#NowPlaying More sounds for hot weather.

#NowPlaying More music for hot weather. Wordless vocals, rumbling double bass and skittering percussion. Perfect.

It's so hot that all I can do is watch a Sky documentary about The *Hells Angels. *No apostrophe, motorcycle gang and organised crime fans.

It has come to my attention that a lot of Bluesky users do not know what a sentence is. #NameAFilm

#NowPlaying hot enough to break out the trance-inducing Italian space rock.

Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

Cat: I must adopt this peculiar pose in order to combat the infernal heat. Also cat: I intend to perform this act on the warmest blanket in the house. Still cat: Don’t even.

Left: Welcoming a new draft of a poem Right: Looking at it again next morning

The famous airport scene climax of #TheBigCombo has drawn comparison to Casablanca as a kind of low-rent version of the latter film’s ending. But Casablanca had Van Nuys Airport and an army of little people to cheat perspective. Alton had two lights and a fog machine. #TheNoirCollective #FrightClub

#TheBigCombo director Joseph H. Lewis: “We had an airport to shoot, and (John Alton) made a suggestion to me: “Drape the stage in black velvet and we’ll put a revolving light that goes around… you will have an airport and I’ll have it for you in about 10 minutes.” #TheNoirCollective #FrightClub

While reading this I thought of Beckett's last work WHAT IS THE WORD, written four months before his death as aphasia closed in. It sums up his life, & Marinker ends up quoting it to the journalist -

The great Beckett actor Peter Marinker has Alzheimer's. He's doing Krapp again, which he last did in 1983. Beckett's estate has such respect for his work that they've allowed some changes to the staging to make the production about his disease - www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/j...

HT to @jorcru.bsky.social for the suggestion but here is my favourite insane practical stunt. Jean_Paul Belmondo in The Burglars (Henri Verneuil, 1971). Yes, that is Belmondo, doing all that madness himself. Other Belmondo stunts will be accepted. youtu.be/ErISCQRVVpo?...

A few modern classical heads follow me so retweeting this for them and for Matt.

Rick Rubin doing ads for polymarket is really very validating for my long-held belief that that dude is a legendary fraud, huckster, and quack. Fuck that guy.

A new Roy Montgomery album that's a full collaboration with Martha Skye Murphy, you say?

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After following numerous vinyl collector accounts on Instagram for the past year I have come to realise that many of the rarest records in the world are little more than bad blues rock with shoddy vocalists.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

I am sitting here with the curtains closed and just a bra & skirt on.

Eephus was the perfect film for a hot afternoon (though it would be just as good in the golden light of an autumn evening or any weather really...) If you are in the UK you may have to find it through unorthodox means. letterboxd.com/marie_philli...

Should have included this one yesterday for the unsung albums.

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The Cheers set is so great because it was designed by Richard Sylbert, who designed Baby Doll, Splendor in the Grass, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Rosemary's Baby, Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Chinatown, Shampoo, Dick Tracy, Carlito's Way, etc. 🤪

Just wow. I Googled to see if 18th century artist Henry Fuseli had ever painted Orpheus and Eurydice, and AI overview said: "It appears you may be blending the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the distinct, spiraling noodle known as fusilli"

I've not even got a cardigan on.

youtu.be/BxAkvEwdQok?... appropriate weather music and one of the handful of Indie Sleaze bands I’d go to bat for

Lovin' this heat. 🔥

Ten years since the Brexit Vote means ten years since MOJO magazine made me redundant. A tough time but that also means ten years without workplace anxiety and bad management i.e. one of the best things that ever happened to me. Also, MOJO now has an amazing editor, their best in 25 years.

oh for goodness sake

@melikhovo.bsky.social Thank you for the Aickmanesque list tweet, Matthew.

Wonderful list of films here for Aickmanians. Would be interesting to consider some of these in view of recent discussions of "liminal horror" films.

Sometimes smooth. Sometimes not. Always perfect in their own way. Thanks to Bloomberg Philanthropies for supporting this project through their Digital Accelerator, allowing us to improve our technology infrastructure so we can help you connect with the UK's nature and heritage.

Fascinating to compare the Lily Allen and Olivia Rodrigo break up albums, both of them song cycles telling a single story. Allen's is playful and scorching but wears thin very fast. Rodrigo's is far more subtle, introspective and self-aware, a pure pop masterpiece that deepens with multiple listens.

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

L'influenceur masculiniste néonazi Clavicular était à Paris pour la Fête de la musique afin de valider sa théorie des « mâles alpha ». Mais l'expérience ne s'est pas passée comme prévu.

I'm just surprised that Anthony Fantano is still a thing.

really feeling my soul swooning with Ballads today. big thanks to the @aquariumdrunkard.com essay on this release that I'd stupidly skipped over for years in favor of Coltrane's more exploratory, out-there works of the time.

Ronaldo insisting on fucking his team when he's not wanted. What could this possibly remind me of? 🤔 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Going through a bunch of interviews I did for my next @mojomagazine.bsky.social feature and how's this for a quote: "Sometimes he played something where he wouldn't play hardly anything. Then he'd play something that was so beautiful, it made me want to stop singing forever and just listen."

Transcription mishearing: Hammond B3 Organ = Ham and beefy Oregon.

Hot enough for The Triffids, I think. open.spotify.com/playlist/2pG...

Fragment of a dream from last night: A man on a TV news show saying with great authority, “All you’ll hear when you ask them is that it turned into a pot. Well of course it did.”