Music – Iain Douglas Stewart

Self-isolation, week four

By Iain April 14, 2020Internet, Music, Reflections, The MissionNo Comments

It reminds me of when I was unemployed, having all this free time. But it's weird - instead of bumming around playing videogames all day and moderating meaningless internet forums, this time I am spending my time improving my situation. I asked Twitter when the lockdown first started if this crisis brought anyone's mortality into sharp focus. It did mine.…

Nice day

By Iain July 13, 2018Music, Reflections, Site Related, The MissionNo Comments

Today feels a little bit like before Jake was born, back when I had unlimited free time. Man, I had such narrow perceptions of that unlimited free time. I have purpose and drive now. I thought I used to have it. Turns out I was wrong. No urgency. No haste. I'm just spending the day messing with this website, trying…

Two and a half months later…

By Iain April 14, 2015Books, Creativity, Films/TV, Internet, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Oh my, has it really been that long since my last post? That really is very bad of me, especially considering I could've knocked up a few smaller update posts on my phone during a lunchbreak at work or something. I've been in some pretty dark places between then and now, and I never feel like writing when I'm having…

2015 Targets

By Iain January 2, 2015Books, Creativity, Films/TV, Internet, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Yeah, I think I was a little hard on myself the other night, I was just looking through the targets I had made and saw that I had failed them and maybe got a little down heartened, but then I realised that I did a whole lot of other stuff that wasn't even on my target lists. So yeah, same…

An update on my 2014 targets

By Iain December 31, 2014Books, Creativity, Films/TV, Internet, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

Jake was born in 2014 and that was amazing, but so many other things just didn't work out as I would've hoped this year, mainly because I never tried hard enough. I met some targets and I missed others but overall I think I need to just get away from this for a bit - it's getting a bit much…

A new approach to updates

By Iain September 12, 2014Music, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

I've decided to take a new approach to these weekly updates. I like the idea of doing an update once a week on a set day, so that aspect is staying. The whole "Friday update" thing is getting old - it's quite boring to look down the recent posts and basically see the words "Friday" and "update" repeated twenty times.…

Finally found it

By Iain May 4, 2014Films/TV, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

I feel so good right now, I finally found an old music video that I was almost convinced didn't actually exist. It was only that David remembered it as well that I knew it wasn't a figment of my imagination. I remembered it was on MTV, or The Box, and it featured a bunch of soldiers in gas masks shooting…

Not at all faster and still with terrible wifi range

By Iain January 10, 2014Internet, Music, ReflectionsNo Comments

The title just about sums up the new modem. I won't take a picture of the speed test as I can't be bothered to make one - you'll just have to take my word for it. The technician left without setting it up or telling us what any of the usernames and/or passwords were as well, which meant a half-hour…

Goodbye 2013

By Iain December 31, 2013Books, Creativity, Films/TV, Internet, Music, Reflections, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

So what happened in 2013 then? It was another mixed bag. The best thing ever happened: I stopped smoking. And I don't even miss it. I'm not suffering from some black depression because I'm holding myself back from smoking my precious cigarettes, I'm not deluding myself by switching to an eCigarette, I'm not counting down the hours until I can…

Fry-up Daydate 13/12/13

By Iain December 13, 2013Dream records, Internet, Music, Site Related, VideogamesNo Comments

As if it was not clear from the above title, I'm quickly running out of ways to combine the words "Friday" and "Update" in creative ways. Ooh, it's Friday the 13th - scary? I did kind of get really ill really suddenly last night whilst playing the RGF. I was up 'til 3am playing Hyperpath, which in itself, wouldn't be…