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Just came home from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023). Pretty decent film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' The Hunger Games prequel. There might be a few issues with pacing and characters, but still probably the best film in the franchise by a long shot. This is how you...

Read The Hike (2023) by Lucy Clarke. A thriller about a group of friends going hiking in Norway. Not amazing, not terrible. Somewhere in between. As a quick read - you could do way worse than this. Also read The Only One Left (2023) by Riley Sager. A gothic mystery thriller set in 1983, with...

I don't need wheels to move my board, but it's at about the upper limit of what this skinny dude can carry in a flightcase whilst also carrying a guitarcase...

Just got a Boss PS-6 Harmonist. It does a lot of things - octaves, harmonies etc. - but for me it was all about the Digitech Whammy-esque "S-Bend" feature. In a many times smaller and sturdier Boss-format. And I love it! (If you want the whole Whammy-experience, you need a separate...

Read Bone Silence (2020) by Alastair Reynolds. Third and final book of the Revenger-trilogy, following Revenger (2016) and Shadow Captain (2019). I absolutely adore the universe Reynolds has created with this series - and the final chapter does the usual Reynolds thing of providing a somewhat...

I didn't know we had Avicii fans here!

Saw The Creator (2023), directed by Gareth Edwards, at the pictures tonight. There isn't an abundant supply of good science fiction-films at the moment - so it's always nice to go and see and support the original ones coming out. This is a story about a war between AI and humanity, with a nice...

Saraya - "Tear Down the Wall" off When the Blackbird Sings Just recently discovered this 1991 record by female-fronted hair metal band Saraya. Insanely good record! Perfect production, great playing and the vocals are amazing.

Riffed and soloed a bit with my flanger tonight... I feel I should build another, smaller pedalboard to fit it permanently. My board is great, but the 11 pedals on it are put together in a way which is fairly limited in amount of available sounds - by design, to be user-friendly. I have my clean...

Early on when I first got into music in the 2000's I was a massive Randy Rhoads fan, and it would have been an easy choice - but today I don't know. Neither is among my top players anymore, though their influence is substantial on everything guitar. Eddie developed a great tone and style easily...

Finished The Last Astronaut (2019) by David Wellington. A first contact story which never really took off for me. Felt like a more boring Rendezvous with Rama without any new ideas which went on for too long. Also read Shadow Captain (2019) by Alastair Reynolds. A direct sequel to the...

Watched Promising Young Woman (2020). Excellent film, I think. Also watched Green Book (2018). Biopic/drama/comedy about virtuoso pianist Don Shirley and his bodyguard 'Tony Lip' Vallelonga - freaking great. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, it is both feelgood and sad in its...

My favourite series ever... and I agree about the ending. It's one of the best ever, if you ask me. I don't necessarily agree about too long though. I wanted more. And I think one of the reasons King is such a beloved author, is because his books are long and we actually get to spend time with...

I kind of liked the video. It reminded me of their 80's videos. "Breaking the Chains" was supremely weird. Have long since come to terms with what vocal ability there is left. But I think it's a nice song, and basically coming out of (album) retirement and releasing an album 11 years since the...

Watched The Girl on the Train (2016). A thriller I found much more pleasant than I expected it to be. From the intriguing beginning I expected it to go off the rails entirely, judging from the mixed reviews and previous experiences with thrillers of this kind, but it never did. Emily Blunt is...

Finished Billy Summers (2021) by Stephen King. King doing crime once again. A hitman is hired to do one last job before retiring, and it goes like you'd expect it to. Decent, a relatively well-crafted story, but did not hit me like The Institute did earlier this year. Also finished Space Opera...

Indeed. I am all for riffing away with a capo, but I don't much like downtuned music. Just my personal taste. I do like some drop-D riffs, but lower than that and I'm usually out. As for the tuning itself, yeah... But it's the best compromise we'll ever get for playing chords comfortably. Open...

Cool! I wouldn't have minded an 80's sounding record, doing the retro thing - but Shirley worked on this? Definitely going to add it to my collection, no matter what it sounds like.