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can we ban Stephen from this thread forever. ty.

this is my go-to beer. so good! in the last month or so i've tried a few Trappist ales. thought they were overrated as fuck until i had an Orval, which was maybe the nicest beer i've ever had. truly lush.

Assault On Precinct 13 - The Big Steal - Good Time watched all three over the weekend. Assault is one of the less interesting Carpenter films i've watched, but good enough. everything up to the actual assault on the precinct had me hooked but i kinda zoned out after that. The Big Steal had a nice twist at the end, though it was a pretty unremarkable film noir. Good Time was a very, very good time. really tense. the OPN soundtrack is fantastic.

the George Clooney Solaris is really underrated / overshadowed by the Tarkovsky one. they're both great in their own ways. and very different.

have you heard the new The Body track? so good! can't wait for the album

the new Portal album blew me the fuck away today. i've listened to them before but haven't been too enthralled, but this is fucking amazing! tried to find the LP online but it seems to be sold out or out of stock everywhere (in UK) but even that didn't hit me like Full Of Hell did. i've came across the name before but never paid attention. they've just signed to Relapse so i gave Trumpeting Ecstasy a spin and it's one of the most vicious records i've ever heard. i feel like a dummy for missing out on it for so long. the vocal style and range is intense, the drummer is insane and some filthy noise electronic fuckery pops up all over the album. it's mixed and mastered perfectly—maybe Kurt Ballou's best work??

A Clockwork Orange - 9/10 i haven't watched this in years. Malcolm McDowell is obviously amazing as Alex, but the smaller roles are played just as well. Michael Bates as the chief prison officer? 10/10 best acting

recent reads: Nip the buds, shoot the kids (Oe) Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut) Americana (DeLillo) Imperial Bedrooms (BEE) A Clockwork Orange (Burgess) worst to best: Imperial Bedrooms - Americana - Cat's Cradle - Nip the buds - A Clockwork Orange Imperial Bedrooms was really... not great. he's so hit and miss. Americana was wrote well but the 3 parts are so incredibly different tonally it really doesn't mesh. it was at least 150 pages too long, too. Cat's Cradle is too inoffensive and bland to be great, though it was good enough. Nip the buds was good, though the writing is repetitive and somewhat childish. it is narrated by a child, so I'm not sure how intensional this is. if intensional it works well. he was young as fuck when he wrote it, so i'm not sure. A Clockwork Orange is fantastic. going to rewatch the film later.

the new Hooded Menace is amazing as well

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i have the KP3 which is pretty good for audio fuckery. there are much nicer effects out there if you want it mainly for the delays and more standard FX though having so much in one unit is really handy. almost all the effects are tempo synced which is useful. other than the fact it's ugly as hell i'm not sure what the differences are between the KP2 and KP3. does it do sampling?

yeah that Helpless album is really good, i need to give it another listen some time soon

i've had a few false starts recently. got about 20(?) pages into Neuromancer but dropped it (not in the mood for it). tried to push through The Rachel Papers (Martin Amis) but it's not doing much for me. stopped reading around 90 pages in. i loved Money but i haven't much enjoyed the other stuff i've read of his. starting to think his early work just isn't very good. i'll try another of his newer works next time. i did make it through Amnesia Moon (Jonathan Lethem) which was pretty good but nothing mind blowing. it got more interesting as it went on. PKD worship. i also finished The Road which was really good. not as good as anything else of McCarthy's i've read, but it had some really nice moments. i was expecting it to read a little more like a mainstream novel with more 'story' so it was a nice surprise. it could be summed up as 300 pages of 2 people being cold but he somehow makes it an interesting read despite the repetition. i watched the film after as well which was a pretty good and faithful adaptation. also read a few Lovecraft short stories after buying a couple of cheap collections. currently reading The Road to Wigan Pier for a change of pace because i don't read much non-fiction and i'm also about to begin Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe. it's something i've wanted to read for a long time so hopefully it holds up to expectation.

new Black Mirror series was lame. only decent episode was Black Museum. the startrek one was kinda okay i guess.

i remember seeing them for the first time and i thought they'd sound shit live, but they really blew me away. i'm not crazy into anything they've released since Crack the Skye but live the new tracks are really great

but Mastodon are fantastic live ???

i've had the same comments about the dryness of my drums on previous tracks too, gotta work on that. @Belum - the bass is Minibrute. @Heaven - enjoy your Blo, bro.

yeah the Dreadbox sounds fantastic. i haven't had much time to use it yet so i'm looking forward to getting really stuck in. the echo is so over the top lo-fi, been using it + the patch bay to create some fucked up soundscapes.

i love it. it has tons of character but at the same time has huge range. a lot of people see it as a cold or metallic sounding synth (which it definitely can be if you want it to), but it does thick and warm really well if you use it right. if you enjoy programming and making patches it has amazing depth. all synths in this one except the bass are Blofeld. thanks for the comments, i appreciate it.

i thought Metro was dated (even at the time of release) and boring. i tried to play it twice and gave up. was just a sub-par FPS, nothing more.

been on a bit of an Orwell kick recently recently read: Animal Farm - good Down and Out in Paris and London - great Success (Martin Amis) - not great now reading: Burmese Days read a little of The Waves (Virginia Woolf) as well but the soliloquy style she uses in it isn't something i really enjoy

i couldn't contain my GAS over Christmas and i now have a Dreadbox Erebus en route

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i haven't listened to any of the other stuff in this thread but the OP track is the worst track of 2017

this is one of the albums that has had a lasting effect on me this year. probably #1 electronic AOTY for me i've recently came to appreciate Ghettoville more as well plz fuck off, Lopez