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Can't meet up with people in pubs either. Although the messaging on that wasn't clear initially.

I was thinking of The Rapture (and DFA, and whoever else) as antecedants rather than an example. Like, the indie tastemakers in the weeklies start getting excited about angular twitchy disco punk no-one really buys it but then a few years down the line the slick drivetime version is on in the...

There's kind of shades of Yacht Rock to all this, I think. Can we say Yacht Indie? Or Indie Yacht? Mundanely, doesn't it all probably traces back to that late nineties early 2000s post-punk / disco-punk hype / post-Oasis backlash? Maybe crossed with the impact of uncanny valley surgical...

Black salt's a subcontinental thing, I think. Goes into chaat masala, for instance. You wouldn't put it on your chips but it adds an interesting extra dimension to reasonably strongly flavoured things...

I always think of Tristam Shandy - Uncle Toby with his scarps and counter-scarps, demi-lunes and covered-ways....

We also stayed in the mountain hut that's sat in a notch of the frontier ridge above Ludwig's mountain summerhouse - that's a relatively modern building, but still has some strong Game of Thrones energy:

We went to a couple of the smaller Ludwig II gaffs when we went to Bavaria - Lindenhof and the little mountain bolthole that I can't remember the name of. Amazing places but Neuschwanstein looks next level. Ludwig was an interesting character, too - mates with Wagner at the point where Wagner...

In case anyone was in doubt that this shit is a grift: childrens' magazine apologises to billionaire JK Rowling after she threatens them with legal action for saying that her comments "harm trans people"...

Similar vibe, different era. Subvert Central rettles:

Can't remember whether Raime and/or Fact are cancelled around these parts, but this mix from 2011 is a halfway convincing picture of an alternate history where jungle went goth. A fast car cutting through the Shinjuku rain at night, a glimpse of tear streaked eyes in the back seat, you know the...

Is there a bit about them in Naked Lunch? Or somewhere in Burroughs, anyway?

1.MANGO 2.PEACH 3.GRAPE 4.SATSUMA 5.PEAR 6.WATERMELON

The fine tang of faintly scented urine.

I love how twenty years down the line, Energy Flash still acts like some sort of lightning rod for angry thick people.