Adrian Brown

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Day 7

Anton Barbeau - MTV Song
Waterbugs & Beetles (2006)

Psychedelic power pop song factory of near-Robert Pollard-rivalling proportions

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Here’s Gwennie on her throne

YouTube video by recrof Lamb - Angelica [HQ]

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Day 6

Lamb - Angelica
Between Darkness And Wonder (2003)

Debussy meets trip hop

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You’re welcome! This prompted me to have a bit of a relisten too - never managed to see him live though…

YouTube video by Elliott Smith - Topic Junk Bond Trader

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Day 5

Elliott Smith - Junk Bond Trader
Figure 8 (2000)

One of a handful of artists who may recur on my list, this is a standout from an underrated album

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YouTube video by Half Japanese - Topic Patty

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Day 4

Half Japanese - Patty
Hello (2000)

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Common sea lavender at Bosham Quay and, from a few years back, sea thrift, wild carrot and knapweed on Chesil Beach, for the #WildFlowerHour #ByTheSea challenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

YouTube video by KING PRAWN KING PRAWN - THE DOMINANT VIEW [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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Day 3

King Prawn - The Dominant View
Got The Thirst (2003)

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YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic Grow Grow Grow

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Day 2

PJ Harvey - Grow Grow Grow
White Chalk (2007)

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Hi Richard – it’s really good to hear that. I’ll go for:

1: Love – Forever Changes (5 pts)
2: Muddy Waters – At Newport 1960
3: Os Mutantes – S/T
4: The Monks – Black Monk Time
5: Lightnin’ Hopkins – Goin’ Away

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Fantastic opportunity to work at the National Archives as a specialist on early modern parliamentary papers.
#HistParl
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YouTube video by Airport 5 - Topic Stifled Man Casino

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Day 1

Airport 5 - Stifled Man Casino
Tower In The Fountain Of Sparks (2001)

That’s the breaks, baby

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Two fine blues albums for consideration for #5albums50s60s4, in particular Muddy Waters’ (literally) electrifying live performance

Masses of scabious, common cats ear and harebells nodding in the wind on the upper slopes of Butser Hill today #WildFlowerHour

Here are spotted, red, and a splendidly hairy white dead nettle for the #wildflowerhour #DeadNettleFamily challenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

My very best wishes for Rachel’s continued recovery

A closeup of clustered bellflower flowers

A closeup of nettle-leaved bellflower flowers

A closeup of a meadow cranesbill flower, backlit by the morning sun

No harebells, but I do have clustered and nettle-leaved bellflower for the #WildFlowerHour #HarebellChallenge. Also, keeping at least to the blue theme, meadow cranesbill @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

unpopular parts of a pig Mclusky · the world is still here and so are we · Song · 2025

It's good to have Mclusky back, a mere 20 years after the wonderfully-titled 'The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire', with another explosion of angrily surreal post-hardcore noise. Definitely a candidate for #5albums25. Top track:
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Here’s a passionflower for a wet Sunday morning

Really sorry to hear that Richard - best wishes to you all

One the subject of unhinged, The Monks’ one and only studio album is fully feral, and a proto-punk landmark, which is sure to feature on my #5albums50s60s4 list

I’m rather behind on my #5albums50s60s4 listening, but I have been very much enjoying the wonderfully strange, and new to me, latin psychedelic pop rock of Os Mutantes’ debut

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

The pink petalled dog rose with beams of light refracted off the lense

Did you know the dog-rose is the County Flower of Hampshire?

In Autumn and Winter, its bright red rosehips are foraged by birds, mammals and humans.

📷 Paula Wilks

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Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won’t be the last.

AI Bitrot?

"This is like inducing catastrophic brain damage in the model: with just one bit flip, accuracy can crash from 80% to 0.1%, rendering it useless,” arstechnica.com/security/202...

Wild basil, a meadow of creeping thistle, another of dandelions, and a repeat of last week’s premature hedge woundwort for #WildFlowerHour #HairyPlants @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

So very sorry for your loss Melinda. No such thing as inappropriate in these circumstances, and the rhythms of normality do help

A slightly manic-looking jackdaw sunbathing with outstretched wings on a sloping, clay tile roof

Feeling slightly envious of this jackdaw sunbathing on our garage roof, and right in my eye-line as I make Teams calls

Sadly no opportunity this week to look for epipactis helleborines, but here’s a white helleborine from a few weeks back, plus a spike of hedge woundwort for #WildFlowerHour #HelleborineChallenge @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Just bottled - mulberry and boysenberry vodka - an experiment which only came about as a means of using last season’s fruit when our fridge freezer packed up just before Christmas. I’m declaring it a success…