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“The road from the West Country to London is the A303. You think that’s an accident?” #acid #psychedelicduelling #wyrdwildwest

Spooky season read this year is Mariana Enriquez’s Our Share of Night - anyone else read it? 💙📚 #halloween #horror

The Margaret Qualley starring film Love of Your Life (2026) features as a key plot device disintegrating tape loops that aren’t The Disintergration Loops… they were RIGHT THERE but they got Dustin O’Halloran to Basinski some up. Weird when they do stuff like that.

Amazing, really that no one’s attempted a proper WR biopic… sort of thing you could imagine Christopher Nolan doing…

Well, all of these are from the formative furnace of the 15-19 year old me, naturally, except the Adam and the Ants which was the first time I realised that music could make you feel a bit funny…

Almost certain no one’s ever said this before but we’d agree most heartily!

Yay!

Back reading Dostoyevsky again (Demons, this time) & insisting on referring to everyone I know by their full name. 💙📚

Currently reading / listening - both deranged in different ways. Dostoyesky & Kate Folk.

Raging against the dying of the LPs by finding time to play Swans albums right the way through (on CD). Today it has been Birthing, played loud & soundtracking chores, sitting, dancing, more chores, cooking, cleaning and finally just listening with my eyes closed.

I am not joking when I say this. Soylent Green is now very, very good and these soulless dorks need to (literally) get into it.

Well, wouldn’t say it was life changing because me & most of my mates loved Orbital & had seen them before but it certainly changed Glastonbury Festival for everyone…

Yesterday was a photographing shipping containers through a rainy windscreen kind of day.

Random moments in TV Shows that have made me inexplicably tear up like a sentimental old drunk.

Actually we’re now self hosting so expect some special downloadable tracks / mixes etc soon.

A few days ago a mate couldn’t remember a song and said simply “I think Andrew Weatherall did a remix of it” - Mm, not as helpful as you might think…

Well, it turned out that Home Taping WASN’T the thing killing music…

Saw someone write that The Fall was their favourite band but they weren’t entirely sure they liked their music - I don’t (quite) agree but it’s definitely adjacent to the reason I miss them being around.

Spent a great deal of the day listening to Swans while doing household tasks, writing and cooking. They sure make even the most menial & quotidian tasks shimmer with intensity.

Rewatching Our Friends In The North on iPlayer & enjoying almost as much as when it first cake out, even if I’d forgotten / repressed the influence on my young self of the unbelievably hot Gina McKee, especially when she gets into politics…

Horse Rotorvator Cop Songs about Fucking White Light / White Heat Metal Box Fun House It Takes A Nation of Millions… Stations of the Crass Tago Mago Deluxe

Bought this book years ago & then got drunk and left it in the pub after only reading Chapter 1 but now have it on audiobook & it’s a great deal of mordant fun, almost ridiculously relatable, and read beautifully by @jahduran.bsky.social himself. www.strangeattractor.co.uk/catalogue/jo...

Performative reading update: more people talk to you if reading books with colourful covers than books with dark ones. Small sample but seems significant. Tried some performative reading in Hay on Wye but competition there was hard. Stag Dance probably not best option.

We finally have a REEL website… it’d be cool if you could click on it with various devices to see if it works musicforpsychedelicduelling.netlify.app

Okay, I’m sure “times were different” or whatever, but whenever *I* don’t come home on time because I’m hanging out & taking drugs & having sex with a beautiful nymph on a remote island *my* wife gets well annoyed…

Bought a lot of books this Summer on my travels. Not sure which one I should read next. Narrowed it down to these. Might leave the massive Meades one for the winter since it hardly fits in my bag…

A controversial pairing

Brion Gysin: Tuning into the Multimedia Age is such a beautiful book

I only really liked Debt’s early stuff, when it was in chickens & conch shells & shit like that.

I’d have given him a lift but we disagreed about The Stone Roses, Doves, The Courteeners & The La’s and he wasn’t budging. I guess sticking to your guns can be a good thing but I thought it was a bit much, tbh. I said I had Fool’s Gold ffs.

Doesn’t happen very often but it’s one of those evenings when all I can be bothered to watch is The Chart Show’s Indie Singles run down. Interesting that they used the Icelandic version of Birthday. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rru...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=N3aP... Went to see The Band of Holy Joy play at The Water Rats in London (with Glaxo Babies) and had maybe too much fun…

Liked Romeo and Juliet but couldn’t get on with Lorna Doone, Under Milk Wood was cool, as was Lord of the Flies and Of Mice and Men. Didn’t like The Old Man & The Sea but To Kill A Mockingbird was great. Couldn’t get on with Twelfth Night but liked Hamlet & Journey’s End. UK

Wonder if somewhere there really IS someone who found some great stuff on Temu & just wanted to share the love?

Psychedelics Encyclopedia by Peter Stafford.

I need to print more photographs. I’m going to need my future grandchildren to find more photographs where one person has been mysteriously ripped out or defiled in some way. It’s their birthright & I’m letting them down. #photography

Hope that France and England do the right thing in the 3rd place playoff by just playing headers and volleys for 90 mins

I’ve read Maldoror dozens of times but each time it feels like a particularly evil spell which is somehow ruining my wellbeing. Probably should stop #books Crossposted with @openvibe.social

What an actor. Possession, In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon AND The Omen III? And utterly brilliant / demented in all of them.

No, that’s William Basinski

Watched Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur (Happiness) 1964 in a v rare break from football & it turned out to be devastating, sad & very beautiful in a different way. Slow(ish) cinema but mesmerisingly shot & you like everyone in it, despite everything. Very French, very mid-60s. A more complex time. #film

This week I am mostly listening to albums by artists beginning with the letter - T Twilight Sequence - Stars of the Wayside #MusicSky @twiseq.com Damn, this is good. Warm, ambient and what I needed lunar-module.bandcamp.com/album/stars-...

Now reading Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata - similar clipped & neurodiverse delivery to Convenience Store Woman with a strange, lightly surreal tale about the end of sex which weirdly reminds me of some of Houellebecq’s ‘science fiction’.

Now reading Han Kang’s The Vegetarian which is, so far, a gentle piece of social realism related to the familial difficulties of maintaining a (what appears to be) vegan diet…