Record Reconstructor

Dashboard! If you are reading these, great, thank you.  This one is gonna be a bit of a perfunctory check in as I've been sick since Sunday and I'm very light on creative energy.  I did still listen to some albums, but the selection is very scattershot and I'm going to touch on them all but briefly, probably to the massive relief of all concerned. I listened to For Your Broken Heart  because it was the Reba album which appeared on my "list of best albums I should listen to" which I pivoted away from back in January ; I like Reba's version of country and this seemed fine, but I listened to it at 3am sat in the dark in my office feeling crappy so I can't say I liked it more than Rumour Has It  because this album doesn't have Fancy  on it. From there, I moved to Faith Hill, who's a country singing woman who I really only know of.  Until this week, 100% of the Faith Hill music I had heard came from clips in the ToddInTheShadows video on her disastrous ...

Dashboard! So, Monster Hunter:Wilds launched today and it's the long awaited sequel to one of my favourite games of all time (which came out over eight years ago and there's nothing else that even comes close to the same style of game), so the fact that there are words on this page today is frankly a miracle of self control and a testament to me taking this slightly seriously even though only a handful of people are actually reading this.  You are my people, I will not let you down. I've known this was coming for some time, obviously, and I did have a contingency plan to make this slightly easier on myself today, so no grand theme, no unifying narrative or personal backstory to tell here.  Well, maybe a very short one.   I met Lottie, and her partner, through our long-time friend Andrew.  As part of my whole belief that the thing I do well is meet interesting people, Lottie definitely qualifies - small business owner, talented singer/bass player/drummer, excelle...