bandcamp freeday

 sometimes if you're lucky people send out codes on bandcamp and if you're really lucky you get to use one of those codes before they've all been used by someone else and you get a free album.

seeing as it's bandcamp friday again tomorrow I thought I'd share the music I've gotten for free

Lost, But Not Entirely Upset About It by Average Adventures 

I managed to snag us a copy of the game/cassette that Average Adventures made with Fernmage and really love it so I was excited to snag this too.

 

Battle Synth Vol. V by Battle Synth Compilations

Will sent me a link to the codes for this and I love a compilation.

Battlemace by Castlesmash 

I already followed the distro that sent out these codes and even though I had no idea what this was the cover art won me over and I'm so glad I got to know about this, I would have paid for it anyway.

it was just a really nice day

 

the nice day started with packing this order of zines :)

the library had re-opened the day before (after closing for refurb in April). it felt very good to sit on the floor in the library again.

and we went to the David Shenton exhibit which we both loved. I just wrote a bunch about it for my perzine and don't feel like repeating myself too much but I've been a fan of his work for years, it just has so many elements that I love and I really recommend seeing the exhibit.

knitted version of the sideboard!

 

this shirt is covered in chain stitching and was just added to over 12 years and I'm obsessed with it.

getting to see original illustrations in real life is one of my favourite things.

getting to see any art in real life is always interesting. go to a gallery. make things with your hands.

on the way out of the museum I showed Will a horse painting I stand in front of a lot at work and then we went and got iced buns for lunch and boba to walk home with 

I got myself this bird bath I've had my eye on for a couple of years and then we ate lots and watched wrestling and I was healed by this lovely day.

digital hoard dump #2

it's endlessly fascinating to me how in one moment i absolutely need to take a screenshot and then in a future moment i'm like, lol why did i need that? this isn't a comment on Scully, obviously this is an important artifact.

Wilko popped up on google maps. i miss her. 

 

for some reason itvx won't let me watch Buffy on my laptop anymore even though it works on the tv. so maybe these will be my last screenshots.

although youtube won't do auto subs/auto translate on my laptop either and i'm just taking photos of the tv so...

i simply love Peter Cushing <3

i hope we all get to enjoy a snack today as much as Mirin is enjoying this cracker.

same, Tooms. same.

The Old Guard

 i was watching a video

 and thought, "this music is cool, sounds similar to Kimya Dawson/like it should be on the Juno soundtrack. i wonder what it is" 

as seen in the screenshot, what looks like maybe a tape insert popped up on the screen so i paused and went back and searched the words i could see and it came up with a bandcamp link

 so i clicked on it and there it was, the first track is the one used in the video. and it turns out the album was made in 1987 by an 11 year old with her dad and i just love it. i love it. 

there's so much stuff out there. i love to look up recommendations and click on links. it's so rewarding to put in even the smallest amount of effort. 

Royal Armouries Leeds

we went on our first proper* holiday together  and decided to spend it at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. not a holiday in Leeds but a holiday at the Royal Armouries. we did our best to not find out too much about Leeds itself, just a couple of options for late afternoon once the museum was closed.

we travelled down on the Monday, spent Tuesday and Wednesday at the museum then travelled back on Thursday and it was great.

required Hall of Steel photo, i was very taken with this little pointy helmet.

and we met the iconic guy: 

spent a lot of time being so impressed by the craftsmanship of all the armour and especially the decoration and also when you can really see like, a guy drew that. that's a drawing someone did on metal hundreds of years ago and it's incredible to just see a centuries old drawing.

the living history team are so. good. we saw a longbow talk, celt vs roman combat, pollaxe combat and two handed sword combat and they were all incredible. literally can't believe this museum is free it's amazing.

also look at his painted helmet <3

this painted helmet is from 1490 and i love it very much.

when we got kicked out of the armoury museum we went and found the hoist museum which was very cute and i'm so glad it's there in amongst all the newer buildings.

and then we went and found Doner Summer for vegan kebabs (which we took back to the hotel). these were so good, for a very long time i'm going to be like oh i fancy one of those kebabs and ah i can't get one i'm not in Leeds.

beautiful beautiful beautiful. i also love how on this one on the left you can still see the blue. sometimes the metal was heated to a certain temperature and it went blue which goes nice with the gold. so fancy.

panels on a skirt from armour made for Henry VIII which has that amazing wow someone drew that feeling to it and it was made in a rush and there's a mistake** in there which is just incredible i love it.

most of the time looking at the helmets i don't see something that a human would be inside i just see a creature, like the helmet is their head, and some of them lend themselves to it even more than others.

when we got kicked out on our second day we walked along the river and saw house martins flitting about catching bugs which was amazing and then the reason we'd walked along there was to see the train station which has this cool building and river going underneath it and it looks like something out of Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken.

very pleased with our gift shop haul and also i don't know if this Yorkshire iced tea is only available in Yorkshire or if it's new everywhere and we only saw it for the first time there but it was fun to have a local delicacy.

it was a great trip, we basically ate meal deals and looked at armour, i took so many more photos than this and we ordered a nice fancy book from the gift shop that we couldn't fit in our bags. we made sure to go past and stop at various places on the journey there and back, tank car park, Newark castle, Pontefract castle, Conisbrough castle. first holiday well done.

*we camped at a bike festival one year and the year after that we booked a travelodge for the trip back from the festival and then the festival got cancelled but we drove out and stayed in the travelodge anyway but i'm not sure any of that counts as "going on holiday"

**on the left photo there's a panel in the middle that should be blank