Can it run Doom?
I inherited my Nan's Dyson DC25 when she went to live in a care home. Used it a few times and it was fine, but figured I'd strip it down and give it a damn good clean out.
The fucking thing damn near sucked up my carpet.
It's still going strong now. Had to replace the little nubbin that drives the brush bar a few weeks ago, but other than that it's still solid. Not bad for a 15 year old vacuum cleaner made to modern standards.
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I once saw the two eras of Genesis referred to as Boring Genesis and Shit Genesis, and I was never able to fully disagree.
I went to a number of hardcore punk gigs in the late '90s, where there'd be 8 bands on the flyer, because they'd all take to the stage, spend 20 minutes blasting through their entire 30 song catalogue, then down tools and fuck off to the bar.
It was glorious.
This is where I am with 65daysofstatic. I'll always have the records up to Wild Light, and I'll always love them, and while replicr, 2019 is too ambient and experimental for my tastes, I love that they're doing what they find interesting and fun.
Kinda the same with John K. Samson, in that as much as I want him to make more music, to reform The Weakerthans and tell more stories, I respect that he's moved on from it for now. All of his records are still there to be heard, there just probably won't be any new ones.
Kid A felt like Radiohead reacting to the enormity of OK Computer by shrinking into a band that no one would want listen to, but it didn't work and they just got bigger.
For what it's worth, I really enjoy both sides of Radiohead. The early, straightforward indie is nice for my nostalgia, to remind me how I felt when I first heard Creep and Street Spirit. Then I still have the newer stuff for when I want to get lost in sound with my good headphones. A Moon Shaped Pool is an intriguing record.
This can go a number of ways, I think.
You get bands who hold on to their original sound with a vice-like grip, and invariably get kinda stale (I'm thinking Green Day here), you get bands that adapt their sound to their current circumstances and current market trends, who end up getting kinda stale. Then you get bands who just do what they damn well please, and that one is interesting to me.
Ultimately, though, we mostly get the second of those. Bands like Coldplay, whose first few albums are interesting, in a middle-class-dinner-party kind of way, but by the fourth record had hit a point where they needed to keep making money, but maybe didn't have the inspiration they needed to make interesting music. U2, Snow Patrol, Biffy Clyro, and sadly (from my personal view) the Foo Fighters. They churn out records, sell the merch, play the stadia around the world, but the music doesn't move me in any way, not like their earlier stuff does.
But I don't blame them; they're reacting to the world we live in, making music is their career, and they're under contract to bang out a new collection of tunes every couple of years, whether they're inspired to or not. Having said that about the Food though, their latest album is genuinely wonderful, so it's not all bad.
This is by far and away my favourite of The Cure's, so I was absolutely made up when they started playing it that night.
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I picked up a 13 Mini back in March, and will ride this bad boy for as long as I can, in the hope that Apple eventually release another Mini model.
So perhaps it’s true that we hold onto our little phones for longer, primarily because we’re waiting for another little phone to come along.
But a million people haven’t done that with an iPad, because until now no iPad was able to receive video input. That’s the point of the article.