Brains should come with working Garbage Collectors.
For $reasons some bright spark from the telly played an unexpected burst of 'Pop looks Bach'. As is usual I was taken with a feeling of mild terror and that odd shiver up the back that happens when you listen to something really very good. ('Do something right' by Arcwelder, f'rinstance. Or Autobahn or Kerosene or...)
I pottered off to the machine room and listened to several versions on the Youtubes. The mild terror is gone because I'm really too old to be worrying about Physics homework now, and it seems to me that the original version is easily the best one.
Elsewhere, this is fine stuff. (via omnicognate chiller I think)
I must admit that I am a fan of spectacularly non-traditional home decor: Tread-plate, kitchen Kawasakis, home media servers that come in 19" racks, a PA plugged into the telly (when your house is a semi-regular gig venue, having your own PA is perfectly sensible), breezeblock bookshelves, paintings stacked n-deep against the walls, stoves made from scrap... It's all good. In its place.
For instance, the thing about scrubbed tables. They're lovely. I've got one. It belonged to my grandparents and if I had a larger house I'd probably crank its handle and discover that the screw-drive has rusted to bits. And the chairs. They're all Utility items. (apart from the GWR waiting room one) For objects made as cheaply and with as little waste as possible in the 1940s, they've done jolly well. However, one could only get away with anything more 'shabby chic' (Which, fuck you) if the rest of the building was some Mies van der Rohe knockoff. Anywhere else and it would look like you really dug living in a squat. To me, this is all entirely obvious and organic. It seems to me that for the people in the above tumblr it is completely non-obvious and they've made a sequence of buggers of the job.
I'm not sure I have a point here.
I pottered off to the machine room and listened to several versions on the Youtubes. The mild terror is gone because I'm really too old to be worrying about Physics homework now, and it seems to me that the original version is easily the best one.
Elsewhere, this is fine stuff. (via omnicognate chiller I think)
I must admit that I am a fan of spectacularly non-traditional home decor: Tread-plate, kitchen Kawasakis, home media servers that come in 19" racks, a PA plugged into the telly (when your house is a semi-regular gig venue, having your own PA is perfectly sensible), breezeblock bookshelves, paintings stacked n-deep against the walls, stoves made from scrap... It's all good. In its place.
For instance, the thing about scrubbed tables. They're lovely. I've got one. It belonged to my grandparents and if I had a larger house I'd probably crank its handle and discover that the screw-drive has rusted to bits. And the chairs. They're all Utility items. (apart from the GWR waiting room one) For objects made as cheaply and with as little waste as possible in the 1940s, they've done jolly well. However, one could only get away with anything more 'shabby chic' (Which, fuck you) if the rest of the building was some Mies van der Rohe knockoff. Anywhere else and it would look like you really dug living in a squat. To me, this is all entirely obvious and organic. It seems to me that for the people in the above tumblr it is completely non-obvious and they've made a sequence of buggers of the job.
I'm not sure I have a point here.