So with careful battery management, I've just hit 90%. That's 19 months and 22 days since it was optimal.
Peter Blatty - Dimiter
May 21, 2020
Finally got around to ordering this book. It was released back in 2010 with exceptionally good reviews. Publishers Weekly awarded Dimiter a starred review, calling it "a beautifully written, haunting tale of vengeance, spiritual searching, loss, and love".
Two Sides
May 13, 2020
The corona virus pandemic brings out the devastating inequalities in British life. You have people forced to used food banks because they cannot get government aid after losing their jobs; you also have the rich talking of the utter misery of not being able to play golf for six weeks.
Nothing But Flowers
March 22, 2020
Which is worse?
Wishful thinking?
Or wishing, with hindsight, that you had been more careful what you wished for?
FSOL - A Controlled Vista
March 19, 2020
This is a surprisingly good album, harking back to those incredible broadcasts they use to do back in the day. It has all the copyright watermarks etc to give it a real archive feel.
While there are quite a few new pieces int this continuous forty-nine minute piece, they cleverly sprinkle in lots of old early 90s samples that had me misting up.
Great stuff.
Surreal
March 12, 2020
Got a copy today. Very solid release which will please Skam fans everywhere. I think I'll be playing this quite a bit.
It's slightly surreal working on stuff while a BBC News Feed plays on one of the office monitors. And I'm listening to 'The Fear Ratio' whose latest album is called 'They Can't Be Saved'.
Castelvania on iOS
March 4, 2020
Completely out of the blue, Konami have released a port of the classic 1997 game. It's available on the App Store now. It appears to be based on the PSP and PS4 versions of the game rather than the PlayStation original.
There’s support for external controllers, achievements, and a new continue feature. It can be played in six languages: English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Lucy In Disguise - Unknown Frequency
March 3, 2020
Catchy hooks, dreamy pads, broken beats & thumping bass take you back to the 1980s.
The Caretaker - Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Dreams
March 2, 2020
The Caretaker has abandoned darker and hard to grasp memories in favour of an altogether warmer journey which upon exposure invades the very core of your being. This is a very personal album for the listener, pre-soul music from a bygone era which will attack your senses in a way both comfortable and uncomfortable all at once.
Available from Bandcamp.