Currently loving

July 1st Currently loving

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Currently lovingCurrently loving and being loved back, Elsie the Cat in action.  Back to work today and I get to challenge my Tuesday hoodoo.  Conversion is positive, the value is shite!  Some of the conversation is fun, some of it not.

Music

  1. Pale Lights – Pale Lights
  2. Pale Lights – You And I
  3. Pale Lights – Jean, Bring The Flowers EP
  4. Pale Lights – Séance For Something EP
  5. Pale Lights – The Stars Seemed Brighter
  6. Pale Lights & Lake Ruth – Only an Ocean Through the Lychgates
  7. Pale Lights – EP
  8. Pale Lights – Fourteen Stories Tall / Twisting The Knife
  9. Pale Lights – Waverly Place
  10. Pale Lights – Before There Were Pictures
  11. The Soft City – The Soft City EP
  12. The Soft City – The Soft City
  13. The Soft City – Snow Keeps Falling
  14. The Soft City – Four Stories EP

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What’s this even for?

June 30th What’s this even for?

30th, Abstract, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, June 2025, Mod, Monday, Music, Photos, Psychedelia

What’s this even for?What’s this even for?  Yep, that item you add to a Temu order to get the free postage! So experiment with the notion of speech to text as a form of blogging. It’s a short cut that requires an edit! Been up to the doctors to sort out meds, there is no 45mg pioglitazone, but there are some 30mg tablets. Seems a bit much that I have to inform them…. It’s things that they don’t seem to be getting right at the moment. It’s a Brexit benefit that I get to thoroughly enjoy.

Meanwhile Amazon have been busy delivering kit.  Roll on the main event!

Sort this months video.

Music

  1. Love, Burns – Fiftieth And Marlborough
  2. Love, Burns – Live at Pete’s Candy Store
  3. Love, Burns – Blue
  4. Love, Burns – It Should Have Been Tomorrow
  5. Love, Burns – Wired Eyes / Hard to Fall
  6. Love, Burns – Gate and the Ghost / It’s a Shame
  7. Love, Burns – It’s a Shame (Catford Gyrations Remix) / What To Do About Us
  8. Love, Burns – Fade in the Sun EP
  9. Love, Burns – Tom Gallo Session EP
  10. Preston Pfanz & The Seaton Sands  – Return To Burnt Island
  11. The Penrose Web – The Least Of Our Concerns

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My mood in object form

29th June My mood in object form

29th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Food, Indie, June 2025, Music, Photos, Pop, Portraiture, Psychedelia, Sunday, , , , , , , , , , , ,

My mood in object formMy mood in object form… well it had to be didn’t is. Cash in the spotlight points today in preparation for planned camera.  Most of it arrives today, some batteries on Wednesday.  Bit of a bizarre day, lazy start, cold still evident but slightly less knackered than I have been.  Light shop, coffee with C, S and R.  Pasta planned for tea.

Planning a GR III bit of a replacement job for the GR IIID.

Purchase

  1. Batteries x 5
  2. 256GB SD Card
  3. Lens Cap
  4. Camera Case
  5. Paracord Wrist Strap
  6. Molle Bag
  7. Tabletop Tripod

Music

  1. The Third Mind – The Third Mind
  2. The Third Mind – Live Mind
  3. The Third Mind – The Third Mind 2
  4. The Third Mind – East West (Tchad Blake Remix)
  5. The Soft Boys – I Wanna Destroy You / Near The Soft Boys
  6. The Mayflies USA – Kickless Kids
  7. The Mayflies USA – Live at Yep Roc 15 The Mayflies USA
  8. The Mayflies USA – Walking In A Straight Line
  9. The Mayflies USA – The Mayflies USA
  10. Scissor Sisters – Night Work
  11. Scissor Sisters – Ta-Dah

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Chaotic Corner

28th June Chaotic corner

28th, Date, Days, Electronica, FMS Photo A Day, Folk, Indie, June 2025, Music, Pop, Psychedelia, Saturday, , , , , , , , , , ,

Chaotic CornerChaotic Corner which gets me accused of making the house look like a dump.  Possibly true.  It’s on the list for Monday’s chores though.  Coffee, visit to Wigan’s armed forces day, shopping and lunch in the pub with C.  Am still feeling shattered from cold and have a glorious kip in the afternoon.

Music

  1. Soft Cell – Mutant Moments
  2. Soft Cell – Memorabilia
  3. Soft Cell – Bedsitter
  4. Soft Cell – Tainted Love
  5. Soft Cell – Say Hello Wave Goodbye
  6. Soft Cell – Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
  7. Soft Cell – Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
  8. Various Artists – Acid Visions. The Complete Collection. Best Of Texas Punk & Psychedelic
  9. Levellers – Greatest Hits
  10. Levellers – Mouth To Mouth
  11. Levellers – Hope St.
  12. Levellers – Live At The Royal Albert Hall
  13. Levellers – Collective / Live
  14. Levellers – A Curious Life (Live At Union Chapel)

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Who put this here?

27th June Who put this here?

27th, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Friday, Garage, Indie, June 2025, Music, Photos, Pop, Psychedelia, Street Photography, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Who put this here?Who put this here? Well it was a day late but heck. Friday and I’m chasing my tail doing the tasks I’ve set myself.  Remember the Milk pays dividends as I check things off.

Music

  1. Lightheaded – Thinking, Dreaming, Scheming!
  2. Jeanines – How Long Can It Last
  3. The Seeds – Bad Part Of Town
  4. Chook Race – About Time
  5. Chook Race – Cheap Split
  6. Chook Rice – Chook Race

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Unread books that deserve better

26th June Unread books that deserve better

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Unread books that deserve betterUnread books that deserve better – Hurricane bought in desperation because I was out and about with nothing to read the other day. The Home Recording Handbook is the latest Newell, a fabulous and easy read that I’m digesting a chapter at a time.

Day one of Remember The Milk in anger and it proves useful, a busy day with lots to do and breaking it down an element at a time helps.  Need to reread my way round GTD though.

The GTD method involves five key steps:
  1. Capture: Collect all open loops, commitments, and ideas in a designated system, like a notebook or to-do list app.
  2. Clarify: Process each captured item to determine if it’s actionable. If not, archive, delegate, or trash it.
  3. Organize: Arrange actionable items into relevant categories like projects, next actions, calendar, waiting for, and someday/maybe lists.
  4. Reflect: Regularly review your system to ensure it remains current and relevant, and to identify priorities.
  5. Engage: Execute tasks based on your current context, using the organized system to guide your actions. 

Music

  1. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont – Goodbye Drama Queen
  2. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont – High With You
  3. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont – Sorry I Made You Cry
  4. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont – Sun Come Up
  5. Hifi Sean & David McAlmont – Twighlight
  6. Real Numbers – Wordless Wonder
  7. Real Numbers – Performs
  8. Real Numbers – Up And About
  9. Real Numbers – Only Two Can Play
  10. Real Numbers – Live on Radiant
  11. Real Numbers – Frank Infatuation
  12. Real Numbers – Brighter Then
  13. Real Numbers – Real Numbers
  14. Various Artists – Move On Up – The Very Best Of Northern Soul

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A masterpiece (sarcasm)

25th June A masterpiece (sarcasm)

25th, Beat, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Garage, Indie, June 2025, Mod, Music, Pop, Psychedelia, Wednesday, , , , , , , , , , , ,

A masterpiece (sarcasm)A masterpiece (sarcasm) – a festival of crisps, left field and potentially brilliant and awful at the same time.

Music

  1. The Chemistry Set – Firefly
  2. The Chemistry Set – Lovely Cuppa Tea EP
  3. The Chemistry Set – Neptune Eruptus (The Fountains Of Neptune) Remixes
  4. The Chemistry Set – Paint Me A Dream
  5. The Chemistry Set – Pink Felt Trip
  6. The Chemistry Set – Elapsed Memories EP
  7. The Chemistry Set – Time To Breathe
  8. The Chemistry Set – Come Kiss Me Vibrate And Smile
  9. The Chemistry Set – The Endless More And More
  10. The Chemistry Set – Impossible Love
  11. The Chemistry Set – Hallucinations
  12. The Chemistry Set – This Day Will Never Happen Again
  13. Paul Lake – Dear Mr Fantasy / Child Of The Moon
  14. Dave Maclean – Faintly Blowing

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Too Many Mugs

June 22nd Too many mugs

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Too Many MugsToo many mugs, there’s always too many mugs.  Back in for the last early of the week and then we have 4 lates before the bliss of 4 days off.  Ash is away this week so Lib’ll step up.

Jump on the bus and the driver let’s it turn itself off, can’t turn the bugger on again so any chance of a grabbed coffee in Wigan has gone. Bugger…

Music

  1. Papercuts – Baxter’s Bliss EP
  2. Papercuts – Can’t Go Back
  3. Papercuts – Covers
  4. Papercuts – Kathleen Says
  5. Papercuts – Life Among the Savages
  6. Papercuts – Mokingbird
  7. Papercuts – Past Life Regression
  8. Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want
  9. Papercuts – You Can Have What You Want Demos
  10. Papercuts – Parallel Universe Blues
  11. Frankie Rose – Interstellar (extended Reissue)
  12. Frankie Rose – Love As Projection
  13. Frankie Rose – Red Museum
  14. Chime School – Coming To Your Town
  15. The Smashing Times – Bloom
  16. The Smashing Times – Come Along With Me
  17. The Smashing Times – Dreams on Union B/W A Changing Letter
  18. The Smashing Times – Mrs Ladyships and the Cleanerhouse Boys
  19. The Smashing Times – Summer Inside
  20. The Smashing Times – This Sporting Life

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A Pet Judging Me

June 21 A pet judging me

21st, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Indie, June 2025, Photos, Pop, Portraiture, Psychedelia, Punk, Saturday, , , , , , , , , , ,

A Pet Judging MeA pet judging me.

Music

  1. Neutrals – Bus Stop Nights E.P.
  2. Neutrals – New Town Dream
  3. Neutrals – Personal Computing
  4. Neutrals – Rent / Your House E.P.
  5. Neutrals – Promotional Cassette (official demo of summer 2016)
  6. Neutrals – Promotional Cassette 2
  7. Neutrals – Kebab Disco
  8. Neutrals – Leisureland Demos
  9. Autocamper – You Look Fabulous!
  10. Autocamper – Summertime
  11. Autocamper – Blanche / Budge
  12. Kevin Robertson – Kings Of Most Of Yesterday
  13. Kevin Robertson – Of The Night
  14. The Laughing Chimes – Whispers In The Speech Machine
  15. The Laughing Chimes – A Promise To Keep
  16. The Laughing Chimes – Laurel Heights
  17. The Laughing Chimes – In This Town
  18. The Laughing Chimes – Zoo Avenue EP
  19. The Laughing Chimes – High Beams (Dead End Mix)
  20. The Laughing Chimes – Tomorrow’s 87
  21. The Laughing Chimes – Arboretum Miles

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What I should be doing

June 20th What I should be doing

20th, Abstract, Date, Days, FMS Photo A Day, Friday, Garage, Indie, June 2025, Music, Photos, Psychedelia, , , , , , , , , , ,

What I should be doingWhat I should be doing…  busy day off, all sorts of financial chicanery involves a trip to Wigan.  A coffee in the former WH Smiths, nip to the GPs on herself’s behalf and a devil’s haircut.  Pint with herself.

Music

  1. The Adult Net – Edie
  2. The Adult Net – Incense and Peppermints
  3. The Adult Net – Waking Up In The Sun
  4. The Adult Net – Where Were You EP
  5. The Adult Net – White Knight (Stars Say Go)
  6. The Adult Net – Tomorrow Morning Daydream
  7. Brix & The Extricated –  Super Blood Wolf Moon
  8. Flowers – When You Lie
  9. Flowers – Erik
  10. Flowers – More Demos

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