Image 1 — My small collection since 2008
Image 2 — My small collection since 2008
Image 3 — My small collection since 2008

My small collection since 2008

Just the MD players and recorders I have bought over the years. All working and keep them scratch free by putting them in a little hip pouch when travelling. I record via optical on the Tascam (fantastic remote for naming tracks) and copy all sorts of stuff, including laserdisc concerts. The hi-fi is tremendous fun. Whacky loading tray. Out of all of these players, I do enjoy the little Panasonic. It’s EQ’d to a very 00s flavour and it’s tiny. I’m passing two of these down (along with my album and soundtrack/ radio series collection) to my little one when she’s old enough. Trying to get her into the Sanrio Victor players 😅 I love the creativity involved with MD and the scene. I print in the latest canon selphy and have a little die-cutter machine (graphic designer for over 25 years eek!) And I think every player and manufacturer deserves a go. I love how a player marks the identity you want on a particular day with an album when heading outdoors. Doesn’t always have to be Sony. Just enjoy what you like! Prices are a bit mad these days but still worth every penny if you ask me 🙂❤️ I’m planning on getting my wee girl into minidisc making, aside from playing. Perfect album size for a kids room and an introduction to artwork, curation and just making anything you want and commit it to a disc. The haptic physical joy of music. Because you’ll cherish it when you’re older. Side note. I recorded my first EP in 1999 on a minidisc and it served me well. Released an album a few years back on vinyl and followed up with a minidisc version - limited copies of course 😅 big shout to everyone on this marvellous Reddit channel who contribute and share their love and knowledge for the format. It keeps me and many others enthused and inspired.

u/fatal-horse-kick — 11 days ago
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Looking for a reputable roofing company for Dunfermline work

Hello, as the title says, I’m looking for a good roofer for some minor repair work. I’d rather reach out to ones that anyone would recommend on here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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u/fatal-horse-kick — 17 days ago
▲ 442 r/industrialmusic+2 crossposts

Name a Trailer that slapped more than the Movie

And yes I have a Deliveroo coming! (See vid) 🤣 name a trailer that built up all expectation beyond hype. Criteria: a banger cast, maybe awesome music - everything in the right place but the movie was a dud. Any year, any genre. The trailer sold it better. Name it, share it.

EDIT - tell us why it failed

u/E23R0 — 1 month ago

Another Blade Runner game in the works.

I was replying to another thread to someone regarding the Annapurna game that was cancelled (it will never see the light of day) and shared the news of another game in the works. So thought I’d share in case any of you might have missed the news

Alcon have signed a new licensing deal for a Blade Runner game, this time to Behaviour Interactive (studio behind dead by daylight). I’m quite excited about the potential for this one. They only signed the agreement in May, so we’re a few years away from seeing what it might be like. But they are a good fit for a narrative/cinematic-driven game. Much larger studio too, decent roster behind them.

EDIT - it transpires that the licence is for a theme park style experience - not a game license. Very disappointing.

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u/fatal-horse-kick — 1 month ago
▲ 220 r/glasgow

Sam Raimi, the Renfield St. Odeon and The Evil Dead

I don’t think this has ever been re-printed, but it’s a cool story if you’re a fan of the director Sam Raimi. (Image is for context, best I could find of the odeon back then)

He was at the Edinburgh Film Festival in the 80s, “scraggly wee man” according to my dad and around that time they were still struggling to secure wider distribution for the film. So they had the film can in a car and punted it around theatres that would screen it. He took it to the Odeon on Renfield St. Word got around and the place was packed between the days they screened it. He said “If it weren’t for the crowds in Glasgow, I’m not sure if we would have got the film screened elsewhere in Europe”. He thanked Glasgow for getting distribution for the film.
Have to assume this was in ‘1981, and he came back to talk about it in 1982 in Edinburgh. My old man isn’t around anymore. It might have been the same year. My dad worked at the Ed film festival at the time and he ALWAYS went on about how Glasgow saved Evil Dead by the enthusiasm of horror fans and Renfield St. Cinema. And I loved that theatre… So now you know too!

u/fatal-horse-kick — 1 month ago
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Movie soundtracks that marked your youth.

Open to all genres and films, no judgement. No downvotes. For me, it was Hackers in 1995. I remember vividly this movie fondly, sneaking off to raves as a teenager - the soundtrack, the tech and how on the nose it was for 95, If you lived in the UK. Hackers was directed by British director - most of the music reflects that time. I love the depiction of hackers essentially dressing like ravers. It’s completely over the top, fashion is accurate for uk raves, hacking was never that sexy but it’s an excellent cartoonish film with an absolute banger of a soundtrack. What movie soundtrack made a major impact on your music taste as a youth and reasons why?

Additional link for hackers fans: this was the tune we would mix in clubs the latter end of the track. Drop the strobe when the acid 909 hits💕 good times. https://youtu.be/VFp0mYdF6nc?si=cCJOYsveF2UJKkGh

Having a drive in music and film can lead you anywhere. I ended up working on PS1 games by the end of the decade, that’s how much a silly film like hackers meant and helped me 😊 I’m old af as the kids would say but this soundtrack puts me right back there and gen keen to what you all have to say - HACK THE PLANET! ✊ SHARE THOSE SOUNDTRACKS!

u/fatal-horse-kick — 1 month ago

1985 study regarding the basin, seismic activity and a 60s UFO flap.

I’ll first link the 1985 gov study paper on this. It’s a national medicine doc from the old days. Published on a few journal sites. 2nd link is the document in full.

**Authors:** Michael A. Persinger and John S. Derr
**Publication:** *Perceptual and Motor Skills*, 1985
**Core Finding:** A strong temporal correlation (r = 0.80) existed in 1967 between monthly UFO reports and local earthquake magnitudes within 150 km of the Uinta Basin.
**Hypothesis:** Strain fields in the earth's crust shift and generate natural luminous phenomena that get misidentified as UFOs.

1st link. [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3982923/](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3982923/)
2nd link (full doc.) [https://neurosciarchive.byethost12.com/1985-Persinger-and-Derr-PMS-Geophysical-variables-and-behavior--XXIII-relations-between-UFO-reports-within-the-Uinta-basin.pdf?i=1](https://neurosciarchive.byethost12.com/1985-Persinger-and-Derr-PMS-Geophysical-variables-and-behavior--XXIII-relations-between-UFO-reports-within-the-Uinta-basin.pdf?i=1)

The researcher(s) had done extensive work on the ufo/seismic plasma connection. They have talked on the topic over the years but modern scrutiny has drawn lines under their narrow methods. Most interestingly. Deep dives with AI of late. I post this with a question on who funded the grants and do these findings stand up to modern scrutiny. It appears to be a 5-year study, funded in the early 80s. Who funded them? What are your thoughts and feel free to correct anything I’ve put that’s inaccurate. 😊

Additionally, What are your thoughts on this and how may it correlate with the current phenomenon of the tv show, and that Robert Bigelow has recently expressed and interest in coming back to the basin in partnership with Brian Fugal’s enterprise, after a decade of private study of the basin, spending 10 million on the venture and sharing his findings exclusively with private aerospace? Is this possibly bigelow’s original thread he pulled at?

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u/fatal-horse-kick — 1 month ago
▲ 32 r/UFOs

Robert Bigelow, stepping back into Skinwalker Ranch: Why?

So there is a post and video clip on the Skinwalker Reddit around this happening right now. Fugal being asked to keep quiet about another drilling company. Bob kills the chat. But I would love to hear your thoughts and theories on Bob’s involvement and why he’s hinting at going back. Here is a breakdown of Bob’s ventures til now. And as he hasn’t publicly shared his findings, I will make logical assumptions based on public proof to tie those threads. No AI text, no slop, and I’m not interested in views on the show. This focuses on the original ventures on Wilson and Skinwalker - one for genuine discussion.

Strap in! It’s worth it.

Robert bought both Skinwalker and Mt. Wilson locations in 1996. Spent a year before that in expenditure prep (which is public) and plans for procurement. Likely goes back further toward the purchases of both. Key staff - Col. John B. Alexander, Hal Putoff. Both of these men worked together on classified projects funded by CIA and DIA. Another member, Jacques Vallée has worked on classified projects funded by intelligence and defence agencies. Eric Davis worked extensively with them. He maintains high level government clearance and has worked on black budget aerospace projects. Combined, they are ‘in the know’.

Why would these men get together and choose these two specific sites to study, with the goal of keeping the findings secret whilst sharing them with private defence-contractor studies. Why choose Bigelow and cut the ties with now-dead USGOV studies on these locations and make it a private commercial venture (this is a pattern).

Who had prior knowledge on these sites. How did that get into Robert’s hands and why did he spend over 10 million on the venture, over the space of 1995 to 2004?

I guarantee Robert learned a lot more than he shared and that it helped leverage his influence in obtaining ufo material and building an entire location for it within Bigelow areospace, only to be blocked and for the government to shut down the proposed agreement. He had reached as far as they would let him go. But he hasn’t spoken more widely on this journey and the pivot to getting NASA projects (a nod from private aerospace thanking him for NIDs work) for it to only be canned again. But his expenditure on Skinwalker and Mt. Wilson is repaid.

Then it’s consciousness as a public venture/study. He circumvents physical proof to metaphysical interests, potentially operational and communication pursuits with a guise of life after death. You think Robert gave up on Skinwalker? No. Clever manoeuvre, garnered more experts and arguably SOL foundation is born from this, bolstered with the Washington post article and others ‘in the know’ going public. A group was trying to influence the influencers, including Sam Harris. We know the rest.

He knows way more than he’s willing to say publicly. Why is Hal at the table again? Why is Bigelow wanting to partner on the site again? Why hasn’t he shared the NIDS findings and why would he ask Brandon to pivot on his current direction and suggest they don’t use a tv crew any more (see knapp latest conversion with fugal and bigelow on this for more detail). Why now after all these years? And why is there another shady drilling site set up on the mesa, drilling diagonally into Fugal’s territory who he says are “bad actors”, only to be told to keep quiet by Bigelow in the interview? There’s more to this than litigation. Bob’s reply to Fugal vexing at the bad actors drilling in his site? He says “less is more”.

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u/fatal-horse-kick — 1 month ago

1985 study regarding the basin, seismic activity and a 60s UFO flap.

I’ll first link the 1985 gov study paper on this. It’s a national medicine doc, strangely. Published on a few journal sites. You can find the entire paper if you ask google AI to find you the PDF.

Summary:

Authors: Michael A. Persinger and John S. Derr
Publication: Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1985
Core Finding: A strong temporal correlation (r = 0.80) existed in 1967 between monthly UFO reports and local earthquake magnitudes within 150 km of the Uinta Basin.
Hypothesis: Strain fields in the earth's crust shift and generate natural luminous phenomena that get misidentified as UFOs.

1st link. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3982923/
2nd link (full doc.) https://neurosciarchive.byethost12.com/1985-Persinger-and-Derr-PMS-Geophysical-variables-and-behavior--XXIII-relations-between-UFO-reports-within-the-Uinta-basin.pdf?i=1

I think this entire document was put together to debunk and dampen interest around the location. What is interesting is the mention of ufo activity in that location in the 60s, and the survey post (and coin) that correlates with this era.

What are your thoughts on this?

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u/fatal-horse-kick — 1 month ago
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Fugal on the ‘bad actors’ drilling on the Mesa and Bigelow asks him to stop talking.

The most interesting part of this convo for me. Now this could be due to an ongoing legal spat and Bob asking Fugal to not step over the line and get himself in trouble with a court case regarding this shady neighbour drilling team - or Bob knows more and isn’t wanting him to share it. Fugal is angry here and wanting to share more info. Also, near the end of this chat, Bigelow suggests they go private and not use cameras. If they do collaborate, I’ll be keen to see what the future is for this show. Bob seems keen to pull Brandons team back into a NIDS-style project. The timing of Bob wanting to work with him, not wanting a camera crew and another shady drilling team on the mesa is interesting timing.

u/fatal-horse-kick — 1 month ago
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Mark Cousins: Kirk Douglas interview

I’m a life-long fan of Mark Cousins work. I was his neighbour for a while! And I still think his scene-by-scene series is a completely knock-out documentation of filmmakers and actors. It has vanished from the internet. I assumed it might have related to the scandal relating to Kirk. It’s essential viewing and mark handles the conversation perfectly.

Two questions:
A: does it still exist online?
B: why hasn’t Mark’s series made it onto disc?

He’s a lovely guy but a real force of energy in his youth. I wish I could see his chat with Kirk again. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

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u/fatal-horse-kick — 2 months ago

Liebestraum. Hard to find, worth watching.

This was introduced to me back in the 90s via a very cult tv show called Moviedrome. It has its roots in the 80s with Alex Cox presenting (must see) and replaced by equally brilliant Mark Cousins.

Director: Mike Figgis.
cast: Kim Novak, Bill Pullman, Kevin Anderson Genre: Noir, Murder mystery
Influences: David Lynch, John Huston.

Plot: Nick, a young architect reluctantly comes back to his home town to visit his dying mother. He sees a building being demolished which has tied memories and personal significance for. He discovers that his old town days friend and fellow architect is behind it. Things unravel during his stay.

Notes: I love this film and it is incredibly hard to find now in Europe. It's Bill Pullman's personal favourite film he was cast in. It weirdly reminds me of old point click adventure games I'd play on my PC in the 90s. Music is very Twin Peaks. I struggle to find anyone who has seen this film. Hope some of you have seen it and would love your thoughts

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u/fatal-horse-kick — 2 months ago

Custom Final Fight (14 in 1 duluxe)

I was never happy with the old Final Fight release. Not a fan of the old risers and the shark fin cab shape. So I bought a SF 14 in 1 deluxe. Based on a proper cab shape and I changed the side medallions, bezel, marquee and lit the coin slots. Found a nice warm yellow t mould colour to match the artwork. I wanted it to look as faithful as possible. I decided not to touch the CPO artwork. I kinda like it looking like this. Final fight never had a dedicated cab, it was always a conversion kit. But I’m very happy with it. Little side note for anyone who doesn’t know, the movie Streets of Fire was the main inspiration for Capcom Japan to make Final Fight. I do have one little addition left I’m working on. Cut a key down to the twist grip, glue it to the fake coin slot and have a little Hagar Gashapin keyring having from it - just to make it look like an operating coin mech!

u/fatal-horse-kick — 2 months ago

Can you buff out these little scratches?

Has anyone tried buffing out these little surface scuffs you get with the Mz-RH10?

u/fatal-horse-kick — 5 months ago
▲ 15 r/gshock

I’m hoping you folks can help me source replacement straps for 2 of my G-Shock watches. My dog got a hold of them when she was a puppy and chewed them up. Both were purchased in Japan several years ago but I haven’t had any luck finding the correct size and colours to order replacements. Any help would be awesome!

u/fatal-horse-kick — 5 months ago

I bought this a while ago, they’re quite common in the UK but was lucky enough to find a mint one, still in its old box. The Japanese version of this unit had a limited edition version of pink speaker mesh! So I replaced fabric on mine to match the Japanese limited release. Change the display colour to match and it looks v cool.

u/fatal-horse-kick — 6 months ago