torn between feelings of sympathy for mental illness and, “eccentric genius my post-colonial ass!”

This evening’s irresistible cassette-only synth-pop album I’d never heard of before youtu.be/1wIMWGeeRfc?...

Tomorrow I once again get to teach the greatest essay written about Christian rock or, indeed, any subject at all: www.gq.com/story/rock-m...

Now more than ever

Sun Ra Nuclear War www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJp...

went on a book binge at … Five Below

the discourse

terra cotta celebrations of motherhood that look monstrous at the thrift store

self-portrait in Jeff Koons knockoff at the thrift store

the fine line between clever and stupid

perennial

For the night crowd, my family reunion; I fell geographically far from the tree but pretty close in other ways

4/5/68: John Cassavetes Faces w/Rowlands, Marley, Cassel Renata Adler: an "important movie about American class, generation & marriage More @thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2009... @anamelessyeast.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2014/05/15/o... Oliver Lunn: www.bfi.org.uk/features/joh...

Hearing Chris Palestis on WFMU

This video from my extended family reunion in the Philippines makes me feel distantly related to Jia Zhangke

I hear it’s National Film Score Day. Here’s a whole digital collection of silent film scores @librarycongress.bsky.social www.loc.gov/collections/...

Viral sleeping Shih Tzu Paninging in the Philippines cosplays as Willem Dafoe in Richard Foreman’s Idiot Savant, which I saw in 2009.

One Of You - Don't Be Desperate [Canada, Experimental Folk / Organ Dirge] (1983) https://redd.it/nd6ugf https://youtu.be/hyLelAXmm7I

I don’t know who needs to know this but Donald Westlake’s Mitchell Tobin books are now available on Libby, and they’re all essential

I heard The Feelies’ “On the Roof” at a Chopt near the Navy Memorial and I took it as a sign that the indie rock world and/or the Merchant Marines approved of my salad order

Your morning dose of brand new Norwegian city pop youtu.be/Y1-XSZwpXU8?...

In Cisco Bradley’s book I HEAR FREEDOM he mentions Charles Tyler working with Cleveland pianist Sigmond Raoul, who in 1967 Tyler called the “most creative pianist since Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.” This is the only music of his I can find online. youtu.be/uxZuepTD7qQ?...

Anne Avril "Annie" Nightingale. Born OTD in 1940, Osterley, Middlesex. Died 11/1/2024, London

Your Holy Week reminder that The Plastic People's Passion Play is an incredible piece of prog penitence www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRGl...

But do they mince people? We may never know

Part of why I find The Power Broker more compelling than the horror novel I just struggled to finish is Caro’s prose—even the footnotes have rhythm and precision and momentum. And “debouched”—gotta find a way to use that in a review

tonight in tee-shirts I haven’t seen in a while

Halloween weekend last year, Good Flying Birds (Indy), TV Buddha (Chi), and Parking (Louisville) did a brief tour as the Velvet Underground. Hallogallo Tapes put out a live recording of the collaboration, now on YouTube

Is the Popular with Friends tab for people you didn’t like in high school

Where can a guy find targeted ads for salacious looking cat food in this place

Emma-Jean Thackray making a neo-soul album and singing about fried rice? Sign me up! tidal.com/track/427498...

Emotional world/Touch Girl Apple Blossom/Good Flying Birds all excellent, music is the best

I still wonder what it was that Nick Tosches learned about Jerry Lee that led him to burn his entire collection

separating art from the artist by force if necessary

Compiled for a more sophisticated coffeehouse, the difference between 1966 and 1974. With versions of easy listening fodder like “People” and “Who Can I Turn To,” but also a showcase for guitar, with lots of Gabor Szabo and a little Larry Coryell.

A comp apparently programmed for casual consumption in a coffeehouse -- until you get to the two Dolphy numbers, his startling flute on "In A Sentimental Mood" and alto on "I'm Beginning to See the Light." I wonder what coffeeshop patrons in 1966 thought of it.

TIL Mark E. Smith wrote an unproduced screenplay

There goes the enduring myth of the noble quadruple amputee

Slade, 1973

TIL the first example of product placement in a Broadway show was in the 1949 production of SOUTH PACIFIC, which featured Coca Cola, Rheingold, and Chesterfield (cf. The Letters of Oscar Hammerstein II, ed. Mark Eden Horowitz)

It’s like a wholesome Stooges song tidal.com/track/109048...

I self develop, necessary to self help

Seeing a father on his bike with a kid on the back seat and playing “Once in a Lifetime” from a Bluetooth speaker is my favorite literary adaptation of the afternoon

If there's an editor of Cat Fancy or the like who would commission me to write about the two-faced cat in The Secret Agent, my DMs are open

He played in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, then got Born Again. Here he takes on prog rock, barrelhouse, countrypolitain, oompah band march with children singing, and folk, impersonating Michael Hurley, I think. All of it competent, and awful.

My Top 10, having missed a lot and hated OBAA boxd.it/PZCu6

TIL Nudie was Ukrainian www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

In very different musical observation, I loved the fusion version of “Green Dolphin St” I heard on the episode of Hart to Hart we watched last night

TIL Albert Ayler’s father Edward died in 2011 at the age of 98; imagine if his son had been able to maximize those genes (he’d still be 23 years younger than Marshall Allen)

I haven't found anything Irish in my work stash yet. Bernart de Ventadorn is French and Martin Codax is Gallician, but this medieval music sounds occasionally jiggy.