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black.british.music

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When I relaunched this blog, I told myself that it wasn’t going to be a music blog. But I guess that was before I found music that I wanted to blog about LMFAO.  So - LET’S TALK ABOUT JIM MTHERFXKNG LEGXACY.  Bare annoying thing 1: I can never work out where the ‘x’ in his name goes, I keep wanting to replace the ‘e’ in ‘Legxacy’ with the ‘x’, but it’s actually just a random ‘x’ after the ‘g’, and I get it because ‘Google’, init, but lowwww me bro, I’m old.  Bare annoying thing 2: is actually Track 1, ‘context’. My guy, I’m not listening to alla dat. I FEEL YOU MY GUY, YEAH?! Don’t even let dem man twang you into thinking you having to explain yourself, you don’t need to explain yourself my guy, WE GET IT, TRUSS ME. YOU DID YOUR JOB TRACK 2-8. We didn’t need to hear alla that. But that’s your art and it was quite nice to hear your voice just speaking so let me STFU.    Track 2, ‘stick’, is just beautiful isn’t it. ‘Ever since the rain came crashing down, on the...

the existence of an individual human being

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Hi.   Haven’t blogged in a while because life happens, init, and it really is a ‘When I’m feeling it’ slash ‘When I’ve got something to say’ thing. But, I’m just going through my accounts, doing my monthly admin stuff, which is actually a par to be honest because it takes HOURS out of my day, but it’s a necessary evil equally because I really need to stay on top of the people dem wid their ever changing direct debits.   Anyway I have this Excel document that I try to update monthly with my exact outgoings so as a freelancer I can stay on top of where I am overspending or where I need to take on another job this/ next month to fill a gap in my outgoings. I’ve had this document since 2021 and I’ve noticed some thangggs. Obviously I have noticed them passively over the years, but today I noticed it in a way I want to blog about (and be transparent about). In this England we do not talk about finances enough, we just lay down and let the people dem trample all over us.   In 2...