Conde Nast sucks.

It's wild that this album is 20 years old even though (or because?) it sounded 30 years old when it came out.

I don't even drink coffee yet whenever I am near a coffee shop I really wanna go in and say this

Almost exactly a year ago the D-backs blew an 8-0 lead and they ended up 1 game out of the playoffs. I didn't think about that at all when they went up 8-0 today, nope not at all :) (They won today). www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/dia...

The fact that one of my two fave teams is still in the hunt (barely) and the other is playing spoiler, and they play in two different time zones, means I have watched like 24 hours of baseball a day lately.

Black Flag interviewed by Ian MacKaye and (pre-Black Flag) Henry Rollins in 1981, as seen in the great new Descenes/Discords 'zine anthology (www.diwulf.com/products/ava...) Notice Henry's first question is "Why don't you have any songs about politics?"

feel like the story of arts/culture/journalism in my lifetime is mass media has become increasingly expensive/unprofitable so only able to be supported by the ultra rich at the same time as when the ultra rich have become more insane/evil/disgusting

Holy Victor Robles

I have mixed feelings on expanded playoffs but the current format is making a good case for itself in the AL, if only 5 of these teams made it in it would kinda screw the one that didn't

MYRIAM GENDRON IN PARIS via @oiedecravan.bsky.social youtu.be/65biC_KigV0?...

Tonight I learned that since the D-backs traded Josh Naylor to Seattle his base-stealing prowess has caused him to be dubbed Thicky Henderson. www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

I'll be speaking at the UMD School of Music next Friday, September 26 at 4pm in the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at UMD. Free and open to all, this talk covers the D.C. punk fanzine scene's work during the culturally turbulent period in the early 90s when alternative rock went mainstream.

Since there's a new Pavement best-of coming out in a few months, here's a piece I wrote in 2020 about what I'd like to see on an alternate-universe Pavement greatest hits daily.bandcamp.com/lists/paveme...

My latest Spool's Out tapes review column is up at @thequietus.com full of wonderful, bizarre, magical sounds, including the best cassette of gnome-inspired computer music I've head in quite some time. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

I like these political posts that are like "No one is coming to save us. It's up to us." Kinda sounds like a contradiction.

For Constitution Day, here's 30% off a book chronicling the true story of a constitutional law dispute that pitted the president, VP, congress, NRA and America's police forces against a hardcore band from South Central LA: www.bloomsbury.com/us/body-coun...

I like the dodgers but if they’re gonna blow a game I like it when it’s Treinen’s fault.

On the night of the record release show for the Cars’ debut album, drummer David Robinson’s dad told the press he liked them but he liked Black Sabbath more. (From Bill Janovitz’s forthcoming Cars bio)

New episode of The Music Book Podcast- a chat with Ellen Koskoff on “Bittersweet Sounds of Passage: Balinese Gamelan Angklung Cremation Music,” her amazing exploration of a ceremonial ritual that the participants don’t even consider music. themusicbookpodcast.buzzsprout.com/2120946/epis...

Ric Ocasek was born before Neil Young.

Love these stories from Ian MacKaye about not knowing who the Velvet Underground and the Stooges were (from an interview in Howard Wuelfing's new anthology of his 80s fanzines: www.diwulf.com/products/ava...)

I have seen three movies in the theater this year: “Flow,” “Cat Video Fest 2025,” and “The American Southwest.” I wanna keep my streak of movies with no humans going if anyone can recommend anything else along those lines.

this is very much obviously a Cis Person Trying to Understand narrative and is dated in a lot of ways (deadnaming, trapped in the wrong body etc) but the essence of it is very sweet and humane. the fact that he ends it on “she’s still the same brilliant artist and we wish her all the best” rules

Not gonna get my hopes up because D-backs have almost zero relief pitching but still insane that they’re this close after selling so much at the trade deadline.

Me at every store except record and book stores

Really tempted to buy 100 Taco Bell 7-layer burritos and a new freezer.

People I knew in high school who were pissed about having to write 2 paragraphs about current events in Social Studies sure do like to write 5000 words on Facebook about current events.

New 22-minute improve from Bruce Russell and Robbie Yeats of the Dead C. up on Bandcamp today brucerussell.bandcamp.com/album/yeats-...

LOL I didn't notice til now that when you block someone it blurs their profile pic. Made blocking Sally Jenkins even more fun.

Boy the D-backs are the kings of coming back to get a lead late and giving it up right afterwards.

These late night angels mariners extra inning games are my jam

These Seattle unis with the dark blue shirts and black pants with yellow trim are super awesome looking.

There's a pretty new podcast about SUN CITY GIRLS called "The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Podcast," hosted by the mind(s) behind The Self-Portrait Gospel podcast, and I was psyched to be the guest for their 5th episode, check it out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Big FELT kick here lately. Probably my second fave UK band of all time after the Fall. youtu.be/jJUZf0SFDvA?...

Kate Schellenbach from Luscious Jackson on "When I Was a Beastie Boy" lusciousjackson.substack.com/p/when-i-was...

New @chloeharris.bsky.social CD out today on @quietdetails.bsky.social and it's so good! Listening party on Bandcamp tomorrow. quietdetails.bandcamp.com/album/the-ab...

holy SHIT the Goslings are finally on bandcamp. all three records (plus extras!) are among the best noise i've ever heard. they just put out a comp of early/rare stuff, and i heard because one of them replied to an email of mine from 2008. bless!

If you need some peace and quiet might I suggest you go to a Marlins game

I feel like this is gonna come up sooner or later so I might as well get ahead of it: I am, and always have been, opposed to organizing your books by color.

Orcutt Shelley Miller in Oakland this past Saturday, shot by Brian Faulkner www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsGh...

Baseball is so good, my favorite team is desperately bad yet they’ve won 5 of 6 including scoring 5 in the ninth today vs the Cubs’ closer to come from behind and win. There’s always a chance something good might happen in baseball.

which of these would you be more embarrassed to wear

You can sing the chorus of Duran Duran’s “Girls on Film” over the bass riff of Television’s “Little Johnny Jewel”

great Ramones story from Sahan Jayasuriya's Die Kreuzen oral history out now on @feralhouse.bsky.social

Daniel Johnston, "Burn Baby Burn" danieljohnston.bandcamp.com/track/burn-b...

Happy 83rd bday to Werner Herzog. In the 90s I saw him intro/Q&A an opening of Little Dieter Needs To Fly & I remember thinking wow he's still going strong at his age! He was only 55 lol. But he had been making movies for almost 30 years at that point & was already a full-on legend. Insane career.