The Morning After

The Listening Centre: Song Shuffle: The Flying Lizards

 

Hi everyone, time of the random song shuffle, and today it brings us to The Flying Lizards with their awesome version of Summertime Blues

 originally done by Eddie Cochran, but my favourite being done by Blue Cheer. 

So let's now check out The Flying Lizard's doing their own version of it. 

As much as you can't deny the original, The Flying Lizards and Blue Cheer definitely make it their own, and I still prefer these two versions. What do you think? Any other versions of the song you enjoy? 

~Nadette

The Dawn Of The Coming Year

Starve It

Margarite In Morning Light

Moon Sisters

Hieroglyphics

The Listening Centre: Album of the week: Symphony #1 For Dot Matrix Printers and Variations On A Sewing Machine

 

A happy Monday to everyone after the Christmas holidays. So it's Monday, which means that it's time for an album of the week. 

This album just fell into my lap by accident. I was looking for an old band called The Users, which were a great UK post-punk band from the late 70s, and looking to see if anything was reissued on Bandcamp, but found The User, and it was a great find for experimental music using a nonmusical instrument. I love these kinds of artists who do stuff like this. There's another one I enjoyed which was by an artist named Natalia Beylis called Variations On A Sewing Machine.  
However, The User has an album they made using an old dot matrix printer. 

Well, now I mentioned both unique albums, let's make it two albums of the week.  

Here's Symphony #1 For Dot Matrix Printers by The User 

Also here's Natalia Beylis with Variations On A Sewing Machine.


Happy experimental listening everyone. 

~Nadette

Spell

Dried Flowers

The Time It All Takes

Video: a little drop of milk makes all the difference.

 Here's a little animation for my potatocameracreations video, messing around with the Alice 2 program. It's a tale that will be told through the ages. 

The Listening Centre: Song Shuffle - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

 

 

Happy Saturday! For a holiday week, it seemed so long. That's a good thing, though. We're back for another song shuffle. Remember that Monday will be our album of the week, and I'm having a hard time choosing because I want them all as the album of the week. 

For now though, here is the song shuffle today. 

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult with the song Confessions of a Knife (Theme Pt. 1)

off their Confessions of a Knife album released in 1990. 

Here you can find this awesome album remastered on Bandcamp 

 

The Snow Still Sleeps

The City Turns Toward 2026

Garfield In Zombie Town: An animation with Cash

 

 

I ended up downloading the old Alice 2 program when the godson was over, and we both glad to see there were Garfield characters in the models. So we made this together. It's pure art. 😂

 

When You Fuck Around, You Find Out: My first use of 3D Choreographer

Hi everyone, 

So I was watching a twitch stream by Ashens, where he showed a really crap Christmas animation which was done in 3D Choreographer, called Rapsittie Street Kids. Of course with the software, being available on Internet Archive, I had to make something with it. 

I had no clue what I was getting myself into here.

 

 So seeing it was a windows program, and being a linux user, I thought I would be able to run it in wine and load it up. Nope. Even setting the windows option to run on older versions. So I had to dig out an old laptop of mine from 10 years ago from the catacombs of my closet. I then was able to get the software going. 

As some of you who see my animations, I do love using old art software and animation programs, especially the ones for kids as I find the limitations to actually help me be more creative with what I have before me, and most run smoothly, and it's a lot of fun. 

However, using 3D Choreographer was not fun. It was so slow and confusing off the start. It's a bit different from other animators from the time, (early 2000s I believe) and I've used some from the mid-late 90s that ran faster. 

For this few seconds of video I made, it took me almost 20 minutes to upload it. 

The fish was meant to bite Santa on the ass when he bent over, and Santa jumps in the air, but it didn't work out as the frame for the fish went through a glitch and made it come down late. So I uploaded it and ran it in Kdenlive to add the slide whistle sound and the voice saying "Missed me fish. Ho Ho Ho" in an old online robotic voice generator that just fit the overall crapulance. 

Enjoy Merry Fishmas. I know I didn't when I was making it. 

~Nadette

Site Info-The evening I fell asleep

 Good morning, 

A little mention if you were wondering, the free-writing piece was not posted, or even done last evening. I had guests over, and when they left, I fell asleep and woke up on the sofa this morning. So I didn't make it upstairs to what I like to call The Creation Station (really a room with my creative crap in it) to write something. 

Merry Christmas, or if you don't celebrate, happy holidays, or happy Friday, and expect a piece of writing as usual this evening. 

 

 

~Nadette

Boxing Day Morning

Early Morning Zen

Underground

 

The Listening Centre: Song Shuffle Anenzephalia

 

 

Happy Christmas Eve, everyone. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday, if you celebrate it. There's no Christmas song that came up as I don't have any on my phone, but a great song nonetheless by Anenzephalia called Final Pulse Extension

You can check out this awesome album by them and this great German industrial label called Tesco Distribution Germany here on Bandcamp. 

I Teach S.T. My Language

The Promise

Christmas chat, and site updates

 Good morning everyone,

I just thought to take a moment to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, or whatever holiday's you are celebrating this time of the year, or if you don't celebrate anything, this is also for you, and hope you have all the best for the coming year. 

I just wanted to touch base with everyone, and thank you all for taking a moment of your life to check out the stuff I have been making, and the encouragement along the way. This was started two years ago just as a place to share my creative stuff with friends, and mostly to document my stuff for myself, but found others seeming to enjoy it as well. Thanks for enjoying my hobby site with me, and I look forward to the coming year of creativity. 

A little site update I thought to do, is to put "What I'm Listening to" type of thing in the sidebar there. It's a little squished, but it's still fine. 
I also am doing an Album Of The Week for the Listening Centre, maybe a couple of song shuffles in between, like Wednesday and Saturday mornings, instead of bombarding this place with just music. But each day there will be a new song featured in the sidebar. 

The song is so awesome the site can hardly contain it!

  

That being said, I once again wish you all the best of the holidays, and all the best for 2026. Hopefully it brings us all individually, and the world, some much needed peace and calm after such storms. 

~Nadette 

Stuck

 

Thaw

The Listening Centre: Album of the week-The Art Effects

 Well, it's a Monday and time for the album of the week. This has been played constantly since I discovered it last year, and I can't stop myself from sharing it with others as much as possible. It's by an old Canadian band called The Art Effects. They are hard to find out anything about this band. There's hardly anything about them other than here where they're mentioned being from St. Catharines Ontario. 

The album that I love out of all of them is Insects, and really love the song A Different Ocean. The sound of the synth on this gives such a dreamy sound to it all, even though I'm assuming the voice is clips of some criminal, whom I can't really place. But the music is so calming to me. I listen to it after a hard day at work and I just love drifting on those notes. 

Here you can find the album, and if you click on the upload's name you can find that they uploaded the rest of the albums this band put out. Huge thank you to them for sharing these. 

Happy listening!

~Nadette

Dystopian Junk Mail Zine Issue 19. Merry Christmas!

Encase you're interested, take a full look at the drunk looking reindeer and the cross-eyed one, with a red chickenpox looking Santa. 

 

From all of us here, well, all of us meaning just me, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and all the best for the new year!

~Nadette

Standing Ground

Eye Tracing

The Listening Centre: Swans on Soundcloud

 

Hi everyone, 

So I got myself hooked up on Soundcloud yesterday and transferred over my playlists from my old Spotify, and I was just exploring around and started playing a lot of Swans on there. I ended up listening to the whole album Soundtracks For The Blind, and Surrogate Drone has been in my head since then. Sadly I don't have many physical copies of Swan's music in my collection, only one off songs on mixed tapes and compilations, which I quickly fixed that by getting this album off discogs, and when I hit the local record shops today, I'm going to look for more. 

They are one of those artists that I don't listen to much, but when I do, I don't want to stop. 

SWANS · Surrogate Drone

Alley Soul Rush

One Night

The Listening Centre Song Shuffle: In The Nursery

Good morning. Here is the song shuffle of the day, which is by the band In The Nursery with the song Breach Birth off the 1981 release of the album Aubade. 

 

I have the song from the Silhouettes and Statues box set. 

You can check them out on Bandcamp. 

 

Happy listening!

~Nadette 

Making The Scene

Mama Eats Clouds

 

 

The Learning Centre Song Shuffle: Iron Lung

 

 

Good morning. 

I've been so pressed for time, I didn't post a song yesterday. But here's a great song to start your Friday off to. 

 

 

                                                                    

You can find the full album on their Bandcamp. 

 

Spring Garden Morning

Poetry Blocked Me

Waiting While In Flight

School Yard Songs

Stopping for a morning photo

 So I was cycling to work yesterday, and I just saw the look of the sky in the morning and had to stop to snap a photo. I sadly didn't have one of my lomography cameras on me, which is very rare, because I left it in my basement where I develop film as I was working on a set the night before, so I snapped it with my Blackberry Key2 LE, which is on my handlebars. However, as much as I would have captured this on actual film, I think it still looks ok. The golden sunrise just hazing in, and the nearly built dark buildings and tattered billboard ads. It just captures that nice quiet time of the city's morning around 5-6AM, where certain parts of the streets are not fully awake yet and busy. This is the time I really enjoy my commutes to work.