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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL)

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REEL formed when three refugees from The Psychedelic Duelling Wars congealed in the psychic wreckage of a Somerset studio to record Wild Garlick electronics, eschatological ambience & brown acid techno on adapted bits of farm machinery & petrol cans

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · Dec 21

“The road from the West Country to London is the A303. You think that’s an accident?” #acid #psychedelicduelling #wyrdwildwest

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 12h

They should be ashamed! Frightening hard working tax payers (etc)

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah but did you LIKE it? 😂

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 17h

I really love this Burgess book - found lots of authors in here - so it’s quite exciting that there’s a podcast about it

International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 19h

📚NINETY-NINE NOVELS IS BACK! 📚

Series five is starting with an exploration of TITUS GROAN by Mervyn Peake, one of the key fantasy novels of the twentieth century. Editor of Peake's poems, Rob Maslen, joins us to talk all things Gormanghast.

Find us here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

Ninety-Nine Novels, new podcast episode on Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 22h

Also, Wikipedia does a pretty good job for a lot of books, if you really don’t have time to read the book or you wanted to check something you’ve forgotten from one you have. The slow accumulation and unfolding of a book IS the activity… this is taking a (probably red) pill instead of eating a meal

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 23h

I love The Cure.

Chain of Flowers @craigatcof.bsky.social · 2d

From pearlmania500 (via @cookiepusher.bsky.social):

The Cure doing a DMCA take down of ICE propaganda that used "Friday I'm in love" is making this Monday Just like heaven.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 1d

I love the English lyrics, fit the dream-like derangement quite well… if a little sinister

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Kemper Norton @kempernorton.bsky.social · 1d

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 2d

I think he’s deadly serious - but probably only as serious as The Hafler Trio

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 2d

Hafler Trio. Knew I knew that name.

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 2d

REEL related shenanigans from Farmer Glitch (with input from Dr Edward Moolenbeek ??!!). Seriously trippy stuff. Had us all zoning out last week… eastvillevending.bandcamp.com/album/masked...

Masked Backing / Backing Masked | Farmer Glitch | Eastville Vending

2 track album

eastvillevending.bandcamp.com

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 2d

Watching Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986) for the first time since it came out on VHS. Funnier than I remembered.

The movie poster. All green light & metal hive pod things. The legend. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 3d

I know you’re worrying about what to wear / how to act etc & there’s a certain delirious fun to that second guessing but, by the time you get to 40, you’ll just be wearing & doing things you did at 18 all over again because you’ve realised you can & there are no rules & no one is looking anyway

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 3d

First impression, just a few chapters in, it would make a good double bill with Muriel Spark’s The Driver’s Seat

The Driver's Seat
A metaphysical shocker now filmed starring Elizabeth Taylor (she’s on the cover)

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 3d

Stations of the 5000!!??!! I’m going to bed…

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 3d

Me too. But then my mum found the lyric sheets to Stations of the 5000 and made me take it down

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 3d

Alien as loveable sidekick was just not weird enough. Love the idea of family audiobook, though - and haven’t read Children of Time but might need to check it out now

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoyed it, sort of. Enjoyed basic science etc being so foregrounded

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 3d

Project Hail Mary came with quite a few recommendations but it seemed very much like it was aimed at children / YAs

Andy Weir’s novel, showing a guy going a spacewalk / EVA - he’s the author of The Martian, don’t you know

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 3d

Now reading Edna O’Brien’s August Is A Wicked Month.

I’d take August, right now though.

The cover also adds in ‘despite sun & sex’ above the title & the photograph is of a naked woman, her hand lightly covering her breast. She looks a bit, chilly to be honest.

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Ash Jñānagarbha @jnanagarbha.bsky.social · 14d

Postie brought me these lovely things today.
With all these and having seen @warringtonruncorn.com on Saturday night, I’m having quite a @castlesinspace.bsky.social week

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a great way of describing it

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 4d

Love this record

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 4d

Oh I love them, didn’t know they had a new record out though

Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 4d

In my head the music is made entirely of samples of sighs and gasps from Nosferatu & screams from Possession, a la Bjork’s Medulla

Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 4d

Isabelle Adjani - D'un Taxiphone [France, New Wave, Synthpop, Chanson] (1983), music by Serge Gainsbourg
https://redd.it/1m342ib
https://youtu.be/ys-Ibm_WFEQ

Isabelle Adjani - D'un Taxiphone [France, New Wave, Synthpop, Chanson] (1983), music by Serge Gainsbourg

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Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (REEL) @rapideyeelectro.bsky.social · 5d

Just finished Kim Stanley Robinson’s Antarctica (liked it, especially all the Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton stuff) & now trying to convince family to go there for Summer holidays…

The cover of the book shows a big ice shelf in a windy basin