WRAPPED. IN PLASTIC.

Let’s do #LastFourWatched this week, my last four were 🔥 If you don’t think you’re a fan of documentaries but like Drama, see Harlan County U.S.A., it’s so good you sometimes can’t believe what you’re watching unfold

Roky Erickson - True Love Cast Out All Evil (w/ Okkervil River)

It’s the annual “retailers reaching out to remind me my mom is dead” time of year. Dad’s turn is next month.

It’s rare you see scripted drama this engrossing. Highly recommend.

My Letterboxd review of Harlan County U.S.A.

lol OF COURSE Rudy’s pneumonia was exacerbated by dust from the 9/11 attacks that occurred on NYC on 9/11, where he was mayor during 9/11. 9/11

Oh no, the little Copilot bunghole that I once tried to remove as a default from my Excel ribbon is gone. B’bye.

That he did. And around the same time -- again, when he's riding off the Power Station and "Addicted" and etc. -- he throws in, you know, a cover of this live. Just, what! Someone should have sat him down in the 1990s just to talk about how he kept his ears open. This was an SST era Husker cut!

My Letterboxd review of Naked Lunch.

The Fool was a 1960s Dutch psychedelic art collective which enchanted Swinging London’s Rock royalty.

You speak of him

You ever find yourself rediscovering music you once discovered, but for whatever reason go distracted from (tragically!) hence the need to “rediscover?” Doing that with Tarnation at the moment

Mark Lanegan - You Only Live Twice #007 🔫

As far back as 1968, Philip K. Dick was conceiving his own ideas on how his novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (which would eventually become Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner in 1982) might be adapted into a feature film. He had some interesting ideas about casting and story.

Your vibe coding, I’m Scheib coating, we are not the same

From a friend’s bird box camera 1/2

Does a deep cut have to be verbal? Because… *Needle drops on Season of the Witch, Illeana Douglas figure skates on a frozen pond as the credits roll*

Sparks - Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth (Plagiarism version) 🌎

Hey, how about some more rain

Not saying there are a lot, but there are people who are lukewarm on The Counselor. Hate it if you must! I thought it was fantastic.

In 1970, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk appeared on The Dick Cavett Show to promote their upcoming film “Husbands”. They were embarrassingly drunk and rambunctious in a shockingly unmediated environment. They didn’t promote the film: they embodied its chaos. youtube.com/watch?v=EF9E...

Now I've had the time of my life No, I never felt like this before

HBUDT

If working during the dotcom era taught me anything at all, it’s that predicting specific outcomes from new technologies is foolish, but go off dude.

Yeah, I was just thinking, know what we haven’t had in three day? Rain.

Still thinking about this movie, and of our cinephile pope, and his standoff with administration thugs this morning. This 1955 film is very “of the moment.”

My Letterboxd review of Bad Day at Black Rock

New Playlist, but it’s outtakes of English rock musicians arguing in the studio that we’re added as bonus tracks to album re-releases.

Bluesky today

Anyone else eager for a follow up on whatever happened to that guy at Kim Deal’s school who was into field hockey players?

Uh oh! “Rate Limit Exceeded” seems like a concerning error message to receive on this free ol’ microblogging app.

Aw yeah, Criterion

The AI economy is super normal, yep

Hey Internet, why’d you have to make me learn who Clavicular is?

Torching this lousy work week with a whole album of bangers 🤘

Praise be the stars that implode. From ‘Implosion,’ by Italo Calvino.

Guillermo del Toro's Oscar-winning dark fantasy masterpiece PAN'S LABYRINTH is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a theatrical re-release.

Backdoor to my Chicago home faces west: which means the Windy City blows in a lot of untethered miscellany. This was waiting for me when I stepped outside. About as Chicago as it gets

Good thread here on The Velvet Underground’s studio recording of Sister Ray. Which song, I’m pointing out, because I have to, is also one of the best live long players ever: recorded at The Matrix in San Fran is, at 36+ minutes, just the right length

My BeyondFest Chicagos let me show you them

There are some who call me… Tim.

Boorman and the Devil (Kittredge 2025). This was a delight to watch, followed by a screening of the original on 35mm infamous sequel courtesy of the Academy Film Archive. (A film I’d never seen because of said reputation.)

Anyone want a 2XL black Udo Kier t-shirt that is captioned "TO KNOW DEATH, OTTO, YOU HAVE TO FUCK LIFE IN THE GALLBLADDER"? I love it, but it’s too big for me #BeyondFestChicago

This Magic Moment in Lost Highway These Days in Royal Tenenbaums

Will from Oscarbate with director Tom Stern, Paul Leary &Gibby Haynes discussing Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth and Nothing Butt for BeyondFest Chicago at Music Box. As anarchic as I knew a Butthole Surfers doc would have to be, it ended up beautiful and moving in some surprising ways.