Dylan Crawfoot
@crowman54.bsky.social
Audio engineer, Academic, Author, Australia (Brisbane)
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This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow.
An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
"There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
youtu.be
February 5, 2026 at 8:46 AM
This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow.
An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag
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Mark of Cain singer comes out as trans ‘to finally live as myself’
Mark of Cain singer comes out as trans ‘to finally live as myself’
Josie Scott, who has played in the Australian heavy metal band with her brother Kim for 40 years, writes to fans: ‘I’ve decided to embrace, rather than endure, who I am’
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The guitarist and vocalist in Australian heavy metal band the Mark of Cain has come out as a trans woman, writing that seeing younger trans people live freely had “helped shine a light on the possibility that maybe I can finally be me in my autumn years.”
On Monday night, Josie Scott wrote a statement to fans on the band’s social media, announcing that her family know her as Josie or Jo and “given where I identify on the gender spectrum, I fit within the paradigm of being a trans woman”.
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www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Mark of Cain singer comes out as trans ‘to finally live as myself’
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And here's Rob Hirst at his explosive best in a superb version of an absolute fab favourite. Classic. RIP Rob.
Oils on Water - 16. Stand In Line - Midnight Oil youtu.be/4c3X0OlVjuE?... via @YouTube
Oils on Water - 16. Stand In Line - Midnight Oil youtu.be/4c3X0OlVjuE?... via @YouTube
Oils on Water - 16. Stand In Line - Midnight Oil
YouTube video by Skitizen
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 7:17 AM
And here's Rob Hirst at his explosive best in a superb version of an absolute fab favourite. Classic. RIP Rob.
Oils on Water - 16. Stand In Line - Midnight Oil youtu.be/4c3X0OlVjuE?... via @YouTube
Oils on Water - 16. Stand In Line - Midnight Oil youtu.be/4c3X0OlVjuE?... via @YouTube
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Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the back
Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the back
Phenomenal drummer and percussionist was an equally accomplished songwriter who embodied the band’s bloody-minded spirit
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Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil drummer and founding member, dies aged 70
Ask Midnight Oil fans what drummer Rob Hirst will be remembered for, and the most likely answer will be his drum solo on Power and the Passion, one of the band’s big early hits. It’s an explosive minute of almost literal madness – Hirst was on the verge of a breakdown when the track was recorded in 1982, for their breakthrough album 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Drum solos had, by that time, become a symbol of rock excess. But this wasn’t just another vulgar display of virtuosity. It was more musical than most guitar solos, enhancing a song already full of moving parts. Live, much of it was played on a corrugated iron water tank Hirst retrieved from the desert on the Oils’ Blackfella/Whitefella tour in 1986. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Rob Hirst was a force of nature, a born showman who led Midnight Oil from the back
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This is good fun. Choose your ABC (Australia) clock, tweak the interference, ghosting etc.
You can even choose when to have the pips.
@dirtyfeed.org @matt.cymru @aldupres.bsky.social
mubd.net.au/tv-history/a...
You can even choose when to have the pips.
@dirtyfeed.org @matt.cymru @aldupres.bsky.social
mubd.net.au/tv-history/a...
ABC TV Clock
Interactive recreation of the ABC TV clock (1974, 1975, 1982).
mubd.net.au
January 19, 2026 at 10:53 AM
This is good fun. Choose your ABC (Australia) clock, tweak the interference, ghosting etc.
You can even choose when to have the pips.
@dirtyfeed.org @matt.cymru @aldupres.bsky.social
mubd.net.au/tv-history/a...
You can even choose when to have the pips.
@dirtyfeed.org @matt.cymru @aldupres.bsky.social
mubd.net.au/tv-history/a...
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"She was falsely credited as performer, writer and copyright holder. The producer listed in the credits was Freddie Howells - but she says that name doesn't mean anything to her, and there's no trace online of a producer or musician of that name."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
'AI slop': Emily Portman and musicians on the mystery of fraudsters releasing songs in their name
Artists on the mystery of being targeted by fraudsters releasing "AI slop" songs in their name.
www.bbc.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:12 PM
"She was falsely credited as performer, writer and copyright holder. The producer listed in the credits was Freddie Howells - but she says that name doesn't mean anything to her, and there's no trace online of a producer or musician of that name."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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10 years ago: the "Lazarus" video is released. Johan Renck: "I have no desire to do any more videos knowing the process never ever gets as formidable and fulfilling as this was. I’ve basically touched the sun.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Jq...
David Bowie - Lazarus (Official Video) [HD]
YouTube video by David Bowie
www.youtube.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
10 years ago: the "Lazarus" video is released. Johan Renck: "I have no desire to do any more videos knowing the process never ever gets as formidable and fulfilling as this was. I’ve basically touched the sun.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Jq...
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As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
a man reading a book to a young boy
Alt: a man reading a book to a young boy
media.tenor.com
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
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I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.
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I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.
New Coke: A Warning from History
If, like me, you’re British then your knowledge of New Coke is likely to be (a) it was a massive failure, (b) everyone hated it, (c) it was a terrible business decision, and, if your go-to re…
excelpope.net
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I haven't blogged for ages, so I wrote far too many words about something that happened 40 years ago, and which nobody outside of America cares about.
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an impossible shot? New Doctor Who content on a shot we nearly cut out of The Star Beast
A Shot that (Almost) Couldn't be Done. Doctor Who: Star Beast youtu.be/U1JkABy0UBA?... via @YouTube
A Shot that (Almost) Couldn't be Done. Doctor Who: Star Beast youtu.be/U1JkABy0UBA?... via @YouTube
A Shot that (Almost) Couldn't be Done. Doctor Who: Star Beast
YouTube video by How I Filmed This - Rachel Talalay
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
an impossible shot? New Doctor Who content on a shot we nearly cut out of The Star Beast
A Shot that (Almost) Couldn't be Done. Doctor Who: Star Beast youtu.be/U1JkABy0UBA?... via @YouTube
A Shot that (Almost) Couldn't be Done. Doctor Who: Star Beast youtu.be/U1JkABy0UBA?... via @YouTube
Camera doesn’t do it justice, but this is the red sun through the smoke haze over the western suburbs of Brisbane today.
October 27, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Camera doesn’t do it justice, but this is the red sun through the smoke haze over the western suburbs of Brisbane today.
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This is genius
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
This is genius
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The Charitable Trust
Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust with a board of trustees responsible for legal oversight. They work with a panel of advisors to ensure the trust’s primary objectives are met, and vulnerable films preserved.
Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust with a board of trustees responsible for legal oversight. They work with a panel of advisors to ensure the trust’s primary objectives are met, and vulnerable films preserved.
October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The Charitable Trust
Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust with a board of trustees responsible for legal oversight. They work with a panel of advisors to ensure the trust’s primary objectives are met, and vulnerable films preserved.
Film is Fabulous! is a charitable trust with a board of trustees responsible for legal oversight. They work with a panel of advisors to ensure the trust’s primary objectives are met, and vulnerable films preserved.
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I got to speak to Harry Vanda, abd while I can’t say out got much out of him (and I got even less out of Mark McEntee) he is still the last surviving Easybeat, thank you very much, and almost never does interviews with anyone* www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
Why Harry Vanda is coming out of retirement at 79: ‘The world is going to rack and ruin. I couldn’t help myself!’
The former Easybeat and father of Australian rock on making the country’s ‘best song of all time’, working with AC/DC and releasing his first solo single
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I got to speak to Harry Vanda, abd while I can’t say out got much out of him (and I got even less out of Mark McEntee) he is still the last surviving Easybeat, thank you very much, and almost never does interviews with anyone* www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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I have a piece in this weekend’s Observer in which I use the legendary Apache Indian to take down the definitely not legendary Robert Jenrick
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
Change your tune, Jenrick. For integration, look no furth...
Growing up in diverse Birmingham defined my world view. What other city could have inspired Apache Indian’s mash-up?
observer.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I have a piece in this weekend’s Observer in which I use the legendary Apache Indian to take down the definitely not legendary Robert Jenrick
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
British astronomer Patrick Moore met Orville Wright and Neil Armstrong.
you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones
October 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
British astronomer Patrick Moore met Orville Wright and Neil Armstrong.
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Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Timeline cleanser 🐈
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I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
Cool tip: it actually takes MORE effort to deliberately misgender someone AND it marks you as a total asshole! Pretty cool!
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I was listening to an old Casey Kasem American Top 40 (I find this soothing these days) from 1985 where he told the story of Wendy Carlos, who scored The Shining and Tron, and her journey to becoming trans. Casey got all the pronouns right and it was presented as a slice of life, feel good story
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I endorse this policy - in a completely objective, unbiased and obviously truthful way.
Learning music rewires your brain to understand larger patterns, faster (as well learning how to train your brain to learn other things). It also lets you be a clown in a good way, which the world needs more of
Learning music rewires your brain to understand larger patterns, faster (as well learning how to train your brain to learn other things). It also lets you be a clown in a good way, which the world needs more of
One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.
September 13, 2025 at 6:01 AM
I endorse this policy - in a completely objective, unbiased and obviously truthful way.
Learning music rewires your brain to understand larger patterns, faster (as well learning how to train your brain to learn other things). It also lets you be a clown in a good way, which the world needs more of
Learning music rewires your brain to understand larger patterns, faster (as well learning how to train your brain to learn other things). It also lets you be a clown in a good way, which the world needs more of
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On the same day he recorded this jingle, Brian Johnson auditioned to be lead singer of AC/DC - and got the job
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1H...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1H...
Brian Johnson 1980 "Hoover Vacuum" commercial
YouTube video by Pantheon Podcasts - Where Fans Belong
m.youtube.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On the same day he recorded this jingle, Brian Johnson auditioned to be lead singer of AC/DC - and got the job
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1H...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JF1H...
Ramones in the Simpsons
August 30, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Ramones in the Simpsons
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