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Rodding the chimney (not a euphemism). Came home on Saturday night to a house full of smoke, the brother said something fell out of the fire (he was in a different room) but I reckon it was a chinney fire from the smell and amount of soot on the ground, plus the chimney was blocked when I tried to light a fire the following day. Took a bit of soot out alright, not much because I only went a couple of rids up and don't have proper brushes, just the head to clear drains. I'll burn some kindling in a bit to see if there's a draw on it now.

Pain in the arse anyway.

Watched Tron: Ares earlier. Not great, though the effects were decent (as you'd expect) and the NIN score worked really well in context, I enjoyed much more than when I listened to the album a few weeks ago. There's a nice callback to the original film too, they could have done a lot more wuth that.

Oi Polloi: In Defence Of Our Earth

I love the mix of aggression and environmental & political naivety.

Perry Bamonte, guitarist for The Cure. 65, after "a short illness".

He played on Wish, Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers and The Cure, plus Show, Paris, Acoustic Hits, Trilogy and Songs Of A Live World.

Shed would be less embarrassing.

Fucking hell, he does a great Steven Seagull impression in that video.

Slowly We Wrap.

Obituary is a good soundtrack to putting up a christmas tree.

The Name Of The Rose and Shogun (Clavell 😉) are both great reads, I must read more of that Clavell series.

Which band??

Messa, I believe.

Haven't heard that one, their last album was pretty good but didn't have much staying power for me.

Sounds like a demo, really poor across the board. This is shaping up to be their worst album yet, and that's saying something.

Nice one, I'd enjoy that.

I didn't see that, no sign of it online.

'Twas Øxn that brought me to Kim, via their set on Other Voices. I really enjoyed that and the album. I wouldn't mind another one.

It is indeed, I nmust get more of her stuff. I really like the Øxn album too.

He handled it well, just listen to The Greatest Of All Evils for instance. Some of those would be my preferred versions of those songs.