New CD/EP on Frolic Press Recordings from Leslie Keffer, known for her work with Sonic Youth. Release party tonight. Remix EP soon w/ @fire-toolz.bsky.social, Bill Nace, Unicorn Hard-On, datewithdeath, Safie Flato. frolicpressrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/embody

Peter Greenaway: Why should we allow surrealism to have tyranny over the imagination? George Oppen: Yeah, yeah. I don’t know. But I have this point to make about consciousness. Greenaway: You can’t do that with a video tube, in the same way. www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/...

The grind of submitting copy twice a month and cashing book advances while your assistants do the writing? Yeah, I guess he needs a break.

Painting by Kate Jarvik Birch ‘Summer Rain’ 2025. Gouache on paper. Dimensions 6 x 6 Inches.

The Projection Booth podcast is at its best when confronted with terrible movies and exploring the waya they're terrible - have been really enjoying the Megalopolis and Dark Knight Rises episodes

horror story about Casey Kasem, being told he has to keep making America’s Top 40 in the afterlife. At first he’s fine, but then more and more confused & rattled in the streaming era, never told WHY these changes happened structurally or culturally, just being given the songs & stats in isolation.

Re: last RT As someone who has now fixed several home appliances with various issues— do not buy appliances with unnecessary smart functions or computer boards. The mainly mechanical versions are far superior and when they do break you can usually fix them yourself for less than $50 in parts.

I’m sure all kinds of wishes are being sent up internationally for this … person, but they aren’t well wishes.

One day we'll have a real president again.

It’s adorable how deeply David from the Blank Check podcast loves the “Master and Commander” movie

“It's an important symbol and when the symphony erodes, that's the sounding of an alarm for the health of actual civilization. I've spouted this from stages in front of most of the orchestras in the country. Audiences may have tired of hearing it.” stereogum.com/2501084/ben-...

“For me, and the life that I’ve lived, there’s certainly not a bow on the end, but while I was finishing the book, we were watching elders getting hit with rubber bullets on national TV while trying to pray for clean water.” worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/...

The cost of Solar panels and batteries has come down massively over the last 2-4 years. We should have these systems everywhere! Oil is a necessary evil, for now. But we need to rapidly move to renewables everywhere.

I wrote the Noise, Industrial, and Beyond column this issue.

Sometimes it’s just an “I Am An Elephant” day m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj2r...

Trump posted his Iran "Documents of Surrender" fantasy on May 18. Then again May 26. Then again just now. Verbatim. Three times. Surely the third time's a charm.

How can any member of Congress vote for a big budget increase for the Trump War Machine Pentagon when they go to absurd extremes to hide everything they are doing from the American people?

Cartoon by Steve Breen

My new Substack is my interview with Jasper Lee on my work and new approach.

Elena Wuest - An Afternoon Tea II, 2026 - Oil on canvas

Thomas Blackshear II, American (1955- ), Airman’s Inspiration, 2020, oil on canvas, 33 x 29 in, private collection

The Lotus Pond. Jean-Adriene Le Mayeur

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

slap that quote on a series of billboards

May 19, 2019 - Ardmore, Pennsylvania Malkmus solo tour with Eleanor Friedberger opening, where, amazingly, I met and shook hands with Eleanor. Anyway, 📸 by me.

Happy 60th Birthday to Stephen Malkmus (Photo by Robbie Augspurger)

I had occasion to explain what we did in Minneapolis to a kid from L.A. this week who was traveling and we were both crying at the end. Some of the fear and trauma just had to get out, and the solidarity is just so beautiful

I wish I didn't have to live in a political nightmare every day. And none of us had to. This sucks so bad. There shouldn't even be a MAGA party it should be laughed into the shadows where it belongs. Same for establishment corporate Dems that let us suffer & fail to fight MAGA. This has to change

BREAKING: The Titanic musicians have backed out of Freedom 250.

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

It feels so good to walk without being in a hurry (and not being in a city).

here's to Stephen Malkmus at 60 (from this interview: therumpus.net/2014/04/21/t...)

Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Happy 60th birthday to Mr. Stephen Malkmus of Bag of Bones, Echoslavia, the Silver Jews, Pavement, the Jicks, the Hard Quartet, and perhaps your dreams

It is amazing we Americans have sunk so low in citizenship that we have to remind voters that electing convicted candidates is a bad idea.

Off the top of my head: Brian Eno - Reflection Miles Davis - Kind of Blue Atlas Sound - Logos Stereolab - Dots and Loops Matmos - Suprem Balloon

"We're having scandals like this every week—literally every week, and sometimes daily. There are no words to really describe the depth of the depravity, the mendacity and the corruption that we're seeing from this administration."

The guys reach the final film wiseman-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/menu...