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Skellington - one of my fiddlers from Bone Walker - was performing with her band, Pinniped, at Folklife and saw someone watercolour-painting her band at the show.

That artist turned out to be Ellen Eades, who was hammer dulcimer on the same project. They never met in studio, recording their tracks at completely different times, and Skellington ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a little about Anna's post about Black Widow in Avengers: Age of Ultron and about Black Widow as "love interest" and the "monster" comment and Disney/Marvel's rather hideous sexism in merchandising and trying to separate out all those bits and pieces into a coherent thought ( Read more... )

Wow, that's unexpected: I'm in a movie trailer! The film - a documentary - is called GTFO, and it's about sexism and misogyny in video game culture, something I've written about a lot.


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You know you've been running a festival too long when you find you're reflexively doing crowd-counts at somebody's wedding.

It probably didn't help that they had The Heather Dale Band in for the show nuptials, but still. XD

(Hi Ben! Hi Heather! And congratulations to Naomi and Glenn!)

Also posted to ソ-ラ-バ-ド-のおん;
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Roses and Ruin is a Leannan Sidhe album project. It's akin to Cracksman Betty in that it's single-day efforts, with only light production.

Unlike Cracksman Betty, it wasn't ever wrapped up. And Leannan Sidhe is coming over today to record the first new track for the project since... I don't even know. Quite a while ( Read more... )

Last call for the Secret Blog Discount sale! All pay things on Bandcamp - meaning all music, and both Free Court of Seattle novels in paperback - are 25% off with this checkout code which expires TODAY!

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But! There's a surprise sale on Amazon for author Angela Highland's other books. Carina Press didn't notify her, they just did ( Read more... )

Those of us who have been saying that 50 Shades of Grey is domestic abuse aren't talking about the - rather badly done, from what I'm being told - BDSM. We're talking about the psychotic emotional abuse that underlies the entire relationship.

This reviewer gets it.I screwed up. I screwed up big time. I went into this film thinking it would be two ( Read more... )

I’ve been thinking more about Google/YouTube’s new music streaming service terms - the ones that require your whole library, that require 320bps source, that require five year terms, and so on. I wrote about it last week, talking about how Google is letting the old labels dictate away crowdfunding rewards and the like.

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