Nick Dymond

image containing text from linked Pitchfork review of Heatmiser's album, Mic City Sons. "But when the feedback died down, Smith’s teenaged devotion to prog-rock epics began to subtly make itself known in his songwriting, particularly in his use of passing chords—chords with pieces and hints of other chords, shadows and implications of places where the song had not yet gone. Unlike the Beatles, who used passing chords as elegant stairsteps to blooming major-key choruses, Smith’s songs lived in the spaces between. “Plainclothes Man” is a profusion of chords—blue ones, inquiring ones, sour-apple ones, chords like a grimace and and chords like a pained laugh. There is no bright chorus waiting on the other end of them, just an endless fog of mixed emotions. Heatmiser’s music came alive in this conversational midrange, somewhere between a wry laugh and mutter."

man, what a gorgeous description of Elliott Smith's songwriting style, specifically his use of passing chords... "chords with pieces and hints of other chords, shadows and implications of places where the song had not yet gone."

pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

I will go back to talking about video games and music, I promise, but like, you don't (supposedly) privately fund a $200m ballroom in the White House if you plan to leave. That's not something greedy people do.

Board of Mammon I wrote another RPG. I set myself the challenge of creating it for a single sheet of paper and came up with Board of Mammon, a GM-less PVP one-shot RPG about greed: You are demonic executives competin...

I wrote a TTRPG called BOARD OF MAMMON.
- Exercise demonic corporate greed for Mammon's favour!
- You don't need a GM! It's for one-shot sessions!
- The rules fit on a single sheet of paper!
- Someone gets to be CEO and you can vote them out!
- It's totally FREE!
rotational.co.uk/rpg/2025-08-...

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Welcome to Brick Lane

There’s a new plaque on the wall of a small building in Ashby de la Zouch …. Legendary

Reassuring to know that I'm not the only person who does this.

It's always good these days looking up a musician from the UK that you've just heard of and seeing what private school they went to.

What a beauty! 😍

In my studio. Just got something going that might not be complete dogcake. Catch some movement in the corner of my eye.

BAT!

The lyrics from Boards of Canada's "One Very Important Thought" from their 1996 album Music Has the Right to Children. [Outro] Now that the show is over and we have jointly exercised our constitutional rights, we would like to leave you with one very important thought Sometime in the future, you may have the opportunity to serve as a juror in a censorship case or a so-called obscenity case. It would be wise to remember that the same people who would stop you from listening to Boards of Canada may be back next year to complain about a book, or even a TV program. If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think. Defend your constitutionally protected rights - no one else will do it for you Thank you

It's been creeping up for years, but with Collective Shout and KOSA (again), I've been finding myself thinking of Boards of Canada's "One Very Important Thought" a lot lately.

Make some calls this week.

Defend your constitutionally protected rights. No one else will do it for you.
Thank you.

I agree, but we also live in a world of shit machine-made furniture of wood chippings and plastic laminate, terrible quality clothes that don't bio-degrade and mass-produced food that destroys our health, decimates landscapes and harms animals.

Culture's the next thing into the playdough machine.

I'm seeing electronic music promoters are putting dayglo signs on traffic light posts again.

Nature is healing.

(AKA the internet isn't working anymore)

“Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real power. It's dangerous.”

HBD, the extraordinary Stanley Kubrick …

If you are a trade body and you are not willing to publicly challenge the bad things happening in your industry especially to the some of the most vulnerable people in it then all your glitzy cocktail events and awards can get stuffed frankly.

It's apt that corporations/governments divided the internet into SFW and NSFW & are now making it all Safe For Work, because that is the defining frame they want to place on the world--everywhere you go is for Work, not pleasure or art or love or culture. You must always Work for Them, or die.

Do you want my day rate? 😁

War Pigs is one of the best album openings ever, right? Absolute monolith of a track.

RIP Ozzy

a sentinel

every day I dream of a world in which game studios are worker co-ops

Pretty much given-up on google search for anything useful. It's like opening a sales catalogue when you thought you were holding an encyclopedia.

Search engine DuckDuckGo now has an option for their image search - hide AI images
It is based on a curated list of AI sites, so it won't get rid of everything, but it does get rid of a lot.

After muttering "It is very dahk in here...," Udo Kier turned on all the fluorescent lights on at GameSpot and laughed delightedly when everyone screamed.

😅

Worth the subscription alone...

Suit, aye? Photos or it didn't happen ;)

(also, congrats, have a great time)

100%

I would buy a modern remake of Creator in a flash. It's so good to use a sequencer where the event list is intuitive and playable and you can navigate mouselessly, not dealing with piano rolls. Trackers are the same I guess. I bounce from Ableton mostly from the feeling of GUI/mouse overload.

Yeah, makes sense to not use those features when it should be covered by the DAW's undo stack. The A/B comparison thing is really useful in some situations because it should save both states so you can A/B multiple EQ's with a few clicks.

I don't use pro-q but it looks like it has inbuilt undo/redo and A/B swapping in the header bar. It's not ideal but I guess that's one option for comparing settings?

On Creator on my Atari the 'undo' key goes back and forth to when you opened the midi sequence to start editing and I kinda love it.

A closeup photo looking down at the top of a lizard's head. The lizard has spiny scales on the neck and body, in a high-contrast pattern of dark brown/black and white/bluish-cream. Visible in the center smooth scale atop the head is an oval dot called the parietal eye, a third eye not for image-forming but used to sense day-night cycles.

An extreme closeup photo looking down at the top of a lizard's head (a crop of the other photo in this post). In the center smooth scale is an oval dot, amber colored with a central spot; this is the parietal eye, a third eye not for image-forming but used to sense day-night cycles.

Yarrow's Spiny Lizard (Sceleporus jarrovii), Arizona. See the parietal eye? This third eye has a lens, cornea, & retina, but is not for image-forming. It senses light/dark to help regulate circadian rhythms, and may help the lizard avoid predators & assist with sense of direction. 🦎 #reptiles 👁️👁️👁️