Annual George Michael weekend in Goring today. Tribute bands in pub garden, Careless Whisper drifting on the breeze. Americans in Choose Life t-shirts at the station. A cosy crime plot waiting to happen.

By chance poet Simon Armitage talks about the joys of a slide projector here this week: www.newstatesman.com/culture/natu...

I agree - a pain to set up and run, but a joyous mechanical locomotive rhythm to build anticipation as the next glowing scene shuffles into view.

An artist in scotland
Whose uncle lives nearby
And picked it up with relish.

We just sold my late Dad's old slide projector with its shuffling, rotating round magazine and red dots on slides to say 'this way up'. I can imagine it as the percussive background to some Jeff slap bass dibbling. Eat that silent PowerPoint!

Too much! Quantum funksics?

Nice! During Covid home lockdown my guilty friday pleasure was listening with our girls to Scary Pockets on youtube. An incredible, unlikely funkyrabbithole for a child of punk to fall into. One of my faves... m.youtube.com/watch?v=fiSh...

Divine intervention confirms that drums/guitar/bass is quite enough.

Too much! Silver funk wings!

Don't forget some gaps between notes!

Ooh.. I hear youtube is 20 years old. I remember my colleague telling me his kids liked 'Charlie bit my finger' & my mind was bent when i found out what that was, & what Youtube is (2007 - late to the party). Infinite choice engines trouble my Calvinist genes. I like bounded choice. A meagre dearth.

And in dungarees! My go-to funking outfit.

1. Heard news item last week about device that artificially helps pianists' fingers play faster, and this effect continues without device... and in other hand.
2.podcast with music at 1.5x could help listener do [x] faster?

Just not sure what [x] is?

Fall off bicycle?

I like, tho the AI rendering of the second guitar makes it look like a portable coffee table?

Also just... visualisations of complexity / systems totally beat narrative descriptions! (And there is no 'right' or 'best' way to represent them).

Rohinton Mistry's novel 'A Fine Balance' has a horrifying account of that spike.

Jeff replies 'oh, that's a shaaaaaaaaaame' spanning four octaves and a window breaks, and a passing pigeon drops from the sky?

Mind blown!

*pun only works with british accent.

Well plaid.