back from the dead!!!!!!

dreams come true in New York City, the only city in the whole world this could be possible in

what are all your most upsetting songs to find out were rerelease bonus tracks? Buggles - The Age of Plastic not having Technopop is probably my mountain here. unthinkable

New icon time. (Using an album cover crop/trace on my website these last few years had been killing me)

2026 Q1 reads: P.G. Wodehouse — Right Ho, Jeeves M. John Harrison — Viriconium Raymond Chandler — The Big Sleep Homer — Iliad (Lattimore) Lawrence M. Principe — The Secrets of Alchemy Gregory Mcdonald — Fletch Patrick O’Brian — Master & Commander John Crowley — The Deep

so this is who stole my vanity plate idea

new Akiko Yano single and album this summer 🔥⚾🧢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc-n...

Paul McCartney in an outtake from the ‘Red Rose Speedway’ album cover photoshoot.

RIP Yotaro Ito (伊藤ヨタロウ) Unforgettable voice. I love Metro Farce and their full development from new wave to Eastern European folk (klezmer!) across their discography, and being inventive and fun in every step of it.

love when Plex pulls an obviously contemporary review for a 90s album

addicting chorus on the first track here, damn (Kaoru Hirose - わたしのピカソ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKt...

having one of those weeks I need to put You Make Loving Fun on daily

first calendar year concert log

full book haul from a 5-day Phoenix trip + Goblin the bookstore cat

my 2025 music listening (per last fm)

Four excellent Yoichi Aoyama albums have hit streaming. I love this guy: very catchy, bluesy, and with soulful vocals. You might've heard him on the Hosono or (Jim O'Rourke produced) Burt Bacharach tribute albums, but his solo output and albums with Grandfathers are all must-listens.

if anything, check out my pretty website

get ready by tonight for three months of people insisting the new Avatar is really quotable with something like “ash is the mountain, fire is the tree”

Great list! Again! (All of our overlap gives away how many 2025 albums I'm finding from David sharing them 🙏) I missed a new Steve Hauschildt and Takuro Okada??

snow is on the ground, I'm deploying the Gontiti

Tis the season! 🎅🎄🎶 Find out what albums from this year are “lush”, “evocative”, “varied but cohesive”, “have impressive range”, and “remind me of video games”! www.simulacreage.com/aoty-2025

thank you Mr. Pynchon

(to the Godzilla theme) trick or treat, smell my feet, give me something good to eat,

Frank Herbert making a quick aside in Heretics of Dune to reflect on restaurant gatekeeping

I like that Autechre metaled up their logo for Confield only

single of the year material, real talk (Akiko Yano — 生きものたちへ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2de...

dreams do come true

I can’t believe a bookstore would BREAK THE LAW and sell this a day early

2025 Q3 reads: Brian Evenson - Song for the Unraveling of the World Philip K. Dick - Collected Stories vol. 3 Michael Moorcock - The Weird of the White Wolf Evan S. Connell - Mrs. Bridge Robertson Davies - Fifth Business Virginia Woolf - Orlando Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train (cont.)

I’m going to post my quarterly reading logs here because basically I need to find readers everywhere I exist online

unhesitating impulse buy

I can't be the first to think this, right

I've recommended this album to so many people, always specifically pointing out how good the double bass is. RIP

Hirobumi Suzuki and Louis Philippe (@philippeauclair.bsky.social) together, 1987

I appreciate the Public Image Ltd fan painting backgrounds for the Patlabor: The Mobile Police OVA

in retrospect, the world was spared that Apple Music's stupid animated covers came a few years before AI video took off, so all the record labels have already made manual animations of their important back catalog (looping zooms, snowflakes/sparkles, fancam transitions)

so glad BMSR is still dropping stuff this pretty. still channeling Start a People... Black Moth Super Rainbow - Unknown Potion www.youtube.com/watch?v=86oZ...

RIP Michael Hurley. Everyone put on Have Moicy and/or cook up some tortillas ("Slurf Song", easy top 10 all-timer) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugyq...

almost missed that Alva Noto concluded his Xerrox series with vol.5 last November. 17 years!

after an Andor S1 rewatch, I still can't fathom what stars aligned to let it be—legitimately—one of the best TV seasons ever but also, I know if I didn't watch it and heard someone declare that, I wouldn't believe them and would probably mistrust all their other recs lol

new handle (because I forgot you could do this)

Autechre presale ticket aquired. I am ready to twerk in total darkness to alien machine music this October

Floating Points @ Knockdown Center. only thing missing was John Wick shooting people

I watched the other David Lynch & Mark Frost-created, Angelo Badalamenti-scored TV show (On the Air)

it really sucks how prolific Neil Gaiman was at blurbing and writing introductions for so many fantasy classics, it's going to take generations of reprints until his name stops tainting the face of half the genre's classics for new readers

maybe “troubling” is dramatic, but I feel like I’m seeing a new kind of media headache opening with the abridged It’s a Wonderful Life and the music-free Barry Lyndon. it’s just snuck onto people, you don’t even get a release name to look up like for Blu-Ray reviews or movie-censorship.com guides

Merry Christmas! have some music recs www.simulacreage.com/aoty-2024