Always regret not having a third child that we didn't love but who would be on hand to take the family photos of the four of us.

I love that after doing the music for BLUE VELVET, Angelo Badalamenti threw himself into composing the score for NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION. And then Twin Peaks.

Doing my bit to ward off Jólakötturinn the giant man-eating Icelandic cat. Stop me before I get too damn sexy.

Merry Christmas again, from an inflatable mall Christmas AT-AT.

One of my DVD extra documentaries (for a really rubbish film as it turned out) had a montage of room tones, and it is one of the best things I ever made. This is also great.

This is a lovely and very moving tale of Christmases past and music eternal.

This wouldn't work for me as I'm very sophisticated and watch loads of b/w stuff. If anything I'd look at my phone more, buzzing with the thrill of perhaps seeing a still from Jules et Jim or Casablanca, but it turns out to be one of you posting pics of Emu on Parkinson

Oh my God this has made my Christmas even more than sneaking in a quick play of Computer World while doing the gravy. music.apple.com/gb/album/mer...

Two lots of washing up, two bags of recycling taken out, telly checked to make sure we can watch National Lampoon, and it's not even 12:30. I would have made such a great dad.

Off to the park for Christmas Walkies.

It’s a page of nonsense to print off and colour in to keep a child busy while you cook or for you to have some calm crayons time. Merry Christmas!

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Glenda Leon, contemporary Cuban conceptual artist who works with video and installation #womensart #ChristmasEve

It* is ON. *Me feeling Christmassy as I wrap stuff.

I don't know much about football but I did my best to make the right face at my American guests who left the Arsenal v. Crystal Palace game 3 minutes before Palace equalised and penalties.

Wish there were still TV programmmes interviewing French critical theorists

But apart from all that, I wish you all as happy and peaceful a Christmas as possible under the circumstances. I'm very happy here. Xx

"Ta-ra ya shitter!"

"So, did you design our poster to appeal to our target demographic?" "Sure boss, a solid wall of cunts, just like you said." "Good, good."

Brain: I'm going to sing the first line of Driving Home For Christmas all day, ok? My mind: Please don't, I've never liked it. Brain: OK, fair enough, let's have Another Rock 'n' Roll Christmas instead then! My mind: i give up

To think how I used to idolise Depp playing against his looks and cool so brilliantly, and now all I can do is gurgle "Sausage" every time those adverts come on.

the crescent moon from my yard at sunset tonight

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

New #electronicears is up on Mixcloud! (I totally forgot to mention it before broadcast last night 🙄) www.mixcloud.com/fennerpearso...

Shane alert! "For the next few days, until Christmas, I have made my holiday seasonal albums December (2018) and December 2 (2019) available for digital download purchase. Deconstruction and arrangement of 33 holiday songs for solo guitar. Maybe next year I’ll do vinyl." shaneparish.bandcamp.com

Oh this is very sad news indeed.

This is a terrific list, many films to add to my watch list. So much so that I'm prepared to overlook what he says about The Roches

I'm really really loving this.

41 albums I really liked in 2025, listed and linked here now (all but one on Bandcamp I think), plus extras. Still believe that every year is a great year for music if you know where to look for the stuff that'll suit your tastes, and how to circumnavigate the stuff that'll annoy you.

Flouncing off out of preparations for the first ever solstice ceremony, popping the finger & shouting

Today is the day Our Dad would take great pains every year to explain why, although today is the shortest day, it's not the latest dawn or earliest sunset. I wish I'd listened to him now. But instead all I can do is mutter something about elliptical orbit.

PSA: 'quishing' is a scam that uses QR codes to redirect you to a scam site to obtain your financial info. Scammers will put QR stickers over legitimate ones, so even QR codes on reputable ads are dangerous. What's needed: a code BOTH humans & machines can read. So we invented it... in 1956.

might be least guitar sounding guitar album I can really recall hearing

An early perambulation (still daylight, just) and impressed to learn that Tarzan the Ape-man has branched out into catering.

He's been! Here's everything I read this year (and a few things I wrote): Henry James! Joseph Heller! Penelope Fitzgerald! A biography of the unsuccessful 1928 Democratic presidential candidate, Al Smith! advicetothelovelorn.blogspot.com/2025/12/Book...

This is very entertaining and interesting, not least as it introduces me to a Spirogyra that is not the late 70s Top 20 jazz-funk combo I was rather worried it was about. This Spirogyra is whole other thing, and dirty with it.

“There are levels of drama that should never be explored” is an intense thing to say to someone

All of my favourite films this year are well covered by others already, but one I saw for the first time that I would love to recommend is LES PIRES (THE WORST ONES). It was made in 2022, all I knew about it before is that it's a mockumentary drama about a film being made in a working class suburb.

It's fantastic and never takes Route One plotwise.

What you plebs don't understand is that only a truly gifted writer would know that "Brian White, Who Was Always, Always Right" wouldn't work nearly as well.

The thing about these kind of conspiracies is that the conspirators are themselves utterly pathetic human beings. Viz. Epstein.

I'm now wondering if there's such a thing as a finite amount of 'trouble in mind' one can process. Do any other readers of spookiness find themselves no longer suffering nightmares?

I don't know about you guys, but I think we've already gained whatever wisdom this incident had to impart and we should have moved on by now.

Oh yeah, I wonder if there's any earlier citations?

Here's an odd thing @raynewman.bsky.social . Each day I read two stories from this and it gives me a proper shuddery feeling. But at night, for the first time in as long as I remember, I'm not plagued by nightmares.

This seems like a great opportunity to improve two people's Christmas.

Me, belatedly realising I've done a terrible job of promoting the idea of buying my BOOK, Maps of Imaginary Towns, as a Christmas gift:

I am very lucky in that I have a job that today entails taking an American couple to Abbey Road, as they celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary. They had their second date at a Beatles concert in Cincinnati in 1964. Here's me at my Abbey Road. As I say, very lucky.