space • time • tech
- I don’t do guilt or shameThey’ll say all day long ‘sitting shortens your life’ (and?) but I call bullshit on that. Gorillas sit in the jungle all day eating leaves. They don’t care about any of that shit. Do what you want. Here’s the thing about all the self help, improvement, inspirational stuff out there, whatever you wanna call it. […]
- 25 years without JoeyJoey Ramone passed away today (April 15) in 2001. Joey no longer walks Earth (and Dee Dee and Johnny are no longer with us either), but the unreal music he and they left behind is immortal, and it will fucking blast and rip forever. It still blows my mind I was briefly on Earth at […]
Hails and Ales
- Weekly release roundup (22/05/2026)Well another week is in the books and the weather is starting to heat up, at least where I am. So let’s see if we can find some hot new...
- Weekly Release Roundup (15/05/2026)Well another week has passed (where does the time go) but that means that there are more and more new metal releases for us to delve into and explore. Hope...
1001 Other Albums
- Daniel Johnston – Yip / Jump Music (1983, US)A spotlight on the 5th album from the late musician and artist Daniel Johnston.
- Self-Titled Saturday | Wintersun (2004, Finland)A spotlight on the self-titled debut by Finnish extreme majestic technical epic melodic metal band, Wintersun.
der thomas
- Albums of my life: 1991This will get weird. Well, just a little weird at least. In 1991 I was well aware of the world and music television. No, not MTV, because there was no way I could watch that anywhere. But music IN television. In Austria all we had was "Die großen 10", "X-Large" and "Wurlitzer". The first one […]
- Albums of my life: 1990So 1990. I remember new year's eve of '89 and how excited I was that we're hitting '90. Side note: for young Thomas, the years from 1990 to 2000 seemed to last about 50 years. Anyway, since I became more aware of music in the 90s, you could say that I am kind of a […]
The Reed and Pickup
- You can’t always force the words out...After a flurry of activity on this blog, there has been a couple of things in my world that have sent my words packing. It feels like a long time since I have blogged, although it has only been a few days. The seeds of partially formed ideas scattered to the four winds. Sometimes it […]
- Animal Crossing and the Joy of Simple GamesAs I’ve got older, I’ve become acutely aware of how quickly the sands of time are running out. I started my gaming journey with a Sinclair Spectrum +2, way back in the mid-80s, but games have been a fairly constant part of my life. Lately something has shifted. Fun, not a second job... Gaming in […]