@allistert.bsky.social
"Amateur" ambient/folk musician, "Professional" editor/author of thoughtful speculative fiction, generally on climate and human folly. From some place currently called “Canada.” thegatelessgate.bandcamp.com http://www.allisterthompson.com
It’s not just the US transitioning into Putinsville…democratic norms, such as they are, are being eroded day by day in Canada and the UK too.
toronto.citynews.ca/2026/03/13/t...
Mind you, my discography is almost free to buy, so that's probably a decent enticement.
Yes, my full discography has been bought more than anything else on my BC. Always great when that happens. Those are the good people. ;>
wacka wacka!
Sounds like a real new age funeral!
It's about our attention spans. You find a BC page, play 20 seconds of something, doesn't grab you, then you move on. Our brains have been rewired through limitless choice. I remember buying CDs based on a review, taking them home and working really hard to try to like them to justify my purchase!
That is also true. Never thought of that!
People of the future will ask all kinds of questions about our strange cultural practices, such as singing Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ at funerals, given that the lyrics don’t fit such an occasion at all.
Oh yes, it’s always been that way.
It’s unfortunate that folk festivals don’t contain any folk music acts anymore.
And rejection.
Also, I never should have reinstalled this thing on my phone.
Pretty well every person who is lucky enough to be eulogized is portrayed as a selfless saint, but if that’s the case, why are we all such intolerable dickheads?
If you ever thought the perfect album cover doesn’t exist - it does!!!
Philistines
Even better, the dang thing is all 40Hz , which everyone knows is the ultimate Hz.
If you ever thought the perfect album cover doesn’t exist - it does!!!
Needed some cheering up, which is when I bust this out. Contains two of humanity’s greatest literary achievements, ‘The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death’ and ‘Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars.’
Boycotting chatbots sure is easy. You just...don't use them and your life is fine.
Ambient musicians need to understand there is a happy track titling sweet spot about halfway between the polarized extremes of ‘Ten Buddhas Dancing in a Moon Garden’ and ‘I Never Liked Your Fucking Dog.’
For me Departure Songs is the untouchable one, followed by Oblivion Hymns, but yes, all their albums are great.
That’s not bad, actually.
One of their best releases ever, I think!
Ambient musicians need to understand there is a happy track titling sweet spot about halfway between the polarized extremes of ‘Ten Buddhas Dancing in a Moon Garden’ and ‘I Never Liked Your Fucking Dog.’
I thought I’d try to find redeeming value, but there is none.
The BBC’s ‘War of the Worlds’ miniseries is even more abysmal on the second viewing. Bad everything in this one.
Wee mousie collateral.
Here’s a beautiful haiku I just came up with:
Your plays were all skips
Of my lovely Bandcamp tracks
Download something, jerk!
Just popping back on here to say that citizens of the Western Roman Empire in 460 CE were probably convinced their empire would never fall. So, there’s hope.
