Darren Riley
Artist and musician. Happy to be part of the industry of human happiness. No AI.
A 'baffling... and undeniably fevered mind.'
'The Neil Innes of the North.'
patreon.com/adarrenrileypainting
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- It's Bandcamp Friday tomorrow which means all money goes to the artist, which in turn means it's a great day to pre-order Library Music, my groovy new record. Of course, you can also order tonight, or any other day, and let Bandcamp take a little cut to pay staff and site costs and everything.
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- Just sitting down to prepare the weekly shopping list. You can choose your own crying gif. One of the worst parts of the week.
- I was lucky enough to chat to Peter at my exhibition launch and even luckier when his wife bought my painting of one of his record sleeve photos.
- I'm already on song five of Library Music Vol. 2. Meanwhile, here's Vol. 1 on vinyl, like the soundtrack to the groovy and madly psychedelic 70s crime caper that your mum definitely wouldn't let you stay up to watch (said @onlyindevon.co.uk ). You need that on your turntable, guvnor.
- BlueSky, help me! Have you recently had a fine from SIP Parking Ltd, saying you hadn't paid enough for your parking when using the PayByPhone app? It may be because the app has updated recently and you didn't notice that you'd paid for, say, 10 minutes instead of 10 hours. Tell me! Please share.
- Regarding this, am I able to put in a Freedom of Information request to a private firm or are they only for public sector organisations?
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- It's folking futile!
- Learn from me. It's the PayByPhone app. Pay attention!
- Two £60 parking fines this week, where I'd only paid for 1 hour rather than 12. I thought it was my tired self at 6.50am but I looked at the app this morning with extra care and noticed that the time unit defaults to minutes. Naughty. I've complained but I won't get a refund, obviously.
- Sausage On Nurse
- 5 jobs I’ve had: Camping equipment shop assistant Computer game shop assistant Bookshop store room assistant Prescription processor Union admin assistant That is also every job I’ve had, aside from a few weeks as a temp between 3 and 4.
- I've always been convinced there's a mistake in this, around 2.10, where the drummer goes to normal time rather than half time at the start of the chorus, then quickly drops back down to half. It makes no sense otherwise. I reckon they had limited studio time so just went with the best take.
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- The first guy here, I can't see he did anything wrong. It's not his fault if he was able to do his first job with hardly any effort at all. Not his fault that he was clever enough to automate it and hold down a second job. He's a star.
- Have now tested this. Great fun but there's no way I could get away with it on a regular basis.
- It could be a podcast. Imagine getting sacked from your job because your boss sees you featured in the Guardian with your hit show that's taking the world by storm.
- If anyone's working from home and bored, this could be an entertaining way of killing some time. Say, a 5-10 minute chat. Like speed dating but for bored admin workers.
- I have Microsoft Teams at work. Can I chat to literally anyone with it? Like, can I have a Teams call with one of you lot, and it look like I'm working?
- And so I log in to work, with a face like Mark Selby after a particularly smelly brown.
- The Ben Dover series.
