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.
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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)
Them: Hey Dave, you should use “ai”.
Me:
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
Here, My Dear by Marvin Gaye
493/500
