I haven’t seen this for ages and noticed it was on Film 4. Even though it’s a very old film now it’s still a good story, and the concept’s been used many many times in newer films. I may have to buy this film now.
Month: January 2012
More Mixtikl fun
I’m really getting into Mixtikl now, and the new visualiser in the latest version is good too, although I haven’t got the hang of the words as yet.
Milkytracker is on Android now!
Who knew? Not me that’s for sure anyway! And, what’s more, it appears to be compatible with my old Orange San Francisco. Excellent. I shall download that and then maybe not really use it for a while then dramatically rediscover it in a few months.
Sounds like a plan doesn’t it?
Classic Who: The Horror of Fang Rock
A wonderful Tom Baker story. Thoroughly enjoyable with classic Leela-ness about it too. I also liked ‘The Horror of Glam Rock’, the 8th doctor story of a similar name, with an excellent Bernard Cribbens performance.
Implausible Beauty (a calendar)
Something I got for Christmas. David Sylvian’s ‘Implausible Beauty’ calendar. It’s rather lovely. I think I should look at it a bit more.
Fun with Mixtikl
One of the applications I’ve always wanted to spend more time with is Mixtikl. It is such a deep and complex application for iOS or Mac, or any other platform for that matter. I spent almost two hours with Mixtikl today, and enjoyed it so much. Even so I know that I’m still just scratching the surface of what this application is capable of.
I love the generative possibilities and the ability to set rules within each cell. It really does stretch the limits of what you can do with mobile music.
The other thing I love is the ability to be able to tweet a mix and share it instantly.
I’m looking forward to even more time with Mixtikl and going deeper and deeper with what it can do.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
I’d listened to ‘The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul’ a while back, so just the other day I bought myself ‘Holistic Detective Agency’. I think that’s out of sequence, but I doubt that it matters much. Anyway, I started listening to it today. So far, it makes no sense to me whatsoever. Excellent start. As expected.
I’m still hoping for the BBC to make more Dirk Gently after the pilot episode, but no news so far.
Inception (the app this time)
I’ve been using this off and on over the last few days and I think I’m actually enjoying it more than I did when it first came out. I’d deleted it off my iPhone so I’d lost all the ‘dreams’ that I’d unlocked, but that doesn’t really matter.
I really love the whole augmented audio concept, and couple with the fact that I really love Inception the movie, the app is a natural fit.
Haven’t got on so well with their Dimensions app so far though. Perhaps I should give it another try.
Today’s listen: Dali’s Car, The Waking Hour
I can still remember when this first came out. I was so impressed, even though it is a relatively short album, and their only release, it was an amazing listen and still is to this day. Not just for Karn’s fantastic bass and Pete Murphy’s amazing voice, but the range of textures and rhythms that each track has.
It is such a shame that Mick passed away before they could make a wholly new album. There is some material as yet to be released, and I hope that’ll be this year. It’s a must buy for me, but if you don’t know the Waking Hour, then you should.
Bubbles
Some photos from another Science Museum trip.
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