Best #Canucks coverage I’ve read in decades following this team. I don’t think I’ve missed one of Daniel’s posts since he started the original blog. Sign up to the Substack. Pay for the subscription, if you can.

Today's record is Prokofiev's War & Peace - I'm finally working through some of the opera backlog, so started here. Pretty good stuff!

Big band basement bass 'bone

Finally finished reading Dorohedoro. Wow, what a fantastic series, now I just feel that odd sense of grief that it's over.

Me, watching all the baseball posts and forgetting the Ashes are right around the corner, "look at all these people getting so stressed about sports, I could never"

Farage: epic grifter

I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

The second extract of less performed repertoire for #WorldOperaDay is the opening of the fifth door in Bartók’s kékszakállú herceg vára

Hey y'all, we just posted a Sound Design intern position here on the Respawn Jedi team for Summer 2026! Come make some really cool stuff with us *Caveat is you must be a student graduating no earlier than December 2026 jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

If it's going to be something ridiculous that I would actually do, then Personal Symphony Orchestra

DOCUMENTARY - WORLD PREMIERE! Greg Lester takes you behind the making of Mattia Cellotto's extraordinary animal sound effects library - from preparation and recording, to editing, mixing and the creation of the final product: #sounddesign #soundeffects #gameaudio #recording #filmsound #audiopost

slate.com/culture/2025... Incredible read about a deep dive into a bird in a movie - well worth your time

Out for @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social in London tonight with my fantastic wife! The train was so delayed we made the show with moments to spare, but then there was a 3hr musical about tennis to make up for it.

It's taken me far too long to learn how to make an old fashioned, but here I am on my second one for the night

Hooray, Canucks hockey is back!

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive. #Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

This whole section really.

Done with Silksong, have beat the main boss and happy to call it a day. May come back for the extra stuff later, but for now time to move on. Lots of fun, some brutal fights. Good game.

My old 16-page comic where Frasier meets Columbo can be read on my website: joechouinard.com/columbo

Playing old school Monopoly with the family for the first time in decades. Good to know I can still crush all opposition.

I feel like I've been inoculated against this specific weirdness because every time I see an article like this I hear Lauren Tom saying "Ooh, you're a real dreamboat, **BILLY EVERYTEEN**."

Animal Hyperrealism IV is finally out, with a glorious selection of pristine animal recordings! Get your launch deal here while you can: #sounddesign #soundeffects #gameaudio #gamedev #indiedev #filmsound #filmmaking #audiopost #postproduction #animalhyperrealism

This stuff makes me utterly furious. People wanting to live and work in another country is a GOOD thing, and more people should do it.

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Pappano and the @londonsymphony.bsky.social launch the new season with gripping Bernstein and Copland ✍️ Christopher Woodley bachtrack.com/review-pappa...

Proms are over and it's straight into the LSO season! Fantastic opener from the @londonsymphony.bsky.social with Bernstein's & Copeland's respective 3rd symphonies. I wasn't familiar with either work so this was a real treat - brilliant stuff!

Final prom of the season! Sinfonia of London playing Strauss, Bernstein, & Ravel. Really lush stuff, great end to the season.

Ok fine I'll play Silksong

Artists! Show an old piece you still love! like....2015 I think ? (gouache)

Deeply funny that Gold Coast took 15 years to even reach the finals and now they've got more finals wins than Essendon in the past 21 years

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth at the Proms tonight!

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Well that's Death Stranding 1 finished - a remarkable game

Ok @deeplyclassical.bsky.social now we're in the middle of this proms season, what's the best prom you've been to? And what's the worst?

Walked into the local record shop, just for a quick look, and oops I've bought the Franck Symphonie and the Jochum Bruckner box set (which seems to have some bonus Bach left in the box too!)

Some Debussy & Ravel for the afternoon - really loving the DG Original Source (like they say, a fool & his money... - and I am that fool)

After a week of tearing my hair out trying to get my symphony down to 4 percussionists, I go to a prom to see them with 6!

Proms again tonight! And this time I'm on the arena floor, which I've not done in a while. Joe Hisaishi doing his stuff and some Steve Reich too, should be fun!

Wow, what a prom! Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra playing Beethoven 7 (very good) and Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle (absolutely incredible)

First prom of the season today! Beethoven 7 will be nice, but what I'm really excited for is Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle!

Nice one Radio 3 - Playing a bit from Carmina Burana that's not O Fortuna!

chng.it/xwNxdg7s6j Certainly I'd love to see better protections and standards for transporting instruments!

The thing about Bananza, is it's just as fun when you hear "Oh, Banana!" the hundredth time

Playing DK Bananza, and favourite detail is that while in the Mario games the objects you collect have some utile value (e.g. power the starship) - in DK's case he just really loves bananas