of his records are still there to be heard, there just probably won’t be any new ones.

This can go a number of ways, I think.

You get bands who hold on to their original sound with a vice-like grip, and invariably get kinda stale (I’m thinking Green Day here), you get bands that adapt their sound to their current circumstances and current market trends, who end up getting kinda stale. Then you get bands who just do what they damn well please, and that one is interesting to me.

Ultimately, though, we mostly get the second of those. Bands like Coldplay, whose first few albums are interesting, in a middle-class-dinner-party kind of way, but by the fourth record had hit a point where they needed to keep making money, but maybe didn’t have the inspiration they needed to make interesting music. U2, Snow Patrol, Biffy Clyro, and sadly (from my personal view) the Foo Fighters. They churn out records, sell the merch, play the stadia around the world, but the music doesn’t move me in any way, not like their earlier stuff does.

But I don’t blame them; they’re reacting to the world we live in, making music is their career, and they’re under contract to bang out a new collection of tunes every couple of years, whether they’re inspired to or not. Having said that about the Food though, their latest album is genuinely wonderful, so it’s not all bad.

This is by far and away my favourite of The Cure’s, so I was absolutely made up when they started playing it that night.

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The house I rent for £1100 a month would cost somewhere in the region of £250k to buy, putting it firmly out of my ability, despite the mortgage payments almost certainly being lower than my rent.

Kinda the other way around; but when I was 27 I got divorced and decided to go to uni to study radio production with a view to changing my career.

Three years later, I’d graduated with a 2:1 and almost £20k of student debt.

…and all I have to show for it is a podcast that I used to do, because I couldn’t find a job in radio.

“We’ve got a fucking bassoon. Do Bad Religion have a fucking bassoon‽”

God, I love Mike.

I’ve been on a Rise Against kick lately. Can’t listen to one of their songs without taking a deep breath and diving right into everything. Recently discovered their acoustic album which sounds wonderful on my Good Headphones.