I totally forgot about this episode of Small Wonder.

Psst...Velvet Goldmine is back on the Criterion Channel.

2026 is already shaping up to be another banner year in horror, if our massive preview is any indication:

at this point you'd think people would start noticing the paradox of lamenting that the health of a musical movement they love to depict as being unruly/rebellious/dangerous/scaring your parents should not be contingent on whether these genre's practitioners go 6x platinum

Happy New Year! I’ve been enjoying my new Playtronica midi controller. Making music with vegetables is a blast. I wonder what else I should try?

When clocks strike midnight on the first day each year, a quiet creative revolution starts as hundreds of works move from private control into the public domain, unlocking stories, songs, and images for anyone to reuse. The world celebrates this big moment with an official Public Domain Day. (1/2)

We keep on keeping on

Somehow made it thru this year. Not back to normal, but not defeated.

I’m very down for this approach. It somewhat falls in line with the kind of storytelling era the show evokes too, ie, mortality based gut punches

What the chicken fried fuck is going on here

New FM-84 album in April, maybe? #synthwave

Happy celestial birthday to unrepentant karaoke snitch @scottwampler.bsky.social I miss you every day.

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

It's been great to watch Nation of Language become a popular band over the years. I was trying to find the 1st time I featured them on Vehlinggo. Looks like it was 2018 on the episode Le Matos & I did to talk abt Summer of 84. Ancient! Anyway, NoL are an extraordinary band & I am so happy for them.

I support Gen Z loving the 2010s, especially the first half. There was good music, film and TV, anyway.

Also, go see “No Other Choice” asap

I haven’t seen Marty Supreme yet, but wow does Lopatin’s score hit hard.

One of the best to ever do it

It takes a certain kind of madness to email me with umbrage about not replying to premiere pitches this week to premiere something *this week.*

In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons… To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.

I feel this. It's no coincidence that gardening was something I enjoyed this year. Fewer devices, less tracking, more care. Paper books, friends IRL, walking, tea, perfume, cinema, gigs... Just be mindful that the attention economy is *not*your friend and not everything is accomplished by shopping.

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

Working on good stuff. But it’s taking so much longer than it used to.

I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon. For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.

PS we have a song about the Yule Cat that all the children learn in school and everyone sings throughout the advent. Here it is sung by a very young Björk.

You do not have to wait at the counter anymore. Memberships & gift cards went mail order 📼✨ Our Video Club memberships or store gift cards are now available to order online! Be kind. Rewind your childhood. Order now at SleepoverTrading.com #VHSLife #VideoStoreForever #PhysicalMedia #RetroCollecting

I wonder if the tech companies care that it’s my youngest friends who are the most vehemently anti-AI, anti-Spotify, anti-Netflix, anti-Amazon

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

one of my deep seated convictions is that NEW JACK CITY deserves a full restoration, criterion release and like, 5000 word essay

I absolutely cried at the end of Scrooged this year.

The Housemaid is better than I expected. My long-term Seyfried fandom remains unabated.

New @lematosband.bsky.social? Yes please. vehlinggo.com/2025/12/23/l...

Some good stuff here

Some good stuff here

The Midnight share their favorite songs of 2025. The releases might not be what you're expecting... vehlinggo.com/2025/12/22/m...

what it's like being in a band with me and you forgot to block my number

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

I keep forgetting to post this but if you'd like to watch the new Kelly Reichardt movie THE MASTERMIND (& so many others) for free, my invite link gives you a 30 day pass to Mubi: mubi.com/t/android/gl...

Sometimes you work with cast or crew just once. Other times you make 5 movies with the same person. So instead of saying goodbye, on the last day of shooting, many of us say “See you on the next one.” Today, I don’t want to say goodbye, so let me just say, PJ, my friend, see you on the next one.

I've never had to do this

Genuinely heartbreaking

wanted to say thank you to @idieyoudie.bsky.social for including my last album in their best of 2025 list, it's a fascinating selection of underground releases and you should check it out anyway. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/17/i... check out the album here: yegods.bandcamp.com

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

NEW LE MATOS lematos.bandcamp.com/track/no-dam...

Austin and Bronwyn are among the nicest people I’ve ever met. Interviewing them 5 times has been easy but fulfilling (for me and readers).

Before MS took my dad's mobility completely, he'd get fatigued and spastic walking long distances, like in an airport. Fuck all the way off with ableist, fascist bullshit.

Call of Cthulhu is live with the homies! It's an ascot day. You know what that means.

Hey losers leave trans folks alone

20 years ago tonight, Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell enjoyed a Lazy Sunday: