ugh grumbling here tonight, while in fact I’m in a really good mood, why am I loading all that onto you all, apologies. I’ll think of some good things to toot

good thing 1: this excellent book I read last week.

A brilliant read. Do you live in #Melbourne? Read this, it’ll teach you loads about your own city (and if it doesn’t teach you it’ll at least be a feast of recognition)! #bookstodon #AusLit #Naarm

good thing 2: I’m still playing this op shop find of two weeks ago, again and again and again. What a beautiful record.

#NowPlaying Ella Fitzgerald - The Cole Porter Songbook
#vinyl #VinylRecords #jazz

good thing 3: free art is everywhere.

#graffiti #Melbourne #Naarm

good thing 4: it’s pretty here, isn’t it.

#Melbourne #Naarm #Yarra

good thing 5: winding down with a G&T from Aussie G and Tassie T, with a good book and some nice music

good thing 6 (of 6): June 27 is coming up.

I know none of you care - I’ve seen you all ignoring my toots about chopped & screwed 🧐

but that won’t stop me tooting about the delights of #Houston’s unique genre of slowed-down #hiphop, so have another one: DJ Screw’s Screwed Up Click [Red Pt 2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p56blX-6IAg

#houston #hiphop #June27

Screwed Up Click [Red Pt 2]

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good thing 6 bonus: perhaps Kendrick can make you all care about #June27.

Here he is, freestyling over the June 27 slowed down Kriss Kross/Jermaine Dupri instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oje_Z27kBXU&ra=m (so many brilliant moments, but note especially what happens when at 2:12 they prompt him with “lean”, the codeine syrup that inspired DJ Screw’s style, and caused his death).

#hiphop #NowPlaying

Kendrick Lamar Freestyles Over "June 27th" [EXCLUSIVE]

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@slevelt love both boathouses, so close to the CBD
@siftinsand Studley Park is lovely — the place that reminds us most of England in the whole of Naarm. We lived near its name-giver, Studley Royal, in North Yorkshire, before we moved here; the boathouse reminds us most of riverside pubs in Devon, though, where we lived previously.
@siftinsand (daughter made a decent argument in a geography paper recently for evidence of deliberate modelling of the Yarra bend at Studley Park after its Yorkshire namesake, which she knows well and loves)
@slevelt The row boats and buildings are definitely English style but I also love the Aussie gum trees and birds :)
@slevelt a short walk down the tracks. Loving the graffiti here.
@jdmcg @slevelt wonder if it had a ladder at some point in the past. 🤔