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While birds aren't, mustn't not properly pain the eggs of microwaves in time for festive season

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Apparently they're selling post content to train AI now so let us be the first to say, flu nork purple too? West motor vehicle surprise hamster much! Apple neat weed very crumgible oysters in a patagonia, my hat. Very of the and some then shall we not? Much jelly.

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Balllesss jam

My stupid court eunuchs won't even scheme with me. All they do is smoke and make shitty EDM in their tower.

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Have I been eating the same kendal mint cake as everyone else on this post? Because, I don't remember it being shockingly strong, even the extra strong variety.

I've even eaten it as a regular snack, but, let's move very swiftly past that, because, when researching for this post (don't ask what needed researching) I discovered two things:

Kendal mint cake comes in 550g bars.

There are apparently several different manufactures of Kendal mint cake, all of whom purport, to some degree, to be the "original"

First, George Romney Ltd, maker of the 550g bar above, and also the one that give the most complete account of their history.

They claim to have been founded in 1918, with the founder, Sam T. Clark, great grandfather of the current managing director, John Barron.

Then, Quiggin's, who also claim to have invented lettered rock, were founded in 1840, on the isle of Man, then moved to Kendal, and started making mint cake, in 1872

Finally, Kendal Mint Co, who do not disclose when they were founded, but try VERY hard to make you think that they created kendal mint cake, but, here's the point where this goes off the rails.

You see, KMC, as they call themselves, unlike the other two, are not a confectionary company, they are a sports nutrition company, sure, they sell mint cake, but they also sell "energy gells" and, and various drink mixes which purport to provide various performance benefits.

But, hold on a second, I just jumped right over what this whole post is about, their mint cake, so, what's their mint cake like?

Well, I don't know, I've never tried it, I can, however, point out something very odd about it, it's not Kendal mint cake, it's Kendal mint cake "recharged" which here means, they had added a bunch of not-mint-cake things to it, namely:

Potassium Chloride

Calcium Lactate

Sodium Chloride

Magnesium Carbonate

Nicotinamide

Calcium Pantothenate

Pyridoxine Hydrochloride

Methylcobalamin

(yes, I know that just listing off a bunch of Scary Chemicals means pretty much nothing in terms of safety, or how "natural" it is, the point of this is to point out how far they are from the recipe of the mint cake used for all the famous expeditions which they try to market themself off)

They try, as I said, VERY VERY HARD to make it seem like they're some historic company, but, they aren't, and, in spite of disclosing nothing about their history, I can tell that for a fact, because the co-founders are still alive.

Oh, and, speaking of alive, let's talk about the history of Kendal mint cake, shall we?

Unlike many other confectionaries, we do know, with a decent degree of certainty, not only its age, but its origin, which is, supposedly, 1869, when Joseph Wiper left a batch of boiled glacier mints solution overnight, causing it to become cloudy and solidify, resulting in mint cake.

Wiper, of course, started producing it properly, with other confectionaries jumping on the trend, and the rest is history.

But, of course, what happened to Wiper? He'd, undeniably, be the oldest mint cake maker, so, what happened?

Well, they were bought by Romney, in 1987, they claim to still use their method of production, so, you could argue that, technically, that makes Romney the oldest.

Here's a handy graph:

This has taken me several hours to write and research, after what should have been one minuet of writing a little anecdote in the tags.

Thanks to @elodieunderglass for reminding me of kendal mint cake, even if it has caused me Horrible Issues (I had non-mint-cake plans for today), guess I'm going to have to get myself some, maybe even compare Quiggins to Romney, see which is better.

Not touching KMC's offerings, mind.

a single andes chocolate mint from the olive garden can fully nourish an adult human for up to 96 hours

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I wonder what class of murder this falls under

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rooted your squares

I am not sorry

they should make a Lego soulslike

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That's it, text to speech is out, out, fired, removed from service, parting ways with us, pining for the fjords, your money shall no longer get to yell, and frankly, I think it is a tragedy

Customer: MY INITIALS ARE TT AND I’M OUT DRIVING AROUND THE TOWN. DMV: TT-IS PENIS IN TAGALOG. OR TITTIES? Verdict: DENIED

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That is how music groups tend to form: weirdly.

I've been in one (1) band in my life, and that started because a friend of mind asked to give them some tech support, during which they discovered I can play the piano. (not very well, mind)

That lead to me being recruited into the band they were putting together, which was an odd, odd, group:

Me, the second keyboardist, effectively filling the role of a bass player.

The first keyboardist, I didn't know them at the time, and still don't.

The singer/maybe guitarist, the friend who brought me into it.

The drummer, who didn't even show up to the rehearsal, I think. (I don't recall)

We had one (1) rehearsal, in which we didn't even get through one song.

The post about the informal shanty-choir earlier has reminded me of an anecdote of my dad's

He used to work in a pub, run by a landlord with an astonishing bass speaking voice. They had a few live music acts who'd pass through the pub on a regular basis, including a Welsh male voice choir who every single year would try to pressgang the landlord despite his protestations that he couldn't sing ("We can teach you to sing, we can't teach that pitch!").

Accordingly I'm imagining Charlie and Ken enthusiastically chatting up the deepest voices that come down the Kennet and Avon, and probably even managing to recruit them (I bet they've got an amazing chill-cop/un-chill-cop routine)

(In reference to OC Charlie and his boater friend Ken, who sing in pubs if you can’t get away fast enough)

POV you go to the wrong pub (any boater pub is the wrong pub but this isn’t your fault) in the middle in the southwest of England in the mid-2010s and gradually become aware of a sixth sense of being watched…. No……. Not watched….. overheard??

You answer a phone call, and when you hang up

it’s

suddenly

No listen the bass just has to go “aaaaaaah” - you don’t even have to say ANY words

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FALSE.

Utterly, entirely, false.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by that, but, I am sure that it is entirely FALSE.

guy who puts every post through 12 layers of google translate and then argues with that version of the post

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A good film can survive a bad score, but a good score cannot save a bad film

Ennio Morricone, who scored The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Hateful Eight, and a few hundred others

Although, there are a few examples of medocre films being greatly elivated by their scores, Tron: Legacy, for example, I don't think people would look back on it half as fondly as they do if not for Daft Punk's score

how often do you think a good soundtrack makes something enjoyable by itself?

I don't think it ever does. a good soundtrack is as much of a part of something as any other aspect of the project. ideally, it works with those other parts to elevate the whole

I'm of the mind that a good soundtrack can make something bearable, but if something is bad enough to be unenjoyable, an incredible soundtrack won't save it. if it's really that good, it'll just make me wish it was in something better

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Waow

Runner up design for the Sydney Opera House

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Oooh!

First, yay, Cosmo Sheldrake! Quite literally my favourite musician of all time, The Moss isn't my favourite of his tracks, he's improved a lot since those days, my top five favourite tracks of his, off the top of my head, are Interdimensional, Does The Swallow Dream Of Flying? Solar Waltz, Run Rings Right Wrongs, and Hocking, in no particular order, but he's really more of an album artist anyway, but, I digress.

I also see your point with Wild Turkey, however, that caused my mind to tangent into the question of "What if Throw Your Heart Over was adapted into a jukebox musical" and that's really got my mind racing.

Obviously, you've got to get The Race by Yello into there somewhere, "are you ever gonna push me let me run and let me do, I need it and I'm ready and I haven't got a clue" is somehow both very Killie, and also quite O Holy Thunder. (especially if you do an entire race sequence set to the thirteen-minuet version)

Because I simply had to put more Cosmo in here, Run, for Charlie, "I tried to stay, I tried to say, I’ll try again and then I’ll be alone, I tried again, to make amends, to clear the way, to blink and say the words again", need I say more?

For Killie and Charlie, Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, produced by Trevor Horn, could work, "when two tribes go to war, a point is all that you can score" and all that.

This is decidedly a longer shot, but, Untouched, by The Veronicas, for Derek/Killie, before they meet.

Then, once they do, Sinner, by The Last Dinner Party, but specifically for Killie's perspective, "I wish I knew you, when touch was innocent, I wish I knew you, before it felt like a sin" may be lesbian in the original, but works fine for MLM.

If Killie were to somehow get injured, then we grab yet another gay song, On Your Side, by The Last Dinner Party, "when it's 4 a.m. and your heart is breaking, I will hold your hands to stop them from shaking, if it takes all night, I will be on your side" but, also, "I wish I didn't want you, wish I could do without this blood on my face, where your teeth sunk in, bite me again" for Killie and O Holy Thunder, so it works twice as much? (Or half as much)

Bonus track, largely because it's funny, both the song choice and him getting a song, Thunderstruck, by AC/DC, for O Holy Thunder, "Thunder" need I say more? Just picture a slow-mo shot of O Holy Thunder, set to all 4:52 of it.

Sorry for rambling on like this, I have a bit of a tendency to go on tangents, and, this one turned into the focal point of the post.

Colm 📻

(OC music asks - Killie the jockey’s youngest and most obscure brother)

Cosmo Sheldrake - The Moss

Well, legend has it that the moss grows on the north side of the trees,

Well, legend has it that when the rain comes down, all the worms come up to breathe…

Amethyst Kiah - Wild Turkey

When I was seventeen, I pretended not to care

Stayed numb for years to escape despair

When your soul dies, you just can't hide it

Everyone can tell; Oh, Lord, will I ever feel right again?

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Even better than the photos (In my subjective opinion) are the MIDI files.

This is an except from her Peter and the Wolf abum with "Weird Al" Yankovic, it doesn't work quite properly, but, it's still mostly there.

big deer news

electronic music legend (and trans woman) wendy carlos had a deer in her studio for a while

imgur dot com slash lBi47D5 (if you don't want to follow a random ingur link, 1. fair 2. look up "wendy carlos" scroll 'till you find an image of her next to a bunch of crts, and it should be right above her head)

also, it is a nightmare to find almost all of her records, I've been trying to collect them for a while, and I'm about sixty percent of the way through. it is expensive and difficult to do, but soooo worth it (to be clear, this isn't just for collecting's sake, finding physical copies is the only way to listen to most of them)

omggggg deergirl wendy.... yay<3

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Deergirl in the studio.

What is she doing in here? How did she get in? Where did she get the clarinet?

okay i just recorded a ten minute meandering session on my clarinet just like playing whatever melodies i thought up on the #go and im gonna try to upload it

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For those that want to know, I wrote this on 2025/2/28, only a brief while ago.

I honestly can't remember what any of the individual tracks sounds like, so, I guess I'm going to have to listen to it again.

As you recommend in your bio, I listened to The Glow, and have written down my thoughts, track-by-track, in order to tell you about it.

For some background, prior to this, I didn't exactly know what a "dreampop" was, if you asked me to describe it in a somewhat derogatory tone, a manor using only references to nineteenth century opera, I'd probably say "The overture to Wagner's Das Rheingold, if it was composed using a I--V--vi--IV progression."

Anyway, bad jokes aside, the album:

Can of Worms

flaI promise I wrote that Wagner joke before the opening of this song, but, it is distinctly reminiscent of the prelude to Das Rheingold, albeit more synthetic, and with a bit of talking in one ear, but that drone, with the strings above it, it's hard not to draw a comparison when you were just talking about Wagner a few pages ago.

Then, at one minuet in, my point of reference jumps forwards two hundred years, to be precise, the drums, those snare roles are distinctive, and remind me very much of Cosmo Sheldrake's first studio album The Much Much How How & I, and, I fucking love that album, so, we're off to a good start.

Intro and drums aside, to be honest, I find this quite, what's the word, uncharismatic, it doesn't feel like there's very much going on, which I say, and then the song hits three minuets and twenty seconds, and I am proven very wrong. (I'm writing as I listen, it's an unavoidable issue)

To pivot to the lyrics, normally, I'm quite, what's the phrase, discouraged, by this kind of repetitive lyrics, but, I think they work here, it's quite, what's the word, atmospheric.

But a Poem

This, it does not sound like it could be odd, but it does sound odd, hold on, words, is is conventional in performance, but, the production techniques employed, in particular, the reverb, and its alteration throughout the track, are anything but.

Open Your Eyes

You know, I didn't expect this kind of synthesiser use, there's been plenty of background electronic material so far, but, it pushing to the for was not a direction I expected it to go.

Every time I've gone to comment on one of these songs dragging a bit so far, it's always switched itself up at exactly that moment, which, I suppose is a good thing, I could say maybe this and Can of Worms could've used maybe a bit of cutting-down, to tighten them up, but, I won't, I don't think being "tight" would exactly work with this kind of music.

All in all, I quite like this one.

The Dreamers

On finally, I've been wanting a good drum-fill for a while now, and this delivers, it's no YYZ, but, it's still pretty good.

When talking about Open Your Eyes, I said I was surprised by foreground synthesiser, and now, I'm surprised by foreground guitar, it appears I know very little about a genre I know nothing about.

Grand New Spin

I'm going to be honest, I have nothing to say about this one, it's perfectly cromulent, it just blends in with the other tracks a bit much, when talking about Open Your Eyes, I said the album had managed to catch itself just when it was about to become somewhat monotonous each time so far, and this song does not, it makes no attempt to, and, that does seem quite deliberate, it does work as, shall we say, connective tissue, between the tracks on the album, but, I'm in no rush to listen to it again.

Time of Your Life

There's that guitar again, it's quite... distinctive, it does make the song stand out quite a bit.

To make a third musical reference, I'm hearing some early Ringo in those drums, or perhaps a tambourine.

This might well be my favourite track of the album so far, it, put simply, has more going on, it's distinctive, it does something the others don't, that being distorted guitar.

Pastures

I feel like I'm in a lift (Or as the Americans/Roald Dahl say: elevator) in an indie game with a mix between hand-drawn characters, extruded into three dimensions, and voxel art environments, which attempts to make a point about mental health, but the writers clearly didn't all agree on what exactly that point was, leading to it being muddled, however some claim that itself is a statement about either the inherent issues with a collaborative creative process, or a pastiche of shit indie games.

Is This What You Could Not Do?

Oh fucking finally, a slightly up-tempo, so to speak, track, I know, it's a odd complaint to make in a genera called "dreampop" but, one has to have some degree of variety.

It's even got Fun New Sounds, which I would describe, but, I fear the onomatopoeia would get far too silly.

You and I

Honestly, this is another Grand New Spin, it's fine, I liked it, I just have nothing in particular to say about it, that I haven't said about the other tracks.

On the Brink

I've got to say, after being so excited about that drum fill intro on The Dreamers, they're starting to get a little played little over done, and as I say that, the song's done

The Start of Something Beautiful

I'll say this, it's an interesting way to end an album, as a rule, one would want to end an album with a bang, this is, well, not that, it is, largely, more of the same, but, to be honest, I cannot imagine another way this album would end, other than to fade out like this.

The sampling of speak that can be heard at points is a pretty clear callback to Can of Worms, which does make the album feel somewhat circular.

The main element I didn't mention in any of those, for the sake of leaving it until the end, as I suspected it would be consistent throughout the album., is the vocals.

I won't mince words here, they were the element of the album I enjoyed the least.

I've criticise music for having nothing to say before, that is, music that attempts to have a Message, but skirts around it, or leaves itself open to broad interpretation, presumable to avoid controversy, or to broaden the commercial appeal of the music, but, The Glow does not suffer from this, I presume, as I cannot understand a word of it, without paying Very Close Attention, which, frankly, is not ideal.

This is not because it degrades the album as a whole, to be clear, I did enjoy this album, it is that it failed to elevate it, much can be said about the interplay between the lyrical and instrumental elements of a song, and here, the texture and tone of the voices are more distinct than anything they are saying.

The Glow is an album that would much benefit from having the lyrics to each track actually on the Bandcamp page. (Or from me listening to it on a platform that has the lyrics, assuming there is one)

Other than the lyrics, the one thing I feel the album could have benefited from is some reeds and brass, totally not because I'm a saxophonist, and therefore biased, but in order to, so to speak, break up the texture of the album, add more for one's brain to gnaw on.

All in all, I liked The Glow, will I be seeking out more dreampop? Maybe, which isn't what I wrote the first time, but, since then, I've started a spreadsheet, and it needs entries. (only half-joking)

(tiny bit of context for readers, this was first sent in ages ago, and had to be re-sent, as it got missed)

tysm for listeningg:) yay🫶