updated Zohran Mamdani's discogs profile with the good news

Zohran’s win offers the Bay Area a glimpse at a better future — one where we’re not locked in a room with Gavin Newsom for another four years.

updated Zohran Mamdani's discogs profile with the good news

Someone threw up on the other side of his bed last night

RIP Joseph Byrd. In addition to the great United States of America album, my personal favorite work of his was the severely misunderstood and underappreciated avant-garde arrangement for Phil Ochs' masterwork The Crucifixion

RIP, Joe Byrd, mastermind behind two mind-bending classics: The United States Of America (1968) + Joe Byrd And The Field Hippies' The American Metaphysical Circus (1969). Get 'em both in all formats. He was true one-off, loved by Broadcast, Portishead, & many others. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYAk...

Somehow I don't think I've ever seen Roger Ebert's 1968 review of Night of the Living Dead before. Incredible to think of a bunch of children a expecting a goofy b-movie and instead being exposed to real modern horror

Some amazing album covers I just now realized Roger Dean made, I guess his stuff was not all dragons and fantasy landscapes and whatnot

Some amazing album covers I just now realized Roger Dean made, I guess his stuff was not all dragons and fantasy landscapes and whatnot

Just had my first coffee in four days (took a break due to having covid) and man this shit rocks

Without saying Monster Mash, fav Bobby “Boris” Pickett song?

Ah shit I didn’t know the test line could even be that dark

People who are making really powerful technology where there's no guarantees about who the owner will be 5 years from now really should make an effort to build Death Star exhaust ports into it imo

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Wish I cared about baseball, seems like everyone had a good time tonight

If you’re a coffee person worried about tarriffs I highly, highly recommend getting into home roasting. For a fairly small investment of like $250 you can buy a small air roaster and then bulk green coffee costs like 25% of comparable roasted fancy coffee.

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

It is really annoying that the AI hype is so fucking stupid because honestly the technologies are really impressive and amazing even if they don’t actually do all that much useful stuff. Been playing around with Sora and it is actually incredible what it can produce.

the only forgivable reason to have a totenkopf tattoo is if you were a Death in June fan in the 90s and you regret the tattoo not only because of the nazi symbology but also you realize now that actually Death In June were always crap

Here’s a meme i made

They should tear the whole thing down. Finish the job

Every few months I find myself thinking “i should learn how to change my oil myself”

Always fun to see the Ghostbuster himself popping up in unlikely places as a session guitarist

Silksong more like Sucksong

Once in Korea we went to a bar whose thing was music videos on big screens all around the room. They put on “Untitled (How Does It Feel” and the room fell dead silent. A lot of patrons were seeing it for the first time. When it ended a dude in this group of men said quietly, “he must work out” RIP

A couple of very good finds from an extremely weird antique mart in Weed, CA

A couple of very good finds from an extremely weird antique mart in Weed, CA

After 30+ years of never seeing Nine Inch Nails live I just got the nosebleedingest tickets possible for the SF show in March 👍

Really do not understand how we seem to have lost the technology that allowed us to put more than 20 of music per side on an LP. Man I have plenty of old 50+ minute LPs that sound fine, what the fuck happened? 41 minutes of music? Oh that’s gotta be a double LP set

Extremely underrated & weirdly unknown early fusion group The Fourth Way. Amazing lineup including electric violinist Michael White hot off of Pharoah Sanders’ band, and great piano/synth/effects work from Mike Nock

Without saying The Godfather Part I or II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, or The Deer Hunter, fav John Cazale Film?

I’ve always loved the extremely heavy headline on my great(+great? Can’t remember) grandmother’s obituary

it's cool how the most organized and vocal anti-ai group in the bay area is a bunch of whacko roko's basilisk doomers who think OpenAI is moments away from activating Skynet

Bought the complete Percewood's Onagram CD set on a whim and what an odd band, early psych-prog (german band but not very Krautrocky) played so amateurishly it's actually quite charming. Closest thing I can think of is more pretentious early Mott the Hoople with much worse songwriting

oh my god they're TRYING to start a civil war. that speech last week was supposed to ensure the support of the military and hegseth spent the whole time insulting them and then trump explained why it was smart to be afraid of stairs

I spend so much time thinking about how Mickey Newbury still hasn't gotten his due as a songwriter I forget sometimes how he also still hasn't gotten his due as an absolutely incredible singer. His phrasing and tone are just mindblowing

ME: (explaining The Chinese Room perfectly and in great detail) AI FAN: but how do you know it's not a chinese guy in there

I spend so much time thinking about how Mickey Newbury still hasn't gotten his due as a songwriter I forget sometimes how he also still hasn't gotten his due as an absolutely incredible singer. His phrasing and tone are just mindblowing

I really, really recommend you see this. Kaleb posted this years ago and I have never forgotten it. It sounds insane to say that something based on Dilbert could be haunting and beautiful but it is

I somehow never realized that Jenna Elfman and Danny Elfman are related-ish (Jenna married into the Elfman family)

If only the movie Mountainhead (2025) had been any good it would have been unbelievably timely. Tip to filmmakers: If you're going to make a ripped-from-the-headlines movie it's better to make it trashy than boring

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Sleepy boy

Ethan Hawke is like the only actor who looks like a real person at his real age

She looks so little sleeping on the huge dog bed

And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.

Kaleb Horton RIP.

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

Gotten really into buying these super cheap CD reissue packs lately, 5 CDs for $20 to $30. These NDW sets contain a couple of extremely good albums as well as some less good / bad stuff but that’s part of the fun #CDFriday

Man I think I would have been a great 70s major label record producer, sad that that career path is no longer viable