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uce adams i really liked labradford bowery electric jessica bailiff and some of their other artists so last night i went through their discogs page and my albums spreadsheet to figure out how many kranky albums i have 60 or so that s more than i expected and from the looks of it there s a lot that i grabbed from emusic to use up those 90 credits and never remembered to listen to i ll have plenty of options for background music while i read the book if i was still in regular blogging mode it d be fun to listen to each one of those kranky albums and post about it here but that doesn t seem too likely this is here because it s too long for a facebook post and no more people would read it there than will read it here so what the hell multimedia foxx january 22 2023 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment i m enjoying some smaller multimedia worlds lately sure i still love the vast tangle of tv episodes movies books comics and more that make up star trek and doctor who but it s fun to follow something on a much smaller scale so here s one of my recent explorations with more to come not really facebook material john foxx started writing ballardian and surrealist short stories under the umbrella title the quiet man long ago some of his lyrics from his early solo work and his ultravox days tie in with them in choices of imagery and phrases in 2009 he released a spoken word with ambient piano background music the quiet man that was followed by a book collecting the short stories the quiet man rocket 88 2020 a chapbook of a new short story the lake nightjar press 2020 and a second spoken word piano reading of stories the marvellous notebook 2022 i like the book but nothing beats listening to foxx read one of the stories he chose to have justin barton read the ones on the earlier album because the quiet man at the centre of some of the stories is meant to be relatively featureless grey unnoticed and foxx thought his northern accent might give a bit too much specificity to the character so he went for a londoner from outside the uk it hardly seems necessary if anything foxx s accent has softened enough over the years to be less noticeable to canadian ears than a london accent or perhaps to canadian ears that have heard a lot of northern accents on tv from coronation street to cracker to doctor who mcgann and whitaker in particular so i was glad foxx chose to read the stories on the marvellous notebook the stories like the ambient underscore tend to focus on isolation and strangeness so reading the book in a couple of sittings while certainly possible dulls the impact of some of the stories which while not too much the same thing tend to operate in similar shades of grey anyway the tales here make overt the connections between decades of songs and instrumental music from foxx s prolific music career more than worthwhile for fans and possibly an entry point for new readers and listeners the lake sold out almost instantly but the rest is still available video for john foxx s the quiet man read by justin barton shetland march 30 2022 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment taking a break from criterion channel movies to start another dismally scenic uk cop show shetland i think laura watched some of it it s right up her alley of course this show s cop s malfunction is that his wife is dead it s not making too big a deal of it so far at least but still enough already hmm based on novels by ann cleeves who also created the character vera stanhope laura definitely watched a lot of vera she must have watched this then i didn t have anything against these shows but she binged so many uk cop shows from midsomer murders to death in paradise to happy valley to scott bailey that i burned out and tuned out gives me something to watch now i guess university days well nights mainly march 28 2022 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment i was in halifax for my university years and didn t see a lot of bands but then not a lot of bands i was interested in seemed to play there so i saw teenage head blue peter the tenants 39 steps katrina and the waves skinny puppy grapes of wrath moev and some local bands like i think sebastopol euthenics and the october game the last one memorable because it was sarah mclachlan s first show in front of a live audience i remember not bothering to go see the beach boys billy idol or bryan adams but i don t remember many other big names coming through i figure stuff that turns into posts too long for anyone to engage on facebook might as well go here instead where i expect no one will engage with it but at least it s out there space 1999 nerdity october 25 2021 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment there s an active space 1999 discussion on trekbbs and i mentioned the books as part of the discussion then wondered how many books i have i think this is all the ones i own i included ufo because one of the books covers both shows and also why not space 1999 books so many audios september 21 2021 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment i ve been buying big finish s doctor who audios for many years now there s sometimes several out in a single month and most are an hour or two long so you can imagine how much of a backlog you can build up if you don t listen regularly mine s several hundred hours of listening at least so i ve been trying to make myself catch up for the last couple of weeks i ve tried to get through one of the main range audios two hour long full cast stories featuring either the fifth sixth seventh or eighth doctor from pre 2005 comeback doctor who a day taking some time away from reading xboxing or watching tv i ve got backlogs for each of those too anyway laura and i had listened to a fair number of the first one hundred main range audios during various road trips over the years and i d listened to a few by myself but i didn t start with any we d skipped or with the point we left off there are some stories with continuity elements from other stories i haven t heard or that are part of long character arcs i wanted to ease back in also because i can t concentrate on audios while doing much of anything else i decided to read audios for which i had script pdfs which bf didn t start doing until the 120s or 130s of the series so i ve listened to more than a dozen but i did a couple of more or less one offs first there may be some spoilers ahead for doctor who audios from more than a decade ago first 100 the 100th in the main range four short stories with the sixth doctor and evelyn smithe by four writers the first two are reasonably fun romps messing with history not least in that the first story refers to an event in the second as something that s already happened the third is a much darker more claustrophobic tale of a family with a dangerous secret and the fourth is a sometimes meta tale of sixie lurching frantically through his own past and future to find an assassin who at some point shot him with a viral weapon that will kill him in a hundred days not the only meta thing about this one it s fun as evelyn gets to see other incarnations of the doctor in action and six proves that he s capable of a devious plan or two enjoyable overall but a more subtle anniversary celebration than might be expected then the girl who never was i thought i might have listened to this a long time ago laura and i listened to the charlie pollard arc then went into the lucie miller stories years back but this one wasn t flagged as already heard in my doctor who audio spreadsheet and i don t think i ve heard it before i know we listened to the last c rizz story and i thought i d listened to this one but it was not familiar so a lot of timey wimey shenanigans cybermen and a lot less time spent on big goodbyes than i d expected and a post credits scene setting up what comes next well that was reasonably entertaining if not earth shattering so on to the 120s at this stage in the run of stories bf was doing three parters each story stood somewhat on its own while being part of a bigger story that would be resolved in the third good thing i m listening to them this way i guess because going a month between stories would mean i d forget a lot of what was going on as for how good the stories are well it varies castle of fear is the first part of the stockbridge trilogy with the fifth doctor visiting a town established in the doctor who magazine comic strip as a place where strange things happen this one tries way too hard to be monty python it s one thing to bring a pythonesque sense of humour to a story but too often the writer of this comedic part historical thinks it s enough to throw in elements taken directly from monty python and the holy grail or wherever introducing french knights with outrageous accents and references to mothers and elderberries is just coasting on someone else s work the trilogy continues with the eternal summer and plague of the daleks eternal summer had some good moments showing stockbridge as a town mysteriously sealed off where time passes at the wrong speed and repeats a bit of sapphire and steel in the mix until the story gets tangled in its technobabble as for plague of the daleks well it managed not to focus too much on the daleks which generally helps in a far future stockbridge people are behaving strangely because in fact they aren t exactly people it s a tourist destination depicting old earth life but somewhere nearby underground long forgotten daleks in suspended animation have begun to wake and i followed up with the first of the seventh doctor stories bringing back alternate universe nazi elizabeth klein the first trilogy finds the seventh doctor encountering elizabeth klein a nazi scientist he d encountered in a previous story who finds herself in our universe more or less instead of the one where she d helped the third reich win the war a thousand tiny wings is a pretty grim story appropriate enough for a doctor travelling alone post ace a small group of white british colonial women and klein are hiding in a farmhouse as the mau mau rebellion spreads through kenya that s more than enough for a suspenseful story but the stakes are raised with a dangerous alien threat the story doesn t lighten up it may be that it actually is a fair bit shorter than the davisons but it certainly felt like i got through it more quickly in survival of the fittest the doctor and klein find themselves on a planet populated by strange aliens being killed off by unscrupulous humans and klein seems to be learning the lessons the doctor is trying to teach her becoming a better person but no in the architects of history time is wrong due to klein stealing the doctor s tardis and trying to remake the universe as a nazi dream but it s not a big time spanning story it s mainly set on a moonbase attacked by the sharklike selachians over the course of the three stories we re sometimes led to think there s hope for klein but a nazi is a nazi the next trilogy features colin baker as the sixth doctor in city of spires the doctor finds himself in a distorted version of highlands scotland he encounters jamie mccrimmon whose memories of the doctor were wiped by the time lords after the war games he s a few decades older but still fighting the british and their strange monstrous assistants who are drilling for oil and building a big city to refine it and do sinister things but there are people there from different decades and scotland is not recognizable because of the mysterious villain s activities the wreck of the titan brings a lot of nautical adventure with the doctor and jamie finding themselves on the sinking titan then the sinking titanic and then on captain nemo s nautilus and the listener figures out where the doctor is before he seems to in legend of the cybermen the doctor realizing he s in the land of fiction finds himself in a war with cybermen determined to convert everyone in the land of fiction and with help from jamie zoe and some of the land s picturesque inhabitants he has to find the land s mistress the thing is once it s clear they re in the land of fiction the story s stakes seem a lot lower there are good stretches of the story that are a lot of fun but they re generally in the first two parts next up the fifth doctor tegan turlough and an older nyssa in what turns into a mara trilogy in cobwebs the doctor tegan and turlough find themselves in an abandoned base literally as the skeletons in a medical suite are theirs and they find nyssa who s left terminus and is researching a deadly disease and there s some jumping between the same place in two times it s a bit twisty and suspenseful in the whispering forest the gang find themselves on a planet with a small human colony living a low tech existence and obsessed with cleanliness and with the mysterious takers who kidnap their people but are never seen and shades insubstantial whispering things in the woods yes there s a long ago crashed spaceship and the ship s robots and a hidden medical facility and other complications and i m only a little way into the third but the mara s made itself known already i can t say i ve been blown away by any of these they re generally competently entertaining but dont do as much for me as say some of the eighth doctor s adventures with lucie miller or the main torchwood range stories but for anyone who liked the classic series they re fun if only there weren t quite so many of them so what else is new september 21 2021 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment here we are almost in october which means it s been about a year and a half of pandemic and teleworking and two and a half years of life without laura i still find little surprises here and there just the other day i found a bunch of photos of her from 2004 for some work related thing just different shots of the same thing smiling not smiling that sort of thing this is the one i liked the best bass cadet april 15 2021 posted by sjroby in uncategorized add a comment one thing about telework i can listen to whatever music i want to as loud as i want to today i m listening to some of tempa s dubstep allstars compilations from back when dubstep still mattered a bit volume 09 by silkie and quest and volume 10 by plastician i ve always liked electronic music but for a long time that seemed to be the province of insipid new agers or microgenre obsessed uk dance music producers techstep darkstep glitch what when i first read about dubstep in xlr8r magazine or wherever it sounded interesting and i had an emusic account and many of the key labels and distributors were there so i could get a lot of it quickly easily inexpensively and legally it s always been about home listening for me i have to admit i would have been already over 40 married and suburban when i first heard it so late night clubbing wasn t my thing but dubstep at its best has a lot that worked for home listening a lot of it is atmospheric the 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