I think my favourite part of being in charge of booking bands for a festival is that I can literally just hit up one of my teenage tiny local favourite bands, who've been apocalyptically silent for 4 years, on a Sunday-morning whim... and live in hope for a little while.
Some cats I met and liked last night.
A moment of Muse nostalgia has made me aware that HAARP 2007 is on Youtube in upscaled 4K now, which is far too much definition for a gig I had a spiritual experience at 19 years ago, and far too much definition for a band I've sworn off until they do 2006 again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0KV...
The neurodivergent triple park: airport lounge edition.
I have chosen to abstain from the British winter.
I am a big fan of the gentle liminal peace of airport hotels.
I’m not sure which specific feeling is associated with walking back from the shops on New Years Day, unhungover, with an avocado in your pocket and a newspaper under your arm, but it’s got a kind of a smug flavour, and I’m enjoying it.
2025 in a nutshell: I just got walked past by my therapist while I was stuffing a chocolate coin in my mouth half way through messaging my ex.
Saw a reindeer butt, got a tree, Christmas spirit +++
Well hello there, aurora. I see u.
Absolute. Tease.
Clouds begone plz.
Stayin’ up late to do some aurora farming.
If these clouds clear I’ll eat my hat, but I shall prepare a hat just in case.
Pub dog. Pub dog! PUB DOG!!
How your email finds me
(And will probably still be finding me in 2026, as I don’t expect to leave my ‘learning long and bitchy Bach Busoni pieces’ phase any time soon)
Sincerely hoping I've already immunised myself against all the Covid going around at the moment by getting it in Chicago 🤞🏻
Just popped out to drink my coffee in the sun and spent a solid 5-7 seconds thinking “ah, hummingbird” with regards to a sizeable creature floating around the nearest bush before I re-calibrated and realised that I was admiring a WHOLEASS HORNET.
That’s quite enough outside for today thank you.
This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem
Spider pronouns be like: it/ze/bit/xe
That moment when you say to a plumber "is this anything to worry about?" and their response is "oh my GOD 😱"
(home ownership is so fun wheeee) 💀
Eclipse.
Nine Inch Nails in 2008 performing in front of a large LED screen showing the Windows Blue Screen of Death. Meme text added to the photo says "NINE INCH FAILS"
The Blue Screen of Death during Nine Inch Nails' The Great Destroyer The video content in the original 2007 version of TGD was mostly different variations of static and strobing, with very little in terms of definable imagery or even digital glitching. When we brought the concept back for the 2008 Lights In The Sky tour, I gave the static loops a little update, adding more complexity and variety. We also included a couple little easter eggs, like occasional flashes of The Presence from Year Zero, and of course, one frame in one of the clips of the infamous Windows Blue Screen Of Death. This was before camera phones were ubiquitous, so it was quite remarkable that someone in the audience of one of the shows managed to capture that one exact frame flashing on the screen with their digital camera. They posted the photo online and it was quickly passed around without context, eventually ending up as a meme on Reddit ("NINE INCH FAILS") where people thought we'd had an actual computer crash during a NIN show. We had a lot of technical fuckups during shows over the years, but come on, never a BSoD. Source: https://www.patreon.com/posts/28650170
Thinking about the time we put a Blue Screen of Death into Nine Inch Nails' stage visuals for ONE FRAME in 2008 and it became an out-of-context meme that still makes the rounds today
I could be at Boomtown this weekend, I could be at #WHY2025, instead I'm at home cleaning my shower.
All is as the universe wills it to be, I'm sure, but that doesn't half suck sometimes.
Big belated love to my local festival which made all the Saturday wristbands pride-coloured so a load of Surrey Boomers had to spend the day walking around flying the rainbow flag 👌
Started Pride month by leaving my big rainbow umbrella in Sainsbury's and then promptly forgetting about it for 48 hours.
Not auspicious.
I decided that ~15 years of saying that I’d get this tattooed ‘someday’ was quite enough.
Happy someday, everyone 🤓
I'm starting to suspect that a key part of home ownership is running around outside with ant powder at midnight.
Why is it that ants always turn up when you have no time to deal with ants.
This guy is spending so much time asleep on my lawn at the moment that I think I may have to name him.
Suggestions?
Hello there, teeny tiny pinkish hint of the Northern Lights 🩷
I think the best part of adulthood is realising that you CAN actually buy that sword if you want to.
