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Hey Nas – Glasgow Hydro, 12/06/23
Despite the N.Y. State of Mind tour being named after one of his songs, you’d have been forgiven not knowing Nas was due to take the stage at the Glasgow show. The wee guys were trying hard to bring back Wu Wear, while the rap dads showed up kitted out in MF DOOM shirts and…
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As You Like It
I wanted Link to be gender neutral. I wanted the player to think ‘Maybe Link is a boy or a girl.’ If you saw Link as a guy, he’d have more of a feminine touch. Or vice versa, if you related to Link as a girl, it was with more of a masculine aspect. I…
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Losing the stars without a sky – Tears of the Kingdom
As early as 1901, the German psychologist Karl Groos discovered that infants express extraordinary happiness when they first figure out they can cause predictable effects in the world, pretty much regardless of what that effect is or whether it could be construed as having any benefit to them. Let’s say they discover that they can…
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Pick Three – the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack (1996)
Almost everything here seemed inescapable at the time but most of it is hazed by memory in 2023. Trying to listen clearly, it was hard to pick a trio of favourites. ‘You and Me Song’ is one of the two Wannadies tracks worth remembering, alongside the sugary wind-up of ‘Hit’. ‘#1 Crush’ is far from…
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Enter the Wu-Tang – Glasgow Hydro, 12/06/23
Going to this show was a reminder that they didn’t stop making wee guys in 2001 – the Wu-Tang Clan stopped recording hits after that, but the wee guy factory didn’t get the memo. Wee guys of all genders were out in force on Monday 12th June. They were getting chased through the crowd by…
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“I made a terrible decision and brought us to a horrible place”
The second in a series of posts about Six Feet Under Previously: Six Feet, Infinite Dimensions A relic of the late pre-algorithmic age, Six Feet Under benefited from being made when established techniques were being sized up for new purposes. You can see the old world in its story structure, from the death of the…
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Six Feet, Infinite Dimensions
The first in a series of posts about Six Feet Under Re-watching Six Feet Under, the temptation creeps in to make it a story about Nate Fisher’s hair. It’s fun to watch the first season, with its eruptions from the afterlife and the subconscious, and to marvel at how our man always looks like he’s…
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Pick Three – Bloody Noses EP
Richard Thompson’s last three studio albums have been a laugh – more Doom and Gloom From the Tomb, but with a focus on the joy of making a racket to match his late mid-2000s live shows. His Electric Trio has seldom went unaccompanied on record but the joy they take in each other’s playing is…
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Pick Three – Ekumen
Carrying on from yesterday’s Le Guin theme, the first in a series of posts where I pick my top three tracks from a random record, in this case the self-titled debut album from New Orleans hardcore band Ekumen. Every track on Ekumen is great, most of them are extremely short, and the band makes a…
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