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TwaJokers

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Grateful Dead and other quality music, Theatre, Cinema, Food, Cocktails, Cats, Birds, History, Rugby (particularly Edinburgh). A new Scot in favour of an Independent Scotland. Likely to post cat pictures and about music rather than anything else.

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TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 16h

Does her proposal include the refugees that Idi Amin created?

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 1d

I took this photo about 10 minutes ago, having used a hand towel to dry after the shower...

Two tortie point Siamese cats, one sleeping on a laundry bin, the other one is on MY bath towel, pulled down from the heated towel rail.

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TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 2d

I've never ever gambled, or even bought a lottery ticket. The only exception is raffle tickets for a good cause. They were basically donations.

I'm an Arts graduate who ended up in Finance, so I'd like to think that I had a good appreciation of Stats and Risk and didn't gamble accordingly.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 2d

I so love this EP...

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The Church - Magician Among The Spirits and Some (1996)

Really the first album of the Church's second era, given the disintegration from "Priest = Aura" through "Sometime Anywhere" and the Re:formation album, made at a financial low point. And it really works.

A framed, negative photo of Harry Houdini, against a similarly black and white background.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 3d

We've only really been there once, but we did take time to go to Aston, and this is what we visited (Aston Hall).

We also had some seriously good curry in central Birmingham.

Yes, it's all very terrifying.

NOT.

Aston Hall, Birmingham. A beautiful redbrick Jacobean Mansion. Roughly halfway between Ozzy Osbourne's birthplace and Aston Villa's football ground.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 4d

I was going with the spirit of the original post, thinking quickly. If I had to substitute it due to genre, I'd go for "The Devil's Backbone" instead (3/3)

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 4d

So I'll stick with it as horror, even though I suspect you're right, that for some horror fans, it isn't, it's just an incredibly nasty film.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irr%C3%... in case anyone is baffled about this argument around genre. (2/3)

Irréversible - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irréversible

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 4d

Yes... I wondered about classification, then thought, well, it horrified me, and still sticks in my mind 23 years on from when I saw it - a screening at Edinburgh Film Festival, so we got the full unreviewed big screen impact, and there were no pauses. (1/3)

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TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 5d

Predictive Text with pretensions.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 6d

The Shining
Audition
Irreversible
Alien

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TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 6d

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Fatboy Slim - Between The Gutter and The Stars (2000)

Diminishing returns, sadly: with the slight exceptions of Sunset (Bird of Prey) and Weapon of Choice, this just doesn't resonate.

A female model, the sun showing through between her legs, is silhouetted on a beach. Shades of red and gold are nice, though

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 7d

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Peter Gabriel - Plays Live (1983)

And Now For Something Completely Different...

Well, yes. No particular allegiance to Prog Rock, nor to primal Stooges, but another one of my early albums and deeply loved. It turns out I can remember it pretty much from end to end...

Cover of "Peter Gabriel Plays Live", his makeup is a Trojan (or similar) helmet, with blue highlighting around his eyes. A headset microphone, absolutely new then, widely used now, completes the picture.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 8d

Like other respondents, yes, I can still remember numbers that have been irrelevant for 40+ years.

The stupidity of the question is the premise that in the 1990s a TV show would have included something completely unrealistic because no-one would remember a long phone number.

YES WE COULD AND DID!

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 9d

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Iggy And The Stooges - Raw Power (1973)

I love prog, and Grateful Dead, but I also love Iggy and The Stooges, in this case the "Iggy Violent Mix" of "Raw Power". It's a fine (and ridiculous!) album that will stretch your speakers to the limit and beyond!

The cover of "Raw Power": Iggy at The Scala, London: don't challenge him, he'll take you out seems to be the message...

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 9d

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Grateful Dead - Europe '72, Vol. 5: Stakladen, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark 16th April 1972.

A Danish cafeteria gig! Primal 1972 Dead is always welcome, and this is hot and sharp.

A round picture: in the background, a Danish flag; in the foreground, a skull bites into a pastry laced with green and red goo (there are probably cultural subtexts that I'm just not getting here...)

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TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 9d

Christmas Rollmops in a pot! (certainly looks like it to me)

...and that would not necessarily be a bad thing in theory, though possibly VERY BAD in practice.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 11d

"Targeted directly on NPR, a single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin..."

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 11d

My pursuit of a role as a contract business / data analyst briefly diverted by this gem of an e-mail from LinkedIn earlier today:

"Supermarket Assistant role at Waitrose & Partners: Be one of the first 19 applicants"

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 13d

#TwaJokersIsListeningTo My Morning Jacket - Okonokos (2006)

A gloriously flawed album from the 2005 Fillmore West, San Francisco gigs.

My Morning Jacket on stage at the Fillmore West, I'm guessing, in one of the 2005 gigs that we used to put the "Okonokos" live album together.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 13d

On what radio station?

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 14d

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New Order - Get Ready (2001)

The strongest New Order album since the mid-80s? Probably, though there wasn't much competition... this album was a return to proper songs rather than dance music.

A black and white photo of a young woman with bobbed hair in t-shirt and jeans pointing a video camera at the viewer.

There's a red bar across the picture about a third of the way up.

The incongruous part: the t-shirt and jeans are riddled with holes. decay pervades the image as a result.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 14d

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Alabama 3 - The Last Train to Mashville Vol. 2 (2003)

The one and only "Country House" band - yes, they blend country and house music, to glorious effect, from the unlikely location of Brixton, South London.

No-one seems to know what happened to volume 1...

A cartoon of a black-clad country guitarist, hat pulled over the eyes, playing an acoustic guitar with a close-in microphone.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 14d

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Giant Sand - Center of the Universe (1992)

One of the first times that I saw Giant Sand - at The Mean Fiddler in Harlesden, with the Psycho Sisters (Vicki Peterson and Susan Cowsill) on backing vocals.

And up there with "The Love Songs" as a favourite Giant Sand album.

A red heart, anatomical rather than symbolic, on a green background, shot through with a yellow archer's arrow.

TwaJokers @twajokers.bsky.social · 16d

Al Kooper's "Backstage Passes & Backstabbing Bastards: Memoirs of a Rock 'N' Roll Survivor" must be a contender: