#NP John Miles Band - Transition (1985). Talented musician, but he never really made a great album. I'm purging six John Miles albums, including this one.

#amovieaday February 9: When Eight Bells Toll (1971). Not great, but a highly entertaining nostalgic action thriller. For fans of classic James Bond movies and Alistair McLean novels, this is a must.

MICROPROSE - The benchmark of 80s computer gaming!

Some fuzak to wind down after a busy day... #NP Mezzoforte - their breakthrough album from 1982 "Surprise Surprise". Not a huge fan, but they have their moments. I saw them live almost 30 years ago, and they were surprisingly good!

#amovieaday February 8: The Chairman. Even Gregory Peck couldn't save this disaster. Cold-war spy thriller with lame plot... 4/10

Monday night party!!! #NP Slade!

There’s a massacre going on in my LP collection at the moment. Purging 500+ albums this month in an effort to reduce my total volume of vinyl to 1.500.

Playing through some LPs to be purged, among them "Lifeboat" by "The Sutherland Brothers". It's got it's moments, but I can only keep so many records...

#amovieaday Feb. 7: The Stickup (2002). Decent low budget crime thriller, but forgettable. 6/10

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

#NP Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste (Vertigo, 1971). Great album that is the very definition of progressive rock.

#amovieaday Hamlet (1990). I'm no Shakespeare expert, so I approached this movie as I would most others. The artificial Shakespeareian dialogue and the actors sneaking around the castle like it's a theater stage made the whole thing a bore. Even Morricone's soundtrack is boring. 5/10

My ranking of all 14 Opeth studio albums - the progressive rock and metal Gods from Stockholm, Sweden. An amazing discography. The top 6 are all interchangeable, the next 3 very good as well, then 3 uneven ones, but still good. The only unessential albums are the last 2, IMHO. What do you think?

#amovieaday February 5: The Rip (2026). Flawed action-thriller. Script tyring too hard to be clever, and there's a very artifical feel throughout the movie in both the setting and how the characters behave. 6/10.

#amovieaday February 4: Moneball (2011). I was never keen to watch this movie as I don't care much for sports or baseball, but I was pleasantly surprised. Well crafted and enjoyable feel-good movie. 7/10.

#amovieaday February 3: A Force of One. Probably the worst movie I've ever seen. I had hoped for some entertaining action, but the acting and stunts were so bad that I didn't really know if I was supposed to laugh or cry...

#amovieaday February 2: Lukas (aka The Bouncer, France/Belgium, 2018). Decent action flick with a bit of drama attached. Van Damme does what he does best and lets his fists do most of the talking. Entertaining, but not one for the history books and I will not add this to my collection.

#amovieaday February 1: Troll (Norway, 2022). A well crafted teenage flick. Considering budget constrains the digital effects were impressive. Entertaining, but not something I'll add to my collection.

Major projects February 2025: > Ranking RUSH and OPETH discographies > Watch 28 movies #amovieaday It might not seem like much, but add to that 60 hour work weeks, family chores, a backlog of CD and LP purchases from 2024-25 and the ongoing #playeverything, it's quite ambitious - but great fun!

And last but not least, I have a small highly curated book collection to which I added these in January 2025:

Movie collection update January 2025: I picked up a few movies in January as well. My taste is quite eclectic, and during the darkest of winter I prefer light Hollywood flicks over sulky tragedies from the more artsy European movie canon.

Hardware collecting update January 2025: I'm quite an avid collector of PC hardware, and when I can get a good price on vintage parts new in box, I always strike. Found two gems in January:

Record Collecting update for January 2025: I'm currently not buying anything. Nothing tempting has appeared, so I'm currently focusing on reaching my goal of purging 2000 LPs and CDs. I probably reached 20% of that goal before Christmas, but it's already starting to hurt, so progress is slow...

Flight Simulator Collection updates for January 2025: I'm probably one of very few in the world that collect flight simulators... Couldn't resist buying the official demo version of Microsoft Flight Simulator X, and two OEM versions for ACER and MEDION.

PC Big Box Games Collection updates for January 2025:

#JanProgChallenge #31: Song that describes me right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MlY...

Fuck me... February already! Currently trying to sum up the month of January, while planning projects for February. While the sun is back after it's winter hiatus up here, the outside temperatures are still brutal, so I had my AI assistant create a photo of where I long to be...

#NP Vangelis - Chariots of Fire. Never seen the movie, but I love the glorious analog synthesizer soundscapes.

Morning all! I'm in a British mood this morning for some reason. Maybe I'm just happy that The Gunners are back in form again. Anyway, Steven Isserlis doing some fine string acrobatics here.

#JanProgChallenge #30: Song that describes me in my teens... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx_1...

By going through old favorites one finds new favorites. What a beautiful song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF68...

Friday night!!! Currently enjoying some Opeth and ranking their studio albums. A very difficult discography to rank as they have a lot of great and very consistent albums.

#JanProgChallenge #29 - Song with a number in the title: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVQT...

#JanProgChallenge #27 - Song I can sing in the shower... A foreign concept to me, so moving onto #JanProgChallenge #28 - Prog cover song I love: If it hadn't been for Malmsteen, I would not have discovered U.K. in 1996... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl59...

I wish all my flights were as wonderful as this one. Blue skies and calm winds.

Here we go again…

#JanProgChallenge #26: Song where lyrics are just daft. This is a category where the abundance of candidates are overwhelming, but this is probably the worst of the worst (and you could pick any song from the album): www.youtube.com/watch?v=fae4...

#JanProgChallenge #25: Song that brings a tear. I've been thinking about this one all morning and I can't ever recall shedding a tear because of music, so I'll just have to give this a pass and move on...

#JanProgChallenge #24: Song that uplifts spiritually. In essence just a repeat of #18, but let's play along and find another one. The opening track of The Eye of Wendor is certainly an uplifting spiritual experience (Thanks @closetotheedge.bsky.social for the tip!). www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0b9...

#NP Hank Mobley - Soul Station (Blue Note, 1960). I actually think this is a slightly better album than John Coltrane's album from the same year. Mobley simply has better tunes overall, IMHO.

#NP John Coltrane - Giant Steps (Atlantic, 1960). Top 5 jazz album of all time material. Amazing from the very first soundwave!

#NP Symphony X - The Odyssey (Inside Out Music, 2002). My age is undoubtedly to blame for my fading interest in metal music, but this album still holds up and gets regular spins.

Bodø. Second largest town in the Norwegian Arctic. ~53.000 souls call this place their home. Beautiful on days like these, but they are few and far between, so me and my youngest made sure to enjoy the sunset from the greatest viewpoint we know of…

I rarely expose my record collection to sunlight, but today I can’t be bothered. Let there be light!

Morning coffee with this amazing contemporary jazz album by Emma Frank:

#JanProgChallenge #23: A prog "guilty pleasure". That was an easy one, but let me make clear that there is nothing about my love for or taste in music that makes me feel guilty. Everybody loves to hate this album, but it contains my favorite song of theirs: www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_rW...

Morning all. It’s 10:25 January 24th, and officially the first time we are able to see the sun from our house. It’s quite a glorious feeling after almost two months of dusk and total darkness. Have a great Saturday everyone!

Living in the Arctic is mostly shite, but sometimes you can’t imagine living anywhere else… This is just a snapshot I took on my way home from work today.