Jamie | Veins Full of Static

Colour photograph of David Berman, seated by a sign that reads 'Fans/Bobby's/Idle Hour', next to which stands a stylised cheap life size human figure with a guitar.

'Berman's lyrics are often melancholic, deceptively simple, funny and modest, with a sense of acute intelligence and curiosity that has somehow fallen in on itself under the weight of it all, left standing bemused and amused in the wreckage'

The Strange World of #DavidBerman

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Happy National Hot Sauce Day! I trust you've all got your decorations and chilli trees up and are singing the traditional Hot Sauce Day carols?

We're celebrating this definitely-real-day with 10% off all orders. Use the code 'sauceday' at checkout to get the discount.

I'm not sure I've ever had a sale so quick either 😄

Really proud of this sauce. It's the one folks seem to love out of our range so I hope you dig it! 🙏

When I'm not doing music (or doing a day job or faffing around doomscrolling) I'm making hot sauce. It's available to buy online for anyone in the UK.

If you could be so kind as to follow the account that'd be really nice. It's got a pitiful number of followers atm. Marketing is not my passion.

New release on WEPN today from Kavalcade (the artist formerly known as Pope John Paul Van Damme)

I'll miss that wonderful name but the change makes sense at this point in his trajectory. This is serious (and seriously good) shit.

Thanks for stopping by! I'm not very well schooled on production techniques so I'm pleased it's sounding like I know what I'm doing

"Shall we get some kind of motorised vehicle to get Tana around the arena?*
"Fuck that - let the Young Lions pull it."

I love you NJPW

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If Tana had knees that were as indestructible as his will, he wouldn’t be retiring right now.

What a unique, gifted, once a millennium man he is even if this chapter of his career is now over. The ACE of the Universe is President ACE only now. No one could ever love #NJPW more.

Naito doing some epic shithousing at a legend's retirement ceremony is iconic stuff. Annoying, inappropriate, but perfectly on brand 😂🤼

If this ceremony ends with Jake Lee booting Tana's face off and walking off looking bored again it'd be hilarious. The worst possible thing to do but hilarious nonetheless 🤼

Godspeed, Hiroshi Tanahashi. It's been a privilege. And that was a hell of a match to sign off with 🤼

YAAAS TSUJI!

The AEW/NJPW discourse around Takeshita is tedious but he was exactly the right man to give Yota that match for that moment. Beautiful. 😊

Fair play to the wolfman - he did not suck. He'd over as all hell and, most importantly for me after looking bored as fuck in every appearance so far, he looked passionate and keen to be there. Not sure about giving him the belt straight off the bat but a promising start 🤼

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Please don't suck Aaron Wolf 🤼

They need to be giving Fujita all the gold sooner rather than later. But I'll never say no to more Despe 🤼

I keep saying I need to start watching Stardom. After that banger of a match I'll say it again - I *really* need to start watching Stardom 🤼

That ZSJ pin finish was devilishly smooth. And Big Jag had clearly not been told he'd be leaving Wrestle Kingdom with a belt. A heartwarming end to a clusterfuffle of a match 🤼

Enjoying the Entrance Ranbo at Wrestle Kingdom. Ridiculous amount of talent trying to get some wrestling in between introductions. Pity the poor War Dogs getting eliminated before the match even started properly. 🤼

It's turned out very nice. Almost worth the Curse of Ceaseless Burning I managed to cast on myself.

I made chilli habanero jam yesterday. You'd think running a hot sauce business would have taught me how to deal with handling superhot chillies. And yet there I was at midnight, soaking my burning hands in milk and trying to fall asleep while holding a frozen bottle of water.

I am not a smart man.

Extract from Rob Reiner's Wikipedia Filmography 1986 - Stand By zme 1987 - The Princess Bride 1989 - When Harry Met Sally 1990 - Misery 1992 - A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama.

Us: Across your entire career?

Reiner: In a 6 year period.

Us: That sounds-

Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

it’s instructive what sort of speech the bbc finds problematic and what sort of speech it finds absolutely fine. note, e.g., the complete lack of interest in alan sugar’s blatant racism.

The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar

Projections suggest that by the end of 2026 the two biggest consumers of electricity on planet earth will be AI data centres and modular synth rigs. Both have the potential to destroy civilisation as we know it. It's just a matter of which one gets there first.

SUUUUUUUPER happy to be releasing ‘Rewilding’ today. This album of mine has been a long time coming and seeing it out in the wild (no pun intended) is glorious. It’s all here : thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/album/rewild...
Also, Happy Bandcamp Friday!

I clicked my spotify wrapped button and all I got was an animation of Daniel Ek riding an AI murder drone, Major Kong style, as it guns down a faceless unarmed crowd. To a bubblegrunge soundtrack, whatever the fuck that is.

a "listening fingerprint" diagram from last.fm. it tracks consistency, discovery rate, variance, concentration, and replay rate. this diagram shows a listener (myself) whose replay and consistency rates are lower than average and whose other three points are higher than average.

last fm's listening metrics are fun and good and if I thought they had any budget I'd say they should lean further in on this. 3D representations of any given listener's engagement with Scandinavian jazz. pie charts specifically referencing thrash variants

This is TONIGHT!!!
I’ll be talking about the album’s production, influences and how watching the many seasons go by at my Yorkshire allotment helped me put this album together. Stop by for a full listen to the record in advance of release thomasragsdalemusic.bandcamp.com/merch/sulk-r...