I don't know if archiving *everything* is actually the best thing in reality, but it's a big part of what I thought the Internet would make possible. Instead of having access to culture like this we have AI slop, and that's a tragedy

This is my fault. For years I've joked to my wife that England only has a dozen actors when the same actors appear in her cozy murder shows. I guess RTD was listening.

I really appreciated how he really balanced bringing his craft and tradition to the wider musical world while still representing it as he learned it. Just found this wkcr video: youtu.be/nJgDGhwkvzs?...

The Kora is such a magnificent and subtle instrument. I could (& will) listen to this all day.

He was such an immense talent. My first connection was his collaboration with Glass and it sent me down such a deep rabbit hole. youtu.be/EuVzV5rvL9k?...

RUN!

Thanks to predatory consultants, everyone's going to have a brand new big, beautiful mission statement to apply for 7 peanuts and a used Big Mac container.

This might be a terrible idea, but recreating the synth in wonderful Christmastime would be a good exercise in understanding why sounds from that time period are so of that time period.

My kid sang this to me yesterday and I thought he made it up.