Hi.

Wel­come to Planet Mut. Estab­lished in 2004, it’s the per­fect out­let for my more sociopathic tend­en­cies. Email me at planetmut@gmail.com.

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Just like heaven

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Songs to listen to when you’re depressed

The Cure, “Plain­song”

Many people would think that listen­ing to any­thing by The Cure, even the stu­pidly happy “Fri­day I’m In Love”, would be a step closer to the pill bottle. “Plain­song” is a track I can only listen to when I’m really down because it’s then that I find it beau­ti­fully uplift­ing. Robert Smith’s whispered lyr­ics over the earthquake-inducing key­boards match my mood per­fectly and the line “some­times you make me feel like i’m liv­ing at the edge of the world”… well, that’s depres­sion for you.

Ride, “OX4”

Another com­bin­a­tion of music and lyr­ics that sound […]

Ear we go again

REMEMBER these? Fezzy did. Thanks to him I’ve had to buy a new pair of head­phones as he bit through the wires on my Rebel Alli­ance set. In fact, in order to do that he had to stick his head inside my satchel to get at them, a feat of feline intel­li­gence that fur­thers my belief that he’ll be run­ning the uni­verse by the time he’s three. I didn’t talk to him for two days. So after own­ing these for three weeks, using them twice and chuck­ing them in the bin once, I was forced to switch to the dark side […]

My converter’s running wild

I’M SAD, I know it. But when on the lookout for a new set of head­phones to replace the ones Fezzy chewed up last month I found these on Amazon and bought them. They were about $21 with post­age and look, they’re bloody Rebel Alli­ance head­phones so what else was I going to buy?

Here they are bal­anced against a lens that cost about 12 times as much as the head­phones. I wish I knew where the back­cap is. Oh well. They’re the fold-up kind for easy stor­age and are a fetch­ing shade of bright orange, much brighter than in the pic. […]

Wiped

ANOTHER era’s come to an end with the news that the Con­cise Oxford Eng­lish Dic­tion­ary is dump­ing the word “cas­sette” from its pages because it’s “obsol­ete” to make way for amaz­ingly excit­ing and incred­ibly import­ant new words like “sex­ting”, “OMG”, “woot”, “LOLZ” and “retweet”. The writing’s been on the wall for years, though - Brit­ish elec­tron­ics store Currys announced back in 2007 that it was stop­ping selling cas­settes after sales fell from 8.3 mil­lion in 1989 to 100,000 in 2006.

Yet another part of my life has been con­signed to the dust­bin of his­tory. I have fond memor­ies […]