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❝ … no one would ever give a black filmmaker X millions of dollars to do something that no one understands … But I was like, all right, I’m going to leverage my entire life to just be part of this world and continue to be friends and make this film, and chisel the shit out of something. →

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here's a round-up of breaking music news you might have missed over the past several days

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@jamesreeves.co for some reason this paragraph made me think of you via → www.theguardian.com/film/article...

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I'm pretty sure later today we're sending out the first installment of our new email newsletter, Talk Of The Tonearm. It's a tasty little morsel chock full of fun bits, and we'd love for you to check it out. Sign up to get yours here: www.thetonearm.com/linkinbio/

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❝ … the pair wrote the screenplay for [Un Chien Andalou] in a few days—a fevered stretch reflected in Buñuel’s hastily scribbled notes and bizarre drawings of human forms and anatomy. → news.artnet.com/art-world/st...

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"I have this great idea about shaving everybody's heads." →

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a new Needle just Dropped on The Tonearm: Lawrence checks out albums from Jon Irabagon and Oksana Linde while I glowingly assess the latest from Tim Hecker and Benjamin Fulwood … suggested reading followed by recommended listening → grab hold: @thetonearm.com + @lawrenceperyer.com

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all hail the Holy Tongue →

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if you haven't been hungover in a decade or more, turns out it's a fun idea to re-experience those bygone days by getting a flu shot and COVID booster at the same time

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"You have to listen to the layers of history that pile up here, one on top of the other. They can lead you to new, still unknown lands." 🌋 for @thetonearm.com, I spoke with the thoughtful Neapolitan bassist and composer Giacomo Pedicini about his deliciously avant-garde jazz album Hard Boiled →

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way psyched for the 007 Store on Amazon where you can buy whatever ridiculous gadget Bond used to fight the baddies on the episode that aired the previous day

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ahoy, writers! Caroline is about to start her next book (v. exciting) and walked by my home office just now while I was playing this lovely song → wereleasewhateverthefuckwewantrecords.bandcamp.com/track/a-life... she says: "I need music just like this to help write this book" any suggestions?

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❝ A perhaps surprising counterpart to the focus on machines in making art is the art’s sensory effects on the brain … Visitors are encouraged to sit and experience this 1959 “Dreammachine” (Burroughs-inspired drug reveries optional). → hyperallergic.com/973334/the-a...

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me preparing to log on to Bluesky

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hear me out: the resort location for the next season of White Lotus should be Westworld

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amazing story ↓ long live yoko

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for Yoko's birthday, let's have a look the band that John Lennon broke up

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❝ Turczan is influenced by the Light and Space movement, which originated in California in the 1960s … The movement focused on perception, employing materials like glass, neon, resin, acrylic, and fluorescent lights to emphasize light, volume, and scale. → www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/02/lach...

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I just shared this with a friend over email and now I'm sharing it with you →

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good thing I grabbed this off my Facebook page before deleting my account

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"Our two favorite colors are, and always will be ..." (in unison) "... black and white." →

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these are beautiful … Indian Movie Posters via @letterformarchive.org → letterformarchive.org/news/indian-...

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recommending this slightly academic but entertaining + insightful discussion about repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition repetition →

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I just returned from a screening of the 2025 Oscar nominees for Best Documentary Short — all five were excellent but Bill Morrison's 'Incident' was far and away the most exciting and should win oh did I say exciting? I meant enraging — don't watch it unless you're ready to be hit over the head →

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beamed into the present from 1975: this old man / he play three / he play your head electrically / and when this record's gone / you’ll find this old man / inside your mind → www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSbW...

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when my college pals and I would hang out at someone's house the metric of coolness was basically the inverse of this

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man it smelled a lot like weed at the Aldi today — I blame the two dudes intensely staring at the deli meats the entire time I was there

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I kinda get Paolo Sorrentino's deal but that doesn't make Parthenope any less of a wildly uneven and frankly odd but not in the good way sort of movie

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I am sure I would've been really into Horsegirl back in the beginning of the '90s when I was mostly listening to indie 7"s which is fun because I'm also really into them now →

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❝ Where Ra delivered the 5/4 tune as a scorching Afro-jazz groove, Allen reduces it to a simmer: A sumptuous, funky rendition that enjoys its own nonchalance, with dublike echo effects on George Gray’s drums and Michael Ray and Cecil Brooks’s trumpets. →

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❝ Commissioned for Gothenburg’s Way Out West, the screen doubles as a fully functional stage that played live recordings of the headliners “for what might be the largest yet smallest crowd in history: sperm and eggs getting ‘ready to rumble’ in a laboratory,” Hultén says. →

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the drywall dude is here repairing the (intentional) damage from yesterday's plumbing adventure — he's playing schmaltzy love ballads on his phone and loudly (and badly) singing along as he works so happy valentine's day I guess?

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I've been so busy the past week I haven't even found the time to finish rewatching THX 1138

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❝ To steal a line from one of Lynch’s many hundred weather reports, this one posted August 28th, 2020: “What a great time to be alive if you love the theater of the absurd!” →

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hey this'll be fun — let's see how much work I can get done today while a team of six re-plumbs the entire house

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proper Batcave vibes here and I'm not talking Bruce Wayne you kiddos →

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(1/2) here's an out-of-nowhere question that I'm posting with sincerity as opposed to my usual deadpan snarkiness: when my dad passed several years ago he left me a bunch of rare coins … like a lot. some, but not all, are legitimately rare, I have no doubt.

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many years ago an update like this about an app I used daily would have given me some excitement but in 2025 it just fills me with trepidation

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