Alright mate? This is the digital home of Daniel Savage, a small man who is trying very hard to exist.

🎵Now Playing: The Shins - Oh, Inverted World (2001)

This is more of a summer album, but it’s definitely a sunny album, and the sun is out today, despite the cold.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Caring is Creepy
  • Know Your Onion!
  • New Slang
  • The Past and Pending

🎵Now Playing: Radiohead - Hail to the Thief (2003)

I don’t come back to this album as often as I should.

Favourite Tracks:

  • 2 + 2 = 5
  • There, There
  • Myxomatosis
  • A Wolf at the Door

I’ve built up a list of things I really should write a blog post about, so this is my reminder to actually do it.

  • Turned an old laptop into a home Linux server
  • Started self-hosting an inventory system
  • Set up Samba for file-sharing
  • Enabled remote access so I can manage everything from my phone and laptop

A fun weekend’s work, all helped by the fact I’ve (mostly) stopped going on the piss.

Trains are so good. Train stations are wonderful spaces between here and there. I wish, wish, wish this country would decide to make them affordable and actually work properly for the public.

🎵Now Playing: Geese - 3D Country (2023)

Guys. Hey, guys. I’m serious. Geese are the best band on the planet.

Favourite Tracks:

  • 2122
  • 3D Country
  • Cowboy Nudes
  • I See Myself In You
  • Crusades

Cultural Diet - October 2025

I haven’t done one of these for a few months, but I feel like I’ve finally got back on track and caught up with life since my Canada trip. Here’s a list of everything I’ve consumed this month (culture-wise).

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🎵Now Playing: Daniel Avery - Tremor (2025)

New Music Friday and today I listened to Daniel Avery’s newest. He’s gone back to his shoegaze roots in a departure as a techno DJ (but this album still has some bangers), but he’s always had these droning aspects to his sound regardless of genre. I dig it.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Haze
  • Greasy off the Racing Line
  • Disturb Me
  • In Keeping (Soon We’ll Be Dust)

My toaster pretty much blew up yesterday. And so today I’ve been having very middle aged discussions about air fryers and now I’ve bought an air fryer.

🎵Now Playing: Tame Impala - Deadbeat (2025)

I should start doing a Now Playing post every Friday, as it’s always new album release day. Well let’s start now shall we? Today is the new one from Tame Impala. This is definitely continues the path taken at Currents through The Slow Rush into making him a sure-fire Festival Headliner (Glasto 2027 anyone?) with beats that are definitely not dead. I do miss the guitar riffs though.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Dracula
  • Loser
  • Obsolete
  • Afterthought
  • End Of Summer

🎵Now Playing: Boy Azooga - 1, 2, Kung Fu! (2018)

Welcome to another edition of “I totally forgot this band existed!” Really fun alt-indie. I used to play Face Behind Her Cigarette a lot at the bar where I DJed. Sigh.

I just Googled them and I never knew they were Welsh! I always thought they were American. Sadly they seem to be inactive now, but I hope they return one day.

Favourite Tracks:

  • Loner Boogie
  • Face Behind her Cigarette
  • Jerry
  • Sitting on the First Rock From the Sun

🎵Now Playing: Geese - Getting Killed (2025)

I loved Cameron Winter’s solo album and now I think Geese might be on their way to being the best band on the planet.

Favourite Tracks:

  • 100 Horses
  • Taxes
  • Long Island City Here I Come