Rob Manuel

My secret shame is I like Richard Curtis films. Call me, Rich.

"Rob, sometimes I think you just let things through because a joke stands out in a sea of dull opinions about driving"

"Yes, and?"

would make a short film: dad having existential crisis in front of a school of toddlers, that everything he does is useless, and he can do nothing to prevent societal break down due to climate change and billionaire capture of the state, what's even the point of school prepping kids for a gone world

Flat Earth News had this bit about how there's live rail issues in the world. Isreal / Palestine etc. It didn't mention S**** but an update should. Also M****** J****** has some pretty on it fans who will try and cause you as much trouble as they possibly can.

Doing a Fesshole gig in Luton on Thursday. Good sales - about 10 tickets left - so grab a couple if you're around. Also do I know anyone coming? If I do - make yourself known. sites.google.com/view/fesshole

I think it's virtually impossible to ever have a honest conversation about the relative merits of different platforms as almost everyone posting has sunk costs of time in platforms and incredibly defensive because of that.

Why does Peter Gabriel cut the ears off deer meat?
Because he prefers game without frontiers.

Deborah. (It never suited her)

Although presumably true for a younger generation than me, it's a bit funny to see this highlighted so high, in the second paragraph, on the wikipedia page for 'Hallelujah' by Leonard Cohen. You'd be nothing without Shrek, Leonard.

Dear AI bros. Please stop solving "making art" and instead solve a problem I actually have: working out exactly which screw I need to buy to fix a kitchen chair.

At what point does "Trump has no strategy, the strategy is to let Trump fuck up everything, so rich people can consolidate power in the chaos" stop sounding like a conspiracy theory and can just be treated as fact?

Probably means the dog is then worth £££ for breeding.

My parents had a dog that won a minor prize in crufts and the breeders they bought it from were suddenly v keen on getting some puppies out of it.

(This was like 1976, but economics of these has probably only got more so)

The most prescient film of all time is Solaris, as humanity meets another intelligence, and that intelligence makes facsimiles of their unconscious obsessions which they then chat to, alone in their rooms, and if anyone else witnesses it they feel a deep sense of shame.

cool cool cool -thanks

Eggfluencer

TV, tape deck, radio, book and loo roll. That's my weekend sorted.

My completely made up in my head fan theory is that 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover is a coded Simon & Garfunkel split song and an unheard early version went “it’s time to depart, Art”

The Divine Comedy - The Man Who Turned Into A Chair YouTube video by I. Zurutuza

The Man Who Turned Into a Chair is heartbreaking. Stick it on. Weep. Keep running and don't turn into a chair. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO4q...

lol

1970s was when the studio technology became great, well late 60s really (Abbey Road) but the 70s was where the soil produced the bounty of fruit.

Just trying to make a joke from dolphins and didn't really get one but I did decide Dole Things would have been OK band name for someone of that era.

I've bought pizzas and eggs.
I'm going to have pizza with baked egg on it later.
Amongst you are people who will be feeling "ooh, yes, I like an egg on a pizza" and tonight you will do the same.
I am a pizza egg influencer.

I like that it's clearly half full - if that.

maybe there will be a fire and everyone will die, and although we can't admit it publicly, we'll be on whatsapp going "lol, serves them right"

I just don't enjoy the implicit "why bother, AI could do something like this" message. As the answer is, I get something out of stretching myself to make a thing to be best of my ability, and I believe I could make something that would delight someone like me. And an AI version wouldn't delight me.

Following you because you made a dictionary.

It's a great way to work. It was why I was able to get that Longwave thing done, as I had a format to pour it into "a day of radio, from wake to sleep, but LP length". I knew what I was aiming at.

I like they're Men Without Hats but they've had to draw a man in a hat in the ad is it's tricky to illustrate an absence.

Anyway. I hope you all like the thing. When I get it into the world. I've currently made 36% of the first draft. Not saying what it is yet, but it's actually quite handy to know exactly how long you want something to be before starting it. You definitely should all do that, it's quite a mind hack.

I'm working on a thing, every word & pixel by me, and I showed it to a friend and replied with a screen grab of a AI prompt that produced something instantly and was crap. Not sure what my point is other than AI has degraded people's ability to engage with actual human stuff.