New Alan Partridge on iPlayer is so good! Documentary about mental health. Mad how Lynn & Alan both look the age without makeup they were portraying in I’m Alan Partridge (Travel Tavern show) from the late 90’s. March of time.

Stereolab - Fed up with your Job? / Constent & Uniform Unkown (2025 Tour 45) | 2025 | D-HF-346 | Warp Records / DUHF Discs | Last time seen The Groop live was 2019. Haven’t seen them on the new LP. Probably paid too much scalper prices for this tour 45. They playing the Wolverhampton in December. 🤔

Perfect Cold Sunday viewing. I’ve always associated it. Think my dad had it on VHS. My fav reactionary film to Star Wars phenomena. This would have existed without Star Wars in its Cold War novel origins. More in how the last third is filmed as a SFX assault. 🎥 youtu.be/T5W4MiBuEnY?...

Trying to push the distance this morning after last weeks 10k race. Feeling that temperature drop. Fresh if you stand around in it.

This week…

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Popped into CeX, Halesowen this afternoon coming back from the race. They have more Nintendo (mainly Wii) than any other branch I’ve been in. Got my fix of cheapies with some store credit. Most I paid was £12 for Enthusia.

New PB this morning at the Alcester 10k. Not bad considering I was traveling back from North Wales at 8pm last night and a stitch started to rattled me at the 6k mark.

This week I got plastic protectors for the J-NTSC POWER HOUSES. Hides the wear on my MegaDrive outer box. 🧊 When I got this looked like it been stored somewhere damp for a considerable time. Took some cleaning and drying out.

Really like the Reznor & Atticus ambient stuff on this. Don’t like 20% NIN on this. Fragile parody to sounds video gamey cliche. Might work in a film. 👺 𝒮𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎… 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝑜𝓇𝓇𝓎

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

Long week at work. Been looking at The Scream with Year 8 this week. Doing some mono printing. No climbing tonight. Braved the storm took an alternative route around horrendous M6. Escaped to the North to Cheshire see a mate. Heading up to Colwyn Bay tomorrow for the biennial Photography festival.

Watching Peter Hyam’s Outland (1981) with Sean Connery. High Noon set in space. Hyam’s practically took the Pinewood set production crew 18months after Alien and they built the IO mining facility. There’s a fucking company / lots of blue collar jobs. It looks like its shares the same universe. 🪐

‼️ Metal Gear Solid 2 - Sons of Liberty - Original Soundtrack by Harry Greeson-Williams and Norihiko Hibino | 2001 | Mond-262 | Mondo Waltz Records / Konami Digital | 💦

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One weekend and two 1964 Godzilla movies. This is the start. Franchise seems to start to build a shared world through the idea of who won the last square off and the Kaiju allegiance. Almost 10 years after the original. Mothra vs Godzilla & Ghidorah, 3 Headed Monster.

𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓲𝓼 𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓪𝔂 🧗‍♂️

This snuck by.. Recall Mondo saying they were gonna continue the MGS Soundtrack releases during a 2020 Covid zoom broadcast. Actually thought Mondo had dried up since being bought out by that tired Pop Vinyl co. They’d essentially slowed up their output. This came today. ‼️

Ron Perlman, the best

𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀 𝐼’𝓋𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓉𝓁𝓎… RESCUING THE HOSTAGES

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Now available online in english: Naoki Urasawa interviewing Katsuhiro Otomo about his work and his manga "Domu" during one hour. "Manben" is such a great TV program. >> www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Best 2 hours I’ve watched this year.

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Orbital - Orbital 2 (Brown Album) | 1993 | London Records | LC77554 | Still an astonishing journey of a record.

This came earlier this week. Latest fanzine from @forgottenworlds.bsky.social #6 Sega Blue Skies - The Sega Issue.

boxd.it/aZ6q9z 𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝒮𝓅𝓎 𝑀𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒶𝒽 💀 Take the good grace of Fallout and drag that for 5+ hours. I’ll possibly never watch again. There’s an excellent single 3+ hr Reckoning movie in here somewhere.

First week back in classroom has wrecked me. Mainly my feet in new shoes..oOoof.. went for the Staff Club Run after finishing and… 𝓕𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓪𝔂 𝓝𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓒𝓵𝓲𝓶𝓫 𝒾𝓈 𝐵𝒶𝒸𝓀!!!

Armed Police Batrider (アームドポリス バトライダー) by Raizing and Eighting is a 1998 arcade retro #shmup.

Gradius (グラディウス, Guradiusu) Origin Collection | 1985 - 1996 | Konami ( Mastering M2) This came through the post while I was in the States. 2nd time M2 have had a go at a collection, working on the PSP collection almost 20 yrs ago. They have created a new title in Salamander III for this new release.

Just finished Celtics City episode 9 last night, brings it up to present line up .. the Tatum & Brown, Hallday era and the final win of 2024. 🍀

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Been over to Hereford CEX on the way back from Monmouth. This use to be a treasure trove branch 15 years ago. Use to have a Gamestation few clicks up and Game. Still pretty good even though it’s the only thing left out of the three. Nothing was really catching my eye... them RetroTink x3 prices ooff

Harumi Fujita (藤田 晴美) is a Japanese composer with an amazing track record known for her work at Capcom and other projects. Retro shmups like 1943 Kai, Pulstar, Blazing Star and also Final Fight, Strider, Ghosts 'n Goblins, and more recently SoR 4 and Windjammers 2.

Really - Enjoyed - This… boxd.it/aSplNp …Wasn’t here for it in 1990.

🍃 youtu.be/qp4npqbYEpk?... Because people on my feed are posting early 90’s World Beat this morning. Discovered Single Gun Theory just in time for Summer.

Seeing the summer out in style. Booked matinee day before going back to work. 🎟️ 🦈

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Being away for two weeks… Just been to the sorting office this morning. 📦 Gonna smash through all of this like it’s Xmas.

At the Airport for a night flight back to the UK. Went down to the beach this morning before traveling back to Philly Airport. Dawn light didn’t let me down. 🌅

Gotta do at least one diner breakfast. Went for the ‘66 T-bird. A lot of food. 🥵💦 From the time I’ve spent in New York. It’s decent fuel for a walking day. Keeps you going.

Kayaking in the bay. Tide & wake was little less spicy. This was a mad first. Spotted two small dolphins that had snook past all the boats on Wood Island coming out of the Harbour. Dorsal fin & back out of the water, thought it was a shark until spotted the blow hole squirt.. 🐬 💦 didnt have a phone