In memory of Brian. There'll never be another.

Brian Case died this week. @petepaphides.bsky.social has written the most beautiful appreciation of his work as a jazz writer. It’s wonderful. And this extract is just as profound about why music writers write about music as it is about jazz.

Friends fear he is throwing himself into bodies of water again

I have made it an annual tradition to document Mark Twain’s hatred of July 4th celebrations, but I saved something special for America 250. Twain was part of the centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. He was part of what the dubbed the “Congress of Authors”…

can't argue with this.

Quick shout out to all the opinions I didn't post online

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.

Things you love to see: youtu.be/AOOYFOnwu8U?...

We don't judge, but we are interested in, your cutlery drawers spoon to Calpol plunger ratio.

One of my favourites of the genre blessedaretheheartsthatbend.bandcamp.com/album/sadnes...

For fans of the apocalypse: thedoomedbirdofprovidence.bandcamp.com/track/darkly...

I need a life coach who can help me monetise walking on the beach with my dog

I like Sampha as much as the next person but that song will be the thing that breaks my now toxic addiction to whatever the 15/30 second clip machine is badged as.

Seeking solace in the sea

Adam Curtis, today, striding boldly past the racks of Paul McCartney CDs, heading straight to Inferno by Boards of Canada and then slapping his £20 note down, confidently, on the counter. Narrator: “But in the process of trying to avoid nostalgia, in reality Curtis had…”

Ok this is a truly great tweet

This is a lovely slow start to a day junihabel.bandcamp.com/album/evergr...

Well youtu.be/1VeBhMvzdKA?...

Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...

That was my 100th post on here in nearly 3 years. When this was twitter and I was cynical for money, 100 posts would be about 3 hours.

I'm looking forward to meeting people who I've spent a year talking about leadership with online so they can one at a time tell me that I'm taller than they thought.

Networking for people who would rather claw their own eyes out than be someone who networks.

I’m not dead. I sleep sometimes. Sleep comes very close to death, everyone knows that. The dead walk in dreams, everyone knows that. They come to you alive, and they say things. They walk out of death into the dreams.

Good morning to everyone apart from the person who created the shortcut to archive a card on Trello.

A magnificent thread about the problem of public pissing in Norwich:

It's hard to be cynical when the weather is nice, but it's important that we keep trying.

Listening to Friko makes me feel like a young man in the prime of his life friko.bandcamp.com/album/someth...

There's no AI without IA etc

Listen to Mary Lattimore and solve hard problems.

Spirit animal.

I've taken to telling people that I am a human being in the world

Recommend nashpaints.bandcamp.com/album/everyo...

She could not be happier that I am ill.

Temporary respite youtu.be/qS6YnbaleeY?...

Don't take good health for granted.

This is pretty special: shakinghandband.bandcamp.com/album/shakin...

I've been putting 20 songs a month in this playlist for a long time. Now it's over 60 hours long and a pretty good shuffle: tidal.com/playlist/b95...

I love the spiritual sound of ecstatic black metal by the band Agriculture youtu.be/G26KMZVUA-8?...

A treat. juliannabarwick.bandcamp.com/album/tragic...

If I put my phone in a drawer will it keep on happening regardless

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Wild geese.

Spoiler tidal.com/playlist/388...

A lot is made of being tall by people who have never walked into a door frame and knocked themselves out.

Enjoyable floaty nonsense tidal.com/playlist/1ce...

Ten years of walking this sweetheart.