Not quite the Green Green grass of home, but could probably still prepare It for a Game of croquet .

If you like Pink Floyd and wonder what they must have been like at their creative peak, check out Steven Wilson. He appears to leave his ego outside the studio door, and by pairing the best musicians for the job to each round of new songs, he still has years left in his creative tank. eg could David Gilmour have played the final solo on this track? Play it maybe, but jam this first take and nail it to the point it is unedited? Nope. Inviting Guthrie Govan to participate on an album or two is one simple example of the genius touch packaged up in many SW songs! Back to painting.

Art in its many forms is the only thing humans create. Everything else we extract, repurpose, exploit. If you can keep it together while this astonishing 10 minute work of art unfolds you aren't paying attention. Don't ever let go, try to let go.

Listening to bbc radio for first time in years. People still listen and act on this nonsense? The presenters are like pointless earthmovers, but instead of earth they are moving words from A to B and back again.

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Long shot to test the reach of Nostr! anybody have alternative medicine contacts in #Staffordshire UK?

After going to a concert in Barcelona last week, I read through hundreds of comments about the musician Steven Wilson and this is my conclusion. Whether you are 15 or 95, think Billie Eilish or Billie Holliday are the nutz, get the best headphones or speaker system you can lay your hands on, crank it up and listen to Regret #9. If you don't get goosepimples or dont feel a million bucks by the end, invigorated at the quality of human endeavour crammed into this 10 minutes... This song is where Pink Floyd meet Led Zep and Steven Wilson comes along and eats them for breakfast. It is not only live and off the scale intense and exciting, but the finale is not even featuring the guitarist who played on the original version of this track - Guthrie Govan, who a lot of musicians say is among the most accomplished guitarists playing today. And almost nobody in comments about this track even mentions the insane keyboards that precede the guitar finale. The intensity and passion make the greats sound like dull organ grinders. Everyone has their guitar great or best keyboard player, but consider the context of their wizardry. ie who of the guitar greats ever had a backing band and a soundtrack to match this track? I'd say none. Not Pink Floyd, not Led Zep, nor Gary Moore, not Eddie van Halen, whoever. And the guitar great band players who might have been able to match the intensity and skill of the finale, would have handed their music over to record producers, engineers and technicians to make sense of their craft. This track is the work of Steven Wilson, one musician who surrounded himself on stage with some of the most accomplished musicians working today, gave them a vision and from the front directed and guided them to outshine the track he originally composed, mixed and engineered. Moby was great for doing it all himself, Prince... I'm sure you can add to the list, but to me this is the best 10 minutes of music I have ever heard released by and performed by a "single" artist. Hopefully I can get back to painting soon, because that concert opened a space in my head that wasn't open before. All part of the journey, I guess! I feel better already for getting this off my chest :)

Its been a while since I have listened to a song and gone from foot tapping to burst out laughing, head banging to goosebumps to wtf rhythm is that? Unbelievable, Porcupine Tree. If Steven Wilson ever gets his head around #V4V #music he's got my zaps.

If you have damp issues affecting the internal walls of your House... Rain or Rising damp can saturate brick, block or framed/stuccoed walls. Walls dry from the inside as well as the outside, so any coating restricting wáter vapour from dissipating is adding to the damp problem. It's hard to make structural changes if the issue is down to impermeable House wrap or your walls have been rendered with cement. But wherever possible, mininise problems by using lime based paints and renders. Or clay based paint. Or microporous wall #paints like clasidur.. The old ways were so well conceived.. Most regular modern Paint is acting like a sheet of plastic in terms of allowing wáter vapour to pass through. I'm still offering 500 sats for good decorating tips for the Nostr knowledge bank. #housepainteronNostr-tips

If you are wondering how much you need to stash to live well, look Up Spain. If you never looked you won't believe how well you can live in a rural part of a first world country. Safe, cheap, and grounded people. Its not perfect. PS I don't work for Spanish tourist board.