Finally watched Oppenheimer, and the dialogue is bad. The exposition is better than the interpersonal relationship dramas, but still not great. It's well filmed, with the aesthetics of an important movie, but it's unsubtle and curiously shallow.

For Christmas Day, I took the same walk I did for my birthday, out to Philips Park, Prestwich, and back.

Tear Fet: Light & Reflection - vocal sound improvisation Happy holidays! Here's another bonus short improv. youtube.com/shorts/iAnel...

Ahead of the King's Speech from his hice I invite you take in Coro-Nation Liturgy with @mattdalby.bsky.social recorded for the Coro-Nation in 2023. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGb-...

Tear Fet: This F*****g Weather - vocal sound improvisation Foul-mouthed foolishness for Christmas Eve. youtube.com/shorts/Z7RQe...

Electronic Music - Sound Poetry - Music for tape from Sweden 1973 youtu.be/mFvZE2wHxBw?...

British Concrete Poetry - an interview with Paula Claire from three years ago. youtu.be/NR5Bllw5cq0?...

Tear Fet: Beckoning Cat - vocal sound improvisation It's a bonus improvisation. youtube.com/shorts/U7Ipy...

Bob Cobbing - Bill Jubobe youtu.be/bNSE6KvnAYs?...

Tear Fet: Iggy and the Apple - vocal sound improvisation youtube.com/shorts/dlEEe...

Reddish Vale Viaduct this afternoon.

Last longform Tear Fet vocal sound improvisation of 2025 recorded yesterday. An Edge will premiere on Boxing Day.

Tear Fet: The Light is Dark - vocal sound improvisation youtube.com/shorts/p-rDr...

Trans Cube. For incubating eggs?

Tear Fet: Make It Clear, Make It Obscure My latest longform vocal sound improvisation premieres at half past the hour. youtu.be/8ZUXn9rpqXY?...

Tear Fet: Make It Clear, Make It Obscure My next longform vocal sound improvisation premieres tomorrow (Fri 19 Dec) at 21:30 UK time. 19 minutes, and pretty fun. Recorded at home with an occasional background of Iggy’s zoomies. youtu.be/8ZUXn9rpqXY

Tear Fet: I [Don't] Like To Be Seen - vocal sound improvisation So this one's silly. youtube.com/shorts/K0ni8...

Tear Fet: Blood in the Water - vocal sound improvisation youtube.com/shorts/NtzKe...

Normal behaviour for Iggy.

Just watched 2073 and it's fine, I guess. Except there's no class analysis, very little mention of climate catastrophe, no mention of genocide, issues are largely personalised down to companies, billionaires, and politicians with almost no talk of systems. 1/

Tear Fet: Compulsion - vocal sound improvisation Vocalisations, clattering kitchenware, and reflections on creativity often drowned out. youtube.com/shorts/aBsvW...

Tear Fet: The River Dreams of Rain My latest longform vocal sound improvisation premieres at half past the hour. youtu.be/UV3jGKiEloo?...

Listen to this, it's good.

Snippets of two dreams last night: diagnosing billionaires as developing 'Phineas Gage Syndrome' by driving wealth through their brains instead of iron rods; a group of people hiding on a train from billionaires trying to murder them.

Tear Fet: The River Dreams of Rain This week's longform vocal sound improvisation premieres on Friday (12 December) at 21:30 UK time. Recorded en route to Warrington and it's a good one. youtu.be/UV3jGKiEloo

Tear Fet: Imagine If You Bled - vocal sound improvisation This short is very good, even if I say it myself. youtube.com/shorts/WQvSs...

Sharing this principally because it's funny given I've been subscribed for about a week so far and watched 6 films on Mubi in that time. That said, the top three are all excellent films.

Some light and dark photos from this evening.

Tear Fet: Things You'll Never Know - vocal sound improvisation youtube.com/shorts/jN1OL...

careful what you wish for, Joe

Tear Fet: Waking - vocal sound improvisation Iggy’s the star. youtube.com/shorts/2uVCQ...

I'm certainly starting with value for money from Mubi and BFI Player. In a week I've watched The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Broadway by Light, The Celluloid Closet, M, Hundreds of Beavers, Pink Narcissus, The Epic of Everest, Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp), and The Image Book.

Tear Fet: Antisocial Contract My latest longform vocal sound improvisation premieres at half past the hour. Filmed on the lovely Marsden Moor. youtu.be/ddox0lhgazc?...

Tear Fet: Antisocial Contract This week's longform vocal sound improvisation premieres tonight (Fri 5 Dec) at 21:30 UK time. It's intermittently good, last week's was better. youtu.be/ddox0lhgazc

Obviously, Wes Streeting is vile ghoul. And as a person with an autism diagnosis who's experienced anxiety and depression and seen psychologists and psychiatrists he can absolutely fuck right off with this. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The culturally ubiquitous sign of cock and balls drawn in a car windscreen's condensation.

Tear Fet: City / Death / Capital - vocal sound improvisation A short improvisation in three chapters. Because I'm a pretentious wanker, and I thought it would be funny to do something unnecessarily inscrutable. youtube.com/shorts/f2gSc...

Tear Fet: Inescapable City - vocal sound improvisation Second of three today after missing Sat and Mon. It's okay, but I'd go listen to Blow Up from earlier instead. youtube.com/shorts/RcUfc...

Tear Fet: Blow Up - poem + improvised sections Caution: sweary. The first of three today because I didn'tposton Saturday or Monday. youtube.com/shorts/g4uqZ...

Finally got round to cancelling a lot of subscriptions and the like, including Netflix, saving plenty of money. Even better it's given me headroom to subscribe to mubi and BFI Player meaning there are masses of films I actually want to watch.

Tear Fet: There Is No Contradiction. Friday's 15-minute vocal sound improvisation. I'm confident this is one of my best. youtu.be/9pEQ03cj0gQ

Today on Marsden Moor and one above Ashton-under-Lyne on the way home

Currently working on a follow-up poem to this. I'm gathering ideas, words, phrases, images, and thematic strands to talk about the systemic and capitalistic violence that affects us all.

A new poem. The proper text this time.

Tear Fet: There Is No Contradiction My latest longform vocal sound improvisation premieres at half past the hour. I think this is one of my best recently. youtu.be/9pEQ03cj0gQ?...

New delivery from Broken Sleep Books

Blindboy The Land of Slaves and Scholars, the documentary that won Blindboy nest presenter at last week's Grierson awards. You should probably crank up your VPN and watch it on RTE Player rather than this version. youtu.be/q-s4VLpcrvA?...

Lol. In terms of likes I absolutely bodied the US Department of Education with a throwaway tweet on a fraction of the views. And it's still going. Hilarious that this is my most successful anything across all social media.

Tear Fet: Step Outside - vocal sound improvisation youtube.com/shorts/UnqLw...

Tear Fet: There Is No Contradiction This week's longform vocal sound improvisation premieres Fri (25 Nov) at 21:30 UK time. Unable to record out and about at the weekend, this was done yesterday at home. I think it's one of my best recently. youtu.be/9pEQ03cj0gQ