How you can enjoy Stravinsky and Boards of Canada at exactly the same time. #NowWatching

"So long, and thanks for all the fish"

Early merch from those 1st few months following the UK release of #StarWars in 1978. Bought with pocket money, avidly traded in school playgrounds, and otherwise begged for at Christmases and birthdays. #MayThe4thBeWithYou #maythefourth

An unwelcome visit from insomnia. When your mind inexplicably becomes as serene, relaxed, and ordered as Francis Bacon's studio.

First mental association when I saw Tesco's fruity giant: Papillon in the leper colony.

Swiss Saturday morning sounds: Birds. Children playing. Crickets chirping. Cows mooing. People firing guns. (Switzerland has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, with estimates placing it around 27.6 to over 45 guns per 100 residents).

'screenplays must be “human-authored” to be eligible for awards consideration, and that only performances “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” will qualify for acting prizes.' #AI www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Trying to kick my Stravinsky habit by listening to Miles Davis & Gil Evans... ... ... (Did you know that Miles Davis Hall in Montreux is right next door to the Auditorium Stravinski?) #NowPlaying #thirdstream #jazz

Talking of cantatas. I can't get this out of my head. A serious ear worm. Even Stravinsky is sick of me listening to it - I mean, just look at his face. He utterly despises me. #NowPlaying #Stravinsky (again).

I started this, but started thinking too hard by mistake. Is an instrumental version of a song technically still a song? Is Revolution #9 by The Beatles a song? Is a piece in a cantata, requiem, opera or mass a song? Is a madrigal or an 'air' a song? Is The Birdie Song technically a song?

Happy Beltane. 'Willow Work' by Mary *Butcher*. Oh, come on. They were at it right under our very noses, weren't they? Murderous cultish swine.

Google continues its transformation into a snippy, punctilious little twat. I entered 'Nadar's photographs' as a search term. and it replied: 'Did you mean: Nadar's photographY?'

The Picture of Boring 'n' Grey.

Neighbour: "We're having a garden party. Guests can bring their own fave music!" Me: "Have I got some tunes for you!"* *Threnos to the Victims of Hiroshima; Auschwitz Oratorio; War Requiem; a disaster sound effects LP. But if something newer is preferred, there's always Steve Reich's 9/11.

Test #sketch of composer Igor Stravinsky. An attempt at the rough, garish commercial art style of the late 1960s. Arnaldo Putzo used a similar style/technique for his Look-In covers and film posters. [Still trying to learn new (old?) things, despite AI making us all redundant]. #illustration

Last night's dream: I confronted an old primary school teacher over forcing generations of British kids to sing Kum Ba Yah in assembly. "What sort of mind-numbing Wicker Man bullshit was that? Kum Ba Yah, De Do Do Do De Da Da Da, Do Wah Diddy, Rama Lama Ding Dong, Goo goo g' joob. A vacuous dirge."

#NowPlaying Orpheus by the Stravster.

Yes. I do.

I'm trying out a painting app (Sketchbook) on my phone. I don't have a pen/stylus thing, so I'm just awkwardly muddling along with my sausage finger.

Crazy flea market haul. Instant #Stravinsky on Columbia collection, plus Penderecki, Bartok, Faure, Durufle, the complete John Dowland. #classical

#NowPlaying Geogaddi. It has turned into a BOC kind of day. Made all the stranger by the sudden dizzy spells I've been experiencing recently. Triggered by inexplicable brain glitches, I can only describe them as being akin to profound dejavu loops which culminate in a brief, cerebral DDoS attack.

In honour of George St (or 'Marty', as some claim), who liked Turkey and Times New Roman, but was known for getting cross, I will be fighting a dragoon later this afternoon.

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

"Bob: What 'M' is a garden flower whose bright orange petals -- (buzzer) Yes, Sarah." Sarah: Football. Bob: That's it! Well done!" I was trying to recall what the new #HexagonSun logo by #BoardsOfCanada reminded me of, then it came to me.

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

Kind of Blue. Session #2 of 2 recorded on this day in 1959. "A defining moment of twentieth century music" #MilesDavis #jazz

29 May 2026. #BoardsOfCanada

#NowPlaying Some days call for the ninth. #Beethoven

Not sure if being a human is for me. Too many bugs, glitches, and inconsistencies. Next time, I might try a cat, tree, or octopus. But I'm open to suggestions.

Finally got around to turning my computer into a Linux machine.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Shot at in Moscow; corresponded with a serial killer; evacuated from Egypt following a terror attack; had my food checked with a Geiger counter 100kms from Chernobyl; discovered my hotel phone was bugged in Odesa; ate in a Shanghai hutong surrounded by jars of snakes & tiger penises.

I've only just seen this photo of Tom Baker. Talk about timey-wimey. It looks like he's regenerating into an older incarnation of Peter Cushing's Doctor. #DoctorWho

At the shop. A: Should we get some flowers for the balcony? Me: I'm not that fussed. A: What about that one? Me: Meh A: What about that blue one? Me: Meh A: That yellow one is nice Me: Meh. I'm just not that interested in flowers. A: What about the one that looks like Bagpuss? Me: Let's get four!

Well, this clinches it for me. Revelations 13:3 and 13:5 “One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.” …and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.”

Any note-taking app recommendations for an alternative to MS OneNote? Preferably open source. In the past I've tried Evernote and Joplin but neither have infinite canvas and/or draggable floating text capabilities, which are a must.

#ThePastInsideThePresent #BoardsOfCanada #Orange

Great to see #Tortoise last night. The bass was so loud/ rumbling, I'm pretty sure it dislodged my prostate. I first saw them in London about 30 years ago. Then I saw them in San Diego in 2004. And now in Switzerland. 3 shows in 3 countries over 3 decades. Excellent band.

If Trump wants to raise his game in this tyrant vs pope beef he'll have to behead Anne Boleyn.

🧵 #ContraryMusicTakes: - I challenge the assertion that the only way is up. - I don't think he heard it through the grapevine; I think he stalked her and found out directly, but was too embarrassed to admit it.

Latest charity shop find. An intact 1920 souvenir pack of 18 images from Coney Island, #NYC. Luna Park, Palace of Joy dance hall, the Bowery, Surf Ave, etc. Several images are pre-WWI but, rather than take new photos, the publisher has superimposed a few people in more fashionable 1920 attire.

Bluesky has fallen down. No idea if this will post properly, no idea if anyone will see it.

If anyone is in the Whitehaven area, could you pop over to the Jawas and ask if they have any secondhand droids for sale, thanks.

#NowPlaying One of Alf and Bernie's best collaborations. #cinema #soundtrack

Wes Streeting looks like a marionette from a cancelled Gerry Anderson series, or a possessed Edwardian ventriloquist dummy. See also: Lindsey Graham and Mike Johnson. Maybe there's a cabal of evil, living puppet/dolls taking over the world? We should look into it.

People hear music in the song of spring birds. Not me. There's one bird that just shrieks out a single, unchanging 'ARGH!' every 20 seconds. Another makes a high-pitched, honking clown nose sound. And don't start me on blackbirds: 'Hi! Hello? Hi there! Hi! Can you hear me? Hi! Hello! Hey! Hi there!'

Just as I'm about to drop off... Insomnia: Hi. Monkey oatmeal, cloud jelly, honk, stomach bicycle pump, Bach's runny yoke, here's the quill cannon, silver Barnaby, portcullis, The A Team, ding, let's call the whole thing off, sherry trifle, Baker Street, buy a cat cap, to-do Liszt, honk again...

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the person who selected the generic photo for BBC's Face the Music hasn't actually watched the show. The singer's face is mostly in shadow, so identifying them isn't easy. My guess is either Joyce Grenfell or Richard Baker.

Currently reading Charlotte Chandler's Hitchcock biog. I've read several other biogs about him, as well as 'Making of...' books. Increasingly, I'm seeing evidence for him having been autistic (or having Aspergers, as he would have been historically diagnosed). #ASD

#NowPlaying Where does the time go? This 'nu jazz' album is already 23 years old.