ofc I have some personal and creative ambitions for 2026 but my primary goal is to own the c1998 vintage jean paul gaultier shirt that ilya wears in heated rivalry ep4. if you see this shirt available anywhere please let me know, I am willing to spend up to half of my alcs payment on it, thank you

when tears for fears sang ‘I can’t stand this indecision married with a lack of vision’ they were singing about being a virgo

totally missed this publishing over xmas but I wrote about listening to the italian disco song from the end of THE BRUTALIST 68363783 times this year for the guardian’s best old music we discovered this year feature www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Scary thing about Scorsese’s KING OF COMEDY is that these days every one of these delusional dudes now has his own podcast.

Here’s to 2026

if you head over to the main Overinvested feed, you can find a new episode on Stanley Kubrick's The Shining! merry christmas one and all, a very festive choice for midwinter viewing.

New episode: Spice World (1997) Listen: linktr.ee/onceuponavhs “Will you turn that bloody racket down?” Time for some Girl Power! Who said anything about Space Ghettos? #spicegirls #spiceworld

trying to avoid heated rivalry ep6 spoilers until I can watch it tonight even though I have spent the last 2 weeks teaching every single algorithm that it is all I care about

björk and jack dee presenting 1995 christmas top of the pops is giving me hanging out with one of my four beloved straight boy friends

O Christmas Pint, O Christmas Pint

happy xmas we did an imo very good THE SHINING episode!!!! ❄️🏨🗻👯‍♀️📄🔪🐻🩸

EPISODE 213 / TOP 200 TAPES OF 2025 we made a list of the year's best tapes with the help from @strategictaper.bsky.social, Drongo Tapes, Ephem Aural, @mrshafshr.bsky.social, @TabsOutArchive, Orb Tapes, and @larrywish.bandcamp.com Check it out tabsout.com?p=30218 Alert us of mistakes by midnight!

every day a new devastating connor storrie/hudson williams photoshoot drops and every day I throw my phone out of the window then throw myself out of the same window

And Gav and I chatted about old and new books we loved this year, including THE WAYFINDER, over on the Overinvested Patreon. Enjoy! www.patreon.com/posts/correc...

as the person at the centre of the experimental music/heated rivalry venn diagram i have to interview connor storrie about his industrial electronic music in 2026 i am so so serious

went as my fav george michael tweet for the george michael night

fyi i have now finished up for the year and it is illegal to ask for my professional opinion on ANY cultural entity for the next 17 days

for the @crackmagazine.bsky.social end of year issue, i wrote about a wave of artists connecting with tradition and ancestral knowledge – featuring insight from tristwych y fenywod, muco, quinie and more! rly enjoyed working on this piece 🔮 crackmagazine.net/article/long...

sensational tidbit

as I said to gav literally what is the point of overinvested if we don’t do a heated rivalry ep

love to look thru my colleagues’ charts and think ’fuck I didn’t realise X had a record out this year’ 20 times……anyway here is my beautiful chart, i submitted three different charts to three publications bc I couldn’t decide on a top ten lol

making my print debut (!) in @lwlies.com with a dream commission – talking to one of my fav musicians daniel blumberg about THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE! we spoke about adapting shaker hymns, his process of gathering voices to make up the cacophony we hear in the film, and so much more

thinking fondly of the sheer uncomplicated bliss I felt during all 76 minutes of PETER HUJAR’S DAY

no daniel blumberg for THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE on either song or score oscar shortlists

showgirls is a christmas movie

thursday on the quietus tracks of the year countdown just call that the claire biddles effect

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

insanely good thing to say when you enter a room

your annual reminder that BROS: AFTER THE SCREAMING STOPS is a christmas film

Issue #36 of our newsletter is out now, ft. Santa vs. Christmas, Die Hard, Comic Relief, Whichmen?, The Hand that wipes the arse of the world, Toonies and more! "You’ve got a life, stay in it."

“It is exhausting, living in a population where people don’t speak up if what they witness doesn’t directly threaten them.” —David Wojnarowicz, 1991

I wrote about the narrative importance of the sex scenes in Heated Rivalry, how this reflects the magic of romance novel storytelling, and how the plot is fuelled by a genuinely bleak view of homophobia in hockey culture. (Spoilers for ep 4!)

honestly @gavia.bsky.social knows the exact words to offer to appeal to my proclivities

just learned that music notes are fake. they don't mean anything!

I highly recommend reading @msclairebiddles.bsky.social programme notes for the GFT on Pillion!! www.glasgowfilm.org/programme-no...

how your email finds me after i sprained my knee and can barely move

Imagining one of Johnny's rants from NAKED coming out of this lad

when the FUCK is this jeff buckley documentary getting a uk release

great record

Our chart rundowns continue with The Quietus Reissues (etc.) of the Year. The (etc) covers everything else that’s excited our ears this year, including compilations, live albums, posthumous releases, DJ mixes and box sets. Dive in! #tQCharts tQ’s Reissues Etc. of the Year 2025 buff.ly/PFJb866

Kurt Weill smoking a pipe with his dog.

Put this in your ears 🔊🔊🔊

sometimes being a music critic means you get to experience transcendence and reflect on the alchemy of human creativity....and sometimes you get sent to review a jamiroquai concert www.theguardian.com/music/2025/d...

Delighted that this has already raised almost £800. Last posting for Xmas 17th Dec. Perfect present for Glaswegians, history fans, city wanderers, people who don't want physical gifts, communists, anarchists, enjoyers of vintage left-wing gossip, and all hard to buy for comrades!

she's seen this film a very normal 20-30 times!!!

me and @gavia.bsky.social just recorded what I’m calling an all-timer episode of overinvested on THE SHINING coming 2 a podcast platform near you soon!

New @thewiremagazine.bsky.social is out! Proud to have contributed a Rewind essay + reviews of Unsound 2025, and records by Saint Abdullah/Jason Nazary + Rie Nakajima/David Toop. Whole issue is packed with great essays, articles and EOY gear Buy a copy/subscribe to support indie journalism in ‘26

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