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This is a habit I should return to.

It's actually a lovely bit of self care to go and browse the cheap CD's and take home a bargain bag of music you'll have for the rest of your life without bothering your bank account too much. I remember buying Scott Walker 1-4 for £20 and spending the most wonderful afternoon listening back to back

It's what I'll do in future, just keep that collapse in mind.
I didn't notice either being out though, not that I ever use Facebook, it disturbs me.

I feel there should be something about keeping the psychopaths in line there too.

Like I know anyone who's interested!

Aye, and Delia Derbyshire didn't write the Doctor Who theme but she owns it! Nice bit of trivia there for when the subject of the Sorry! theme comes up again (which is quite often considering).

Absolutely, and I still keep imagining the Great Crash, when everything online totally disappears and we're in the relative dark again. Then who's laughing? Well, not many people but I'll be sorted for viewing for a solid year or more.

YouTube video by TrouNoir Sorry! (1981) TV show theme tune 10 hour version (very, very sorry)

People misuse YouTube for podcasts and video essays these days when what it was really designed for was stuff like this;

youtu.be/bUJciKTmc20?...

Picking up the ball and running with it, that is. Inspired.

An absolute masterpiece. Ronnie Hazlehurst's finest moment surely, though the musique concrète of Are You Being Served is worthy of laudation. In fact, the man was a genius in his genre.

I've been thinking I should repost things a little more often, especially total winners like this.

I really do prefer physical media but also am seriously running out of space for the things! But it's frustrating that stuff ends streaming and simply isn't available on Blu-ray or even DVD, so you just sit and twiddle your thumbs or you fire up the Pirate Bay. Bottoms was one. Couldn't buy it.

Yep, so they get banned, the insensitive bastards.

If they remove Sigue Sigue Sputnik from the radio nobody will ever notice. Not that this should be the case, they were pretty good fun. Anyway, they're singing about a love missile not a hate missile and F111's aren't in service anymore so they should be alright.

God, those were stupid times. That they're even more stupid now is a troubling direction of travel.

Never been there but I didn't much like the fans of their football team. Most uncouth.

I can't pretend I'm not disappointed in this news.

Man, they haven't remembered how important the City of Culture was.

The thing is in 1990 Glasgow discovered this new pride in arts, like we weren't just Edinburgh's uncultured sibling, and now the various authorities seem keen to wreck all that. For sure these are/were important spaces.

"I Ran" by Flock of Seagulls could trigger an American.

Bad news for Bomb the Bass again

Audiobooks don’t really count as reading? Think again. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Education scholars say rigor, learning same as paper, stigma an unnecessary hurdle

I forget whether I've listened to or read books, the information is all in there in the same place, understood and processed. However I often find I've gone off on a train of thought with audiobooks and before I know it 15 minutes have passed where I've heard nothing, which doesn't happen with books

Needs must. We should have done that with The Arches. Christ, the CCA has gone belly up too. What a state.

I'll be there next week for a gig too so I guess that'll be a bit emotional. Hopefully by then the residents will have some form of resistance movement on the go that we can all get involved in. "You shall not pass" shit, like the old Poll Tax days!

‘Cultural vandalism’: major arts hub kicked out by council’s property company Tenants like Glasgow Print Studio and Glasgow Media Access Centre have less than 28 days to leave Trongate 103

Glasgow's murdering its own art scene. Ignorant bastards. Will it be more student accommodation? Another electrical fire and a modern glass box?
www.glasgowbell.co.uk/trongate-103...

Mind you, I don't find the idea that BBC Scotland is full of those hard to believe.

Local evil Mao. FFS. But Trump's bloated, decaying, decadent shadow is being cast over the globe now.

Well, in recorded history anyway. Local evils like Pol Pots and Mao's were devastating, but this has the feeling of something larger and worse unless it's ended soon.

It is, and who's stopping them? Who's going to stop the worst people in the world from doing whatever the fuck they want? It is obscene, but it's worse than obscene to see leaders globally bow and coronate them. Potentially the greatest evil in the history of humanity. Potentially.