Hugh Dingwall

Porn War as the MO of the Epsteinist class, what fun.

06-03-2026 - John Moreland, Heavenly, Brutha Rodz feat. Maria (Papa's Pack), Fables, Rei and Handsome Tiger A quasi-weekly podcast comprised of all Hugh's featured tracks for the past week. This week: John Moreland - Visitor, Heavenly - Skep Wax, Brutha Rodz feat. Maria (Papa's Pack) - Mokemoke, Fables - Eyes Closed, Rei and Handsome Tiger - Ancestor NRG

This week @objectivereality.bsky.social has more alt-country from John Moreland, UK indie from Heavenly, tunes in Te Reo by Brutha Rodz and Rei, and a new track from Fables!

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The show image from "Sick and Tired Aotearoa".

An except from the show in text form. The reads "Are you prepared to break up? No? Are you prepared to financially support her? You break up and you get support or you support her and she's your dependent - make a choice." This is from an interview with author Laura Wolf.

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We use it for ppl who don't give us decent episode descriptions. The good enough transcript can be summarized into a good enough description that you can tweak to actually good pretty quick.

I can't imagine him being a careful or disciplined drug dealer. Real "good at precisely one thing" guy.

He might be out of weed, having smoked it all

I feel like with Garcia it's 50/50 on a loosie (possible spliff) or used Heinlein novel.

I think I had that game, or possibly the sequel on C643 cassette. Completely impossible.

Lefty sticker game is on point, this is an impressively quick turnaround I reckon.

...along with (probably Robin Williamson's) hammer-ons and pull-offs. The result is that the notes sort of "squiggle" in place and then dart off to one side of other. A visual metaphor would be watching fish in a pond, Must have been very labour intensive during the mixing in '68 or '69 or whenever.

Alas I can't now remember which tune (might be "Waltz of the New Moon" on "Hangman's Beautiful Daughter"?) but I listened to an Incredible String Band song on headphones for the first time and there are "sitar" (probably actually a modified guitar) notes which are being panned...

The second part of any "we don't have enough nice things for the super rich" story is always "so what?" What is the bad outcome that happens if we don't have enough Bond-villains castles for the Epstein class to want to come here?

...and b) industry suits making the calculation that rap would be cheaper and easier to exploit for profit than rock was. In both cases the villain is capitalism.

It's a perfect case study in why you never have to hand it to conspiracy theorists, right? I think he's right that there was a deliberate push to deprioritise rock in favour of rap (as well as just nobody gets to be on top forever) but that's a) markets chasing trends...

Genuinely confused about in what way this is a problem. Can visiting rich perverts not just stay in *very nice* houses or expensive hotels? Is that not the point of being a very rich pervert?

And for a really dumb example which skirts the edge of horror - "Nothing But Trouble" - Chevy Chase is the true villain in all possible senses of the word both textually and meta.

OH also "Infinity Pool" by David Cronenberg's wee boy Brandon. Haven't seen many people talk about that one but the protagonist absolutely dives into the terrible situation head first.

Ben Wheatley's "Kill List", I feel like?

Oh you're in for a treat, Triangle is rad.

Joke's on you I'm only good to be sacrificed for 1 colourless

So do I! (Gotta seed your bookshelf with the occasional psychic bomb for the kids)

Microsoft is working on that, I'm sure

That and total entitlement. I had someone pass me in the middle of an intersection this morning veering into oncoming traffic to do so. But heaven forfend you wait 30 sec for a bike to get across (and ironically I'd have immediately turned off the road and got out of their way)

"Hammer" is a step down from my usual "council should buy me personally a Gundam"

I reckon if you're in an unenclosed vehicle you should be allowed to hit an enclosed one with a hammer. Just take the odd wing mirror off and make some dents.

Cool so we're doing Catch-22 for reals then.

God I hope so

Government ‘kicked the tyres’ on solar subsidies but went with ‘minor’ tweaks instead It is one of the cheapest ways to cut power bills - yet documents reveal the government shelved a subsidy.

New Zealand has more sunshine than Germany.
But only 1 in 35 homes here has rooftop solar.
Australia? 1 in 3.

Why? I tried to find out - despite some strange secrecy

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Blegh. He's on the edge of my YT algo, but his stuff's always been too long and too much covering familiar ground for me to take a chance on.

I Don't Want to Lose You Yet YouTube video by Steve Earle - Topic

If I had to pick a favourite off this Steve Earle record it'd be this one though:
youtu.be/b0ZL-nbbANY?...