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Nigel Wallis

@mole9.bsky.social

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Equally uninformed about music, art and science but likely to post on any regardless. ECM nerd and Gerhard Richter obsessive. If I'm playing music: yes, it's supposed to sound like that.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 21m

It's close, but "I'm playing all the right notes..." gets me every time.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 25m

There was some "dynamic pricing" of Unfold at one of their residences - I bought it for £25 on night one and it had gone up to £30 by night 2 due to there only being a few copies left, something which I recall drew the ire of purchasers.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 32m

Don't drone on about it

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 2h

Given they seem to be encouraging people to receive life-changing burns, I feared the latter.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 2h

Computer Love at the top I'd guess, not sure how I'd rank the others.

In truth, the one I play most often is probably this:

Cover of the album Possessed by the Balanescu Quartet, which contains (among other tracks) the Kraftwerk songs Robots, The Model, Autobahn, Computer Love and Pocket Calculator, all arranged for string quartet.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 4h

Almost worth a crank call to the WH, saying it's the Nobel committee and apologising for the dreadful mistake :)

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 4h

#Trump didn't win the Nobel peace prize?

a man in a military uniform with a mustache is wearing a beret and making a funny face .

Alt: Windsor Davies from the TV series It Ain't Half Hot Mum, with a witheringly sarcastic expression on his face, saying "Oh dear, how sad, never mind."

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 7h

Greater love hath etc.

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 1d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 7h

Dead Ringer. I've no idea why I bought it; I didn't even own Bat Out of Hell. Played it maybe three times before it became the first record I tried to sell. Guy in second-hand record shop, who declined to buy it: "Do you know how many copies we have of that already?"

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 15h

<checks notes> definitely how science works

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 16h

Resurrection: an occasionally baffling and meandering wander through cinematic genres, enlivened by some excellent performances (who was that child?) and a mammoth 40 minute single take for the final section, capped by a stunning final image. #LFF2025

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 16h

The segment with the young girl and the conman was pretty engaging I thought. Some of the earlier sections, though: not so much. Magnificent final shot in the cinema.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 21h

Brothers in Arms. I'd seen Dire Straits play a belter of a gig in front of a home crowd on the Love Over Gold tour and had looked forward to this some years later. Couldn't believe how dull it was.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

And you were the first person to recommend him to me 👍

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · 1d

Headline: Satantango and cash!

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

<everyone waits for lengthy speech>
LK: "thanks"

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

Kin hell. It's Scarfolk in real life.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

Pynchon might not be awake but then again he might, as *who knows where he is*.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

Bigotry? I'm sure it was just...oh

Post that encourages voting in the NYC Mayoral election for Andrew Cuomo, as "He's a proud American", as opposed to the "other candidate" who is "a Ugandan-born Indian."

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

Met some really good people, some of whom I've now met in real life, mostly from music chat.

I once posted about being unhappy that an author's new book wasn't going to be published until after my holiday: he got in touch and couriered round an advance copy so I could take it with me. Dude!

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

My partner reckons they were all drunk and were going - quietly, they thought - "SHHHH" to each other.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

"Riyadh comedy festival? Expensive as hell. Cost me an arm and a leg."

a dirt road going through a desert with mountains in the background .

Alt: Tumbleweed blowing across a desert road.

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Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

But he's been given an extended whinge in the Guardian about how he was doing the right thing and it's fine to go to his shows, so that's all right then.

Nigel Wallis @mole9.bsky.social · 1d

£1.99? What the hell?