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Music, history, film, and literature obsessive. Educator and dad. DJ at Hearing Music weekly on XRAY.FM. Former yellypants in sadly defunct no wave “legends” Hustler White. Very occasional writer.
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If you told me years ago when we were in smelly basements putting together punk bands that in the future Meg would be putting out her 9th album…I’d probably believe you.

Great article to introduce you to the ever changing universe of US Girls in honor of Meg’s new album. She mentions our no wavey punk days briefly: daily.bandcamp.com/lists/us-gir... Exploring the Ever-Changing Universe of U.S. Girls | Bandcamp Daily

Hollow Music, an hour with Leila Abdul Raif,Incredible String Band,Charalambides, Concern,This Heat,Robert Fripp,Fred Frith,Budd/Eno,Arthur Russell, and Alice Coltrane: xray.fm/broadcasts/6... Hollow Music - The Hearing Music /// XRAY.fm

We decided to watch Adventures in Babysitting (1987) and the combination of a long day hiking and swimming with lingering jet lag meant I kept falling asleep so my recollection of it is only slightly more than when I saw it as a kid.

Saw one of those roomba lawnmower cruising around a yard just filled with chickens. Wonder if it ever rolls over one.

Jody Martin, Reuters, 2017, Newfoundland

I’ve seen the name Greyhound recently connected to lots of bands I love so I checked them out. All the riffs and all the rage! Love it! greyhoundca.bandcamp.com/music Music | Greyhound

I don’t read much fantasy currently but Jedediah Berry who wrote the wonderful but occasionally frustrating The Manual of Detection having a new one changed that. It plays out like a mix of a Hayao Miyazaki film, Miéville’s The City and the City, and Ursula K Le Guin.

Do you love the fractured poetics of Bluets? Here Maggie Nelson returns that territory touching on chronic pain, COVID, and grief. A short and beautiful book.

Ashra - Belle Alliance The krautdisco cosmic trio enters the eighties and makes some attempts at eclecticism that read awkward on paper but they pull off with tasteful playing and heading into the stars on the b side.

Very unserious aside but I always thought the job title of comptroller was awesome.

The footage of that Iranian news channel getting bombed on air looks like an interstitial gag from an old British sketch show.

So are “we” at war or are we just receiving electronic signals from the squishy synapses of the decaying brain of a demented old man who thinks “we” are?

Anyone still in Hegseth’s Signalchat want to clue us in?

But did he post that everyone should evacuate Tehran and then delete it on a Trump phone or not?

Ashra - Correlations Cosmic jams continues. I am Spoonbender apparently liked this cover by Hipgnosis so much they straight up reused it.

Did Daisy Ridley accidentally end up in a Jason Statham script?

Ashra - Blackouts

Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe More cosmic. More French.

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Getting cosmic and French.

Proof via Moon Glyph that I actually went to a show. My old Hustler White band mate Nick Bindeman was playing with Ryan of Visible Cloaks as Wild Strawberries at my local record store Specks. Omni Gardens and Britton Judd also played. It was great. Tea and toast was had.

In today’s wild things that end up on the internet. A YouTube rip of my old band’s(Hustler White) split 7” with the great Business Lady. youtu.be/3Y9PYEA6lMc?...

imagine explaining that in 2025, bill kristol is at a "No Kings" protest against Trump and Matt Tabibi is a bootlicker

Nearly given a panic attack by an amber alert sound on my phone. Vibes bad.

It’s a simple theory: there should be an anime of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Instagram suggested music for posts today. “God Bless the USA” vs “Arrest the President”. Meta covering its bases.

Gareth has been watching eighties comedies recently so I decided to revisit Three Amigos with him, one of my childhood favorites. I’d forgotten it was directed by John Landis(ugh!) and cowritten by Randy Newman (wha?). It mostly held up and Gareth laughed a lot.

All of Barbara Tuchman’s The Proud Tower has eerie resonances with the current moment but the last chapter “The Death of Jaurès” about the socialist movement failing to organize around the oncoming disaster of the First World War is especially poignant.

Vibes continue to be very bad. Maybe the worst.

None of the Friday the 13th movies are particularly good but I would totally watch all of them again and have seen most of them a bunch.

Heard “A Change Is Gonna Come” on the radio. A song that floors me every time I hear it. Like a prophecy or spell that creates its hoped for reality but only for the three minutes it is on.

I feel Trump has lost control of his foreign allies and cabinet and just wants to be amused by parades and plays as the light fades out.

I made Billy Corgan a smoothie at juice bar in the Goose Island Whole Foods. It cost $9. He got bee pollen in it. Was nice but didn’t tip.

Started watching the documentary on the Titan submersible and it feels like Fyre Fest except the guests got imploded to paste on the ocean floor instead of being given crappy sandwiches and not seeing Blink-182. Even has two documentaries. I’m watching the Netflix one.

Gabriel asked me about the oldest movie. And I said I think there was one about a train. And he replied “No I mean like the Emoji Movie “.

Oh hey it’s the third world war.

Yeah welcome to America! We already have enough racists and no safety net: www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/af...

It’s not even summer yet and the Columbia Gorge is on fire. It’s closed the I-84 between The Dalles and Hood River.

One of my first memories of The Beach Boys was flipping through the parent’s vinyl and finding Endless Summer. Something about the strange art, the title, and the contents turning them into a retro act has always struck me as deeply melancholy.