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What did you do on the Donor Lens album @Camel? I think I read about the Next release on here and missed it (edition of 50!) but liked the band's stuff so bought the cassette. So as a piece of pr (*spits*) it worked.

Let's break up this GT chat, which is far too exciting, with a deathly dull question about hard drives. I've had a blast sticking my disc games onto my Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120gb ATA/ 133 HDD using HD Loader. Bought a hard drive enclosure to connect it to me PC and I've only bought a SATA one. Classic gaffe. Is there a nice ATA->SATA convertor that's small enough to let me fit the thing in the enclosure or do I need to buy an ATA... ... ... ...Whazat?!? Sorry. Drifted off writing my own post there, it's so thrilling. - Or do I need to buy a ATA enclosure. Can anyone recommend one?

@minion based on the other directors you list I think you'd love The Straight Story. I think it's a perfect film. Killer cameo too. I'm not sure I have full set of anyone I like. Haven't seen The Elephant Man, R100, Winter Sleep, Tideland. Loads of David Gordon Green I haven't seen. Oh snap, Tony Gilroy! I thought he directed Beirut but he just wrote it. And Jonathan Glazer. I've even seen most his music videos.

@mikejenkins - I think I'm more or less there with that kit list. All ready to really ruin the kitchen table! Do you have any recommended Youtube channels?

Yeah I've got a dead SNES and no solder skills but I'm preparing myself to have a go. This is inspiring but you don't fancy doing a thread like this on restoring SNES's do you?

Metal Gear - the meta stuff and playfulness of is really appealing but then the reality is crushing cutscenes and lots of stealth, which isn't my bag unfortunately. I know the latter isn't the game's fault. I'm still up for Death Stranding tho.

Nicolas Hoult is currently doing a pretty good Cruise impression via Peter III in The Great on Hulu.

Mega rise grave rise! Shane Carruth's been sharing scripts, trailers and other things for unmade projects since lockdown. If you like Primer and/or Upstream Color (and if you don't - really?!?) you might find them interesting... A Topiary - this was a mad sounding thing about weird tech discovered by a group of children. The script leaked years ago - it was this 300 page beast and I only read the first few pages but it was sweet as. He released a trailer largely from other (Spielberg) movies. More info here. The Modern Ocean - this sounded like it was more straight ahead epic naval thing. I would have loved a modern Carruthey Far Side of the World. Not that this was that, necessarily. I haven't read it yet. Cast was incredible. Would have loved to have seen Daniel Radcliffe in this. Carruth's released the script and a soundtrack - link. Try not to think about how heartbreaking it is that neither of the above will probably actually happen.

Monos Distinctively odd, deliberately awkward and unlikeable war film about a group of young adults completely unsuited to the task. That makes it sound more like Police Academy than it is. 4/5

Eat the Rich I found Comic Strip really offputting when they came out. Preferred The Young Ones, which was a bit more playful and had slapstick but I was always fascinated by Eat the Rich cos it just seemed so out there as an idea. Here's the trailer... It's about a waiter who tries to start a revolution, although in execution it's less focussed than that. It's satire so characterisation and plot takes a backseat to aiming at lots of sound targets like DSS officers and police. It's actually pretty good. Probably quite Brechtian. And it's got a trans lead whose transness I don't remember being mentioned once, which would be cool in 2020 let alone 1923 or whenever this was made. Rik Mayall is in one scene and has one line I found very funny - completely down to his timing rather than on the page. But it's not really a comedy although there's a very good exchange about the virtues of a car, which is very much in the mode of Alexie Sayle's scene in The Supergrass. I also wasn't expecting Lemmy to be absolutely adorable. 3/5

Going through the Touched catalogue - picking up the coverts, which the chat earlier in this thread got me interested in. Does anyone have any other recommendations for Touched artists or releases? I like BoC, Kiasmos, Lorenzo Montana...

I've had @Watusi's PSTV for the last year or two and finally got a little time (tonight!) to hack it. This is prompted by the discovery my old Sony 32" HDTV won't run PS1 games on disc via PS2. I need to play R-Type Delta. I've got 3.67. Can anyone confirm if I can use HENKaku? Or do I need to use the more complicated sounding h-encore? Thanks all, as always.

Watched Bacurau on Mubi cos heard it was quite John Carpenter. It was good. I lost interest a little when the reason behind all the weirdness was revealed - I found the place Dornelles and Filho created proper interesting off the bat and the characters that come in in the second half of the film are less interesting. But it's got that Carpenter roughness, leanness and pulp. 4/5. Currently chewing (sic) through Eat the Rich and Heart of Glass. Will report back.

I picked up his live at Carnegie hall CD on a whim from Warp Sheffield years ago (man I miss that shop). Its absolutely stunning - amazing songs all together in brilliant arrangements. The inbetween natter from Bill is great too.

@Camel @gone fishin' Many thanks for that - I'm now up and running! I don't want to turn this into a tech support thread (although the responses mean it's a useful resource tbh) but I'm getting a regular clicking sound - like a key press from an old school zx spectrum - while I navigate the menus - audio link below. https://www.dropbox.com/s/vd0ijyyv7scbpij/Voice 028.m4a?dl=0 Playing Hollow Earth Theory and its interrupting the music so I think it's an audio problem. As before, any thoughts welcome. This one does make me think I'm gonna be sending it back.