Coastal Wales on LSD

This enigmatic window display was one of many examples of Llandudno going pretty fuckadoodledoo on my last trip there.

Also of particular note was the public address system outside the amusement arcade pumping out a constant stream of 80s hits like 'I Want to Know What Love Is' by Foreigner. I don't know how to explain why that was trippy but it certainly was. Perhaps it was something to do with visual stuff like this making me feel like I'd been beamed into a Surrealist painting for the night.

Left-Wing Skiers


Left-Wing Skiers, the latest single to drop from Parrots In Captivity. 

Raymonde Toulouse has really excelled himselves with this track. It's very influenced by Kraftwerk, with a feel a little like Trans-Europe Express, complete with impassive, detached, slightly German-accented vocals. Hmmm, there's maybe a bit of Wir Sind Die Roboter thrown in somewhere, too.

Out on the piste
For the daylight hours
Then back to our chalet
To discuss social problems

Left-wing skiers
We are left-wing skiers

Clad in our goggles,
Our helmets and skis
We seek skiing for all
Not just the bourgeoisie

Left-wing skiers
We are left-wing skiers

Ascending the ski-lift
To our apogee
A landscape before us
Of inequality

Left-wing skiers
We are left-wing skiers

Distributing equipment
In a disadvantaged area
We make our favoured pastime
More egalitarian

Left-wing skiers
We are left-wing skiers
Left-wing skiers
We are left-wing skiers, etc...

Lyrics: ©Raymonde Toulouse, 2025

Satan is truly among us

Bauble from a set of Noel Edmonds themed Christmas decorations. To know that these only exist in my mind at present may bring you a sense of relief, but to exist in a mind is to nevertheless exist. Bad trip hell personified.