Oh hi.
Hopefully our mod is away on holiday and not come a cropper or worse, deserted us. In the meantime, I’m going to take it upon myself to post the “TV and Tunes Tuesday” thread.
What TV shows or movies you been watching this week? Or perhaps you’ve got some great new music recommendations. Let us know how you’ve been whiling away the hours and trying to justify all those streaming subscriptions.
We got through another two films from my friends “horror films you should watch” list. And after the success of last week’s two choices we went in with high hopes, that were sadly dashed a little bit.
Satanic Panic is a comedy-horror starring Rebecca Romjin’s boobs. It’s got some genuinely funny moments but mostly it fell a bit flat for us. I did like the main character a lot though!
Alien Code is actually more of a scifi thing, very low budget, mostly filmed in a flat, you know the type of thing. Actually quite enjoyed it for the most part although it started to drag on a bit towards the end.
Music-wise I’m struggling. Does anyone who uses Spotify know how to make it suggest any new music to me whatsoever? Every single day it gives me the same choice of the same playlists with the same songs from the same bands. Do I need to be searching out and adding more stuff to my library to kick-start the algorithm or what? Google Music used to recommend me new stuff all the time, miss you bby.
Anyway today I’m planning to listen to a combo of The Decemberists and Shinedown so if anyone has suggestions for other bands I might like, go for it!
In an act of shameless self-promotion, I have a long stagnant music podcast that I’ve recently resurrected. It’s generally pretty obscure stuff, a lot of self released tracks. Mostly recent releases. Not familiar with Shinedown but a big fan of The Decemberists, so there may be something in there you might like. The downside… and to be honest it’s a big one… is that you need to listen to me waffle on. I guess that’s why skip forward buttons were invented.
https://edinburghman.com/subscribe
Consider me intrigued! Obscure is fine by me, cheers for this.
A further comment. First, enjoying this a lot so thanks for sharing, it’s like reliving all your updates from the daily threads recently except with music too haha. Second, while the mods are apparently all AWOL we should totally do a “UKCasual Talent Show” thread where we all get to share our cool stuff we make and do 🧐
Thank you! And yes, once upon a time I used to make notes before I recorded these, but then I realised I could just plunder my social media posts to find something to talk about!