My lord. I think I saw this 4x in the theater in ‘97, and once more at home in ‘08. And tonight on 35mm. This will always be my favorite PTA film. Funny, tragic, over the top. John Lyons (casting director for the Coens) had to have had an affect on how brilliantly cast this film is.

Yes, Brazil is definitely a Xmas film, and maybe the most fitting backdrop to our holiday season. Mr. Helpmann ‘All I can say is don't fall at the last fence. The finishing post's in sight. See you in the paddock... keep your eye on the ball.’

I was ready to wait the whole month for more, and a late Xmas surprise is here.

Someone at Netflix better have bought Kate a castle, because that song is never going to recover from this.

Good luck making a better Xmas movie. Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas is the all-timer. The plight of this poor destitute otter family, scraping by and living on hope under the crushing power of class and river bottom capitalism.

1 bottle of champagne on Xmas eve and I just bought the quadraverb plus eprom chip. Inhibitions be damned.

‘I found myself missing nothing so much as the gem in Uncut Gems, and the clear goal of everyone who desired it.’ Just like UG, we get the central image of the film right in the open. This is the story of the conniving cunning of the sperm that makes it— nothing flattering and TC knows it.

Caught The Shining in iMax tonight, and it was if I had never really seen the film before. I know every line and every shot and forgot them all. Like 2001, this is an audio visual experience and not something you can reduce to memes, Simpson jokes, terrible documentaries. This is one woke-ass film.

Playing my first collab tomorrow night @ Die Electric in Downtown LA. It’s the 12th event of the improvised electronic sets. I’ll be rocking Fors Dyad (on a P3SA) and a Soma Terra. Palasades 505 will be bringing the beats. And there’s a potluck!

The Brutalist, sigh.

Movie you’ve watched more than 6x (gif) no Disney, Marvel, Star Wars/Trek. Pixar.

Low - David Bowie

Ian mentioned this summer at a workshop that he was recording that day, so perfect cathartic surprise to have this release. I have some recordings of wind and parrots from the 7th and the 8th that are just imbued with an unseen energy. I can’t imagine the force this album will have

I dare anyone to try and just listen to 30 seconds and stop. It just commands me to drop everything.

Bandcamp Friday is almost here… it won’t take many purchases to eclipse all the meager nothings that streaming doesn’t pay losthuthanaka.bandcamp.com/album/los-th...

Peter MacNicol is the only good thing in Ghostbusters 2– a film with that rare quality of being so bad, it makes you wonder if the original was actually worth watching.

If this was hanging on the wall next to the register, you’d wonder if there was a much cooler video store in town. (And I really like 4 of these films)

Looking at this year’s Christmas stamp, it looks like Mary and Joseph formed a keyboard synth duo.

Rome, Open City just leveled me. And I can’t get out of my mind how much the Nazi interrogator looks just like the guy who ruined bookstores and now retail.

How many tracks can one make and master to a cassette tape while on a long haul flight? The answer is 2.

Waking at 4am for the rest of your life to wonder…

19 live sets! $15. I think I spent more than that on a beer at one of these live sets.

Every Friday is Bandcamp Friday if you add $1 to cover the fees

Quote with a 10/10 album

Surround yourself with people who know things you can’t google.

Tonight in Lincoln Heights at possibly the most unique venue in LA, Digital Debris. Can’t wait to see what the SOMA Ether / Strega picks up in the CRT gallery. I go on at 9pm.

An extremely vibrant night! Collabs: The return of 14yo synth duo— Google Feet, seachael/ Marc Laidlaw, and a finale with @herrmania.bsky.social , Mood of Space and Papa Mothra. Solo pieces by @hansila.bsky.social, sydota, Hot Sound Injection, DMAXWL, Papa Mothra, and @3amnoise.net.

Tonight! LA Synth Club and Lincoln Beer Company present Patch and Play. An open mic/line-input night focused on electronic music of any kind. If you are in the LA/SFV areas, bring your synthesizer and join us! #synthsky #livemusic #electronicmusic

Ah @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social, I hope you take a full month off and reconnect with Yurty Aherne and your meditation time.

SFV Blooping - this Thursday!

Hard to imagine it’s been a whole year! Kudos to @herrmania.bsky.social for turning this monthly synth night into a vibrant scene. 30 min sets, a tasting course of modular to elektron and everything in between. Marc Laidlaw kicks it off at 7:30. (Old Town Pub in Pasadena, tonight).

Got to see both Autechre sets last night in LA. First one from up above and second set from the middle of the floor. Middle of the floor is definitely the way to do it. Set 2 was actually quite danceable especially as a friend put it, ‘if you can count to seven’.

Were there only a teleporter

Solid!

Djrum playing a four hour set (his first in LA). I am wrecked. Never seen anything like this.

New live show next month in a cozy venue. Happy to be spending some time back in Lincoln Heights.

Sounds like I’m nitpicking— and I’m not. These are amazing. Discovering that there was 400 episodes was just the thing I needed in deep dark 2025.

@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Deep in the back catalog of Blind Boy podcasts and wow- amazing to hear how much of the style was in place from the get go. Currently on The Monsignor’s Beak (2017). Though I think Zoroastrianism is wildly considered Dualistic more than Monotheistic.

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We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.

Lovely open mixer tonight at Common Space Brewery. When I dashed out of the house this morning I forgot a midi cable, so the Digitakt and Digitone were playing separate parts, pure samples from my house, and dubby FM. I’m learning just to play through the unexpected limitations.

Forgot how hilarious this films is, how disgusting, and how deeply tragic. What Cronenberg could do in 95 minutes was just magic. Goldblum and Gina Davis are just 10/10 (The Fly, 1996).

‘Boo Laptop shows!’ Poppycock! Just saw @tomhallsonics.bsky.social play an incredible show, mind bending sound, peerless visuals, sequenced lights— all on Max MSP. WOW!

Omg, what did I just watch… Dr. Strangelove 2025?

Excited to be joining Ian’s outing in Pasadena on Aug 10th. www.eventbrite.com/e/introducti...

The Day After

Somewhere past HiF’s broken concrete and razor wire, it’s happening very soon.