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Tag: nostalgia

  • Wintersun

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    New song and video by me. The clips are from two lovely Japanese anime from the 1980s. Nausicca: Valley of the Wind, and Dragon’s Heaven. There’s something beautiful about old anime how it’s a lot more simply drawn, maybe it’s just nostalgia on my part, but the characters kind of look sweeter because they are…

  • The Parapolitics of Britpop

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    Yay, a nice end to 1990s week. I actually had the idea to write about Radiohead before the Oasis thing (if you are in the future, Oasis announced that they were doing a reunion tour and people got really excited. I liked Oasis at the time but I was pretty surprised by just how big…

  • Goldie : Saturnz Returnz, and other songs

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    So this review idea, it’s popular, with me. I’m enjoying doing it, I will be bored of it shortly, my aim is just to write a lot. I am back to work in a couple of weeks and am also back into education so hopefully I will keep up my one post a week thing,…

  • Embracing this universe and shining

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    That is a quote from a translation of a Japanese song. We have lots of READ, let’s have a watch Neon Genesis Evangelion It’s like Miyazaki, it’s a Japanese national treasure, but it is so dark they don’t know what to do with it. They did a remake where they changed it from 12 hours…

  • Con te Partiro

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    This got me confused. like this is one of my favourite musical songs, and I really didn’t like a lass singing it. it’s a MAN song I don’t want to hear some bloke singing Habanera, it is opera, it’s the old days.But I watched it twice and it actually a new take and it is…

  • Toby, ya fucker, how’s it collapsing?

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    I’ll just keep writing any old shit I guess. I just listen to the news about Gaza and know fucking loads about that, probably already said that. It would be stupid for me to write about that though, I don’t actually know any more than anyone else, I think half of the world is obsessed…

  • How to get rich

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    This is an idea I just had listening to Angela Nagle. Angela Nagle is this Irish writer who studies how the internet went wrong. I have not read her books, but her ideas are so great. This is a category I should get into. I will put a short reading list at the end. I…

  • Say No to Fear

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    I’ve been ill this week so don’t really have much to write about. I will share my TikTok which I haven’t put on here yet and do a little ramble My TikTok I have developed this really bad habit which a few of my friends have confessed they also do where I just listen to…

  • A Liminal Post from The Matrix

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    So this is a 1am thought that may be expanded. I’ve not done writing for ages and this is a first draft that will probably never be redrafted. One of the things that is fashionable in my algorithm is Liminal Spaces. Not really fashionable because the people who are on the ball have been doing…