Microposts

Dec 14, 2024 ∞

Altrincham 1 - 0 Sutton United ⚽️

Very cold. Very cold. Happy to be on the tram heading home to warmth and my cat.

Dec 13, 2024 ∞

Hosted a work’s Christmas quiz over Teams tonight (we all work remotely) and I got a sudden flashback of Covid.

Dec 5, 2024 ∞

🎵Now Playing: Laura Marling - Patterns (2024)

Laura Marling is a perfect artist. She’s already one of my favourite gigs of all time, and this album is a stripped back, beautiful, tender, moving piece of work. Sublime.

Best Tracks:

Child of Mine
No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can
Caroline
Looking Back

Dec 3, 2024 ∞

🎵Now Playing: Joshua Idehen - Mum Does The Washing EP (2024)

My Spotify algorithm came good suggesting this to me. Absolutely loved it. Sharp, clever, heartfelt lyrics with great production. I see he’s playing Manchester in April, might have to grab a ticket.

Best Tracks:

Mum Does The Washing
Could Be Forever
Tactics for Survival
Once in a Lifetime (Talking Heads cover)

Dec 1, 2024 ∞

Manchester United 4 - 0 Everton.

What a great day to have a ticket. We definitely need a new stadium but there’s still something special about Old Trafford in the sun. Diallo was superb.

Nov 29, 2024 ∞

🎵Now Playing: Yannis & The Yaw - Lagos Paris London EP (2024)

A dream collaboration between The Foals singer and the legendary drummer Tony Allen. Result is a Foals-y sound with the groove turned up to 11.

Best tracks:

Rain Can’t Reach Us
Clementine

Nov 28, 2024 ∞

Ok, it’s time to admit it. I’m a Manchester United fan. Good win tonight.

⚽️🔴⚪️⚫️

Nov 28, 2024 ∞

🎵Now Playing: Chemical Brothers - Planet Dust (1995)

They didn’t make this album for listening to at work, they made it for dancing.

Best tracks:

Leave Home
Chemical Beats
One Too Many Mornings

Nov 27, 2024 ∞

🎵Now Playing: Kendrick Lamar - GNX (2024)

Had to give this a chance after all the hype. Not my fave of his back catalog, but it could be a grower.

Best tracks:

squabble up
reincarnation
tv off (aka MUSSSTTTAAARRRDDD)
heart pt.6

Nov 26, 2024 ∞

Every border implies the violence of its maintenance.

Ayesha A. Siddiqi

Nov 25, 2024 ∞

I’ve been thinking about giving up the booze for a while. Wasting days hungover just isn’t the one anymore.

I thought January 1st would be a good marker but that’s just an excuse to push it down the road, rather than to make the improvement immediately. Especially with Dec being a month of excess.

Nov 21, 2024 ∞

Filling out more pages on the site. I love to track things (classic IT guy alert) so you can find all my:

🤘gigs

🎵vinyl

🌎travel

⛺️festivals

📚books

📺🍿🎙️media

More pages to be added… posts to be written… and culture to be consumed.

Nov 20, 2024 ∞

I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so I can do my laundry and dishes.

Joanna Maciejewska