The Stooges by The Stooges

📰 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Music

The debut album from The Stooges.

Not a favourite of mine but it’s still worth a listen every now and again.

It’s one of those “formative” albums I think — being described as “proto-punk” on wikipedia.

The short run-time (about 34 minutes) works great for me as a short-sharp punch of energetic music.

488/500

Back to Mono (1958–1969) by Phil Spector

📰 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Music

A large collection of songs produced by Phil Spector between 1958 and 1969.

A lot of them I recognised from their covers by other artists over the years, along with the many that have since been used / lifted for adverts.

I absolutely loved this whole collection. I enjoyed delving into the late 50s and 60s vibes.

The whole thing gave me feelings of “late 50s haunted hollywood” — mainly due to a scene in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive.

There’s just something about the music of this era that just pulls you in.

Favourite Songs:

  • Under the moon of love — Curtis Lee
  • Anything by The Ronettes
    • Be my baby
  • He’s sure the boy I love — The Crystals
  • (Today I met) The boy I’m gonna marry — Darlene Love
  • A Love Like Yours (Don’t Come Knocking Everyday) — Ike and Tina Turner

489/500

How I share videos on my website

📰 Posted on by David Peach | Category: Journal

The standard way nowadays, to share a video online, is to post an embed link to youtube.

This then displays that video in what’s called an iframe — an embedded website within the website you are on.

What this allows youtube and parent company alphabet (read: google) to do, is to track you whilst on that website.

I want my website to be a bastion of the once-person-centric web. When people would share things on their own websites because they enjoyed it and wanted to share it with other humans.

Self-hosting videos myself

So to ensure that I don’t subject my visitors to any tracking, I choose to download any videos I wish to share and then manually upload them to my own site.

When you watch a video on my website, it actually is from my own website.

A novel idea I know.

It’s how it used to be, and it’s how it should be.

Mind your bandwidth

I am also putting a note beneath each video to show what size the video is in megabytes (mb).

My site shouldn’t preload the video — it will only start downloading it once you press the play button.

I recommend just waiting till you’re on a wifi connection. Nothing I’m sharing can’t wait till later.

Enjoy the fresh air whilst you’re out.

Disclaimer

I may still have some very old posts in my archive that have historic youtube links in them. Yes, I did it once too.

But I am endeavouring to get rid of those and replace them with self-hosted versions where possible.