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Dinosaur Jr – Learn Your Lessons
Two months later I’m still somewhat bemused by the combination of brain chemical swirls that led me to not seeing Dinosaur Jr when they played in Perth for what I’m pretty sure has to be the last chance I’ll have … Continue reading
Posted in Music, RSS
Tagged Dinosaur Jr
Persona
Somewhat surprisingly, this was completely absorbing. I had the impression that Bergman would be a slog, but I was riveted from start to finish. There’s so much power in these two women. Although it’s not always clear exactly what is … Continue reading
Posted in Moving Pictures, RSS
Tagged Bergman
Spatial Scare
I bought some AirPods recently and they’ve been great — good sound and comfortable to wear. They have this thing called spatial sound that’s supposed to create something like a surround sound effect. I’ve only really noticed it when watching … Continue reading
Making decisions | A Working Library
From Mandy Brown on A Working Library: There’s a really important thing that sometimes nervous people like me don’t realize — that the expression “to make a decision” is perfectly accurate: a decision is something you create. There’s an inclination … Continue reading
Posted in Links
Tagged A Working Library
Sometimes
I was thinking of posting a youtube link to My Bloody Valentine’s Sometimes, which I think of as the acoustic track from Loveless, although it obviously isn’t acoustic at all. It wasn’t a single so didn’t have a proper video … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Lost in Translation, My Bloody Valentiene
Cult of the Lamb: Inventory Bug
Last night, after thoroughly enjoying the demo, I was raring to give the full version of Cult Of the Lamb a go. I was happily working my way through the opening tutorial scenes when I got my first piece of … Continue reading
Posted in Games
Tagged Cult of the Lamb, Mac Gaming
Bring the Noise!
One of the main reasons I recently updated to a newer laptop was to run Lightroom at a less lugubrious pace and to be able to use its new machine learning enhanced selection and noise reduction tools. On my decade … Continue reading
Pavement – Witchi Tai To
When Pavement played the first show of their recent reunion tour, they finished off with this cover of Native American jazz pioneer Jim Pepper’s Witchi Tai To. Such a lovely and positive vibe with which to end the show and … Continue reading
Gyoza Moments
Some things I like and don’t like about making gyoza — Chopping Chinese cabbage is my least favourite part, mainly because my chopping board is a bit too small, as is my knife, so I end up with bits of … Continue reading
think of the big picture
From Elle on Mastodon: whenever my boss says “think of the big picture, elle” I’m immediately an astronaut floating silently in space tethered to my ship looking down on earth, and nothing he wants seems important or even relevant really … Continue reading
Posted in Links
Just Some Buttons
I want to get a new non-phone eReader — although I love my iPhone Mini’s size I’d like to see more than seven words on a page — and the main feature I care about is that it have page-turn … Continue reading
Yesterday Is Not Today
From Louie Mantia’s Yesterday Is Not Today: Everything has to change, every day, forever. That’s how it has to work. If not, we have determined we were smarter yesterday than we are today.
Really Really Light
The New Pornographers is a band I never listened to mainly because their name made me think they were a kind of sleazy Strokes ripoff. Turns out they aren’t. Since getting my AirPods Pro I’ve actually started to listen to … Continue reading
Posted in Links, Music
Tagged the new pornograhpers
Trying Obsidian
I finally got around to trying Obsidian and, with the Things theme installed, it seemed to do everything I wanted. Mainly, I really like the way it displayed checklists and dimmed the text if you checked something was done. And … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Mac, Obsidian
MarsEdit media manager issue (and how to fix it)
If you use MarsEdit and its media manager is showing hardly any of your photos, the problem is most likely your setting in the Photos app for iCloud Photos. You have two choices: “Download Originals to this Mac” or “Optimise … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged Apple, Mac, MarsEdit
Like Kings
This is a great point. So much coverage of tech focuses on the wrangling of aristocrats. This is not a fully formed thought, but I have a visceral reaction to seeing coverage of Altman’s firing treated as a top-left news … Continue reading
Posted in Internet
New Love Glow
What kind of monster, when meeting their brother’s ex-girlfriend at the pharmacy, would casually mention that he’s got that new love glow?
Gardening in the Rain
I have accidentally left cleaning up the garden to the day before our rent inspection and now it’s raining. Looks like I’ll be living a real life version of that early REM song “Gardening in the Rain”.
Shush
Although Mastodon is the social media thing that feels most like home to me, I’ve been dipping my toe a little into the slightly murky waters of Bluesky and Threads. One thing that has surprised me is the primitive implementation … Continue reading
Posted in Internet, Technology
Tagged Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads