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Right on! Going to listen to Black Sabbath now.

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YES

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Just going down the rabbit-hole of your Substack now my mate Craig has vouched for you. Live what I’m reading so far.

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Tom, just wanted to say your piece on Hannah Williams was very spot on and zeitgeisty

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Just read it now. And of course I immediately had to subscribe to Tom’s ‘stack as a result. Fantastic work.

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Yikes, it felt zeitgeisty writing it! Thanks, really appreciate it.

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Three things:

1) ‘They’re either trying to teach me something like my old high school geography teacher or they’re trying to be funny like my old high school geography teacher.’

This is the heart of the matter. Both extremely sad and absurdly hilarious

2) If phones could somehow break down those daily 8 hours of phone time into whether you genuinely enjoyed them, got shit done, or were just glumly wasting time and getting angry I doubt the first two categories would add up to more than a single hour for the vast majority of people.

3) This piece, for me at least, is further evidence that the Soaring Twenties Social Club might well be the only game in town, the only people trying to make real shit for the right reasons. And honestly, it saddens me to say that. I want friendly rivals who inspire me/us to be better.

Great essay here, Craig.

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As days pass, I feel more and more that touching the grass instead of a touchscreen is the only way to stay sane 🥲

Anyway, just got a new reissue vinyl of Meshuggah’s ObZen , gonna be a great weekend.

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Sounds like a loud weekend

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Apr 7, 2023Liked by Craig Burgess

Every time I log in into LinkedIn, I ask myself why. But then I do it again and again. Maybe pulling the plug on social media is the only way

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I’ve considered it many times. I’m going to do it at some point soon.

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Apr 8, 2023Liked by Craig Burgess

I love this. This is one reason I haven’t turned on paid subs, I want to be able to keep posting what I want to say even if nobody cares or thinks it’s any good. And in rare alignment of planets, my wife amd I just listened to sabbath and other metal bands cranked up last weekend!

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Which album? 👀

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We went even more old school - we were listening to the RADIO and it was a station that had some sort of headbanger’s ball type show going on Saturday night.

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Apr 8, 2023Liked by Craig Burgess

They played played a fair bit of Sabbath, ozzy, Rainbow, Dio….etc

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Sounds EPIC

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„Nobody is writing things because they want to, because they have something to say, because they have a burning desire to carve their opinions in stone and say: “Here it fucking is.“ Craig - what utter rubbish. Nobody? Really? You write well and I enjoy your pieces, but maybe the awful Ozzy Osbourne was depressing your mood or you spent too long on Twitter before sitting down to write this one. Hope you recover soon...

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Haha. One has to be purposefully inflammatory sometimes to make a point.

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And...hold on, ‘awful’ Ozzy Osbourne. This I must take umbrage with.

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1971 was a damn fine year. One of my favorite years and maybe the best summer ever. I still have a few records but no record player. Sigh.

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Damn! Give them to me 😀

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My tablet ate my original comment, Craig and that seems so fitting. Eaten by electrons. I have some similar feelings to yours as I read this.

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