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Alex de Grassi - Southern Exposure

For anyone who's into Michael Hedges. Very similar idea. Acoustic virtuoso from the 80s, though a different style to Hedges.

Watched Last Days there. The Gus van Sant film based loosely on Kurt Cobain's final few days. I do enjoy an arty film, but this one didn't really do it for me. 90mins of a guy just pottering around his house doing nothing. It's made its point by about 30mins in, then you're just waiting for it to end.

Also Pink Floyd, but Dark Side of the Moon. Saw it in a planetarium accompanied by a 360 visual experience. Very trippy!


GBH - City Baby Attacked by Rats

No messing around, straight up punk.

Some of his interviews are toe-curling right enough 

The Man From Utopia is one I haven't tried yet, must give it a go.

And I do mean only some of his puerile lyrics, Penguin in Bondage always gets a pass from me!

When you let a nasty fart buy can't fully enjoy it because it doesn't smell like one of your own. A black metal fart, if I may. My anus is but a vessel through which I channel farts from beyond.

The Ming That Should Not Be
Anus-thesia - Pulling Queef
Welcome Home (Sanitation)

Watched a few westerns as of late, Unforgiven, Tombstone, The Magnificent Seven and The Outlaw Josey Wales. Unforgiven is probably my favorite of the lot. Gene Hackmann is untouchable in it. Any other western fans here?

I watched a few of late. If you just watched The Magnificent Seven then you have to follow it up with The Wild Bunch. All the ones you listed are class, though Josey Wales might just edge out Unforgiven for me. High Plains Drifter and Pale Rider are my other Squint western faves.

I mentioned Zulu a few pages back. Not a western at all, but somehow it really fits in with the vibe. Worth a go if you're in that zone.

Oh, and if you're in the Hackman zone, The French Connection is one of his absolute best. Might be one of my top 10 of all time films. I recently did a Hackman jaunt with French Connection, The Conversation, and Unforgiven. All amazing performances.

It was funny how much of them mirrored real life almost in real time. Trump posting that AI pic of himself as Jesus the same week the whole 'Homelander is god' storyline started couldn't have been anymore perfectly timed.

But yes, we're definitely in a post-satire era!

Herbie Hancock - Sextant

Been an age. Really enjoyed the revisit. Maybe listening to Zappa yesterday primed my brain.

What Zappa was it? I was a huge fan in the past, but now find some of his immature lyrics tough to listen to. Still so much quality stuff though.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Three Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Have a friend who's mad into them. Honestly it didn't really grab me. They're all clearly ridiculous musicians, but the music often felt very complex for the sake of complex rather than any actual great songwriting going on. Reminds me of anytime I hear John 5, technically superior but doesn't move me.

That said, Bela Fleck is fairly legendary so maybe I just didn't vibe with this particular album.

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Thanks lads

I'll have a crack off 'Eastern Promises'

After you've came, it's worth continuing to watch for the story

Been watching the new seasons of both Euphoria and The Boys.

Euphoria is dark as fuck, and also quite the departure from the first two seasons. It's went from a high school drama to a Coen Brothers movie. You could almost watch it without having seen the first two seasons and pick up the important bits you need to know from context clues very quickly.

The Boys is always entertaining, though I'd say this season might be the weakest one so far. I enjoyed it more when it was about a 'real life' look at superheroes and how they're more interested in their social media following than actually saving anyone. Fair play to them though, they've fully leaned into the topical stuff this go around and are absolutely savaging MAGA. Not that the MAGA folk would realize that of course.

Neil Young - On the Beach. Possibly my favourite Neil Young album, although that changes weekly.

It's prob between that and Rust Never Sleeps for me. Though he does have 6 or 7 contenders...

Been listening to a bit of Boards of Canada myself lately. Music Has the Right to Children is a good soundtrack for the rural drive adventures I've been going on lately.

How do ships keep up with the news?

Seafax.

This has got to be the most "over the heads of Gen Z" joke in this whole thread  Not that any of them are on here!

Here's a quick blast of nostalgia (if you can forgive the AI voiceover) https://youtube.com/shorts/x37nKjcGwlM?si=93FAVFW3iu1HpqJe

I even remembered the football page was 302! I used to check it multiple times a day, every single day

I never got to see them live, but I wouldn't bet against Farrell getting sober at some point and them touring again.