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(on a crowded train)

And all is well in the world again.

So it turns out that all the soundscapes that have been rattling around in my head for the past 15 or so years can only really be realised (well, not ONLY, but a lot simpler, for lack of a better term) with modular synths.
I was messing around with an in-store euro-rack system recently and within 20 minutes had not only come up with a...
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Holy shit I found my iPod! I thought I had lost that sometime in February, and I've missed all the old Pig that it contains (Spotify only has his last three albums and EPs). So while I was gettin hard for the Lord Of Lard, I had a look at Apple Music and to my astonishment it has almost the entire back catalogue of Pig....
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Starting to take that age old advice Hunter S. Thompson gave.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I got cold walking home from the train station the other night so pulled my scarf over my head, then realised I looked like the Kwisatz Haderach.

I have so many "art" ideas. Mixed media photograpy pieces mostly.
I Really need to get off my arse and actually acutalise them instead of just being an ideas man.

I swear the down cycles of bipolar are the worst for getting things (anything) done.

I miss having a photogenic subject on hand at a moment's notice though. Probably the best thing about my last...
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I really love listening to Physical Graffiti on vinyl. The sequencing of the double LP is pretty much perfect. I kinda wish the sleeve was in better condition though, it's falling to bits (and original UK pressing that has seen a LOT of use). Might have to grab the recent reissue. for a nearly 45 year old piece of plastic it plays amazingly too.
Physical
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I had a dram that my long dead father and I were trying to see a new Star Trek film. I had organised to see the new Star Wars film (my dad got me into Star Wars when I was a kid, but I always preferred Star Trek. Yeah I know, chalk and cheese, but whatever) and somehow I screwed the session times up and...
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I went on a record buying spree.
Mostly restocking stuff I lost in my last relationship as well as some stuff I only had on cd or digitally.

Abbey Road - The Beatles
The Velvet Underground & Nico
Songs From A Room and Songs Of Love And Hate - Leonard Cohen
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
We're Here Because We're Here and Weather...
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