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Welcome back, dear readers!

If you don't know what to make of that opening line, I'm referring to my recently posted yearly album Top 10, which I had to cut in half this year. This, then, is the second half. Because it's never just a Top 10; it's more like an overview of all the LPs...

Happy New Year, dear readers! Once again probably too late for some of you to even consider the term appropriate any longer. But as y'all should've noticed by now, I'm notoriously behind all other album reviewers in the world, and I can't be bothered to justify or even explain anything any longer. (Besides, exactly WHEN is that alleged cut-off date...

First things first, while I am saying in the video that Cape Verde is a peninsula, it is, of course, a goddamn ARCHIPELAGO. Believe it or not, but I get those two confused sometimes. Silly me.

Alright, so I know I said I'd be back from Seoul, but all I got there in the way of video turned out so dark that the internet would start to collapse into it if I uploaded it. So here I am in Taipei instead.

This is how the second-biggest city in South Korea – or at least some of it – looks by dusk. This is one of my longer videos, but I have been here for three weeks at this point, so I've really been soaking up some of the culture and formed some more or less qualified viewpoints. And an interesting culture it is....

As I said concluding my Top 10 album list for 2024, there'd be a charity section on GMB this year. Seeing as how I'm a man of my word and all, I've finally managed to put it up. More charities will be added as I learn about them. And if there's one that's especially important to you, feel free to drop me a line and a link at ...