Gnight folks youtu.be/RETmsiIMTWg?...

When the sun sets on the ghetto All the broken stuff gets cold

You can see the family resemblance

This is how you do pop bangers youtu.be/u_97pSkDJmk?...

dubstep remix called wubwubering heights send skeet

Pop into Forbidden Planet for a browse. Richard behind the counter immediately draws my attention to this because he knows my type all too well.

I come back to this Jaimie Branch album sooooo often ❤️ youtu.be/LuN-6eIj9S0?...

If I'm being honest, there's no possible reason for keeping these, is there?

Another album I missed out on getting first time out but has now had a lovely repress. Arooj Aftab - Vulture Prince (Deluxe Edition)

Working at a music magazine in the early nineties and coming back from lunch with an Astrud Gilberto CD. One of the grizzled music vets cursed me out, 'we didn't fight the punk wars so you could listen to Astrud Gilberto'. 35 years on. Still listening to Astrud Gilberto youtu.be/DbxyWK-w0rM?...

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Very occasionally my dreaming brain is quite witty. I just woke up from a dream where I went to use a typically grim Glastonbury portaloo. When I finished and opened the door of the loo, I was somehow thrown backwards through time, and found myself in the same place but five minutes earlier 1/2

Gnight folks. Let Pharaoh guide you to sleep youtu.be/ii63fKLTSuU?...

47. Sangre del Toro (Netflix, 2025 - Yves Montmayeur) Fairly workmanlike and lacking in any real revelations about his work. It was fine, I guess.

American Beauty: a tone deaf attempt to make an indie movie, full of empty clichés and crass stereotypes. The rest of the audience actually clapped at the end and I've never felt so alienated from my fellow humans. And that's before you consider the fucking *creepiness* of it

Because I'm a terrible person, I regularly dunk on mediocre Lottery funded Brit movies because they're the fucking worst. And now I can present to you the Platonic Ideal of mediocre Lottery funded Brit movies. Look at this shit youtu.be/SgbkUl0jHJk?...

10"s are good and all, but who here loves the 5"? I have a handful - Man Or Astroman, El Vez, that sort of caper...

46. The Singers (Netflix, 2025 - Sam A. Davis) Turgenev meets TikTok in this stylish short. Apparently it pales next to the Turgenev story but it works pretty well aside from that, doing a lot in 18 minutes. I've an inkling there's a tendency to sentimentality that a longer film might have exposed

Haven't played this for a while, which is daft because it's beautiful youtu.be/iRZ98HX1MO8?...

Old Saw have brought me so much pleasure these last few years, so I was gutted when the first run of their final album The Wringing Cloth evaded me. But there's been an unexpected repress and I managed to grab one. It's beautiful.

45. The Thing With Feathers (bfi, 2025 - Dylan Southern) I could write an essay about this but nobody needs to read it. In short: the director missed the fucking point of the book and because of that, despite some decent performances and inventive visuals, it just doesn't work. 1/2

44. The Magnificent Seven (Amazon, 1960 - John Sturges) Bronson & Brynner & Bucholz & Coburn & Dexter & McQueen & Vaughan Me and my dad on the Sunday sofa forever. Manichean dualism. James Coburn being the coolest. One of the greatest films ever made. I have no idea if it's any good

Just heard this on TV. It was the first Cohen song I loved (I owned New Skin For The Old Ceremony first somehow, even before that Greatest Hits compilation). I was about 13. youtu.be/ilGahIwQEQ0?... 1/2

Braverman is now lambasting equalities policies, saying Reform would scrap the equalities brief and repeal the Equality Act. Giving her this role - any role, in fact - does feel like quite a risk for Reform.

Yeh, I guess it's good to see that the UK Eurovision entry is a bit of a change, but we are still boycotting right? Right?

And I shall drive my chariot down your streets and cry Hey, it's me, I'm dynamite and I don't know why - Sweet Thing, Van Morrison

Couple of excellent @mermaidchunky remixes from DFA

Laissez les bons temps rouler!! youtu.be/5fQv_F7N7yE?...

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing. 66 years old going 66 mph.

Gnight folks youtu.be/31qwSm3chn4?...

43. The Apostle (torrent, 1997 - Robert Duvall) Duvall wrote, directed, starred in and part funded this incredible movie. His preacher is a womaniser and a drinker but he's also a true believer - no charlatan clichés here. This whole movie feels real and raw and unexpected... 1/2

Adiõs Robert Duvall. Here he is being excellent in The Apostle. But what a career.

Not long till February's Lazy Sunday With Stagger Lee See you in the back room of the Cumberland from 4pm next Sunday (22nd) for a few hours of warm, lovely sounds in a warm, lovely place. fb.me/e/8dKmwZjEq Join us.

Holy fuck

England beat Italy and make the final eight but it really shouldn't have been that close. There was a point when Italy were about 16 overs in that I started to think they might win

To sleep, and a dream of a tranquil, bucolic summer's day. Not... this < gestures melodramatically > youtu.be/VozZoFLsQQI?...

42. 13 (Tzameti) (BFI, 2005 - Gela Babluani) A deep monochrome and jittery, anxious feel reminded me of π but this mysterious, bleak, pitch black nihilistic thriller is far less abstract. Incredibly stylish despite a low budget but not as deep as it tries to suggest.

This is really bad, and not just for insomniacs... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Music for Sunday night youtu.be/kRAqARLtmZw?...

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Friday: The Testament Of Anne Lee youtu.be/-zK_nzG36mk?... The Secret Agent youtu.be/9UfrzDKrhEc?... If I Had Legs I'd Kick You youtu.be/ywFDoT7LBbQ?... You can find me in the Tyneside

Still playing this several times a week. One of my very favourite tracks of recent times. Just gleefully inventive and unique youtu.be/KhQPGbJTins?...

Post an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Right then. India Vs Pakistan. Cricket as a proxy war.

It'll come as a massive shock to you all that I lasted less than two episodes of Small Prophets because my tolerance for Mackenzie Crook's whimsy is increasingly depleted. It's made with the same tone, and weak acting, as Last Of The Summer Wine.

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight

Finished the big Succession rewatch. Third time out I noticed a couple of weaknesses. But I also appreciated some other parts more than I had before. The funeral... fuck An all timer

It's a Valentine's tradition 'Into my mind, the thought begins to seep If no one's fond of fucking me Maybe no one's fucking fond of me Yeah, maybe I'm the only one for me' youtu.be/A2y5msfAClU?...