Minutes to Midnight
Minutes to Midnight
Simone
I'm Simone, a gen X with a straight to the point attitude. Based in the UK, I play bass and design sound under the moniker Minutes to Midnight.
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A few weeks ago I wrote about RSS, talking about Terry Godier’s posts and arguing about the need for a different experience with reading feeds. My initial thought was that his new RSS client, Current, was incapable of doing what...
As a quintessential Cold War child, still fixated on it, I periodically revisit films and documentaries about its most prickly moments. For years, I’ve observed, and occasionally joined, debates surrounding the two key films that managed...
One of those days when seeing your name featured in an article published by a major UK music magazines is rather disconcerting. While going through my feeds the other day, I came across an article about a local music band I previously...
Noticing how less meaningful I've been finding my RSS reading habit, I went on the lookout for possible reasons. First, I really dislike the idea of reducing a sizeable part of my internet usage to a standardised homogenous experience....
Things are still in suspension mode. World and private events clash and overlap, creating this sense of disbelief, mixed with slivers of hope. Lately, I’ve been exchanging long (and sometimes short) emails with several people, which is...
Navigating the complex feelings following a death in the family is never easy, and while it does become more manageable in time, the hole it leaves is never fully healed. You’d think that having had several losses across the years would...
It'll be a while until I can be able to find any meaningful words to describe my 2025 Christmas. I’ve been living away from my hometown since 1996, which is when I started deluding myself with a now pointless certainty: the idea that...
My latest post generated an unusual amount of email exchanges. The back-and-forth was fantastic, rich, and inspiring, pushing me to contemplate more ways in which noise affects me these days. One letter, in particular, picked my...
December has arrived, quietly. It often rains, at times windy. I put almost everything on hold, and the resulting calm is something to cherish. November has been silent, for the most part, with a lot of working from home due to health...
A hazy feeling has caught on me lately. It's almost as if a season has changed, within myself. Only coincidentally in parallel with Autumn replacing Summer, it left me troubled and a bit on edge. Can't be exactly sure, but it feels like...
Twenty-one years ago, I received a phone call whilst sleeping. Someone close to me had passed away, two days after I last saw him in the hospital. I knew it would have been our last goodbye when I left the ward. Ignoring anyone else who...
I read with interest recent posts by Leon and Bix about — in essence — how to deal with taking a stance, by calling things out with their names. At the same time, I've exchanged very interesting private conversations about the very same...
After resuming my bullet journal a couple weeks ago, I started planning my next creative music endeavours. This time, back to writing and producing my own messages. What's taking shape, out of my scribbled notes on paper, are two...
Semi-random notes on my ongoing experience of living in the (tech) past. After taking the plunge, Mavericks keeps on giving. I created a brand new Set-up page featuring a probably incomplete list of everything I'm using. I'll be adding...
This song by Antiquity was released in December 2024, but I had forgotten to post it on my website. <a href="https://sessions.antiquity-music.com/track/a-fools-paradise">A Fools Paradise by Antiquity</a> Notes Gerald quotes: Dictators...