Loud, fast punk album.
Was okay. Not my complete cup of tea but I respect it for what it is.
Jar of Flies by Alice In Chains
I’d heard that this was one of Alice in Chains’ best releases. However, for some reason it took a while for me to get into it.
I’m glad I persisted, as this has become a favourite album / e.p. of mine I’ve heard in a long time.
It just gets better with each listen for me.
On a distant moon
Really getting back into this game when i have time. Took this whilst on the Atlas path missions.
Taken from a moon, with the sun over the nearby planet.
My first corvette-class ship
My first corvette-class ship approaching a space station.
This update in No Man’s Sky is incredible.
Return to Oz by Scissor Sisters
Ive never fully gotten into the debut album by Scissor Sisters.
I like a couple of the songs occasionally.
But this one — Return to Oz — is a banger.
The Stooges by The Stooges
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
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
Heart Like A Wheel by Linda Ronstadt
A breath of fresh air after the previous album in the top 500 list.
490/500
Harry’s House by Harry Styles
well.
I made it to the end.
Honestly didn’t care for most of it. But the last song “Love of my Life” wasn’t too bad.
491/500
How I share videos on my website
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.
Carole King – It’s too late video (BBC In Concert, February 10, 1971)
Nick of Time by Bonnie Raitt
Somewhere, on a desert road in U.S.A, is a dusty drinks bar about to erupt into a fight. This album playing on the jukebox.
I got vibes of my distant memories of the film Road House. No sure how accurate that is.
Favourite Songs:
Love Letter
Real Man
The Road’s my middle name
492/500
