Month: January 2019
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Tumblr Is Dying
And these images are why Tumblr is still broken, dying 6 weeks later AND the appeals process is bullshit. Some of you might know about Tumblr’s laughable attempt to expunge adult content from their system using AI. That I moved the really ‘adult’ and pron-tastic ‘Retire To The Parlour’ blog to my own server as…
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The Skints Are Learning To Swim
Yes another post? So soon? Posts are like buses here, you wait for one for ages and then three come at once! Had to post this because, well, it blew up on Twitter when I shared it (thanks to the band, *mwah*) and I think it’s a great tune…Deffo for the next podcast! Again, cribbed…
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Charlotte Adigéry Wigs Out
I think I’ve heard this a few times maybe Duckie even though I didn’t recognise it then, and most recently heard it on Don Letts Culture Clash where I was doing something else and half-listening and thought ‘what’s that Lily Allen one?’. Oops! Turns out it’s actually Charlotte Adigéry with High Lights, seemingly an ode…
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Hit Me Shakespeare One More Time (A Celebration)
I don’t usually post TED Talks, but I’ll make an exception for this talk on repetition and music by Colin Morris who is a data scientist and educator based in Toronto with a Master’s in Computational Linguistics. I love how he uses quite disparate techniques to prove that yes, pop music is getting simpler and…
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Fat White Family – Feet
Loving the song and now video for Fat White Family’s Feet – a big hit at Duckie when I was there, I can guess the video also had part in that….Querelle and Genet (in fact I’m guessing the Panther/Cuban ‘rebels’ are a nod to his later work) meets Paul Cadmus, via a comment on the…
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Ghostbusters Remakes
Ghostbusters: The Musical HAS to be made! Quite funny how Leslie Jones is bitching about not being in Ghostbusters 3, I mean her version didn’t exactly set the world on fire – it didn’t lose money but not the massive blockbuster it was supposed to be, hence Sony canned a sequel. The proof is in…