Alex G's God Save The Animals is what Steely Dan would sound like if they were actually good
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If you read THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE as a child then finally tasted Turkish Delight and discovered it is terrible, you may be entitled to financial compensation.
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Thirty years ago I heard the weird, discordant riff of Shellac's Wingwalker playing in Melbourne's Missing Link Records. I was hooked. Revisiting the song and the former, beloved store with a loud singalong.
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Sony has announced five new receivers with support for 8K and wireless rears
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Fallout - - The future where they forgot to sweep
Treefingers is the Revolution 9 of Radiohead's Kid A
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After 23 years I am finally in the mood for Radiohead's Kid A
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I used to go see shoegaze band Ripe play back in the 90s and still one of the best gigs I ever saw. Glad to see them now on Bandcamp (featuring Darren Seltmann of the Avalanches on drums)
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Beginning a glorious CES press day with a Future of the Left and Shellac sing-along
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christianfitness.bandcamp.com/album/mclusky-
'mclusky do dallas' new digital remaster (Bob Weston 2022) available until dec 31st exclusively on bandcamp ENTIRELY TO BENEFIT crew and band members so cruelly affected by my shit ears (see announcements passim)
please, if you can be arsed, retweet x
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CNET's favorite movies of the year, and I got to write about this absolute corker cnet.com/culture/entert
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Announcing my new Kickstarter for smart LCD face bricks for Lego.
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Best Christmas song of 2022, Wedding Present The Loneliest Time of the Year. An instant classic.
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I just had my most dream ever. It was an expose on a bankrupted company called Sensi which made smart LCD face bricks for Lego.
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Looking for a cheap TV? Here are a few good options.
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My 2022:
1 Wet Leg, Wet Leg
2 Pup, The Unravelling of Puptheband
3 Viagra Boys, Cave World
4 PLOSIVS, PLOSIVS
5 Lizzo, Special
6 Alex G., God Save the Animals
7 Spiritualized, Everything Was Beautiful
8 Alvvays, Blue Rev
9 Phoenix, Alpha Zulu
10 Perennial, In the Midnight Hour
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I finished listening to Wolf In White Van read by John Darnielle while in a lobby. White Christmas is playing
Twelve years ago I visited the Avatar set for the release of the 3D Blu-ray. With the release of The Way of Water I'm revisiting my trip cnet.com/pictures/avata
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I would do the Spotify username-Fest that is going around but all it will tell me is that I needed to start a family account long before now
Which era of music do you most identify with? I'll start: early 80s post-punk, New wave. So many good bands... XTC, REM, Talking Heads, Devo, Dead Kennedys
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Today's Black Friday soundtrack is brought to you by the best albums of 2022: Wet Leg, Pup, Perennial, Viagra Boys and Plosivs
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Writing an email looking for quotes for a news story and narrating it like I'm Carrie Bradshaw
Slumberland is another good movie released only for streaming. That's 2 for 2 (including Spirited)
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Spirited is seriously good. High energy, a little dark, great songs. Christmas movie of the year
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Airplanes are designed to glide once the engines turn off
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It's getting very Y2K around here. Which probably means all the hand wringing tweets will end up where the Y2K books did on Jan 7 2000 - in the humour section.
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This site is crickets for people who don't post hourly anyway
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If you don’t pay the $8 your tweets will be suppressed by an algorithm. Not making this shit up he said it to a room of investors yesterday & claimed this would solve hate speech. “You’ll have to scroll really far to see unverified users”
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I'm 24 hours late to the Mastodon thing. But how does feel about it? And how many times have they been asked that?
FUCK YEAH WHAT IF THE REAL BLUE TICKS WERE THE FRIENDS WE MADE ALONG THE WAY
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Sure, being able to edit even this tweet would be helpful, but if I was worried about it I'd delete and try again.
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As the lucky owner of a blue check mark I can say that it doesn't lead to more engagement or followers. It therefore holds zero value for me, and even $5 a month is too much. When do we have hand them back in?
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Thanks for the nice words. Picture quality is a consideration for sure, as is sound quality. But this mainly for the people who are spending way more on cable than they should be
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Great and comprehensive article on cable vs. streaming, @typendlebury - I'm curious why there is no mention of picture quality as this is the major deciding factor for me and why I've stuck with paying more for live TV over coax.
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For Halloween we’re making all the spooky hits from ‘In The Midnight Hour’ free to download on
perennialtheband.bandcamp.com/album/in-the-m
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"It's still too early to say for sure what vegetable the next leader's time in office will be comparable to." Might be my favourite thing has written:
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"For once, we'd love to live through some precedented times."
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