I bought this beautiful new second-hand electro-acoustic mandolin.

Its an Antoria A-style built in the mid 70s, and I'm in love with it!

I can't wait to plug this in to some NASTY effects, and play some top-tier trypnotic psychedelia.

I also want to give this machine a name, I'd gladly hear your ideas!

What are your signature dance-moves?

I for one enjoy breakin' it down with a little bit of Hopak at the function.

I went on another sleepwalk last night. I only know this because I woke up in a different bed then the one I fell asleep in.

Anyway here's the sleepwalk:

I consider myself a militant centrist.

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One of the most captivating voices I've heard in 70s soul music.

I'm sitting my last A-Level exam today!

I am so excited for this to all be over!

Even if I don't get into the university I'd like, I'll still be happy to be moving on with my life and finally be saying goodbye to high-school.

Anyway, today is Edexcel Pearson: Maths Paper 3 (Statistics & Mechanics). I feel prepared.

Wish me luck! ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ)

I really like this song...

...I hope you will too!

Remember that:

"I divine the coming rains by charging my silver-staff with the silent and invisible songs of the heavens.

I then perform a ritual of translation to inscribe these hymns into vernacular."

Is exact the same as:

"I collect meteorological data by using a QFH antenna to recieve telemetry from weather satellites on the 137MHz band.

I then load the recording in SatDump to decode the signal into a usable data-set."

Shamanism never died, the tools of its practice merely...

Please - Something New

BEYOND THE GRID

Everyone knows real alternative-fashion means dressing up like those guys in A Clockwork Orange.

I am NOT ready for my physics paper 1 exam. (=_=)

I merely plan to derive everything from fundamental units in the middle of the exam hall.

Because I 'aint revised shit.

I've got very generous uni offers on account of my whacky brain-chemistry, but it has caused me to become complacent in my studies.

Pray for me, I'm going to need it!

I'm installing Subnautica 2 right now. Subnautica was the first game I bought for my laptop back in 2019 so I'm super excited. I hope it will run alright on my 7 year-old hardware.

KURTZ: "Are you an assasin?"

WILLARD: "I'm a soldier."

KURTZ: "No, you are an errand-boy, sent by grocery clerks; to collect a bill."

Never knew country music could be this face-melting...

Help, I'm addicted to ᑕ¥βєяรקค¢є!

I come with an offering of black metal from the DPRK.

I want to get a Shamisen Bachi to use as a plectrum for bass playing.

Its part of my ongoing endeavour to push the sound that comes out of that instruments to the limit of what could be called "music".

English translation:

I bring you good news – my heart is perfectly at ease,

No trace of sorrow stirs within my chest.

And when I cross the shore,

I choose my own path, whether open or narrow.

O you, all the blamers and gossipers,

Your opinions mean nothing to what I choose.

I tell you again – my heart is steady and calm,

No shadow of sorrow rests within my breast.

~ Mohammed bin Futais Al-Marri

Personal note:

The antidepressants are starting to kick in....

I find the baritone opera vocals perfectly balance the heavy metal screaming in this track.

Telegraph - 'Topography of Mind'