The soundtrack to "Our Movie" is really something else and I'm only half way through episode 1 🖤

Please, gig-goers. I am so sick of being forced to watch gigs through other peoples' phones, held above their heads. Please put them away and just watch with your own eyeballs: I promise you'll have more fun and you won't block the view of *everyone* behind you 😭

Happy to report I'm now *DONE* with my PhD on learning from failure through interactive fiction, and it's up online! :) :) doi.org/10.17635/lan...

Soooooo many #BTSArmy around for #RunSeokJin in #London today and tomorrow. I love it 💜💜

"I wonder what "Gwi Ma" actually means in K Pop Demon Hunters? ... ..... ..... OFC IT DOES.

PhD viva done and dusted and all but like, can someone tell my sleeping brain that? I've had a recurring nightmare every night since about forgetting to go, and being wildly unprepared then waking up terrified that I just *thought* it had happened. Like, it's *over*. Get OVER IT, BRAIN. JFC

In an airport. Had some good and just finishing up my pint. American family - 2 adults, elderly woman in a wheelchair - looking for a table.

One of the comments my PhD supervisor made was that I use the word "whilst" more than anyone he's ever known. I removed a bunch before submission but just did a final "whilst" tally as I prep for my viva: 130. And that's with a load *removed. 😂

@meerium.bsky.social and I seem to have accidentally become avid fans of weightlifting and Strongman competitions whilst on holiday...

Fully equipped now to tell someone their outfit makes them look like a snail on my next visit to Korea. #ttmik #seyo

John Field's Nocturne no5 in B flat Major opening the last episode of "Heavenly Ever After" may be redeeming it a little before the episode even starts. My favorite ever piece from my piano exams, fittingly soundtracking a (fake) evenr for a book titled "The Weight of Memory" = 🖤

I have this as an earworm today, so you need to have it too. youtu.be/45NOP1OA-EQ?...

Junk Drawer, once more killing it Stevie, you're wasted behind the camera. more of this. MORE!!!! youtu.be/bi50Gv8FeUI?...

Ah, 'tis the season to hear the sound of flutes and Lambegs gradually intensifying to destroy your peace. And of cars causing chaos on normally quiet back roads because of diversions. Brought to you by the same people who give out about the noise when you mow the lawn on a Sunday.

Movie/film people: I'm trying to find a quote I once read that was something along the lines of "the characters in horror movies don't know they're characters", as a way of explaining why they do things viewers think is stupid. Does anyone know the quote I mean and can point me towards it?!

A terrible joke, but a great time. #puttingthebandbacktogether

#KDrama advertising that backfires: Kopiko sweets. I have never wanted to eat anything less than that at this point. Sweet baby Jesus.

Everyone else: look at kang tae oh 😍 Me: look at the potato 😍

My toxic trait is believing - every single time - that I can edit a whole thesis chapter in a single day. I... Cannot.

The #PirateYakuzaInHawaii credits are something else (@_@;)

Is anyone playing #yakuzaPiratesInHawaii? Because I just completed recruiting the Minato girls and wtaf 😂

Capital I introvert achieving lifelong nightmare of becoming capital E introvert outside reality.

Specifically odd request: Anyone know where I can get an Ableton-friendly Yanggeum (양금) plugin?! The National Gugak Centre one I found doesn't appear to be available for download/general use...

I keep having dreams about not checking the pharmacy dispensary rota in work and just not turning up for months on end. I haven't worked in a dispensary in 8 years.

The last few hours of waiting for January payday...

Just realized I missed all the albums' birthdays the other day! Dammit, I knew 22nd January meant something... Happy 5th 💛💔 Kintsugi Happy 4th 🐝🙅‍♂️🍯 Always the Bees: Never the Honey And happy 2nd 🌷💥🎇 Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks! All available here thisshipargo.bandcamp.com (&streaming etc etc)

Took a quick PhD break this evening. No mics, no synthes hooked up hooked up, but sure isn't mixing fun when that's all you can do?! 😂

Getting an emergency alert for the weather like I'm back in South Korea wuuuuut

Someone yesterday said the phrase "if it walks like a duck and smells like a duck..." to me. *Smells* like a duck? *SMELLS*?

Serendipitous streak of sunlight across the mantel

Hit me with your recommendations for good music to write to that won't distract me (like how I started listening to Múm again and just lost interest in working), is upbeat enough to motivate me to keep going without making me want to have a wee bop, and that I won't want to sing along to. GO GO GO

Spent 20 minutes explaining the concept of referencing and citations to my mother just now, and what I meant when I said "my thesis will be in the library, but not as a printed book"

My most listened album of 2024, I reckon. Many people have been won over by it this year... open.spotify.com/album/512dQp...

Me on my own vs. me when I'm out with friends #BadPhDWritingJokes

Christmas as a child: 90% joy and presents Christmas as an adult: 90% cooking and then doing the dishes.

100% positive that Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is about to fix everything that's wrong with my life. E v e r y t h i n g

Ok but did anyone ask if they *minded*...? Major increase in young people spending Christmas Day alone in UK www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

arpeggios are not cute. composers only do this when they are in distress

Just in case you missed BBC6 instrumental, four programmes on instruments and machines that have shaped and inspired modern music, hosted by Hannah Peel and myself, they are on catch up on BBC Sounds for the next three weeks only. Perfect for holiday downtime! :) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I forgot about this song almost! One of my favourite ones to write cos I just got to have a lot of fun with it and let rip! Originally for the European Endless:12 fundraiser (europeanendless.bandcamp.com/album/europe...) It's a long'un... open.spotify.com/track/4R5iYH...

Treated myself to a night off my PhD to watch "Right People, Wrong Place". I can't settle on the word Im searching for but...serene? Let's add philosophical. If anyone has seen "One more time with feeling" I would liken San Yawn to Warren Ellis: the oak tree to RM's ivy. Exactly what I needed 🤍

I don't use Spotify but Tidal made it very, *very* clear Balming Tiger were my top artist of 2024. I wish I could still watch that Glasto set :( bring it back to me, Radio 6: bring it back. youtu.be/7eH_q4U0dbQ?...

@alphachromeyayo.bsky.social Found your idea perfume pal www.amazon.co.uk/Demeter-I008...

Nearly that time again... thisshipargo.bandcamp.com/track/what-a...

I bought a fancy schmancy Cult Pens Advent calendar, which arrived about 4weeks ago. The sheer willpower it takes for me to not throw open every door every day is *breathtaking*, LemmeTellYa. BREATHTAKING.

Bringing this back for this week too. Does everyone lose the ability to be a functional human being in November or something?!

Well I agree, obviously ;-)

Who fancies a free album? "Flowers, Sparks, Fireworks" Bandcamp codes below (redeem here: thisshipargo.bandcamp.com/yum) 5hbt-bct2 gex2-xh3h fsm6-5dv8 3rc5-j5dv dmhf-6rs8 pgel-y4h2 jjxj-jlrg 6fc6-yacu kws2-b7dp njqd-xjx2 m9rc-jyac ftlc-y3uw wupq-34j4 c597-cm8a crtx-wtb7 plup-hb4v rc58-5cv8

Currently mostly 🫥 whilst trying to finish my PhD. I did find this though. Too scared to play but given that my PhD is in interactive fiction... If you play it, let me know if you succeeded in getting your PhD. Let me know how long 'hope' lasts scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/08/11/e...

Saw Phil Jupitus in the pub earlier, very unexpectedly. That was nice 👍