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Keen for recommendations of similar bands. Dunno what they specific genre is, but I do like when the guitars fanging have a bit of a melody laid over the top.

My free plecostomus I got a year or so ago. He wasn't specifically free... we just bought a tiny 15L fish tank to put some shrimp in, and when we filled it with water he appeared 😳

I'm guessing he was suckered on to the piece of driftwood and had enough moisture to survive the 48 hours or so between the seller emptying the tank, and us refilling it after buying.

Dudes fair bristly. A heck of a lot bigger now than he was when he appeared in the tank, not all that much bigger than the neo shrimp that were his tank mates.

I assume there are people who read these things, otherwise companies wouldn't send me so many of them. I seem to get daily spam from literally any company I've ever interacted with in any way, and they are long boys full of text and pictures that Thunderbird helpfully hides from me but I presume are full of jagged brightly coloured stars saying "DEAL DEAL DEAL" or whatever.

Mostly I click delete on these emails faster than the email client can even load them, but every so often I peruse a few sentences of the trade specific items that give a headline that promises actually interesting information... but its always just more marketing guff disguised as a news story.

It's obviously making someone money to spam the world constantly, so I assume someone is reading these things and acting on them.

1. Who are you?
2. Why are you interacting with the spam and making it viable for companies to keep sending it?
3. What do you do that you have so much free time you can allocate some of it to consuming it?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doop_(song)

"Doop" is a song by Dutch Eurodance group Doop. It was released on 28 February 1994 as the first single from their debut album, Circus Doop (1994). The song consists of a Charleston-based big band number set against a house backing track. "Doop" achieved success in several countries, including the United Kingdom, where it spent three weeks atop the UK Singles Chart. Two main versions (each with its own corresponding radio edit) were issued under the names of two different big bands, with the "Urge 2 Merge radio mix" combining sections of both. In 2005, the song was covered by Looney Tunez vs. Doop.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing_(song)

"Swamp Thing" is a song by British electronic music group the Grid, released on 23 May 1994 as a single and is included on the Grid's third album, Evolver (1994). It peaked at number three on the UK, Australian, and Danish singles charts and reached the top five in an additional seven countries, including Finland and Norway, where it reached number two. The song was later sampled in "Banjo Thing" by Infernal and "Swamp Thing" by Pegboard Nerds. NME magazine ranked it number 41 in their list of the 50 best songs of 1994.

"Swamp Thing" is almost completely instrumental, consisting mainly of: drums, synthesizer sounds and banjo. The only vocals are Well alright, watch out, Feel alright and I just dig it, sampled from the 1973 reggae song "Papa Do It Sweet" by Lloyd & Patsy. The banjo part was written and performed by Roger Dinsdale – a folk musician who also played the guitar and the mandolin. Dinsdale died in July 2009.

This is a cover, bit I prefer it to the original artist. Knowing the backstory makes the song physically hurt I reckon.

From Wiki:

"Scorn Not His Simplicity" is a song written by the Irish musician and songwriter Phil Coulter

Phil Coulter's first son was born with Down syndrome, and several months later the father wrote the song "Scorn Not His Simplicity" about his experiences with his son's disorder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorn_Not_His_Simplicity

This live version is definitely my favourite version of this classic. The crowd was certainly enjoying it.

Minor language warning.

https://www.youtube.com/@GVAquariumsAustralia

I've only recently discovered this channel and it's taken me back to the YouTube of old - where videos were full of content from start to finish, not padded out to some arbitary time to ensure adverts start paying out.

Some highlights:

• Great explanation of freshwater sumps

• How to make your sump silent

• The advantage of his style of sump cleanout

• Neat way of growing houseplants in your aquarium

• Neat way of modifying your cannister filter so you can clean it without pulling it apart

• Cheap water change accessory