Category: Video blog
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The Age of Enshittenment – Israel vs Gaza
I mostly gave up on talking politics here…and anywhere, because it’s like shouting into a particularly disinterested (or sometimes scarily dangerous and stalky) void. No-one reads blogs anymore, anyway, grandpa? And trying to SEO the shit out of them is particularly depressing to hope a few scraps of audience escape the giant prisons of Facebook,…
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Luke Combs & Tracy Chapman sing Fast Car at the Grammys
I was looking for this the day after the 2024 Grammys, because the short clips I found were amazing. Now posted in full a few hours ago – the joy on Tracy Chapman‘s face as the whole crowd go nuts at the start of that repeating riff, the back and forth with Luke Combs like…
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Aphex Twin and the morals of sampling
I didn’t know Aphex Twin‘s XTAL from the seminal electronic album Selected Ambient Works Vol 1 is based off samples from a track from Steve Jefferies, Mary Carewe & Donald Greig called Evil At Play…but in a very cool way. But the original writer says it is ‘morally wrong’ and Richard D. James just lifted…
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Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill in Early Middle English
English is a funny one, we think of it now as what is spoken either in the US or UK or indeed International English, but there was a long journey to get there, from Germanic and later French influences, and I think Norse. Here you have Kate Bush‘s Running Up That Hill in Early Middle…
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You’re no Steve Climber
One for the people who follow my hiking channel and walking pursuits but I watch a lot of hiking gear videos and they are exactly like this, even to this day, 12 years later. You’re no Steve Climber! YOU MUST HAVE THE FLEXTREK 37,000,000! And you must wear French Wedge: Le Crevasse! HUMILIATE THE TERRAIN!