Mobile data has run out. Will be under radio silence all day. God… partying like it’s 2009….

Sudanese potatoes…

The weekend ended too soon. Soda Stereo and the music of Gustavo Cerati... Sudanese Potatoes on the hob.... my favorite recipe from "the Cranks Bible". Loved it for 20 yrs. Not diabetes friendly but my Sam's favorite. Missed it when I was too scared to eat it... e

The malaise of a complacent city sitting on its laurels, while property developers shit on everything goes way beyond ‘joy division oven gloves’…

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Diabetes means I don’t indulge as much as I used to… but dosa… is still… undisputed… king of foods…

Compuslory ID cards of any stripe are a stupid idea. There aren’t many perks of being a Brit… but not having to carry/show ‘your papers’ is definitely one of them. I shouldn’t be having to spend money/give up freedom to satiate gammon wuckfits/control freaks. Still..I’ve fought this BS once before…

In the Old Monkey. Place smells of bleach like a sauna - which is a damn-site better than it smelled immediately after the smoking ban…

Just seen ‘The Glassworker’, the first ever Pakistani animé. Not at the standard of best Ghibli… but very very good. Some critics have critiqued the characters and story. These people are wrong….

"...if we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives...” - Lemony Snicket (David Handler)

CYBERSCAPE: A COMPUTER ANIMATION VISION youtu.be/pDw_7fbe5jY?... via @YouTube If the trippiest dream you ever had was animated on an Atari ST... It wouldn't look entirey dissimilar to this...

In über hipster coffee shop. Brekkers and coffee only same price as Maccies. And they’re playing prime Madness!

Just seen clip of Trump speaking tonight. He looked more "Oompah.Loompah" than human being. And an incredibly poorly one at that...

"...one of the most important lessons I’ve learned the hard way is that time can’t be made — it can only be taken. It can be taken by us or taken from us. The more time is taken from us, the less of ourselves we have to give..." - Ryder Carroll

"...perfectionism is merely fear masquerading as productivity..." - Darwin Cruz

I have never been so tempted to steal an umbrella in my life….

Me. Clubbing. Last night..,.

‘Strange Days’ had big William Gibson energy. Had it not been so 90s located it‘s be considered a classic… I am now trapped at the cinema by Manc torrential rain…

Weirdly, Mark E Smith mentions my street on his solo album.....

I've been so all over the place for the last week that I complete forgot that it was scouse derby weekend....

Finally gonna get to see "Strange Days"... been meaning to see it since it came out 30 years again.....

Got a dead hour or two before cinema. Pacing like a trapped animal... and listening to the Mark E Smith solo album.... Yup... dead time....

For some reason the little "Calvin and Hobbes" group I joined for laughs, wisdown and comfort is now showing me spurting phalluses and um, aftermaths.... direct to my phone. Modernity... I hate you....

"...I was pleased to see that anticigarette ad on the back issue of Hustler. I'm more offended by seeing ads for cigarettes in magazines than pictures of vaginas, because one kills and the other gives life—and I think that's an important difference..." - Paul Krassner

Man.., this is some god tier Nethanderal marketing…

Harpurhey state of mind…

Zeitgeist…

American right wing christian news network horror at British industrial bands in the mid 80s... youtu.be/QoSe-QDjRhI via @ youtube.com

Just found "Nadja" played Manchester tonight, three hours after the gig had finished. Damn, I'd have gone to that... :(

Esplendor Geométrico | Eg1 CS [full] youtu.be/BFe4IQXaZf8?... via @YouTube Oh yes... the great early period Spanish language industrial album!!!! This is up there with the genre greats!!! :)

this just played on Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Thought it was old. Turned out it was new... youtu.be/TyfNxzkfDhY?... via @youtube.com

The walk to Cultplex follows the line of the Irk as it flows down towards the Irwell. It takes me past the infernal partially constructed millionaire’s row… (tomorrow’s slums today...) Underhanging river walls - wild fig trees…

It is kinda cool that the underground arthouse cinema is within reasonable walking distance of the flat…

Just saw Bladerunner 2049. Not superlative. Not spectacular. But very very strong and a tad overlong. It’s so intertextual with the original, while being original. And Harrison Ford…

No matter how big a prick Morrissey became… there’s still a magic to wandering around Manchester City centre in the pouring rain…

I wish there was a way to make bus drivers balls remotely detonate in their ill-fitting pants, when they were ignore an early and clear instruction to stop…

The moment when you order breakfast… and you realise your cash card, is in your football kit, which is in the wash, 3 miles away… ;(

"...cyberpunk was a warning, not a suggestion...." - William Gibson

Sometimes, I doom scroll Twitter's smoking, glitching ruins, and it all seems like malicous nonsense, spewed by subprime AI, echoing rednundant culture war kata postions past as a raging torrent of non sequitors. It gives me a headache....

"Groypers" are trending... great. There's an idea that really doesn't need to root and mutate in the heads of the British goldfish bowel.... or indeed.... anywhere else...

Until Wednesday evening I had only the vaguest idea of who Charlie Kirk was... and I sure wish I could go back to my previous state of utter ignorance...

Seeing tv from around 9/11 reminds me of the way episodes of Quincey seemed to embody a lost pre-modern modernity around the same time. Watch old episodes of the Sopranos and you get that distinct feeling of a "so near - so far" lost world...

I always though indie rocks prog turn circa 1997 as the flabby corpse of britpop rotted out, as the genres effective death rattle...

My coffee machine has died. Ow :(

God, for the first time, I've lived longer post 9/11 than pre-9/11... I realize on the 24th anniversary of...

That was the most J.G. Ballard thing 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫. JFK for the AI age. I've just seen something that will haunt me till I die....

The flashy flag wankers have been at it again… this time in the area around work. Cockwombles ;(

HIRS collective. Queer musics grindcore turn…

So support band no 2…. This is… Death Goals!!!! Also pretty good!!!

I always found queercore/riot feel credible as it took no leap of faith or imagination to envisage the legitimate righteous anger of the performers….