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Tom Woodhead

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Writer, mastering engineer, used to sing in ¡Forward, Russia! I master records, I'm really good at it: www.hippocraticmastering.com (@tdwoodhead on Twitter, for the scrapers)

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · Jan 7

Musicians! To celebrate my 13th year(!) as a full-time mastering engineer I threw together this playlist of some of the stuff I've mastered. Here's to the next 13 years - I'm way cheaper than Abbey Road but better at mastering. Hit me up

open.spotify.com/playlist/3zF...

Tom Woodhead/Hippocratic Mastering showreel

Playlist · kingtoad · 60 items

open.spotify.com

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 18h

That will make it funnier tbh, as with Truss. Less so Johnson because he mostly succeeded on his own terms

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 21h

The amount of hair I have on the top of my head (i.e almost none) has reached truly insane proportions. I think I might be the baldest man alive

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 23h

Genuinely pathetic to get excited and look at tracking updates for a fucking lamp

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone got a SAD lamp they'd recommend? Ideally one that's dimmable and can change colour temperature for the evening (but nothing that needs an app to control it)

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

I always wonder if they fuck other organisations around as much as they fuck sole traders around, or if they have some kind of agreement to only do it to the little guys

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Some truths are universal

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Funny how the organisations with loads of money always seem to have trouble paying invoices and individuals with very little money just... pay them

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

American politicians shouldn't be named after trading card games imo

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not going to hand it to MTG for a post where the most important thing for her is to stress how much she hates "illegals"

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

They’d string you up by a tree if you tried to tell your ’jokes’ in Gaul, I’ll tell you that much

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Wakefield Waterstones only had one copy of Shadow Ticket (now they have none). Very upsetting

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have a favourite performance so far?

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

I do have experience of them and they can definitely work for me (at least a little), I just need to buy a new one for my bedroom

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, this looks great. I was beginning to think there was nothing out there!

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Is this about the new Pynchon?

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone got a SAD lamp they'd recommend? Ideally one that's dimmable and can change colour temperature for the evening (but nothing that needs an app to control it)

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 2d

'What's yer gut saying? Wanna turn the volume down?'

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 2d

Although I have a half-baked theory that there is a big Brit/Yank divide in which Pynchon novels people prefer; Vineland feels very American

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 2d

Very few moments that took my breath away, and the screwball stuff felt bolted-on in a way it hasn't in any of his other novels (maybe Against The Day at times)

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 2d

If it helps, I read it for the first time a couple of years ago and found it weirdly listless. Still enjoyed it, I mean, he's a great writer, but it felt like the work of a man who'd been drained dry by Gravity's Rainbow.

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 2d

They've been alternating male/female for quite a few years now, right?

William T. Vollmann would be a deserving American choice, and would result in a lot of Discourse

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 2d

Those guys (the Nobel lot) are way too into themselves to risk giving it to someone who refuses to acknowledge it

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 2d

If only someone could have forseen that a Leonardo DiCaprio film coinciding with the author's first novel in 12 years might might drive sales

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 7d

They don’t seem to have any shame about it at all

Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 7d

Getting RSI from how many times you need to press the little button to skip the adverts on American podcasts

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 11d

Solo pint and William T. Vollmann in Windermere on a Saturday afternoon, baybeeeee

William T. Vollmann’ Emma The Ice Shirt and a foaming pint of Helles Lager

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Tom Woodhead @tomwoodhead.bsky.social · 12d

Of course most adults have a mobile phone; but not having one should be an option