Chrissie Hynde is selling her lime-green 1971 Pontiac Firebird LeMans T-37. It's a beaut. bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/...

I wrote something about older people (ie me) on screen. "Feisty, frail or fiendish: why do film-makers still insist on shoving older characters into stereotypes?"

Slayer - - - youtu.be/m2YJ7aR25P0?... Metallica Megadeth Anthrax

BBC News

I’ve been going down a bit of a rabbit hole about Toni Basil as a result of this thread. OMG! What a story! What a woman! She’s an international treasure.

I wrote about 'Breakaway' a little while ago

When I was writing a book about the Pharcyde, one of them mentioned that Toni Basil used to hook them up with gigs as backing dancers for hip-hop videos when they were teenagers. Me: Wait…you guys knew Toni Basil. “Yeah, of course. Toni’s a g.”

This has just reminded me that while back I spent more time than is reasonable tracking down all the vintage paperbacks that inspired the books in a Toni Basil music video from 1983 www.youtube.com/watch?v=21VD...

Thread. 🧵 When I interviewed Toni Basil back in 2021 we were both kind of amazed that there still hadn’t been a full-length bells-and-whistles documentary made about her incredible life. These people won’t be with us forever, you know.

The Harbour in Trieste (1907) by Egon Schiele

Tell me about it.

Was #DavidBowie the anchor being? Is that why everything has gone so spectacularly to hell? We spoke to @danielnothing.bsky.social about the pain of 2016 and the endless parade of celebrity deaths, starting with the one that shocked us the most. Episode 3 - 2016: Annus Horribilis. 1 October.

She was just out on a date when Death grabbed her w/ his teeth and pulled her away. Nasty one by Hans Baldung Grien. It's his day.

Late September Saturday afternoon mood

Conde Nast sucks.

I’m of the opinion that any drama trope can be utilised well and simply spotting tropes is not the same as valid criticism (“oh, another flawed detective!”) However, I’d be blissfully happy if I never saw another crime drama with plot centred around a kidnapped wife/daughter.

Lovely film.

Rory (aka Lee Marvin) update: Still cute. Still silly. Still tiny.

What I’m wearing to the Rapture

What I'm wearing to the Rapture.

Listening to a deluxe remastered 70s space-rock classic reissue and playing it next to the original and Christ but it sounds bad. Muffled, muddy, vocals pushed to the front and everything else a background sludge. I despair of how bad some reissues are at the moment. 1/2

There was a poem of dedication to Thomas !

the UK bookshop.org site has a competition where if you buy from them between today and the 24th, any book sitewide, you can win a £250 gift card to spend on books. i like this because even if you don't win you still have a book uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

Overheard (man on bike at traffic lights): “Neutral? Neutral!? I’m not fucking neutral in anything and especially this. Neutral.”

Listening to William Basinski to deal with this whole mess.

#NowPlaying An evening listening to Michael Chapman play guitar is an evening well spent.

The best thing about the new Bluesky bookmarking feature is that I can save @oddthisday.bsky.social's excellent stories for when I have the time to appreciate them. Everyone should be following him.

One of the great country voices. Love Sammi.

A moment, please, to appreciate @mariephillips.bsky.social amazing one sentence @letterboxd.social review of Max Ophuls’ Madame De… boxd.it/b8tLrh

I love The Seven Stars and all its be-ruffed cats passim. #RIP Thomas Paine.

I can’t remember who recommended it to me, but we just watched The Earrings of Madame de… and I am simultaneously heartbroken and swooning. What a gloriously beautiful tragic waltz of a film.

What our dog smells of today: Burning sock factory.

Period instrument Haydn string quartets, from a French independent label.

#NowPlaying This is properly amazing.

Don't care what it is, I'm buying this record immediately.

Idle Moments #Hank

Sunday #Hildy

“I trust that the taste of the golden cereal refreshes you.” “No sir, it does not refresh me! Corn, in its natural state, is not a small toasted flake!”

Good morning #NowPlaying

"...they thought attacking @archive.org would be an easy way to hide their unfair and extractive practices from working musicians.” www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/16/g...

In a lovely thread about cool bumper stickers someone posted this. I understand the thinking but it’s like placing a turd in a bouquet of flowers to make us aware of how beautiful the flowers are (and how much you don’t like turds). We know turds exist. We don’t need this lesson. Don’t do this.

10 Favourite TV Comedies Flight of the Conchords Green Wing Cheers New Girl Better Things Somebody Somewhere Northern Exposure M*A*S*H (UK broadcast with no laugh track only) Parks and Recreation Obviously hugely tarnished, but Father Ted

I just finished listening to the audiobook of his memoir, and he mentions this line - it's 'I'm bored as a cat' - as one he's always thought was a bit duff. I disagree, though your alternative is arguably better! His reading of the audiobook is really great btw - he properly puts his back into it.

I have never wanted to meet a person based on theeir bumper stickers until now.

Favourite 10 TV comedies, in no particular order. Cheers The Phil Silvers Show Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads Porridge First Ten Years Of The Simpsons New Girl 30 Rock Hancock The Larry Sanders Show Better Things

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

“The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of contemporary violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects … is to succumb to violence.” ~ Thomas Merton

#Earworm Never been able to work out whether Jon King was singing "I'm so restless/I bought us a cat" or "I'm so restless/I'm bored as a cat" both of which would work and make sense. youtu.be/LY-EVv1NV7k?...

Can confirm, this is lovely. Seems perfect for a day when I've been making bramble jelly and drinking Lapsang (but still wearing shorts and having to dodge occasional blustery showers).

She’s a smooth scrap of paper.