Same, kid. Same.

I will never forget the way he said “Titicaca”

RIP to gravitas incarnate. 😢🫡

Jar Jar Andronicus

gave away my Myron Cohen albums with no regrets

Country Joe Arby’s

Ah, the 80s! With General Strike (a Steve Beresford/David Toop project), Eithne Ni Bhraonain (aka Enya), Jah Wobble, and field recordings from around the world. Various Artists, Touch Travel (Touch cassette 1984)

Weeding records, and the two crying babies lps are definite keepers but the duck calling records can maybe go

Letterboxd is back up, which means I can now better strategize which Paul Leder-William Norton joint to watch next

Where is the Paul Leder/William Norton Criterion boxed set

Why couldn’t there have been a character in CATS that sang conversational songs in the manner of Mick Jagger’s addled monologue in “Miss You”

Tonight in records I forgot I had

Country Joe and the Meat

Today’s autumnal religious mail call: a needlepoint Fabiola

The great cast doesn’t consistently get a handle on the acidity here; Michael Apted needed to sharpen the cheese knife. youtu.be/1FYpsyPPz_c?...

Ben Whishaw should be the first choice for a David Johansen biopic

Martin Newell - Late Night (Syd Barrett cover) [UK, Lo-fi] (1985) https://redd.it/2tuwpc https://youtu.be/5_i16Legx3Y

For @spectrumculture.bsky.social I wrote about A BETTER TOMORROW, whose balletic violence Hollywood has long ago absorbed spectrumculture.com/2025/11/10/r...

I’m putting Tilda in the pumpkin, and that’s not a euphemism.

That slaps

Today’s biggest church yard sale score: for $2, a painting by Catholic outsider artist Alexander Bogardy, a DC/Baltimore resident with work in the Smithsonian

Highly concerned on multiple levels about the Elf-branded Mrs. Butterworth’s syrup

I slapped call number labels on every one of these formats in my early yrs at LOC

Sending out a bat signal for The Reynolds Girls

Happy Halloween!

藤原秀子 - 別れ [Japan, folk] (1970) https://redd.it/fnjzlv https://youtu.be/0S6a33ScH0k

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

We recently watched Prunella Scales in this devastating domestic drama . RIP youtu.be/moZiEiSGx7Q?...

The swooping camerawork is a perfect visual analogue for the music. And is it just me or does Green look a little like Malkmus here? youtu.be/txUNr03aVi0

Ironically harder to hear as an album than Made in USA. All I hear are pieces from the perfectly-sequenced Bossa Nova 2001 with singles and bits of Overdose mixed in. I do appreciate the English-language “Happy Sad,” and this music will always remind of the year my mother died.

12 years gone today 🖤 “I like mindless disco… they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So, what’s wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.” -Lou Reed 1979 youtu.be/gbfB9z4Am-E

On the one hand I’m doing ok; on the other hand, I’ve had four chocolate shakes this week

From TWINS OF EVIL schoolgirls to Roxy Music backup, the Chanter Sisters had a heckuva career. I wrote about their 1976 album FIRST FLIGHT @spectrumculture.bsky.social

If a cassette falls on the floor, you can still listen to it as long as you picked it up within 5 seconds. If it was on the floor for longer than that, then you should throw it away or flush it down the toilet.

30 years ago, I’d reach for the visionary Bossa Nova 2001 or Overdose before either of the Matador comps that broke them stateside. But tonight, this hits me as a solid greatest-early hits. Pizzicato Five, Made in USA (Matador 1994)

El Chicles - Streaking A Go Go [Belgium, Latin/Jazz/Funk/Disco] (1974) https://redd.it/190xyzk https://youtu.be/scM5ydjwkzM

Getting ready to see Andy Bell Saturday youtu.be/JRh6IPjR4uA?...

Pitch: Gary Numan jukebox musical starring Sean Hayes

The month so far in horror I’d never seen before: loved POSSESSION and TWNS OF EVIL, hated PRINCE OF DARKNESS

Verckys Et L'Orchestre Vévé -- Sex Vévé [Congolese Funk] (197?) https://redd.it/2ttmng https://youtu.be/7SOTrsshqtQ

The Winesburg Ohio Players

Remembering my friend Karen, who would have been 61 today

An update on my recent civic activities. Note that when our CM says, “I would have probably done even more advocacy with them,” she in fact did not advocate for us at all.

Tonight in later Sonny

TIL there was a blu-ray set of LA FLOR exclusive to FNAC

Been hitting a bad run of tapes so it’s nice to crack open some sealed deadstock

I used to see Andrew White, who lived in Brookland, on the Metro, so I was sorry I didn’t buy his self-published autobiography while he was alive. So I was happy to find it on eBay for all of $11.27