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business looked very influential in earlier decisions about how UK government was going to move and when. there's been a resistance to making moves that might alter a way of life (conserving, being conservative) which, ironically, result in more intricate and fundamental changes to how life needs to be lived because it's picking around the edges of issues and being prolonged, slow, ineffective, repetitive and a 'new normal' that wasn't wanted, intended or just goes a long way from the starting point as a result. the hard and fast approach looks reckless, as though lacking inspiration or nuance, and could have been perceived to be risky in loss of momentum of economy, despite the virus being an aspect of economy and not a balance of two separate issues, but prevents the need for ever more complicated actions that get altered slightly, or don't look substantial enough, confuse, frustrate, tire, lose support. all the time, over the many months, the next slow, careful choice looks too little, too late. and the deaths pile up very quickly when you take the brakes off lockdowns because people feel liberated as though the primary concern is over, despite it only subsiding temporarily. the international comparisons will come back to haunt politicians in any country with a high rate, because any aspect they care to say was unavoidable was possibly avoided elsewhere, any measure not in place here was possibly carried out elsewhere, any population density issue or localised health or financial issues were simultaneously handled in a variety of ways as well as common ways which proved to contribute towards relatively effective (often close to zero) deaths, change to life, expense and so on. we've seen an issue play out globally and provide real-time comparisons when political inaction and incompetence usually relies upon comparable situations not being so visible due to time elapsing between something occurring here and having occurred elsewhere in the past. there will be a massive attempt to highlight domestically individual issues with each country that goes down the tribunal route to "learn the lessons", but it will have been a virus moving everywhere, killing everywhere, at the same time with the same year, and people will have to assess the successes and failures by comparison of common concerns; that infections are carried, that allowing movement allow carrying, that accumulative movement and mixing causes deaths. trace it back from death, and it will have been as a result of allowing (or not cracking down effectively on) movement as it's the only way covid-19 gets a chance to kill. it's not coincidence, it's fundamental.
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there's some suggestion that what currently passes as conservative in the UK is not as it would be historically described as being. a big clue on that front is old conservative politicians popping up and saying they fucked it. i suspect we're getting a distorted form of conservative approach that isn't conserving as much as it's flailing and trying not to get killed off completely. inherent lack of ability in those in government is a factor, brexit as a priority for choosing cabinet members is another, as is a presumption and portrayal that progressive attitudes are bad because they highlight lack of progress and those that are responsible for being slow and ineffective in what ever they do. big push from government to have the public paint themselves are dyed in the cloth "good" (like us) or "bad" (like them) rather than accept people in the roles change, and those that chose best candidates for the time could go between voting for a major party or another across their lifetime. there's also been a lot of blatant copying of trump ideas, with the tier system of lockdowns looking like punishment for not being run by conservative MPs or councils, with higher / problematic infection rates in conservative areas getting off lightly, or with better financial support. big suspicion is also that BJ (our PM) is more journalist than politician. very similar to withdrawal of support for states run by opposition governors and areas that don't traditionally vote in trumps direction. for me, the UK can't quite get it's head around running an economy being the same issue as dealing with the virus. and going in hard and fast is nerve-wracking and likely to cause / suggest bigger issues with how services and financing has been cut to the bone over the last ten years. a lot of avoidance of issues has been to do with the complication (lack of people to do stuff) and expense (not willing to pay to compensate for cuts made) due to 2008 crash of economy which was by choice but dismantled infrastructure so much they don't want to draw more attention to it's effects.
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manhunter.
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to me, trump runs the country like a company, treats the population like employees. those that aren’t loyal are ostracised and punished as though separate concerns, of no purpose or value as though not his responsibility as though they should side in order to be accepted back, which is cruel and divisive. other countries are treated as competition or supporting services, hence the direct requests for assistance and reliance upon provision of money and favours as though suppliers. it’s not like people anywhere in america voted to be ordered around or even put at risk of life-ending circumstances like removal of funding or pushing for localised civil wars for not voting his way, instead of having someone work for everyone’s benefit and allowed to continue their free choice to vote according to how well the overall picture evolved and progressed without the conflict and hatred.
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gomorrah.
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devil's rain.(1975).
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could never figure out which richter albums were entirely new material and which were partly new. is there a lot of re-releasing older stuff as part of new soundtracks? puts me off that i think there is. too much of it, somehow.
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berwick street, especially 'sister ray' & 'ambient soho' (now defunct, was across the road from the original SR shop on berwick street) was somewhere that was a primary spot for music in the 90's. you could be sure you'd pick up lots of electronica in there, and it particularly seemed to dominate mail order via the NME during the decade also; think they had a relationship with labels, especially WARP, and they'd get the lion's share of releases like AFX 'hangable auto bulb' because of this. reading those adverts was very often the best way of knowing what stuff was new, because they crammed so many little titles in their list, and the ad took up a fair space on a page. got lots of stuff there very cheaply that was essentially past releases left hanging around for years, then suddenly disappeared and became valuable - lots of rephlex stuff, or things like GAK. the shop it seems to occupy now had a far larger range of electronic stuff back then, and it's where i picked up more 12"s than i could find in SR. found those early 'photek" releases in there. was very well stocked and staffed. reliable, always on the ball.
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Bloke cleaning old synthesiser goes on 9 hour acid trip after touching LSD-coated knob https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/782055/lsd-acid-drugs-synthesiser-1960s-psychedelic-video
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got my CDs today. just popped in here, see curves are occurring. my box slightly dipped. looking closely, suggest box is actually too big for the amount of discs.
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... take a guess at the locations in which the tracks were recorded. five overall, three recorded in cornwall, two in london. might also relate to the locations shown in the video?
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video. article too. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/aug/07/blimps-runes-and-latte-mummies-how-aphex-twin-keeps-fans-guessing
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i'm in the UK, and have had ongoing experiences with depression since the age of around 11, with some medical history connected to it going back several years before then. i will be 45 this year. i've fallen victim to the UK's system of trying to remove people from the benefit system that provides some financial support, and had my money stopped late february. it's a new challenge, somewhat, because i've to figure out how to put up with a limbo state that could last a year, before i can go to a tribunal and appeal. as far as depression goes, i had self-diagnosed it for many years before reaching a breaking point and seeking medical advice. i've pushed hard to understand it, have managed it quite well at times and have a large amount of varying experience to draw from, but fear that the system that wants to assess me as having been (essentially) living a lie and therefore able to work, intentionally avoids judging with a medical sensibility - it can't allow itself the skill of gathering information that's inferring to a larger, bigger picture, because it insists on one meeting and skirts around the issues / responses selectively, for a prejudged end that frustrates with it's over-embellished and obfuscated simplistic judgements. that's the financial dictating the psychological, and that's dangerous. had many therapists over the years, usually for short periods, and found them to be frustrating for the most part - they come and go, run out of ideas, give up, or are sometimes bizarrely abusive. doctors are a little better, but i have realised i don't know the details of the professional perspectives as well as i know it's essentially accepted i phase in and out of consciously dealing with the familiar aspects of the condition when experienced long-term, too much to be consistent or reliable, and definitely in trouble when activities or routines get quickly or gradually complicated / busy. i have an issue with concentration, loss of energy, trouble sleeping too little (and too much) as well as indifference and isolation, lack of motivation.
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my perspective is that it may well depend on your level of insight - i find many are geared towards dealing with people currently in the grips of something distressing which is causing prolonged periods of depression, and they provide relief from that distress. for me, although anxious and depressed (at quite low levels, but chronic enough to be complicating) i understand and have continued to do stuff because my depression started at a time where i couldn't avoid activities preventing me from finding space to consider everything. i personally find someone who will have a conversation much more preferable, as they'll clarify my ideas or provide new ones that add to my ability to know what i am managing and how i might go about it. the lack of dialogue from most, i find only frustrating.
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it's from BIG MAN JAPAN http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997147/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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first listen last night. very sub-par in my view. lacks its own ideas and identity. sounds far too derivative of what i could happily buy 20 years ago, takes what was once someones current phase & unnecesarily expands it into genre of continued retreading. ... will try bonus disc, sometime.
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preordered physical CD(s) via mu, and like how well the store works now - as well as the pre-order bonus idea, which makes up for the cheeky £2.75 postage for a CD in the UK.
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... yeah ... these autism tests are pretty much all the same and when you've done one you quickly pick up on the Qs which are loaded and know how to respond - oddly, this isn't about avoiding giving answers which mark you out as autistic, but can be a case of knowing that as it's a spectrum condition that you could answer the same Q in multiple different ways and some are simply taken to be signs when accumulatively or repeatedly displayed, but the tests themselves are only a collection of one instance of how you choose to react to the wording and general approach or tone of them.
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... anyone a fan of chilli hatakayama? just listened to a few clips, then googled to find he's one of those people that records a shed load of stuff, releases it all over the place in limited numbers, troublesome minefield of an artist. for example >
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not sure how soundcloud orders uploads on people's pages, but that dump that someone uploaded on page 120 seems to have tracks missing ... ?
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i know. could be too quick off the mark, but i'd normally say i know very quickly when something's working for me.
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also reported.By his post logboy has levelled up defense against the dark farts. He's untouchable I'm afraid. not untouchable, obviously, but ... trying to say that although i am aware of the interest, i've not been starved of new RDJ work like the 'first album in 13 years' crowd seem to think we've all been, and i've been listening to other stuff - of which there is plenty, but just not as good as richard at his best. also, probably every new release of his since the early 90's has been imperfect but fascinating enough. this one was fascinating from a marketing and hype perspective, but the music is just not there for me.
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i kept my head down and avoided 99% of the press and reaction to this album. had my first listen last night. terrible. don't know how to explain it. just an hour of shuffling drums (+ bit o piano). hadn't waited for it, didn't get excited by it's arrival. just knew i would buy it. can't see what charm or mystery there is in it.
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quite interesting, this > http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/aphex-twin-on-new-syro-lp-im-feeling-really-horny-about-it-and-very-smug-20140903
