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I’m a Local Government lifer, Musician and Linux dabbler. This is a large and sprawling disorganised mess - a bit like me really. I’m interested in lots of things at the same time but a LOT of music. I’m not really doing this for any particular purpose other than being an old-ish dog learning some new tricks

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  • Jan 25, 2025
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Liz Green - Haul Away!

Produced by Liam Watson at Toe Rag studios. Liz Green made two albums and then retreated. An extraordinary talent and too good for our times. I’d like to see her make more records but get why she doesn’t.

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  • Jan 22, 2025
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WSL Mapping in Windows 11

Windows sub-system Linux -

WSL is great in Windows 11 and I’m mostly using the Ubuntu sub-system for Hugo and web development as it’s quick and easy to move around.

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  • Jan 22, 2025
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Music Emporium - Nam Myo Renge Kyo

Music Emporium was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1967. Fronted by experimental multi-instrumentalist Bill “Casey” Cosby, the group was created at UCLA, and developed a sound centered around Cosby’s keyboards and vocal harmonies. Music Emporium released one ultra-rare self-titled album in 1969, which is praised among psychedelic enthusiasts and has been re-released multiple times.

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  • Jan 22, 2025
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Sic Alps - Message from The Law

Sic Alps were an American garage rock band from San Francisco, California. Formed in 2004 by Mike Donovan and Adam Stonehouse, they released music on Siltbreeze, Drag City, Woodsist and several other independent record labels.

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  • Jan 20, 2025
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Serge Gainsbourg et Brigitte Bardot - Comic Strip

Bardot and Gainsbourg in lurid form

Serge Gainsbourg - (2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer-songwriter, actor, composer, and director. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he was renowned for often provocative releases which caused uproar in France, dividing public opinion.

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  • Jan 20, 2025
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Antoine - Les Elucubrations

No health and safety bothers for Antoine

Pierre Antoine Muraccioli (born 4 June 1944), known professionally as Antoine, is a French pop singer, and also a sailor, adventurer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker.

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  • Jan 20, 2025
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Joi Lansing - The Silencer

Another Joi Lansing Scopitone. Just beautifully camp!

Scopitone is a type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. Scopitone films were a forerunner of music videos. The 1959 Italian Cinebox/Colorama and Color-Sonics were competing, lesser-known technologies of the time one year before the Scopitone in France

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  • Jan 19, 2025
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Joi Lansing - Web of Love

Truly camper than a row of tents.

Joi Lansing was an American model, film and television actress, and nightclub singer. She was noted for her pin-up photos and roles in B-movies, as well as a prominent role in the famous opening “tracking shot” in Orson Welles’ 1958 crime drama Touch of Evil.

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  • Jan 19, 2025
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Clinic

Done and Dusted II

Clinic are an English rock band, formed in 1993 in Crosby, Liverpool by frontman Ade Blackburn, guitarist Jonathan Hartley, bassist Brian Campbell and drummer Carl Turney.

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  • Jan 19, 2025
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Site Building

Hugo and static sites.

Why I had enough of Ghost and MySql and why static sites work better for me.

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