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I'm like a prickly pear!
Short post today because I'm headed to Las Vegas for a few days. So...that's it. That's the post. kling klang king of the rim ram room...
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Mar 24, 20251 min read
That's how they gitcha
9:33 AM Some bullet points: Meditating, as I've said. Twenty minutes every morning. I think it's helping keep me mostly free from the...
youngtobacco
Mar 17, 20251 min read


You can't possibly hate my voice more than I do
9:59AM I was in the vocal cave yesterday. The studio is a room inside a factory with other creatives doing creative things, sometimes at...
youngtobacco
Mar 10, 20253 min read


Your dad's America
Freedom costs a buck o' five. 9:34 AM I’ve started meditating. I'm not new to it. In fact, I've gotten pretty good at it in the past. I...
youngtobacco
Mar 3, 20252 min read


How to accidentally disappear
That singular spell which the wilderness lays upon certain lonely natures, 9:37AM To begin... New tee shirts are up at the shop. I added...
youngtobacco
Feb 24, 20253 min read


The wendigos are all south of here
Laurentides. 9:04AM Three days now, dug in. The snow is waist-high all around the cabin. The news ticker shows a winter storm warning for...
youngtobacco
Feb 17, 20251 min read


The Past Is a Foreign Country
Tire-toi une bûche. ☕ 10:16AM I'm off to Canada this week, to the Laurentides wo ods two hours north of Montreal. Staying in a cabin to...
youngtobacco
Feb 10, 20252 min read


The Song I Will Be Buried To
10:00AM Nicked my finger real good cutting some carrots for my weekly soup lunch prep. This little fucker will not die. It knits itself...
youngtobacco
Feb 3, 20253 min read


DL;BR Winter Playlist feat. James Bauman
James Bauman: Racebannon | Medusa | Wenches | Master Kontrol Audio Welcome to Hoth. Solstice has come and gone, and now it's the age old...
youngtobacco
Jan 27, 20252 min read


Let's walk each other home
Available now from the DL;BR Threadless shop. 8:56 AM Inauguration Day is upon us and we seem to have lost both Magical Davids days...
youngtobacco
Jan 20, 20251 min read


The End of Emotions
The art of work. The Lone Sweeper - Drummond in Liverpool. 10:41AM Emotions by the Tied Hands ended yesterday. At least the 2024 leg....
youngtobacco
Jan 13, 20252 min read


Next time is next time, now is now
今度は今度。 今は今 Sunday 11:12AM Snow is coming down hard. A lovely hygge feeling with slippers and coffee. Trying to avoid the thought of the...
youngtobacco
Jan 6, 20252 min read


DL;BR: Year One.
10:01AM Sunday. Back to the desk. The back half of December is a mad dash of studio cleaning, plugin updates, planning and last minute...
youngtobacco
Dec 30, 20243 min read


What you get done this week is enough
Monday 9:00 AM This was going to be a long-winded, end of the year wrap up, but I decided to punt that one to next week instead and use...
youngtobacco
Dec 23, 20241 min read


Land of the Long White Cloud
⛏️ Looking for gold in Macraes Mines, New Zealand Aotearoa. Land of the Long White Cloud. New Zealand. The last time I was here,...
youngtobacco
Dec 17, 20245 min read


Between two sleeps
Ka mate, ka mate, ka ora, ka ora I'm in New Zealand where I've been for the last eleven days. (Six more to go.) Sleep has been...
youngtobacco
Dec 11, 20243 min read


Bill Drummond's EMOTIONs
Tied Hands / Past, Present & Future Credits: Past, Present & Future performed by: Ranapana (courtesy of DL;BR) Vocals on Past, Present &...
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Dec 2, 20241 min read


Past, Present & Future
The past, past, well now let me tell you about the past. The past is filled with silent joys and broken toys, laughing girls and teasing...
youngtobacco
Dec 2, 20241 min read


Bless ye, goode gentlebugs
8:10 AM. End of the year giddiness, and a reversion back to the mean of childhood. The thrill of the lack of responsibility as workdays...
youngtobacco
Nov 25, 20242 min read


From the southern seas to the polar edge
9:24 AM, Sunday November 17. Falling back out of shape after an abbreviated run at running. The pudge on my face is returning just in...
youngtobacco
Nov 18, 20242 min read
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