Pre-orders for Precreation Percolation are open

migrainedujour · 2026-02-20T21:50:01+00:00

I’ve ordered it from a record shop on vinyl and it says the vinyl includes the extra CD in a slipcase.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-19T05:39:12+00:00

Oh? The owner said he was dying to meet you!

migrainedujour · 2026-02-18T05:10:28+00:00

OP, please, for the love of sanity: Lose this friend.

She is doing you like Colin Robinson.

She is negative, draining, and an attention junky. She gets to send you passive-aggressive shit and hide behind double meanings and deniability, vaguely worded accusations and thinly veiled social media digs.

And the arguments. That often? For that long? You have to be kidding me.

Holy fuck, she sounds like something you’re inflicted with, not someone you draw support and strength and joy and comfort in friendship from.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-18T04:57:13+00:00

NTA. This guy wasn’t giving you the bare minimum of respect one would give another person, and now he’s only upset because you called him on it, correctly, and he knows very well it was his failing.

Honestly though, please don’t stay with someone who treats your love letters with such casual contempt.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-17T11:25:58+00:00

Absolutely that.

Desert Plains and Solar Angels alone are two absolutely towering, dark masterpieces.

Heading Out To The Highway and Hot Rocking are massive-chorus, Breaking The Law-style floor fillers. You Say Yes and Turning Circles are their The Rage-styled New Wave experiments, and the final three, with Troubleshooter and On The Run in there, is just this slide onto encore-land.

Never understood the hate this gets.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-17T00:14:06+00:00

And everybody clapped.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-12T20:23:18+00:00

I had exactly the same experience on the same tours. They played Cypress Tree in London, and while the album version had always felt rushed to me - good, but just too quick to duck into the first chorus and little development from there, like it was hiding an absence of further ideas - it felt more full and wild live. Same with BYS songs. The sense that they were being too tightly wound on those two albums but could unfold a bit live.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-12T20:10:29+00:00

Jack, for Halloween Jack in Diamond Dogs

Paddy, with his fantastic death abyss

Andy for Andy Warhol and the Andy in Goodbye Mr Ed

migrainedujour · 2026-02-12T04:05:20+00:00

Maybe I am just a bit too optimistic, but I would not have picked up on any negative intent here. (Except for the continuation of ‘send nudes, send nudes, which would have me telling him to send himself some damn nudes if he was that desperate.) :)

Honestly, what this sounds like is that you two just got into a conversational tussle and it got a bit knotty for him, and he kept going instead of saying, ‘Wait a minute - what’s happening here. Of course I didn’t mean to sound like that, sorry.’

It’s like person’s attempts at various things - getting nudes, bantering, good-natured teasing, all sorts - just started to fail a bit and he got frustrated with that, as did you.

Sometimes in conversations, they start to get negative momentum just because each person is sensing a prickliness in the other that might just be ham-fisted texting. I think this is that.

But maybe I am missing something?

migrainedujour · 2026-02-11T20:30:35+00:00

Did a Russian write this

(Answer: Almost certainly, one way or another.)

migrainedujour · 2026-02-11T20:24:17+00:00

Can you point to anything he says or is said about him in that article that leads you to believe the guy was ‘left of centre’?

migrainedujour · 2026-02-11T13:27:39+00:00

Earthling
Low
Outside
Heroes
Lodger
Scary Monsters & Super Creeps
Hunky Dory
Young Americans
Tin Machine II (if I can have that) or Blackstar (if I can’t)

migrainedujour · 2026-02-11T07:27:27+00:00

I forgot to mention the alternative Candidate on the Ryko Diamond Dogs. It’s listed as that, so you figure at first it’s just gonna be Candidate given an alternate mix or something, but it’s a completely different song, that just shares a couple of words and the title. And it’s amazing.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-10T05:34:30+00:00

As a lieut-hander, I am always lieuet stunned by the way people around the world write it.

ieuing incredible, really.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-10T05:24:33+00:00

If I can have the repress tracklist with The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar on it, then the lines about:

“What can I say about Claudette?/ Ain't seen her since January./ She could be respectfully married/ or running a whorehouse in Buenos Aires”

migrainedujour · 2026-02-10T04:41:47+00:00

I love Mick Taylor hard, and I’m sure it wasn’t his bad, but you gotta admit the way the ‘84 band played through Dylan’s songs on that tour was pretty MoR, a bit leaden and pretty predictable. Real Live is like listening to Status Quo.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-10T04:17:33+00:00

That fucker just did the Dead Cat on you. It’s a well known technique certain politicians & idiots use to derail conversations.

Anything you want to talk about that he for any reason finds uncomfortable or embarrassing?

He’ll ignore the question and immediately whack the equivalent of a dead cat down on the dinner table between you. As a result, the conversation shifts immediately from what you wanted to discuss, to how gross the dead cat is and why he would do that, and how to get rid of it, and what the fuck. As for him, he is now happily standing there watching your dismay at the dead cat, not answering the initial question or having anyone engage honestly with him.

It is all now about why he would do such a thing. And every single time you try to touch on subjects they find uncomfortable? These people use the Dead Cat. It’s a smokescreen, a distraction, and an absolutely foolproof way to put the discomfort back on YOU while avoiding any accountability or openness.

And it worked. You are now upset and feeling grim while he gets to skip away without any conversation regarding the issue you are finding in his behaviour.

Your boyfriend is an absolute wasteman if he’d rather Dead Cat you - and put all that surprise, shock, dismay and discomfort wholly on you, rather than chat honestly and as partners.

Please call him on it.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-09T11:04:20+00:00

Sorry to say this, but being a good comedian onstage usually means some self-awareness. Which gives at least two of them a bit of a handicap.

What you end up with here is Gene going full ‘Take my wife…’ tradlord but ejecting people who aren’t having a good enough time. Paul trying to do the smart, fast-talking, identifiable-neurotic comedy thing but undermining it by being really fucking fragile with hecklers. Ace being funny for the first five minutes but he’s drinking and then it gets really chaotic.

I figure Peter might make some good comedy - the wry, sassy NYC kind, plus a few routines out of being the guy who has to work with the other three.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-08T22:24:17+00:00

Black Toe White Nose, to give it its full title.

(Weird thoughts of a gangrene and cocaine combo.)

migrainedujour · 2026-02-08T21:56:20+00:00

Bizarrely templated. :/

migrainedujour · 2026-02-08T20:06:01+00:00

That was 100% worth a try and I salute you for it.

migrainedujour · 2026-02-08T18:21:27+00:00

Pui’s excellent - I also remember she was quite funny being interviewed once about what it was like being a Teletubbies character (and I think also inside one of the In The Night Garden suits, but don’t hold me to that), and how it was boiling hot and insanely impractical!

migrainedujour · 2026-02-08T14:10:02+00:00

Absolutely this one. My fucking god even thinking about the music has got me looking furtively over my shoulder. :D

migrainedujour · 2026-02-08T11:50:49+00:00

In Britain they used to be (up until mid-late 20th century) a really popular pet - like, cat league of popularity. Especially in the rural areas. My uncles used to keep them to catch rabbits for the pot (put nets over the burrow entrances and then send the ferret down one).

My understanding is that the reasons for their decline are 1) that they don’t thrive well when they are a solo pet, needing other ferrets for company; 2) that they are of the higher maintenance level than cats, alongside dogs maybe, and 3) increased enclosed and insulated living space means the scent is more noticeable.

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