On the ground here in Minnesota, it’s hard to reconcile the immense bonds of community that have been built in a week with the fact that we live in a country whose government appropriated billions of dollars to an unaccountable paramilitary force whose sole purpose is ethnic cleansing.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Waiting for the 2025 wrap-up from @last.fm, so I had a look via their Labs feature. First time The Beatles take the top spot; my progression to full 6Music Dad continues apace. (Good to see some fresh talents such as Say She She, Cindy Lee and @willstratton.bsky.social getting a look in though!)

The album I first came to love in 2025 was @willstratton.bsky.social's POINTS OF ORIGIN, which as a native Californian I'd put in the pantheon of great albums about my home state.

Honestly at this point I think Bandcamp would be better served by developing a more substantial social review aspect of the site a la Letterboxd. Where else (that isn't evil) has a better vantage point for that?

Split pea soup is grinch food

🙏🙏🙏🙏

“What’s Hot Classic” is so funny on here

Benny Safdie was also filming next to us in the nosebleeds, maybe he’s ADing or something

@trevelkin.bsky.social 's Tracks of the Year 2025 #bestof2025 @jessicawinter666.bsky.social @perfumegenius.bsky.social , @willstratton.bsky.social #CircuitdesYeux @richarddawson.music-social.com #WaterFromYourEyes and more www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/12/10/t...

Heartened to see people posting their end of year listening stats from anywhere other than Spotify

I have noticed that the overall tone of this site tends to be (on average) more depressive than the one full of Nazi incels, crypto scammers, etc. It makes no damn sense. Compels me, though…

Re: Spotify buying WhoSampled, and probably triggering many artists getting work taken down, I’ve just uploaded the original demo of my song Gray Lodge Wisdom (2013). I wish I could have refined this into an official release at the time, but I didn't want to risk it soundcloud.com/wstratton/gr...

There are no words for how evil this is

It's a beautiful day for sweeping and staggering electoral victories by the American left!!!! Let's goooooooo

I can’t believe people are still talking about this in this fashion over here. I’m sorry, but you are living in an alternate reality.

They’re doing this because it’s so successful

It’s fall, hello

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Thinking about becoming a content creator. Seems like a good time to get into it before it becomes an oversaturated space

I’m giving up coffee. Coincidentally, I’m making a slowcore album

Look, I like the Geese record, but does he have to be singing in nearly every second of every song? I loved the instrumental sections of Heavy Metal, and they made the vocals hit harder, give me more of that please

Current listening: Tom Waits - The Life of a Showgirl (1976)

Over the weekend we watched the first episode of The Lowdown, the new comedic neo noir-ish show set in Tulsa and starring Ethan Hawke. Very well written, great performances so far. Appropriately dusty and Chandleresque. Looking forward to seeing if the rest of the series holds up

god dammit www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

My hometown of Bakersfield, CA is a strange place, and few understood it better than Kaleb Horton, a brilliant writer that I’m sad to hear died this week. RIP to a writer of tremendous talent, and a photographer with an eye for the Central Valley like no other. The world feels really fucked today.

Great picture, timely af, edge of yer seat action, top notch performances, looked amazing, laffs, car chases, this is everything you want from the movies. Young crowd was electric after it was over, PTA making cinephiles of Gen Z. You love to see it.

Here’s a new song called “Dregs of Love” I wrote this weekend while watching Jeremiah Johnson (1972)

I convinced myself that I know how to repair this guitar that I picked up at a yard sale. We’ll see!

If you want to dress well this fall, imagine yourself as Big Jim Collie, a Scottish crofter in the 1970s who lived alone in a bothy and rode a rickety old bicycle through the Lairig Ghru, the highest mountain pass in the highest mountain range in Britain, while sustaining himself on a bit of dram.

Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:

Lord, this is a sad story, with typically fantastic reporting by @hannahdreier.bsky.social — the brave people fending back wildfires frequently suffer cancers and other ills related to smoke exposure, but have no coverage if they work for a contractor www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

News flash: having Covid still blows. Woke up this morning with a neck/headache in the base of my skull, and can’t climb stairs without resting for 20 minutes afterward. A very stupid way to spend time

I’ve been down with Covid all week and just realized Criterion has all the Robert Altman movies streaming right now, and there are like five I still need to see

Chris Schlarb & his label/studio/life's mission BIG EGO mean a lot to me. As a artist, collaborator & producer, he tends to be an inveterate problem solver—but in light of landlord struggles & subsequent legal matters, he could use some help. Join me in chipping in.

Stevie is ready

The Democrats have a Democrat problem. www.joewrote.com/p/the-ratf-a...

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

I’ve been doing some production work for people recently (mostly mixing). Makes me happy when people entrust some aspect of their work to me! I hope I do it justice.

I wrote and recorded a new song about Gaza for, get this, a Gaza benefit compilation. Coming soon

The second verse of this song is sort of about the Charlie Chaplin-Buster Keaton dichotomy but this first verse is sort of about Operation Gladio, go figure

I was really looking forward to reading a book at our local riverfront park on my day off yesterday, but of course I biked down there and a guy had set up a big speaker and was blasting EDM to a mostly-empty meadow, for no one’s pleasure but his own. This feels like a fairly new experience to me

Staying in hotels with no air conditioning while touring in the UK during a heat wave is no joke

I had the pleasure of interviewing PG Six and Julie Beth Napolin in the new issue of the Terrascopædia www.ptolemaic.org

Albums of 2025 so far…. (Part One) - @mommaband.bsky.social @kathrynjoseph11.bsky.social @benefitstheband.bsky.social @fkatwigs.music-social.com @willstratton.bsky.social @franzferdinandhq.bsky.social @adwaithmusic.bsky.social and more #albumsof2025 www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/07/02/a...