2025 was a tough year and I think I sought comfort for monthly listening. Looking forward to more discoveries in 2026.

Sad to hear. My son and I picked up Hiding Dinosaurs at our first MICE, his very first signed book and one that we read many times together before bedtime. Rest in peace.

Building a walk-in closet but for all my cables and dongles.

Another Christmas, another moment in the year when I browse eBay and wonder if I should take the plunge and get myself an Atari 800.

Visionary call from the renowned tech optimist *checks notes* Martin Luther King Jr.

"Guided by evolution, eyes are living paintbrushes." Ed Yong: An Immense World

I went over there to see if Ed Handley and Andy Turner had said anything in the wake of Ken Downie's passing.

Evergreen.

Maker of some of my favorite music. Rest in peace.

Looking back on 2025 and looking forward to 2026, in the words of Autechre.

PLAY XTAL

When I am king, there will be a 13th month with zero new releases so I can catch up on all that I missed during the year. (All artists will be generously compensated during their enforced vacation.)

"In May of 1996 Cocteau Twins were well into the Milk and Kisses tour... What you have here is a backup live stereo recording (DAT tape) that I ran off while mixing the sound in mono for the web feed." - Lincoln Fong, Nov. 2025, on his remastered version of the webcast from September Sound Studio.

Augmented reality. bsky.app/profile/simo...

Good parenting.

Oh you’re girlfriend is an ai chatbot how cute. My girlfriend is artificial intelligence, the seminal IDM compilation released by Warp records in 1993

Cheating a little: this one hallway in GAM Torino (Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art). I felt so happy and overloaded as I walked back and forth.

"Asawa devoted much of her time not to making art about mothering, but to scaling up her artist-mothering to citywide level—what Troeller calls 'caretaking in public.'” newrepublic.com/article/2042...?

I'm enjoying this account, and I would dearly love someone to make Random NME and Random Melody Maker.

ㅋㅋㅋ

Morning listening. I bought these mostly for the covers. Remember doing that? That was fun.

Thinking tonight of the long-lost middle school friends that I watched Stand by Me with, all cramped together on the sofa and floor as the fuzzy bootleg Beta tape played. Rest in peace.

Tears while watching this and mourning Gainax.

It’s nice to know that while Hong Kong has changed a lot in 40 years one of POLICE STORY’s most iconic film locations is still around and easily accessible: Wing On Plaza in TST East.

After a grim day yesterday I was in 2 minds about whether to go see the @mikiberenyi.bsky.social trio at the Cavern last night, but I’m so glad I did! Fabulous performance, just what I needed; music uplifts us and gives us hope! Support those bands and venues people, they are the best - thanks all 🙏

Nox by Anne Carson should be studied.

it's too late, I have already depicted myself as the cool ass pipe smoking guy using the panasonic rl-h1400 hhc pocket computer with rl-p4001 acoustic coupler and you as the seiko uc-2100 calculator watch expansion

Friday triple-bill with a friend back in college: sneaking in sushi into the Brattle for La Dolce Vita, followed by Jarman's Blue at HFA, and ending with a riotous MIT student crowd for Hard Target. A good day.

I'd love an Appleseed game like this.

2025.12.10

I was adding some items to a list of favorite quotes that I keep, and I saw this old favorite: They're probably in the future somewhere worrying about why it isn't like the past. - Sean Booth of Autechre when asked about Boards of Canada during a Twitch AMA on June 5, 2022

This looks cool.

rei harakami『lust』 Happy Birthday rei harakami！🎂🎂🎂 #nowplaying #今日のレコード #reiharakami

really became familiar with his work through the covers he did for Talk Talk, and it’s always instantly recognizable to me — love this “wunderkammer” illustration for the Omni cover, makes me think of how he referenced his past work for Talk Talk for later compilation releases too

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

You will be visited by 3 spirits.

"High quality rip of Projections, a series of short music videos Derek Jarman made for The Pet Shop Boys for their first tour. It was released in europe on VHS exclusively in PAL in 1993. An NTSC version of it exists as well, apparently released in Canada."

In-N-OutKast

Starting now. Live stream: www.youtube.com/live/a3-OJxx...

Looks great, sounds great. Also: "made of glass and pain" is a very relatable state of being.

There is a silent battle going on between people who think hoarding lost media so nobody else can see it is really funny, & those that think sharing lost media on the internet for free to piss those people off is even funnier. You will not learn of this in your history books.

the weird internet still exists. www.awintersolstice.com

Been getting into club photography lately…

Friday night vibes. #Atari

Frank Gehry designed the building of my son's daycare (plus a college department or two). It was a pleasure to visit every day for a few years, and the kids sure dug it. Rest in peace.

Monthly listening, December 2025: Oneohtrix Point Never The couple of times in the past when I tried to listen to OPN, it left me cold. (I did enjoy that Ford & Lopatin album.) I'm going to give it another good shot.

I hear Apple has a new design head. As part of his new job, I hope he will spend an hour or two giving the macOS Music app a try.

As good and representative of 4AD as the other, maybe more frequently namechecked releases on the label. Clear Skin is magnificent.