- Ziyad Rahbani - Bil Afrah - This shit saved my life one Monday. So imagine you just can’t get started. You sit there for minutes and then it might have been hours, but you’re not even sure because you’re so lost. The indecision, grief of the daily grind all of it plotting to squash what is left of your soul. Then you start falling through this, and end up on the absolute ripper of a track “Chirak” and life seems okay for a second. There you are, transported decades, centuries to what is now called Lebanon, but was always a place where you would be up on your feet clapping, lost, but in a good way to ouds, clarinets, accordions and violins battling for the honour to pull you up to your feet. Wherever you are Basil, why did you not tell me about this? I’m clearly nowhere near even being a novice on Levantine music, but I know amazing versions of it when I hear it.
- The breakdown on Have a Drink on Me (AC/DC) from 02:49 to 04:00 - I’m almost positive I’ve written about this particular part of this particular song but I will again, and again and again, because every time it shows up on shuffle or on the classic rock radio it grabs me by the throat, throttles me against the wall banging my head again and again for me showing me there is more to life than whatever it is I’m doing.
- Wireless phone charging
- The Garden of Forking Paths newsletter
- John Stamos
- Ben Fogle - Where the Wild Men Are - Some people watch the rich and famous on TV to forget about their life situations by being transported by their brains to their lives. I do this with people who’ve given up on civilisation.
- The Harvest
- Reasons for the Irish to be proud - You wouldn’t imagine childhood obesity could be considered historical revenge for the genocidal potato famine, but I get it. Comedy is trauma’s worst enemy.
- Truck Master642- I don’t even know where to start with this. It’s a YouTube channel of garbagemen throwing shit into garbage trucks. I would like to say it’s satisfying, and it is, but I have no idea how.
- Rigor Mortis Demo ’86 - Just look at the tape cover and then you’ll agree. You have be-mulletted skull with crossed battle axe and morningstar. That should be enough for you, but instead they went even further and decided to be alive and making music when people discovered that you can make metal super sloppy and super fast and it’s fine.
