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Music, books, poetry, cricket, tennis, food, opinions, and a bit of silliness. Preferred pronouns: he/him. Preferred adjectives: self-righteous woolly liberal bastard.
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 12. #booksky

Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #25: Just for the record, it's amazing being young, and it's also amazing being a middle aged grumpy bastard, still listening to tunes like this. πŸ™‚ #musicsky #indiemusic

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 11. #booksky

Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #24: Herein lies some of the wackiest pop lyrics you will hear. "I'm subscribed to your mom's OnlyFans I spent five bucks a month to get pictures of her flappy giblets." #musicsky #indiemusic

Hallelujah!!!

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 10. #booksky

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Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #23: Never a truer word spoken. Amen.πŸ™‚ #musicsky #indiemusic #flaminglips

Bloody good match this. Some proper hard hitting tennis shots. Well done Jack Draper.πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§

Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #22: I know absolutely nothing of this band or this song, other than it's by The Flys and has a killer riff. #musicsky #indiemusic #newwave #powerpop

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 9. #booksky

Raise your hand πŸ–οΈ and Repost if you still support President Zelenskyy and the brave people of Ukraine! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ I want all of my 168K friends to follow YOU! πŸ’™ Like ❀️ and repost πŸ”„ and you will get MORE followers! πŸš€ Who is with me? πŸ–οΈ

So the big orange American baby has now declared himself a king. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the USA have a whole revolution to rid themselves of kings? Can they please be encouraged to have another one?πŸ™„

Apparently, there's a chance an asteroid will hit Earth in 2032. Is there anything we can do to bring that date forward a few years, perhaps 7 years, I'm fucking sick of humanity, it's done.πŸ™„

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 8. #booksky

Is it part of Trump's masterplan to leave Ukraine at the mercy of Russian aggression, so that his normal allies are busy sending their military to the Ukrainian border, whilst he invades Canada, Greenland, and Panama? Sounds mad, but that's the world we seem to live in, anything is possible.πŸ™„

Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #21: Back when I was in school, when The Jam were at their peak, they were everybody's band; girls thought Paul was fit, and boys thought they were tough. That toughness was down to Buckler's muscular drumming, and in my opinion he defined their sound. RIP. #musicsky

Sad news this. It was Buckler's muscular drumming that made The Jam sound so tough, in my opinion. ☹ #musicsky

Comfy synth, this is a new sub genre on me. Must investigate further. #musicsky #electronicmusic

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 7. #booksky

Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #20: It's good to see part-time rock star, full-time legend Pete Wylie back out on the road promoting the reissue of his lost 2000 album Songs of Strength and Heartbreak. #musicsky #indiemusic #Liverpool #Petewylie

I love these.πŸ˜„

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 6. #booksky

Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #19: Absolutely banging tune from the 1980s. One of my all time faves. #musicsky #80s

Book 5 of 25: This is an excellent read from the ever reliable Jonathan Coe. It's a cosy-crime caper, wrapped in a political satire, wrapped in a multi-layered, post-modern, self referential literary novel. Funny, and very clever, made more so because its so very readable. #booksky

Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #18: Wonderful shoegazey dream pop from 1992. #musicsky #indiemusic

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 5. #booksky

So Herr Trump has quoted dictator Napoleon's words "He who saves his country does not violate any laws". In 1929, it was paraphrased with "The Fuhrer is subject to no laws or statues". The quote was also used by Anders Breivik, a neo-Nazi, to justify his crimes. Is this really happening?

As a complete antidote the relentlessly depressing awfulness of the news, here's a nice picture of a duck.πŸ™„

Stone cold classic.πŸ™‚

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.πŸ’™πŸ“š Day 4. #booksky

Mr Maximus' Song of the Day #17: Introducing Twat Union, with a catchy little number about having a urinary tract infection. Recently signed to Alcopop Records @ilovealcopop.bsky.social, so hopefully there's more catchy songs about unusual subjects to come. #musicsky #indiemusic