New drinking game for every time the announcer says “Milano Cortina 2026”

Western Ghats: Marshall Trammell (percussion from Kansas City) and Me (on veena) westernghats.bandcamp.com/album/ask-th...

I run a micro label of mostly mine and my friends' music. It's bandcamp Friday, so check it if you like: space psych or heavy improv played on guitars, snares, veena, cracked pedals, voice, bottles or comps of pre-war south Indian instrumental music from 78s. branchdravidian.bandcamp.com/merch

Was he wearing a velcro suit? lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...

"32 live performances of Sonic Youth’s 'The Diamond Sea' plunderphoniclly orchestrated by John Oswald (of Grateful Dead 'Grayfolded' fame) – providing two distinctly new experiences of the classic track from Washing Machine."

Record Store Day is awfully close to April Fool’s Day, but if this is real, you might just see me in the line up!

Bandcamp Friday is coming up this week. Good time to grab…

An exquisite pair of albums coming our way…

These loops don’t seem to disintegrate, no matter how hard you try…

Film as a field should have agreed upon terms. The context creep of the term Expanded Cinema is unfortunate. We’ve already lost the original meaning of the term “found footage”. Wiseman already has “reality fictions” (or “observational cinema” which he despises)

Millions of theatre goers finally give their answer…

#CDFriday @erstwhile.bsky.social and @yukozama.bsky.social are having a 20% off sale plus free shipping after $50 (US) or $140 (International) until Feb 8. Good time to catch up on the labels…

I hear rumours that MTV is trying to back out of producing the BARRON reality TV show.

MELANIA will not be showing in theatres in France, because distributors there were afraid of similar cases of Melannui.

Been signing my emails, “Thank you to your attention to this matter,” just to get a little bit more movement on my requests.

Ariel Pinkie

Are there less experimental films being added to the registry than usual? www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

I love the convention of interviewing audiences after the premiere of a film. This one, after the first MELANIA screening, is particularly compelling…

My apologies for my MELANIA jokes. A friend just reminded me that the first rule of comedy is “punch up, not down.”

I thought the Stock Exchanges were intended for making good investments

Viral marketing vs. Herd Immunity

Canada got into the act with an entire grocery store brand

"You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to see a movie," says Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos

From the Executive Branch that brought you Hillbilly Elegy!

I love it when architects throw shade…

“Just one ticket has been sold for the first 3.10pm screening on Friday at its flagship Islington branch in London, while two have been booked for 6pm.” The Melanoma is metastasizing… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Melamania? No, more like Melanoma. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Sly, Robbie and Sinéad RIP, all The music is forever youtu.be/btmqe27GfL8

Any good alternatives to Vimeo, where you can still password-protect videos you upload?

Disappointed to learn that “Half Speed Master” is not the same as Screwed and Chopped

There was a man named Jack who rode upon a golden calf And he brought great joy to all the little girls and boys He suffered endlessly for what he couldn't help but see The great hypocrisy of a Trumped up world m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rIU...

Can the FIFA Peace Prize be revoked, shared or transferred to others? I just want some clarity before we give too many of them out.

A shrewd geopolitical ploy to avoid having him invade Norway.

Hope she got the FIFA Peace Prize in return.

Ivermectin doesn’t seem to be working as hoped, but at least there won’t be intestinal worms in heaven.

I think describing the power of these videos as primarily evidentiary misunderstands how they actually function. We've known since at least the Rodney King trial that video doesn't guarantee consequences. Instead, we should think of them as political texts that galvanize the otherwise unengaged.

Gendertrash From Hell, Mirha-Soleil Ross’ zine from the 90s, just got collected and republished: anotherstory.ca/lists/LMvAYO...

When filmmakers say their print is "wet from the lab" it is usually hyperbole, however Bela Tarr actually meant it

My partner and I had rushed from another screening and could only find a place on the aisle floor to watch the film. Fortunately the ushers didn’t make us move… it was a great spot from which to see WERKMEISTER HARMONIES unfold.

This print had been rushed from the lab in time for the premiere and was still wet. The revisers at TIFF rolled it back and forth on their rewinds at Cherry Street in a mad attempt to dry it. They managed to project it but the premiere screening destroyed the first print.

“Where is the hope, Mr. Tarr?” - TIFF film festival audience member at the premiere of WERKMEISTER HARMONIES “The hope is that you are here, watching this film.” - Béla Tarr

I’ve got my year end list for 2026 all ready. See you in 2027!

🌟🎬 Happy holidays from LIFT! Please help us reach our year end fundraising goal of $20,000. Donations will help to make our 45th anniversary year our best year yet! Thank you for keeping us in your year end giving plans. 💖 Donate: www.lift.ca/donate

🌟🎬 Happy holidays from LIFT! Please help us reach our year end fundraising goal of $20,000. Donations will help to make our 45th anniversary year our best year yet! Thank you for keeping us in your year end giving plans. 💖 Donate: www.lift.ca/donate

Toronto’s film production access centre, LIFT, had set a fundraising goal of $45,000 by our 45th birthday on April 8, 2026, with the goal of half of that by the end of the year! Thank you for keeping LIFT in your year-end giving plans. 💖 www.lift.ca/donate

Happy motion smoothing with the relatives, for all who celebrate!

Knausgaard’s SCHOOL OF NIGHT - the Morningstar series feels like Stephen King for adults, but Knausgaard is such a master of introspection that you get absorbed into the characters’ psyche overwhelmingly. 1/2

Christmas time. The one time of the year that you might have a little bit of time to go to a movie, but all the programming is Christmas themed.

Nice Don Cherry tribute #CDFriday