Hitting my twentieth anniversary here in a month or two. This forum has given a lot of joy, insight and friends to me. Books, music, film, ways of thinking and, most importantly, some dear friends. I was in India at the tail-end of a back-packing trip when I first turned up here; I'm now 47, a littl...

Jimmy! Send me a message if you fancy playing that online some time. I am planning to delete RDR2 to free up a load of precious drive space, but I spent many lovely, useless hours on RDR online, maybe more than on the main game. We could get drunk in my moonshine bar etc. Edit: gah! No cross-play! W...

Astro Bot with the missus this weekend. Cannot wait. Pure fucking delight. I want to play this! Helldivers 2’s filthy grip has loosened: I wrung a lot of enjoyment out of it, began treating it like a part-time job (as live service is meant to work), and now only play it with beloved OG PRF’ers Fier...

I shall get this!

NC, neither him nor Taupin, great at their peak, which stretches a daft number of records. “Tumbleweed Connection” is my favourite.

Bump. Please don’t feed the trolls, and don't quote them either. Especially not in a memorial thread.

dontfeartheringo wrote: Tue May 21, 2024 12:56 pm Somewhere I still have the full text of the Dodge Dart Demon swap for the SVT that isn't for sale thread. All of the funniest bits of that were FM Vockins. I bet I can find it.

You indeed did!

Yes: I met AJ for the first time IRL when he played a fab gig here a couple of months back, and he was on super form and really lovely and warm. He has a bunch of records up on Bandcamp that I’m very fond of, this being his latest. His former band Oaxacan were outstanding, and you can grab some of t...

I I’ve returned many times to this post by Angus Jung on The Who: In their prime, they pulled off a neat trick. By having basically a "lead rhythm section" (Entwistle is essentially soloing throughout a lot of their songs) and assigning the guitar with the primary job of holding down the r...

It’s not that formal! I may have to start using “I am at your service” with a modest bow to offer something to recalibrate against. Or “Sire/Ma’am”, also with bow.