[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

ffs, i mean 3 more days

i keep getting the numbers wrong on this music game, but it's only got 2 more days

#DavidsMonthofMusic Day 27: a good song for a bad mood "Night Ride Home" - Joni Mitchell Takes me instantly back to coming home from gigs when i was a working musician. Still love playing, still love driving at night, still and forever love how Joni phrases a line www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf3M...

this story just set my partner off on a well-worn rant about the time, c.20 yrs ago, when RBS management booked the Edinburgh Conference Centre and bused 600 staff to it to tell them that two people were getting new job titles

Man who has long been despised at a distance makes extravagant arrangements to be despised up close.

as i'm clearing out books for a house move, this struck a chord ruthfranklin.substack.com/p/letting-go

never heard of them before but i quite like st vincent's vocal stylings #proms

🎉 I've had an alert set on eBay for about four years, for a replacement for a Next dress i wore so much it got all pilled - and today it appeared! Is it a size too small? yes, but it's stretchy and i'm going for it

#DavidsMonthofMusic Day 25: a song with amazing bass / bass-playing "The Chain" - Fleetwood Mac Yeah, I went there. Because I love McVie's playing, and I've already chosen 'Sara', and it's truly iconic and I'm in a hurry this morning. Enjoy! 🏎️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBYH...

My latest for The New York Times, on the legendary session musician Carol Kaye. The outspoken 90-year-old is being inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame this fall. With thoughts on Kaye's career from Paul McCartney, Kathy Valentine & more. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/a...

Partner sorting through stuff for the house move and came across primary school jotters with brilliantly dry teacher's comments. 'Be more careful with handwriting.' 'Your stories are all violent.' 'Lacks description (apart from the violence). Take more care with handwriting.'

Amen to this. I just deleted my Academia account too.

One disadvantage of my ever-weaker relationship with Facebook and sharing stuff there is my phone photos being full of pictures of ppl at events and i don't know what to do with them. Spamming friends with them on Messenger feels rude.

#DavidsMonthofMusic Day 25: a song featuring a string section "Dance Dance Dance" - Chic Yowsah, yowzah, yowsah! Love the little run on the fiddles in the chorus, like a response to the flutes (?) 🎻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTCv...

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

idk if it's just what i watch but every ad on YT now is for an AI neck pillow or space-age bedsocks or a sentient dish sponge

bit from last night’s band practice 👇🏻

my sofa vs gumtree's AI description of my sofa

You’d never guess that the Lib Dems won 60 Tory seats last year and that Reform won five. Why Davey’s team believe their strategy is working. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lib...

#DavidsMonthofMusic Day 24: a song with a genre of music in the title "Is That Jazz?" - Gil Scott-Heron "Brother Ron gets it on with a bassline so strong That the sound seems to glow in the dark" 😎 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ns58...

Quote with your reaction to getting left behind

A really great piece by my favorite tech journalist:

If I had to invite four people to dinner I'd invite Tommy Emmanuel and three guitars. "How did all these people get in my room?" youtube.com/shorts/OAs-c...

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

#DavidsMonthofMusic Day 23: a novelty song "Mr Five By Five" - Andrews Sisters Not sure it's truly 'novelty', and it's surely a bit unwoke (although they do seem to think the guy's got it goin' on), but I'm pleased to be able to include the Andrewses 💛💛💛 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xns0...

Is it just me or it is not a bit weird for a news item to say 'a car being driven... knocked down a woman last night'. Why not 'a driver knocked down a woman'? Why is the car given agency?

#MotherNatureSong #MusicChallenge 9/23 Blue Bayou - Linda Ronstadt

Why does this graph keep becoming relevant to me?

making myself feel better by reposting a millionaire telling a billionaire to gfy, but it made me laugh

Warning: offensive language But deeply satisfying.👇

#DavidsMonthofMusic Day 22: a song with "little" or "big" in the title "Little Boxes" - Malvina Reynolds Such a cute and perfectly formed skewer in the heart of conformity. Written when she was 62 (which gives me hope) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUoX...

elementary 🎶 earth wind fire september 21 youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

there's a deep-seated mental alarm clock that i think everyone has - the hour when you realise that the thing you've been putting off or just tinkering with >has< to get started for real - and it's just gone off with me, today, about moving house

Proud to contribute frontline testimony to tonight's enraging @itvx.com documentary "The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money". Boris Johnson's govt squandered £8.7 billion on unusable PPE, while grifters like Michelle Mone made millions. Tonight, 10.15pm, ITV1. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

i can remember pre-97 CLP meetings in Edinburgh Central where we implored Alistair Darling not to go the PFI route, to no avail obvs, and oh look here we bollocking are

somehow just remembered the time i visited the beatles museum in liverpool and got talking to a german man and when we parted i very confidently wished him 'guten morgen!' then realised it was half past one and it took me all day to recover

#DavidsMonthofMusic Day 20: a song where every word in the title is one syllable "Get Out The Map" - Indigo Girls Banjo out, country mode activated, for this absolute sweetheart of a song. Live version here, for extra sprinkles ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ7H...

party very enjoyable... caught up with some old acting pals

going to a party tonight, but what to wear???

watching this again and nurturing my huge crush on Julia www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzR_...

when my eyes were much worse than they are now i listened to ALL the Partridge while staring at clouds passing the window - it made it better, so i look fwd to more Alan

How are you? It's Alan (Partridge)

well it looks like i'll be deleting my academia account, which is a shame bc it's been asking me 3 times a day for about 7 yrs whether I am the person mentioned in a certain paper and now i'll just never know

#DavidsMonthofMusic Day 20: a song that would be the theme to your reality show "Something Tells Me" - Cilla Black I practically wore out my mum's copy of this when I was wee, playing it on the old radiogram. And I like the sentiment. And it's still a banger 💥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXlx...

When authoritarianism is on the rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards.

Quite the sunset in portobello just now

ppl lose their minds over footie, is what i'm taking away from this #totp