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I Talk To The Trees

Ladies And Gentlemen The Next Labour Leader

And more left wing than most realise. But don’t tell the Labour Centrists that.

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From The Department Of Uncomfortable Truths

A graph showing that most birds in the United States killed by human related causes are by a long distance most due to domestic cats, with collisions with glass in buildings following up.

“Several years ago, a team of Smithsonian Institution and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service researchers combined data from dozens of previous studies to estimate, as rigorously as possible, how many birds are killed by cats each year in the contiguous United States. Their results were startling. After carefully quantifying cat populations and predation rates (and the uncertainty of both), the scientists calculated that domestic cats pounce on one billion to four billion birds a year in the lower 48 states, as well as 6.3 billion to 22.3 billion small mammals and hundreds of millions of reptiles and amphibians.”

From a Neurologica Blog article about the extent to which Wind Turbines cause bird fatalities.

2019

On a whim. Songs from the olden days, or 2019 as it was known. Doesn’t include the ones I’ve forgotten.

Edited highlights. Some good joins. And one dreadful one that sneaked past quality control.

A good attempt by Language to miss out by releasing on 31st December and a special mention for Stefanie Schrank’s mastering engineer who didn’t just reach for the look ahead limiter.

Vital Statistics

WhenWhoWhatWhere
00:00Soft Blue ShimmerChamoyBandcamp
02:05RiLFSoraninaruWebsite
04:47Stefanie SchrankMöbiusschleifeWebsite
07:25Sarah AnglissDustWebsite
11:10Rocky Mountain Broncos PowerIt’s A Final DayTwitter
13:42LanguageCommunionWebsite
16:20Fragile Flowers少年は亡霊の街を巡るBandcamp
19:51Robyn Hitchcock & Andy PartridgePlanet EnglandShop
22:52The fin.GravityWebsite
26:14cloud babiesInto The CloudsBandcamp
29:00mizu amaneTamayuraBandcamp
30:47MissingAnoiceWebsite
32:54Local Standard timeDarknessBandcamp
35:37Nils LofgrenPretty SoonWebsite
39:03BLANCOLazyBandcamp
41:49the vegetabletsGreen GreenBandcamp
44:23Manic SheepSedonaTwitter
47:25サコウリョーマきみはゆらめき (Seaside Motel)Bandcamp
52:06mori de kurasu田村カフカBandcamp
55:53sitaqCapBandcamp
57:25dronjo kept by 4Cruel SunBandcamp
60:06Edwyn CollinsYou Rescued MeWebsite
62:45i-flsShe DecidedTumblr
64:45Pasta Grows On TreesDésert SentimentalBandcamp
67:20しんきろうのまち悠遠Bandcamp
71:14Michael Franti & SpearheadThe World Is So Fucked Up (But I Ain’t Ever Giving Up)Website

A number of the bands have more active Facebook pages but I do have a few remaining principals.

Once More With Feeling

Though an arbitrary moment in space and time the New Year is traditionally when goals are set for the coming rotation of the sun. My exhaustive list:

  1. Get to next year.

I Talk To The Trees

Continuing my indecision over the best personal use of the web I’m now back here with my random musings from the start of this decade.

Blot currently remains an archive of previous years with an increasing overlap as I pull the posts back in here.

The miscellaneous tat may well return at some point whilst this website is still a record of noise related endeavours which can be found collected in the annals.

Listening Habits 2019

Looking back at what I listened too in 2019 it appears the random algorithm in my music player has a large bias to the Del Vikings.

More representative The Motors make the top five tracks with a pukka pop song.

But op of the tracks was from a little more recently: Frog by ハイスピード瞬き.

Trying to sort out anything else is somewhat thwarted by the bands with the most releases coming high up by law of averages. And having combined the entire Django Rheinhardt Chronolgoical series into one album of 300 tunes blots out all other contenders.

I’m hanging on a bit for the best of this year’s releases as I wouldn’t want to be caught out by any late comers.

Winterval Bonus

Enjoying the traditional New Year’s eve meal of whatever the supermarket was knocking out cheap to clear the shelves of festive stock.

It’s All Done With Mirrors

A Tweet showing an illustration of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs with someone who looks a bit like Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac fame standing in the mid distance.

And clever use of perspective making the very tall Mick Fleetwood look of similar size to the dwarfs gathered around the tree.

A detail from an illustration of Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs with someone who looks a bit like Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac fame standing in the mid distance.

Handytons

Useful of Andertons to use their newsletter to explain what that Latin text sometimes printed in error is.

Explaination of the Lorem Ipsum temporary text left by accident in a newsletter sent out by the Andertons music shop.