RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 10hI still watch 'Big Exit' on 'Later with Jools Holland' occasionally. 25 years on and goosebumps every time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t6t...youtube.comPJ Harvey - Big Exit (Live Jools Holland 2001) (HD)YouTube video by joseph93 010
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 12hmy old Mercedes 123 sedan has a SORN on it, which makes me hopeful for its future as I sold it to a mechanic 000
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 12hFound myself switching the radio off. FFS just do a bit of research beforehand. 000
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 21hthe new minister for this stuff was enragingly underprepared when interviewed by Justin Webb this morning on R4 000
Reposted by RPMRRobin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The only book I have ever bought for its cover alone - £1.49 well spent. 1844879
Reposted by RPMRDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining. 361234268
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026But why would I be friends with somebody who makes the world worse for me? 000
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I suspect that it's a combo of all the info about your browser, and the way your cursor moves. 000
Reposted by RPMRWilliam Carlos @dionysusxerox.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Laughter is linguistic: in conversation it helps manage turn-taking, marks awkward pauses, eases social tension. it has rhythm, pitch, and tone that communicate emotional meaning and different writing systems translate the sound of laughter into unique text conventions ( hahaha etc)… 012
Reposted by RPMRLiving Dead Girl @jillblacksheep.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Not all who wander are lost, but they are in my fucking way 39129
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026listening on R4 to Scottish kids asking questions directly via radio to a scientist on the ISS as it flies over and it's genuinely moving. 010
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026See also: 'care'. I feel like this has filtered across from funded arts orgs (where this is doctrine) and into music culture as broadly constituted. 230
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 08/10/2026yes it feels more like something structural to the body of work than a reclusive urge. As the The Archive as broadly constituted were acting in response. 010
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The human race's tenuous future rests upon the neurological trait inherent in the species whereby fast and unexpected death = bad but slow and boring death = who cares 000
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Nobody who writes academically has anything to a strong interest in their subject, and I wonder if, given where we are, there could be a neutral scholarly position on this. Looking elsewhere will find you 6 different definitions if that's preferable though 000
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026That it is editable by anyone is Wikipedia's strength on contested matters. A page as contentious as this is *never* going to be anything but carefully maintained. The part of the definition (note - not all of it) which flags that it is disputed attests to this. 100
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026chapter a million-and-four of The French Don't Fuck About has just been published it seems. 010
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026yes the famously antisemitic wikipedia, which never gets updated or subject to scrutiny 100
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Is that something you associate with you winning an argument? 000
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026For anyone who finds (like me) Harry Partch's work a tricky proposition for the beginner, this video is a wonderful guide to his instruments - and since they are distillations of ways of thinking about music - his philosophy on making music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UZj...youtube.comThe Harry Partch InstrumentariumYouTube video by DansoundSeattle 010
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The wiki definition of Zionism is at considerable variance to the one in that article. 220
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Something strange. It's relatively unusual to find a video on youtube of Georges Perec actually speaking himself. Everything has been dubbed over. The best place to find anything substantial is the ever fecund UBU. 110
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I seem to have just watched this six times www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknr...youtube.comLole Montoya por BuleríasYouTube video by Roberto Bermejo 000
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It was either Saphire & Steel, where there's a railway station haunted by a dead WW1 soldier, or it was the Tomorrow People where some weird luminous symbol came floating toward the camera out of a dark cave, or it was Peter Egan being sinister A.F in The Dark Side of the Sun in 1983. 000
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It will not. But there is an honesty to lit lacking in his later work. 000
Reposted by RPMRLev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Happy birthday Steve Reich appy birthday Steve Reich H ppy birthday Steve Reich Ha py birthday Steve Reich Hap y birthday Steve Reich Happ birthday Steve Reich Happy birthday Steve Reich Happy irthday Steve Reich Happy b rthday Steve Reich Happy bi thday Steve Reich Happy bir 14463124
Reposted by RPMRPaulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this has been sitting on my hard drive for over two years and I decided to put it on the internet two weeks ago. if you fancy the whisper of an old organ drowned out by the natural acoustics of an old church, this might be for you. as per usual, you name your price. xo #bandcampfridaylesondouble.bandcamp.comFermata, by pä6 track album 0265
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Two regimes populated with heinous murderous scumbags who would do anything to stay in power. Who to believe? 000
Reposted by RPMRMyq Kaplan @myqkaplan.bsky.social · 17/07/2025I like to wrap potatoes in aluminum foil because I don't want the government to know what my potatoes are thinking. 1948361
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Many thanks for this - would you mind following back so I can DM you? 110
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026yeah this is seriously tempting... had a new boiler 4 years ago which is a bit galling but things have moved leaps and bounds since then I think 100
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026is there an online image repository/catalogue for the archive? I'd be fascinated to see the extent of it 110
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026how have you found it adjusting to the hot water regime? Do you get proper hot water more or less all day or is it at certain times? 100
RPMR @practicalsound.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Have you read Catling's 'Vorrh' trilogy. Astounding writing, but also Wain shows up in there as a resident of Bethlem Hospital 110
