Watching Joseph Kahn’s excellent schlock-com Ick and noting what a charming and funny leading man Brandon Routh is.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an executive order revoking all executive orders by the corrupt Eric Adams signed after September 26, 2024. Israelis are aghast as they paid Adams for more than half of those orders.

Plz help Me book shows in the UK AND EU 2025/2026

CHOKING ON A CRUNCHWRAP SUPREME AS THE WORLD BURNS will be released on my label EAT MY SHIT RECORDS MARCH 6th on LP & CD Tracks will be leaking out slowly up to the release date in various ways. Pre-orders open TOMORROW January 2, 2026 Get at me if you wanna play some shows or do something fun

Far beyond novelty or experiment, 2025 was the year that crossover projects rejected genre labels for endless sonic possibilities, writes Stewart Smith in The Wire 503/504. Read the full article here: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

Happy New Year everybody!

would you like a try?

2025 was a toilet fire but hey I CAN SEE YOU and THE VIEWER were re-released in HD and proper 3D for the first time ever this year! look at that slick new @brianlevel.bsky.social cover!

My New Year's resolution is 300 dpi.

Another drokkin' year

Wishing a BITCHIN’ New Year’s Eve to all 🐩🐩🐩

Wishing a FREEWHEELIN’ New Year’s Eve to all 🛞🛞🛞

Wishing a BLOCKBUSTING New Year’s Eve to all 💥💥💥

People were proud in Doubleback Alley. Neighbours were loud but ever so pally.

Here's a clip of "I Wanna Destroy You" from my recent show at the Bowery in NYC! 

I wrote a micro piece about midwinter sunshine and interstellar visitors for @necessaryfiction.com's 'Points of Light' necessaryfiction.com/stories/poin...

From earlier this year - my tuppenceworth on inner city motorways and cardigans - 'Monstrosities Mon Amour: Junction 3 of the M32 in Bristol' - with @grindrod.bsky.social johngrindrod.substack.com/p/monstrosit...

Also this year, I played some guitar and shouted some vocals on some of the tracks on 'Things that never happened' by Black Adastra @blackadastra.bsky.social on.soundcloud.com/C0rENUavzU9Z...

And I made a video about bins youtu.be/OXvHXTFfI-w?...

In March, we released 'Folly' a collaboration with Sexton Ming on @rocketrecordings.bsky.social blackarches.bandcamp.com/album/black-... "The Arches trio cover every blade of astral grass with rare Faust-cubed abstraction." - The Quietus

Don’t forget to set your clocks forward to 2026 at midnight.

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

I’ve already looked back on 2025. I’m looking forward now.

Fish, yes. But also chips.

Traditional instruments, folk cultures and mythic ideas of futurity offer slip roads exiting AI’s highway to a hollow future, argues @darylworthington.bsky.social in The Wire 503/504 Read the full essay online: www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

“After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I fucking keep it?”

Minimalism making a comeback is just proof that none of you would thrive as a gnome. No trinkets. No baubles. No useless bits. What are you even doing.

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I don’t wish to be judgemental but could it be time to ignore vile rich tossers and their pathetic lives and make reality TV shows about people who do something useful? I know, I live in a radical leftist scum bubble, but really?

The Ghost of Christmas Future has a message for Keir Starmer. Alexei Sayle brings you his alternative Christmas message from the streets where Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol.

Sony’s Japanese MiniDisc ads with Jamiroquai

SUBSTATION

Largely untouched by time, the Maze Hill midcentury modern house in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, is a thing of beauty. bit.ly/48bEulH

why does the oven say piss…

Watched the whole of How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) with the folks last night SUBSTATION

Happy War (Xmas Is Over)

Tim Curry, 1975

Imagine still cheering for these ghouls and whatnot.

I wish the blog era still existed so I could read a crazy take on Funkmaster Wizard Wiz from some random post-doctoral candidate that just downloaded his “Bellevue Patient” comp off of Zshare.

I had lunch today in front of a large painting of Michael Winner staring down at me. It was a bit disconcerting, and made me recall his final film, Parting Shots (1999). It bizarrely starred Chris Rea in the lead; somebody I haven't thought about in years. I've just heard the news. Blimey!

Santa Claus: The Movie is *actually* a Christmas film.

It's Doxing Day! This is where Father Christmas actually lives. 9, Preston Road Faversham Kent ME13 5WB

Something I think about from time to time: Henry Threadgill was once in a liquor ad. And teenage me became interested in his music because I thought his ad was cool. This ultimately led me to make "Afrikaner Barista" a couple decades later. The interplay between art and commerce is complex.

Merry Christmas! My bandmate Başla sent me this.

Christmas mud pie 🚽🚽🚽