The Boatman

Held off watching this until the whole season was out. Loved it, up there with The Expanse (pun sort-of intended) as my favourite current TV show. Very happy we’re getting another season.

They have a kind of streaming service called CORE that’s exclusive to their latest TVs. Does this affect physical (Blu-ray) releases though?

Finding the official Xbox headset a bit cheap? B&O can help, for the same price as an actual Series X. https://www.bang-olufsen.com/en/headphones/beoplay-portal?variant=beoplay-portal-xbox-anthracite

BTW, Between the Lines (the Nineties equivalent of Line of Duty) has just started a repeat run on BBC4. Forgot Ciaran Hinds (Mance Rayder) was in the first episode!

Looks pretty much the same but slightly smaller and different binding.

There’s very little text in the English edition, mostly captions. Anyone got the Control one? Tempted by that.

I sold some stuff to chilloutgames earlier this year, and was very happy with their service, so it’s worth looking at them as an alternative to CEX. They do have a high minimum quantity though.

I bought these before the official ones were announced (it was between them and the Arctis 9xs) and they are very good, include the Atmos app and extremely comfortable. Mic is detachable rather than retractable though.

I like it, although I’ve liked the recent stuff. It sounds more like a Bad Seeds record than you might expect, White Elephant in particular reminds me of the Abattoir Blues period. I’ve also ordered Mark Mordue’s new book on Cave, Boy on Fire, which seems to have replaced his biography of Cave that got listed a few years ago but then never appeared.

New Nick Cave & Warren Ellis (but not the Bad Seeds) album ‘Carnage’ released today digitally: https://nickcaveandwarrenellis.lnk.to/carnageEM?utm_source=Nick+Cave+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=088a1fe1cc-email+-+idiot+prayer+final+reminder_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_62a60b3494-088a1fe1cc-53206381 Physical formats on May 28th.

Cassandra Jenkins - An Overview on Phenomenal Nature is short (32 minutes) but very sweet. And the new Tindersticks album is, as ever, sublime.

For #357’s thread, can we put ‘Half Life 3 - 6’, just to see what happens? Like those fake streets they put on maps.

UK edition now listed on Amazon, out May 31st: https://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Wong-Criterion-Collection-Films/dp/B08WSYJ88Q/ref=pd_ybh_a_8?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=FZWXJYTDP72PC5CVG6JC

Sadly not at the moment, although they were going to try to get one when the reprint comes through.