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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Currently reading / listening - both deranged in different ways. Dostoyesky & Kate Folk.

Dostoyevsky’s Demons, Penguin Classic edition

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Raging against the dying of the LPs by finding time to play Swans albums right the way through (on CD). Today it has been Birthing, played loud & soundtracking chores, sitting, dancing, more chores, cooking, cleaning and finally just listening with my eyes closed.

The album sleeve is a Coil - Time Machines -esque mysterious black circle or abyss on pale brown / cardboard.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Well, wouldn’t say it was life changing because me & most of my mates loved Orbital & had seen them before but it certainly changed Glastonbury Festival for everyone…

The CD of Orbital live at Glastonbury 1994.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yesterday was a photographing shipping containers through a rainy windscreen kind of day.

A yellow and green shipping container looking mysterious in some trees. I get the feeling they contain something sinister.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Random moments in TV Shows that have made me inexplicably tear up like a sentimental old drunk.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Rewatching Our Friends In The North on iPlayer & enjoying almost as much as when it first cake out, even if I’d forgotten / repressed the influence on my young self of the unbelievably hot Gina McKee, especially when she gets into politics…

A fair-skinned, dark-haired woman smiling faintly at the camera with a look that suggests she’d let her soul leave her body for some actually existing socialism & some Mad Men cocktails

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Bought a lot of books this Summer on my travels. Not sure which one I should read next. Narrowed it down to these. Might leave the massive Meades one for the winter since it hardly fits in my bag…

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Brion Gysin: Tuning into the Multimedia Age is such a beautiful book

Brion looking cool with long hair in front of his filler paintings on the cover.

A page showing some of his painted notebooks

A selection of photos of Brion in various Moroccan locations

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’ve read Maldoror dozens of times but each time it feels like a particularly evil spell which is somehow ruining my wellbeing. Probably should stop #books Crossposted with @openvibe.social

The cover of Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont featuring a sculpture of a dancer.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Watched Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur (Happiness) 1964 in a v rare break from football & it turned out to be devastating, sad & very beautiful in a different way. Slow(ish) cinema but mesmerisingly shot & you like everyone in it, despite everything. Very French, very mid-60s. A more complex time. #film

Two fair-skinned people (the man with dark hair, the woman with blonde) gaze at each other lovingly in a white room decorated by magazine posters of people like Marilyn Monroe & Brigitte Bardot

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Now reading Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata - similar clipped & neurodiverse delivery to Convenience Store Woman with a strange, lightly surreal tale about the end of sex which weirdly reminds me of some of Houellebecq’s ‘science fiction’.

The cover features a hand (perhaps Eve’s, maybe Adam’s) plucking an apple from a tree.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Now reading Han Kang’s The Vegetarian which is, so far, a gentle piece of social realism related to the familial difficulties of maintaining a (what appears to be) vegan diet…

The book cover of The Vegetarian by Han Kang, featuring a pure white bird's wing against the intricate purple and red veins of a (red cabbage?) leaf

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Cheering myself up by watching Death Wish (1974). Never seen it, but I heard Jeff Goldblum’s in it & he’s always a laugh.

A poster for death wish - a middle-aged guy inspecting a revolver. The legend in small writing: judge, jury, executioner

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Rewatched Todd Solondz’s Happiness (1998). Wonderfully awful & more horrifying than most horror movies.

The cover of the Happiness DVD, a cartoon representation of the main characters in the film including: Jane Adams, Elizabeth Ashley, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara…

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Wasn’t allowed ‘proper’ (ie expensive) football boots for ages as a kid but then randomly got Littbarski Adidas ones when we went to Butlins… those boots were capable of actual magic. If either Canada or South Africa had those we’d have just been watching a 7 goal thriller #WorldCup2026

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ever Dream This Man? Call REEL now: 01 811 80-EYE

The EVER DREAM THIS MAN? Poster but with REEL’s own Farmer Glitch wearing his customary gas mask instead of the original guy with the eyebrows. The text is as the original: “Every night, all over the world, hundreds of people see this face in their dreams. If this man appears in your dreams too, or if you have any information that can help us identify him, please contact us.”

www.thisman.org

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

From re-reading American Psycho, I found myself, via some spurious associative chain, wanting to watch Mike Leigh’s Naked (1993) again and was struck by how much it reminded me of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me… Now THERE’S a suggestion for the definitive trilogy of the early 90s

David Thewlis (who’s probably only in his late 20s but looks about 40 in today’s money) in NAKED with his head framed by a spiky antique ‘solar’ style clock which makes it seem like he’s a guy with a halo in an old alchemical manuscript. Or Justice. Or the Statue of goddamn Liberty

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thought you meant this Ludwig for a minute there…

Ludwig the strange mid 70s cartoon with the psychedelic space-egg robot / alien / Trillion thing

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Watching The Hustler (1961) because I was reading Hustlers, Beats and Others by Ned Polsky. Paul Newman is someone even more beautiful in black and white.

The pelican edition with a still from the film The Hustler on the jacket. Paul Newman is a fabulous looking fair skinned man in a grey suit cueing up his next shot in a pool game. Blurry white guys in hats watch him (and probably wish they were

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The Sound Barrow in action at Acid Horse 2026. It was a hot one, but spontaneous collaboration is the best kind.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Acid Horse festival today! We’re bringing The New Improved (and much louder) Sound Barrow again…

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Christopher Nolan not including Stavros in his version of The Odyssey is testament to his utter contempt for Ancient Greek culture, art and pronunciation

Harry Enfield playing Stavros the Greek kebab shop owner on Friday Night Live or some such comedy show from the 80s

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I was majorly obsessed with this film as a kid and still sort of am. This was full of chunky details, I thought

Paul Buck’s Performance: biography of the classic sixties film book

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Really liked Penance & the collection of short stories was pretty good but never got around to Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts until now. Fairly rips along, so far. 📚💙

The cover is a slow focus Baconesque photograph of a man (or perhaps a boy) shaking his head - if you read the book you can probably guess why.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Charity shop find today. Beautiful book of Literary Prefaces, edited and illustrated by Alastair Gray - beautifully typeset in red and black throughout. Even the errata slip is a little apologetic poem

Illustrations of some of the key authors in the book - it’s huge, well over 600 pages. They include Shakespeare, Wilde, Darwin, Eliot, Brontë, Scott.

AN APPEAL TO THE BUYER
When this book had been printed and bound
Twenty-two errors were found.
The volume is therefore defective
Unless YOU supply a corrective.
Please take a pen in your fist
And mend these mistakes that we* missed.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Well, inexplicably never got around to this one in my callow youth so I think it’s time for Nabokov’s Pale Fire…

A 1980s Penguin addition, featuring a detail from 119th division by Richard Lidner, which may be a stylised female torso with fire in the belly & perhaps wearing a corset or maybe because she’s wearing a corset & this is a demonstration of extreme chafing. I think there’s a flag as welll & it all possibly associates entirely with the book but I havent read it yet

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I know there are complex geopolitical & economic machinations, global environmental disaster, the veer towards fascism & the threat of AI but couldn’t SOME of this be sorted by a return to a universe where music weeklies gave out free 7”s every now and then?

Two ‘free’ 7” compilations given away with Sounds, featuring Celtic Frost, Motörhead, Jesus and Mary Chain, Head of David, Stupids etc - they are titled Sounds Wave 1 & 2

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Rarely get any good charity shop finds these days but got all of these from one shop today…

You can see a dozen or so CDs: several Fabric CDs, Booka Shade, several Four Tet, Underworld, Death in Vegas, Rough Trade compilations

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Only about half way through but depressing that Houellebecq feels more like realism as every year passes. Very much ‘not for everyone’ but also grimly fascinating.

Submission by Michel Houellebecq - the sleeve is a night shot of a dark Paris with the Eiffel Tower illuminated, possibly ironically.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Holiday reading is this short, devastating, fictionalisation of various meetings between the Nazis & foreign dignitaries in the lead up to WW2. Eric Vuillard’s Prix Goncourt wining The Order of the Day. It’s probably all true.

We see Hitler & Chamberlain at a meeting. A flash of a Nazi armband

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Rewatching The Last Seduction (1994) for the first time since it was at the cinema. Perhaps one of the most 90s movies ever but still holds up and Linda Fiorentino is perhaps the hottest anyone has ever been. Also: I need a cigarette.

A dark haired woman in a dive bar, looking up contemptuously at some poor sap of a guy while smoking & wearing a white shirt under a white jacket.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Love finding notes in second-hand books. This one was in The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.

The note on a post-it reads: introspective self-analysis, first person selective narrative, credible insight and ????? (Help me out here), Pretty depressing!

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Watched The Exterminating Angel last night. Wow. I love all of Bunuel’s films but I hadn’t seen this one & now I think it might be my favourite. Can’t think of a director that skewers class so effectively

An amazing b&w swirling poster with a giant unblinking eye and a broken woman kneeling in desperation.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Just finished Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata & was reminded of a time long ago when all I seemed to read was lightly strange, short #books about nothing & maybe everything. Still like this kind of thing.

The cover says, amongst other marketing quotes, “international bestseller”, which seems plausible. It’s mostly the same colour pink as my old hallway & there’s a fish shaped soy sauce sachet thing.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

We ended our Centrala set with a bit of William Blake, just to calm things down a bit - thankyou to Emily for the footage

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Felt the need to play this yesterday. Somehow very much of it’s time AND really now. Nostalgia does weird things to your ears

house hallucinates
pump up london volume one

On vinyl. Psychedelic sleeve with a boiling beaker - I forgot the name - dripping (probably) acid

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Reminder that if you’re in Brum on Sunday we’re playing at this amazing little event - huge market of electronic gadgets & instrument builders beforehand (including the maniacal machines of our own @farmerglitch.bsky.social ) & then sweaty psychedelic goodness afterwards. Fun for all the family.

Sunday 29 March 6pm - 9:30pm DI DAS DER present RAPID EYE ELECTRONICS LTD. - CRIES FROM THE LTN - DEZ DARE - ISN'TSES - OLD BORT £8 on the door or free with Noise Maker Market ticket

Unit 4, Minerva Works, 158 Fazeley St, Birmingham B5 5RT Centrala

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I’m really not a car person at all but is it TOO much to ask for Citroen to bring out an economical version of the Citroen DS Safari estate with the exact same chassis & interior (but with something to plug my iPod into so I can have tunes)? A CD or tape player would probably do, tbh

A slightly ridiculous but beautiful red estate car that looks like (and probably was) either an ambulance or a hearse… but driven by Cold War French spies circa 1962.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Just finished John Langan’s The Fisherman. It just really WORKS as a gently cosmic, vaguely Lovecraftian horror. It’s not especially big or particularly clever but lots of horror books try to make those angles work and I felt this one actually succeeded.

The paperback edition. A picture of 2 men fishing in a lake. The picture is disconcertingly sideways with the title flowing down the page in a jagged fashion

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

The Western Lands is probably still my favourite - first loves and all that, but I’m re-reading Cities of the Red Night and… it’s a lot better than I imagined after 30 years or so.

The picador edition with a collage of Burroughs smoking… lumps of glistening, pearlescent meat… cold blasts of iron… naked anatomical figures… a scaffold & some old shutters… scratches on the wall making constellations

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The ‘bionic’ stickers given away with 2000AD were incredibly painful to get off.

A pre Judge Dredd early edition of 2000AD with Dan Dare and a monster on the cover. This comic cost 8p which gives you some idea of how old it is.

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