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🎵Now Playing: Oasis - The Masterplan (1998)
If you didn’t know, Oasis are back. Everyone I know who got tickets say it was the best gig of their lives. Anyway, this collection of B-Sides is probably their second best album. Manchester vibes in the area.
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The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again.
and the rule for sowing is, ‘One for the mouse, one for the crow, One to rot, and one to grow’
Monthly Packet of Evening Readings, Volume 19, (London: Mozley and Smith, 1875), page 213 — via maya.land
🎵Now Playing: Bombay Bicycle Club - I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose (2009)
Am I listening to brilliant 00’s indie again? Yes, I am listening to brilliant 00’s indie again.
“If only one of us had the guts tonight. What if one of us had the guts tonight?"
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Email is a peculiar thing. If you’re a millennial like me, you remember the hotmail email we got in our teens (sk8rboi13 or the equivalent). From hotmail, I had an AOL account. From AOL I, like almost everyone on earth, got a Gmail account. And that’s been it for the last decade or so. And for that decade, Gmail did the job. It handled everything. From newsletters, government logins, gig tickets, junk, and friends, it all went to one address.
🎵Now Playing: St. Vincent - St. Vincent (2014)
Annie Clark is a guitar hero, and just a hero in general.
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OK, so I haven’t quite ditched gmail yet, but we have made a start: you can now send an email to hello@danielsavage.uk!
I’ll read it, I’ll reply to it, we’ll become lifelong friends. See my Contact page for ideas of what to include in your message.
This 🤏 close to ditching gmail. Front runner is Proton mail with my custom domain but potentially Migadu. Hey mail looks great but I want multiple addresses.
An unusual rice cake eating event in Sheffield is celebrated as a creative commentary on consumerism and the entertainment culture.
Thinking of finally abandoning my gmail and moving to Proton Mail. Hey Mail could be another option - although, maybe privacy should be the most important thing. Anyone have any recommendations?
🎵Now Playing: Gwenno - Utopia (2025)
Saw her live twice this year, and both time she was unaccompanied on the piano. Great, but when you hear the songs in full production they soar in a different way. This new album is great.
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“If you’re at a good restaurant, get the fish. If you’re at an okay restaurant, get the steak. If you’re at a bad restaurant, get chips.”
🎵Now Playing: Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (1972)
RIP Ozzy 🦇
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Finished reading 2025: Call for the Dead (George Smiley #1) by John le Carré 📚 Just finished Call for the Dead by John le Carré. Really enjoyed it. It’s exactly my sort of thing: pre-internet England, spies and spycraft, the dull administration and obsessive attention to detail, rather than the sexed-up James Bond version (though I enjoy that too). I wanted to be a spy when I was a kid. Not sure I would now, but there’s a certain romanticism to it in these books.
🎵Now Playing: Wet Leg - moisturizer (2025)
The new songs all sounded good when I saw them at Glasto, but I don’t think it quite hits the heights of their debut.
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Just booked my accommodation for the Vancouver leg of my Canada trip in September. Ten years since I last went, very excited already! 🇨🇦
🎵Now Playing: Fontaines D.C. @ Finsbury Park
Saw this gig with my own eyes, down in that there London. Top stuff all around, great support from Amyl & the Sniffers and politicians favourite Kneecap. A fun day out, good weather and even better company. Momentary bliss, indeed.
Some amazing space photography here. My favourite is the Dragon Tree: Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 Shortlist
“Friendly reminder: the brain is not a computer, the body is not a machine.”
A run down of everything I’ve consumed this month, and I have certainly had my fill this month. Glastonbury being the highlight of course. I’m sorry but this is a Glasto fan account.
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