Lost Vale
A couple of days ago was the 25th anniversary of Blur’s selftitled alubm.. ehm, Blur.
That was an important album for me. Around the time when my music taste was maturing I guess. Blur’s first albums were britpop, and I quite like them. They were quirky and fun and catchy. But with Blur they really grew and the songs became darker and more personal and I really loved it. I remember back in those days there was a big Oasis vs Blur thing going on in the media. I guess Oasis was the Rolling Stones and Blur was the Beatles. And I loved the two first Oasis albums. But then they just stagnated and bacame boring clichéd rock. While Blur grew and became much more interesting. And with Damon Albarn’s solo album and his Gorillaz stuff. Just much more inventive and deep. And I feel like the record Blur was the beginning of that journey. And the next album 13 was even better.
Those were some formative years. The year after came the releases of Eels’ Electro-Shock Blues and Smashing Pumpkins’ Adore. Those two albums are still my favourite records of all time. Deep and emotional and powerful and informed by loss and experimental and powerful.
Good times. Back when you’d watch music videos on mtv and go to the record store and look through racks of CDs. Put music albums on the wishlist for christmas.
Now you can find every video on youtube and every song on some mp3 site and it’s easy and accesible, but it’s not the same man. You kids don’t know what it was like you weren’t there man. Everything was better in the 90s don’t at me.
Put the crazies on the treet, give them guns and feed them meat.
13/2 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Mio Monday everyone.
14/2 2022
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Rest in peace Ivan Reitman. Growing up Ghostbusters was one of my most favourite movies. When I was young and had a vhs collection. I’m pretty sure ghostbusters was one of the movies I taped off the telly. You’d have the storebought movies with proper boxes and covers. And then you’d have the blank vhs tapes filled with movies, or endless episodes of the simpsons. In a cardboard sleeve thing. And i’d always take that sticky thing.. whatsitcalled. The word escapes me. The thing you were supposed to stick onto the vhs tape itself and write the contents on? That thing I would always put on the cardboard sleeve and write the conents on there like that. i can picture them in my head, rows and rows of vhs tapes.
Anyway. Ghostbusters was one of my absolutel favourites and I never got tired of it. It was a strange movie, a comedy ghost movie. But also to me it just felt really real. That librarian ghost.. it geniunely scared me. Seems silly now, but at the time it just.. felt so real. It was such a funny and cool movie. It’s still a big part of my vocabulary. The keymaster and the gatekeeper, there is only zuul, stay puft. And the old Commodore 64 game. I didn’t have the manual to it so I never really knew how to play it properly, but I just remember driving around in the big car hunting ghosts and listening to the great SID chip version of the song. The song. Who you gonna call? Its still so embedded in pop culture. I haven’t watched the Ghostbusters Afterlife movie but I have it downloaded and I intend to watch it soon. Sounds like it might not be amazing but at least gets things right and pays tribute to the old ones. Unlike the reboot which i do not intend to watch.
Anyway. Yeah. I looove Ghostbustes. I know he did a lot of stuff, but for Ghostbuster alone. Thnak you, Ivan. Hope you get a good afterlife.
14/2 2022
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Happy valentine’s day to all you lovely people out there. Thank you for all the love you show me, on a daily basis. You keep my old heart ticking.
I’m going to celebrate valentine’s day by going to bed early and sleeping the whole day through because I’m sad and alone, woohoo!
But seriously, have a good day. Love like your life depended on it. You never know when the heart breaks.
< 3
14/2 2022
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Today will be a good day. HappY Yogi daY everypme.
15/2 2022
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Good goat times today. Got out and got my goat fix. I’m sorry if I glorify the goat time usage, but what can I say. I’m addicted.
Cold grey morning, but some sunshine later on. Little by little we’re getting pockets of blue skies and sun. Feels good.
This week is winter holiday in Denmark. I guess that’s why we got a bunch of visitors today. At one point I was over by one fence with the goats talking to a group and when they left we headed over to the other fence where another group was waiting. We were in demand today! Well, the goats. And I did a fair bit of chatting with everyone. Answering questions. One of the most common questions? Is Mia the mom of everyone? No. she’s the matriarch of the goat pen, but she’s not related to any of the littles. There was a quite attractive young lady with a few daycare kids, who asked a bunch of questions. She remembered how there used to be posters up at the fence with everyone’s names on them. She was sad they weren’t there anymore. Me too. But they got torn down pretty fast. Shame.
The old lady with the old impaired man came by too, they always enjoy seeing the goats. And lots of little kids got to pet goats and have a good time. The goats got called sheep, which happens a lot too by the kids. And of course Sky got called ‘the baby’ which happens a lot too. And several people told me to have a nice day, which I always appreciate. Not everyone really talks to me, and I don’t blame them because even if I bring the goats to the fence I don’t usually engage with people a lot unless they make the first contact. If they don’t talk to me then I just let them have their good time with the goats. But it’s always nice when they make me feel like they appreciated the goat time. If it wasn’t for me they’d be looking at a bunch of goats from afar avoiding the mud!
15/2 2022
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Here’s ‘the baby’ chatting to visitors.
15/2 2022
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Mia and Milo entertaining the visitors. I think it’s Sassy’s ear in the foreground.
15/2 2022
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I ran into Nala on the way to the goats. She was out hunting outside the playground area. Clearly no time to stop and chat.
15/2 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Hump Day everyone.
16/2 2022
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Looks like Cowzilla is helping with the christmas tree.
16/2 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Vanilje from 2006.
17/2 2022
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goatlog
17/2 2022
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Six in a row! Not very good quality but you know I love when I can fit all six in the show. And hey, there’s Cowzilla on the left. This may be the first time we’ve ever had seven in a row!
17/2 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Mads from 2007.
18/2 2022
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Little baby! Little baby!
18/2 2022
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Today will be a good day. Here’s Herman from 2014.
19/2 2022
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Orange you glad I said banana?
19/2 2022
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Today will be a good day. Happy Funday everyone.
20/2 2022
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Are you telling me that ALF wasn’t a documentary?!
20/2 2022
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Uh oh, wasn’t this how Birdemic started?
20/2 2022
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That’s all for now.