Hello to another day spent guzzling water while surrounded by cooling fans. It's like being Gregor Samsa if he woke up to find himself transformed into a datacentre.

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

‘markwayne.’ that is some trashy shit right there. i shouldn’t have to know about a guy named markwayne until the day im finally ready to hire a monster truck chauffeur

‘dear rax, my middle class parents are ashamed that i clean houses for a living’ www.patreon.com/posts/160262...

Brum heads, banger gig here

This has lived in my head for 2 joyful years 🙏🏼 @jonnymorris.bsky.social

This is happening yards from where I work. Who and what is SXSW London for? Insanely alienating programme, presence of Clegg and George Osborne, music programme seemingly an afterthought.

Casper Kelly who made Too Many Cooks has a movie coming out in a few months and this casting is very promising

Conservative thinking about art is "why are we not making the best most beloved art?" yet their thinking about craft is "this tool's main value is it will put every artist out of a job" and about artistic study is "lol you loser you'll starve with that degree" gee why have they produced no artists.

Absolutely fuck off forever.

I wonder how Charles Hayward is doing in This Heat*

I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.

It’s Albert Finney’s birthday. Obviously, this is one of the greatest scenes in cinema but I also love that it’s the Coens asking ‘what if The Terminator but with an old Irish gangster in slippers & smoking a cigar?’ And a Tommy Gun with an infinite supply of bullets? youtu.be/gOBX9STqprA?...

JG Ballard - Kingdom Come (2006) - Sharing this again for no particular reason on election day

Timeless, unparalleled and singularly magical. Remembering Delia Derbyshire, born on this day 1937.

Alan Moore in the Observer Q&A today

One of the first records I ever owned age about 4 or 5, this one

Top 15 TV shows, top of my heid Twin Peaks Mad Men The Wire Doctor Who (1963-89) Boardwalk Empire Succession Dad’s Army 30 Rock A Very Peculiar Practice The Thick Of It The Sweeney Star Trek TNG Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads Game Of Thrones (up to S5-ish) The Young Ones

The reason folks of a certain vintage get so passionate about Smash Hits is partly that in its heyday it made the readers feel part of a club. One in which you could be passionate about the music whilst ripping the piss mercilessly out of the musicians.

lol at the guy lifting weights wearing a smiths tshirt. what’re you workin out today man your fuckin. crying muscles

Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes has to rank among the greatest casting coups in history. He's so good I sometimes believe in time travel. That someone went back in time and got Arthur Conan Doyle to invent Sherlock Holmes just so Jeremy Brett could play him a hundred years later.

This was always the coolest movie opening, “this movie is so good that a lion has endorsed it” you’d think

up late just remembering how arrestingly beautiful Point Break is on the big screen

All hardcore Ken Russell fans love him for being able to make a movie that’s somehow both hectic and stilted

shimmy shimmy ya is such a crazy song lol even in 2026 it still sounds like it’s from the future

Of all the celebrities of the last 100 years, FH has got to be the only one who has been the subject of literally zero unflattering photos

Read Grant's article, if only to marvel at this incredible photo of Astrid Kirchherr standing at the front of the queue to the Cavern in 1964, a year after The Beatles had left Liverpool and two years after her boyfriend, Stuart Sutcliffe had died.

'Dr Who death threat to bairns'. The British Safety Council weren't happy with Planet of the Daleks (Aberdeen Evening Express, 9th April 1973)

Rabid hurdy-gurdy, murky DIY sounds from Canada, a shahi baaja and a Javanese kentongan in this month's playlist from the zone. Rum Music for April Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan buff.ly/imlOAGs

One of the very best from Clickhole

“the pharaoh’s tomb is cursed! the necromancer’s ring is cursed! the witch’s grimoire is cursed!” that’s how you sound. everything is fucking cursed with you bro. i don’t care. i’m taking this skull.

Underrated gem which enters my head every month or so without fail

Great record

Thinking about Wild Zero AGAIN!?

Don't let the fact that my fizzog is clearly visible in the front row put you off here

HBD SWOD - nice to see this love letter I originally wrote in 2016 to one of the most epochal slabs of steel doing the rounds. Came out the same day as Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak, for shame!

Still the pinnacle of The Onion's achievements, their Master Of Puppets if you will.

Epochal late '90s moment

What a lifelong bullshitter. So a year before it was released, then?

The Facebook AI prompts are hilariously hopeless. When considering Bill Orcutt, is anyone's first question 'What is his net worth??'

People want Alex Garland and Paul Thomas Anderson to be able to explain things but their failure is that they’re kind of smart. If you want to explain 2026 you needed to give 200 cans of Mountain Dew to Uwe Boll in 2007 and instruct him to direct an adaptation of Catch 22 but not to read it first

RIP Len Deighton, author and illustrator of LEN DEIGHTON’S ACTION COOK BOOK and other works

So many tiny bejeweled moments nestled within this Fabergé egg of a performance. Tom Jones as an L7 Robert Plant. David Crosby looking at Jones like he’s in love. An anxious Stephen Stills giving 110%. Neil Young having a minor epileptic convulsion. Are you not entertained? youtu.be/dIDzA0YDso8?...

Simply Saucer - Dance the Mutation [Canada, Proto-punk] (1989) Dance the Mutation https://redd.it/1ro8kda https://youtu.be/zdV6WBSzWNM

Dylan in Don’t Look Back (Age 14) - drop-dead cool acid-tongued iconoclast (Age 40) - unbearable petulant bell-end. Get over yourself Bob FFS

Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

Blimey!

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

Six years since we lost the Guvnor. Weatherall was a bit of a genius. He used to come into the record shop I worked in back in the day and hang out at the counter listening to the white labels and shooting the breeze and I can confirm that he was a lovely bloke too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUYr...

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