Rob Maher

‘I want to ride out on a unicorn every night’: swords’n’sorcery heavy metal band Castle Rat Wielding fantasy weapons and splashing fake blood, the New Yorkers have even learned how to make chainmail outfits – and they’re already aiming to conquer stadiums

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The Heaviest Songs of the Universe (Part 3- Side B2): Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Linkin Park, and more!

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Another great episode my friend. Of course, Maynard's whole schtick about flushing away LA is taken from a Bill Hicks routine. "Leaving nothing but a cool, beautiful serenity called... Arizona Bay."

I mean obviously Mary Shelley didn't say this.

#np Yup. Still perfect.

Goodreads has clearly started using AI to generate its pages and it is peak AI: Takes twice as long to load as it used to, but is in all other respects identical.

I can talk for hours about Finnegans Wake and yet I still have no idea what Tron was about more than 40 years after I first saw it.

I prefer King Size. As in, the length of a Stephen King novel:

I always count it as a 70s album, just like Queen's The Game. My 2nd favourite Bowie album, after Station to Station.

*judgement

It's literally the last 5mins people disklike and that colours their jdgement. Voyager has very few truly terrible episodes, compared to TNG and DS9.

#np Tom Waits - Rain Dogs. Happy 40th you mad bastard.

YouTube video by Alasdair Beckett-King Every Edgy Millionaire Comedian

Don't miss Buddy Nutzack's set in Riyadh. youtu.be/lRXn-g1s4T8

Sweden - Exterminate All the Brutes et al.

New Reading the World blogpost - Sweden, Strindberg, two authors called, Lindqvist, colonialism, vampires, James Joyce, Opeth, Bergman, and much more, it's got it all:

worldthereading.blogspot.com/2025/10/swed...

AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers - an excellent collection of short stories by the likes of Nnedi Okorafor. I just discovered there are two sequels that I need to read.

My decision to stop using Google six months ago seems more and more justified. Trying to research anything while I was writing became infuriating.

YouTube video by LOVEBITES Miyako (from LOVEBITES) / Painkiller (JUDAS PRIEST) - Piano cover [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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Share your favourite black and white movie (Strangelove a close 2nd).

YouTube video by J. Draper How We Beat The Fascists Last Time: The London History Show

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Japanese film based on a Haruki Murakami short story (actually elements of 3 stories). The central plot is about a director doing a production of Uncle Vanya with a multilingual cast. A long film, but brilliant. Won the Best Foreign Film Oscar in 2022. Chekhov and The Beatles. What's not to like?

@av4apod.bsky.social I'm writing something about Chekhov (part of piece on Russian writers) and was curious to know if you've seen Drive My Car.

It feels like YouTube is 10 years behind the curve of other socal media. I would like to be able to mute certain words and watch premieres from the beginning without having to start haflway through and rewind back to the beginning.

Uzbekistan - The Railway et al.

New Reading the World blogpost - Uzbekistan, Hamid Ismailov and the Soviet Era:
#readingtheworld

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Uzbekistan - The Railway et al.

New Reading the World blogpost - Uzbekistan, Hamid Ismailov and the Soviet Era:
#readingtheworld

worldthereading.blogspot.com/2025/09/uzbe...

I go back to it now and then, but it's the one that always leaves me cold. I find it completely forgetable.

YouTube video by Napalm Records NANOWAR OF STEEL - Uranus feat. Michael Starr (Steel Panther) | Napalm Records

Uranus you say (FYI, one of the band is an astrophysicist as his day job)?:
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Best Things Ever #14 Bruce Dickinson: The Chemical Wedding ”’Have you read Harry Potter, Stew, and the— and the Tree of Nothing?’ No, I haven’t. I haven’t read it, but I have read the comple...

Good Maiden to you. Delighted you've discovered this one. Easily the best 90s 'Maiden' album. A number of years ago I wrote a whole thing about the album and William Blake in general. Bit wanky in places, but it's here if you want to read it:
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graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

They're pretty good. I have a couple on CD somewhere. Big Finish produced them.