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Trying to listen to Supertramp albums on YouTube Music — some of my favourite ever albums — and half the songs are unavailable.
Most likely this is down to some stupid fucking copyright issue that only occurs to certain songs or somet.
You can see from the screenshots below that half the songs — arguably the best ones — are greyed out unavailable.
This is why music streaming — aka renting — cannot be relied upon.
Buy your favourite albums and keep the physical copies for yourself.
Setting off on the next chapter in the world of Death Stranding.
It’s hard to find time in my day to day helping to raise a 2 year old and a 2 month old.
But I’m sort of thinking that it will help me to take my time overall with the game. Really focus in on every delivery.
Let’s get walking.
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I just followed a link to a post on the bluesky website.
It’s literally how twitter was, pre-nazi, except with a slightly different logo.
Y’all are gonna fall for it all again aren’t you.
It’s warm.
Really fecking warm.
The kind of warm that when you take your t-shirt off, you get that really uncomfortable heat surrounding your head as you take the t-shirt off over your head.
It’s also the kind of warmth that throws up the signs outside of every open window — “Flies, inside this way”.
I managed to destroy the previous wave with one of those electrified tennis rackets that shock and kill the flies.
Then the weather cooled.
But now the heat has returned. And with it, the second battalion of airborne pests.
So now I wander the halls* of my home like Negan, looking for fly skulls to bash in.
So if you hear the sound of electric shocks and/or cupboards being hit with cheap plastic, don’t worry. It’s just me working the perimeter.
Enjoy the weather.
Hmm. Seems that when my posts appear in fediverse, I am hit with that Ddos effect off all connected instances requesting my page at the same time.
This may only be for posts with images attached so I’m going to try and switch to using a plugin to offload my media on to Digital Ocean spaces.
Will report back.
I need to rewatch The Prisoner. That was such a bloody great show.
That’s what she said, Barclays.
As I said the other day, I was about 30 minutes into For a Few Dollars More.
Well now I’ve finished it.
Wow.
I loved it even more than A Fistful of Dollars.
It had a bigger scale, and featured the excellent Lee Van Cleef.
The man with no name and Van Cleef are both competing Bounty Hunters, both in search of a villainous gang leader with a big price on his head.
After an excellent display of skill between the two of them in the dead of night, they decide to join forces to get their hands on the gang leader and the other members — all with varying prices on their heads.
What follows is an unfolding story that keeps its secret right till the end — right before one of the best film endings I’ve ever experienced.
The ending isn’t huge and flashy. But the way it reveals its secret, followed by the music cue as a showdown begins, is just incredible.
It elevated the already enjoyable film into one that instantly became one of my favourites.
Now at the time of writing I am 30 minutes into The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I have more memories of this one than the previous two, but I’m looking forward to the rest of it with my new-found appreciation for the western genre.
YouTube Music has got me pegged.
I’ve started watching films again.
Firstly, I started with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman.
Loved it.
The main cast have been great in everything I’ve seen them in. And this film was no different.
A masterclass.
For me it had those Jackie Brown vibes, in that a lot of it felt like I was just chilling out with these characters for most of it. Characters I quickly became fond of, despite their dubious business dealings.
And until I saw the conversation between Martin Scorsese and Pacino, De Niro and Pesci afterwards, I had no idea it was all based on a true story.
It took me three sittings to watch it as it was done between sleeps (raising a 2 month old)
Despite it being such a long film, I actually wished it was longer.
The first spaghetti western, and the film that launched Clint Eastwood’s film career.
A Fistfull of Dollars is cool as hell.
The man with no name wanders into a western town where two families are at war with each other.
So he decides to cleverly pit them against one another for his own gains.
I had seen this many years ago, but for some reason westerns didn’t do much for me. That was until I experienced the Red Dead Redemption games, especially the story of Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2
Since then I have been eager to explore more of the genre.
To be honest I think I’m trying to re-experience what I got with Red Dead Redemption 2, but with other stories.
But Arthur Morgan is always there at the back of my mind.
Sobs.
I loved this film.
Trivia: this features the scene featured in Back to the Future part 2, and the emulation that Marty performs in Back to the Future part 3.
At the time of writing I am 30 minutes into “For a Few Dollars More”.
Only taking breaks as I only get chance to see them at night when I have baby duties and of course at that point I’m knackered.
But I’ll get there eventually.
And at least my little girl is getting a good film education early.
The new resident evil game, Resident Evil Re9uiem, looks great so far.
And from the initial remarks I’ve heard, about a short demo feeling like an extension of the house of Beneviento sequence from RE Village, I find myself getting excited for next year.