Announcing Gray Day 2026! New Lanark audiobook by @canongate.co.uk narrated by Alan Cumming + five commissioned animations. Celebrating 45 years of Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. 25 Feb 2026, Òran Mór, Glasgow. Tickets via link in bio.

Congrats to composer Jonny Greenwood, who's been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s film 'One Battle After Another'! You can get the soundtrack and hear it at jonnygreenwood.lnk.to/obaa

🔥FOR ALL MANKIND SEASON 5 IS COMING ON MARCH 27 ON APPLETV 🔥

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Today is the 80th birthday of DAVID LYNCH. A day to celebrate the birth of an artist who forever changed the world of art and culture. And our lives. Thank you for everything. Long live The Greatest.

Experience (or relive) the ambience of a European arena while waiting for Radiohead to take the stage - @thomyorke.wastehq.social's 2025 pre-show mix is now available waste.lnk.to/rheuk25.walk...

THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025 A Video Countdown vimeo.com/1156345183

Bowie: The Final Act From a career low to his greatest reinvention - the story of how David Bowie transformed mortality into his masterpiece album Blackstar www.channel4.com/programmes/b...

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

For this week’s Silent Sundays post, I wrote about actress Kathryn Boyd, Norman Studios, and the legacy of THE FLYING ACE (1926). Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/your-silen...

David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans

David Bowie - Outside Tour Rehearsals, NYC (1995) Video of the Day

Depressing report from the BBC about how Kenyans are being lured to Russia's frontline with false promises of jobs in Russia. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Pretty sweet charity shop haul. When I was a teenager I'd always see posters for Emir Kusturica's Underground and like the look of it, but never got around to watching it. Hope it lives up to the poster!

The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

On the road with the ghetto pop star taking on Uganda’s dictator In a rare interview, charismatic presidential candidate Bobi Wine explains why he’s risking it all to stand for elections on January 15 www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms — what to expect from the new Game of Thrones Westeros is back on our screens in a prequel series drawn from the Tales of Dunk and Egg by George RR Martin. The show’s creator spills the secrets www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Why David Bowie is bigger than ever — 10 years after his death The starman was a towering figure in life, but in death he’s gargantuan — and his grip on the public imagination is only growing www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

Deborah Levy: ‘Reality was so dull. Bowie gave us glitter and stardust’ observer.co.uk/undefined/un...

Elvis Mitchell speak to Joshua Safdie on KCRW’s The Treatment about his latest film Marty Supreme. I particularly enjoyed hearing about how Joshua's collaboration with Ronny Bronstein and how their writing process is "quite combative". www.kcrw.com/shows/the-tr...

"There was a reason that Bragg behaved like he was furiously chasing a rabbit – each episode has a dizzying amount to cover in barely 40 mins. Steering the academics and squeezing the right juice out of them, is an art form that Bragg mastered & Glenny must learn" www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-t...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Season One (part 1) - re:View

“I have a harmonium and it’s going to explode in two minutes” Ivor Cutler (1923–2006) – poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist, humorist – was born #OTD, 15 Jan In 2013, to mark what would have been his 90th birthday, BBC Radio 4 celebrated his life & career: 1/7 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

‘I always say, the film is the thing. The film is the thing. It’s the film, the language of cinema. You work so hard & the second it’s finished, people want you to change it back into words.’ - David Lynch

Inside The Making Of David Bowie’s Low Hauntings, punch ups, martial strife and gin, MOJO relives the chaos of Bowie’s first European masterpiece.

"Traffic Lights" by Flea feat. Thom Yorke youtube.com/watch?v=iDdl...

“‘Can you be a good writer and a good person?’ he muses into his Zoom camera, vaping every few seconds.” Eric Olson profiles Karl Ove Knausgaard.

David Bowie: Memo for Radio Show www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

★★★★☆ Can the new Game of Thrones prequel deliver the same fantasy thrills? Set after House of the Dragon, this adaptation of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a pleasingly concise and playful reinvention of the world of Westeros ⬇️

Berry nice to meet you: bumper fruit crop could lead to huge mating season for NZ’s endangered kākāpō After a four-year wait, the abundant fruiting of the rimu tree could inspire the world’s heaviest parrots to boost their population www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This Is Not America by David Bowie & Pat Metheny Group youtu.be/bYkPtYw82f8?...

"Eco, the multi-faceted scholar who spent his childhood in Mussolini’s Italy, drew up a general checklist of features of “Ur-Fascism”. " www.ft.com/content/3610...

Director Josh Safdie on Marty Supreme and the ‘urgency of dreaming big’ The maker of ‘Uncut Gems’ discusses casting Timothée Chalamet and Gwyneth Paltrow in his Oscar-tipped new ping-pong drama www.ft.com/content/e71e...

Marty Supreme film review — Timothée Chalamet electrifies pulsating ping-pong thriller www.ft.com/content/4489...

Fantastic Voyage It's No Game (Pt.1) Jump They Say Modern Love Cactus Be My Wife Little Wonder Fall Dog Bombs the Moon Lazarus Ashes to Ashes

game recognizes game. shout-out to Paul Thomas Anderson shouting out Thomas Pynchon (that's with a "y," Google) at the Golden Globes

‘There are certain places where the same people keep colliding. Maybe these are just natural intersections on the map, or maybe there’s more to it: in the disturbed fabric of European spacetime, the tiniest crack may inescapably pull you in.’ Daniel Soar on Pynchon. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Despite all its intensely realistic and viscerally physical action, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film “One Battle After Another,” which is up for nine Golden Globes tonight, is “a work of grand symbolic design,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/fnZ58t

Pink Floyd reunite two sections of ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond’ for a masterpiece of epic proportions Continuous version of 1975 song labelled ‘Pts 1 to 9’ appears on 50th anniversary box set of ‘Wish You Were Here’ www.ft.com/content/13b1...

Leonardo DiCaprio and director Paul Thomas Anderson talk about the fight to save cinema, their Oscar-tipped hit One Battle After Another www.thetimes.com/culture/film...

The McIlhenny Company has made Tabasco sauce using the same recipe since 1868: red peppers, vinegar, and salt. Since it is aged in bourbon barrels, it takes 5 years to fill just one bottle. And most of this process still happens where it began: Avery Island, Louisiana www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqBK...

Google recently Incorporated Gemini into Gmail by default. You can turn it off in settings by turning off 'Smart Features', but then you disable: spelling, grammar, autocorrect and categories. All of which pre-date AI. Enshitification's relentless march continues.

🦌 🦏 Tiny 13kg deer takes on 1.7-tonne rhino at Wroclaw Zoo A case of David vs Goliath at Wroclaw Zoo, as a tiny 13kg deer takes on a nearly two-tonne rhinoceros and appears to come out of the clash on top.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

Tomorrow on BBC Radio 4: The Goblin King and Me by Paul Magrs; a drama inspired by a real-life encounter with David Bowie. A young boy meets Bowie at a pivotal moment and receives advice that quietly changes his life. 📻 Drama on 4 | Thurs 8 Jan, 14.15.

How the Muppet Show Began in Britain www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

In Lazarus, the author Alexander Larman chronicles how David Bowie burst out of the doldrums of his mid-career years to have a last creative blast www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Louise is in a mood. From A Social Celebrity (1926).

happy anniversary of christopher columbus mistaking manatees for mermaids and complaining about how mid they were