AkaoMiru

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Scot/Canadian, pop-culture bobbins, etc, etc. For some reason running a Crowded House song bracket https://challonge.com/3utr3rxn

The single cover for When You Come, with a gold frame highlighting the painting of an exploding building
Graphic showing Love you 'til the Day I Die as the winner of match 3
A gold-framed abstract blue design for Recurring Dream set against the Afterglow compilation cover.
A gold-framed black and white photo of the 3 original members of Crowded House overlaid on the cover of the self-titled debut album.
Graphic showing a greyed and x-ed out image for This is Massive
An AI-generated cover for a dubious Neil Finn "biography" on Amazon, featuring a male figure who is definitely not Neil Finn, holding an old-fashioned microphone. There's a design of abstract squiggles on a music staff (with too many lines) that might be trying to pretend it's a signature?
The credits to a song on the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack, with Kay Hanley now credited as the vocalist on the track.
The cover of Daredevil 263, with a bandaged Matt Murdock in the clutches of a huge demon, about to whack it with a stick
A collage of elements from Crowded House album covers
A collage made up of elements from Crowded House album covers.
A calico cat sits on a wooden floor, looking innocently at the camera.
The album cover of Courtney Barnett's Creature of Habit, featuring a close-up black and white photo of a praying may. The cover is standing next to a vintage turntable.
The cover of Peggy Sue's "Acrobats", featuring a matte, dark brown cover with a female figure in a one-piece swimsuit or leotard, head down with long hair obscuring their face, isolated in the lower half. The album title is only lightly embossed and hard to make out. The cover stands next to a vintage turntable.
A large tabby cat sleeps with its paws on my legs.
Chandler from Friends places a blanket over Monica and pirouettes away with a blissful expression.
A list of check boxes in Illustrator's Preferences. The one for "Show Rich Tool Tips" is greyed out and checked by default. Bastards.
A large, colourful pop-up for the Turntable AI feature with a stylized illustration of a man in an action pose. Under the image are buttons to Learn More or Start Tutorial. No.
Illustrator "Transform" control panel, with a large "Turntable" button at the bottom.
The cover of Stars' "Up in our Bedroom After the War", featuring a blue-toned painting of a male figure seen from behind, looking out of full-length bedroom windows while a figure in the foreground sleeps in a bed. The cover is standing next to a vintage turntable.
A cartoon character with a long white beard, 3 teeth, rolling eyes, a battered prospector's hat, overalls, and bare, bandaged feet - Old Man McGucket from "Gravity Falls" or Dylan at the end of recording this very, very, very long old-timey album?
XKCD comic panel of a stick figure at a computer. Text reads: "Are you coming to bed?" "I can't. This is important." "What?" "Someone is wrong on the internet"
The cover of "The Past is Still Alive" by Hurray for the Riff Raff, featuring a muted photograph of the singer in a cowboy hat, sitting fully clothed in an empty bathtub in a desert shack. The desert can be seen through the windows. The cover stands on a shelf next to a vintage turntable.
A robin sitting in a nest. The nest is built on a small shelf under a veranda over a patio.
Headline on a website "Joby Brings Electric Air Taxis to New York City in Week-Long Flight Campaign". A jobby is a turd. Flying jobbies all over NYC. I am 5 apparently.
This weekend’s other new release, Fathom Entertainment’s “The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act,” actually had the highest Thursday previews with $7.8 million, beating “Scary Movie.” The film is based on a YouTube web series and marks Fathom’s highest pre-sales ever.
A fat, brown and black tabby with a white belly lies sprawled on his back on a rug, legs spread wide.
The album cover of Caroline Rose's "Loner", featuring a photo of the artist wearing a red tracksuit with their mouth stuffed full of about 20 cigarettes, holding a lighter to them and staring into space. The cover stands next to a vintage turntable playing the red vinyl.
Former UK PM and salad challenger Liz Truss rides in the turret of a tank beside a UK soldier manning a gun.
Barry Godber's cover painting for King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King", featuring a red- and blue-toned close up of a stylized screaming face.
The album cover of Janelle Monae's "Dirty Computer", featuring a portrait of the artist wearing a jeweled mesh veil, lit by red and blue lighting. Behind her head is the disc of a sun like a halo, with sunspots flaring at the edges. The cover is standing next to a vintage turntable.
A screenshot of the credits for a track on Eaves Wilder's album that shows their real name is Eavie Paphides, so I'm assuming the proud parents are Pete Paphides and Caitlin Moran, both of whom I follow on here and I've seen posting about the album.
The cover of Peter Gabriel's self-titled 3rd album, also known as melt due to the distorted melted cover portrait. It's sitting on the kid if a vintage turntable.
The cover of Dexys Midnight Runners' "Don't Stand Me Down", featuring the band in grey business suits, with a solid burgundy graphic band running down the right-hand side of the cover.
The banner graphic for Dexys Midnight Runners on Spotify, featuring yellow, pink, and lilac text on a burgundy background.
The band Divorce on stage in Toronto at the Sound Garage. Nice little venue in a microbrewery.
An underpass for cars with at least a foot of water sitting in it. Cars are moving slowly through the water.
5 Canadian two-dollar coins, a.k.a. toonies, sitting in the palm of a hand with a view of Toronto in the clouds. The coins have a blue and black design of the Toronto skyline in the center, celebrating 50 years of the CN Tower.
The tops of skyscrapers in Toronto poking through a low cloud level.
The cover of Tsunami's "A Brilliant Mistake" album, featuring a white cover with green typography and a vintage illustration of magnifying glasses. The cover is standing next to a vintage turntable.
An early black and white print ad for the first Star Wars action figures in the 70s, drawn with varying accuracy by comics legend Brian Bolland.
A brown paper coffee cup with a sticker on it with the order number "2112". The CN Tower is blurred in the background against a bright blue sky with white clouds.
A large, male, brown and white tabby cat lies on his back, legs splayed, exposing his belly.
The album cover of John Martyn's "Piece by Piece", featuring a distorted photo of the artist taken through a bubbling glass tube full of water. The cover stands next to a vintage turntable.
Noel's new cover for the "Beginning of the Enz" compilation of early singles, featuring a white, green, and black Maori Koru spiral design with red type in a cartoon handwriting style.
A detail of my 1970s copy of Mental Notes, with more subtlety to the shading, particularly in Tim's face.
The vinyl box-set of Split Enz's "Enzyclopedia Vol 1 & 2", featuring a new scan of Phil Judd's cover painting of the band in colourful suits with odd, windswept hairstyles against a surreal sunset background.
The album cover of Haircut One Hundred's "Pelican West", featuring an overhead photo of the band lying in fall leaves. The cover stands next to a vintage turntable playing the record.
The album cover of Led Zeppelin I, with the high-contrast black and white image of the exploding Graf Zeppelin, standing next to a vintage turntable playing the record.
The album cover of Boston's self-titled debut, featuring an illustration of guitar-shaped spacecraft jetting blue flames as they travel away from an exploding planet. Roger Dean would've done it better.
Screenshot of my top tracks for last year, including 56 plays of a Funkadelic track, followed by 38 plays of a B-52s track from my least favourite album. #3 is a recent Jon Anderson track, #4 is a Tragically Hip live track I don't even think I have, and #5 is an old David Byrne track.
Screenshot of my top 5 artists of last year - 1 - Split Enz, 2 - Genesis, 3 - Divorce, 4 - Yes, 5 - Little Simz