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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 5h

Another Wednesday morning delight from @iammilliam.bsky.social. An Easter egg filled study of a musical oddity. Thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social I have both heard of and read Hapworth 16, 1924, but I know there are other references that have escaped me. Sign up. These alone are easily worth it.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 9h

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the @backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, read the epic story of a decades-in-the-making diss track, support the podcast. VIVA PET!

This week: Petula Clark, 'George Orwell' (1984)

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INVENTORY: AN UNRELIABLE GUIDE TO MY RECORD COLLECTION by Andy Miller

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 1d

Having now watched this, I am convinced it was the inspiration for the lighthouse episode of The Goodies.

Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · 2d

Johnny does not lie. It is magnificent. Do not watch if you have any fear of water whatsoever.

HALLOWEIRD @johnnymains.co.uk · 2d

Genuinely the greatest documentary the BBC have ever made - THE LAST LIGHTHOUSE - am utterly thrilled it's now on youtube. youtu.be/bc9qxyf_suI?...

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday reading and Sunday listening. The book is from a recent @backlisted.bsky.social and is yet another remarkable book I found only because of the podcast (and their guest @quantick.bsky.social). The music is from @iammilliam.bsky.social’s most recent Inventory.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 6d

Apparently, when in Scotland, the cure is “the mixture” which is something extracted as a by-product when distilling whiskey.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 6d

That sounds awful. You should watch Local Hero for some Scottish film ambience (and a great Mark Knopfler sound track). Scotland does sometimes decide to take out visitors. It once did me in with a bad fish pie.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 7d

Books read or listened to September 2025. Work and business travel seem to have wiped out reading time. Also, a rare case of no @backlisted.bsky.social books, although the Daphne Du Maurier and Caroline Crampton are clearly adjacent.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 8d

The opening set looks like a planet on the original Star Trek. I keep waiting for the crew to beam down.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 10d

Sunday reading, Sunday listening and current audiobook. The book is a fascinating look at Japan in the late 1950s. The audiobook is my favourite work of non-fiction so far this year. I would never have expected to be so engrossed by the history of a barge.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 11d

Not on Letterboxed, but last four watched.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 11d

Today seems to require this thought.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 12d

Good morning.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 14d

This diatribe from @iammilliam.bsky.social has made my morning. There is so much of this pointless background sound everywhere. It seems like half the new releases on Apple Music Classical are burbling piano mush. Thanks for this Andy.

Andy Miller @iammilliam.bsky.social · 14d

A new instalment of INVENTORY is available now via the
@backlisted.bsky.social Patreon. Sign up as a Locklistener today, enjoy this angry diatribe, support the podcast.

This week: Chiffchaff > Chillout.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you for posting this. I made it tonight and the family have unanimously demanded that it be put into Sunday dinner rotation.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 16d

Sunday reading and Sunday listening. The rest of the album is released later this week. For now just a few tracks.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 17d

My experience on a trip to London last week is that people are far better about that in London than here in Toronto, although we don’t have as many long corridors.

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Gordon Baird @mungo2434.bsky.social · 17d

Giant suspended spiderweb in the light.