they need to stop making all these different movies. just make one movie where everything happens

Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st... www.falloffreedom.com

Orcutt Shelley Miller killing it last night at Thee Stork Club in Oakland. @billorcutt.bsky.social barely visible to most of the room, made up for by his blistering guitar throughout. Picked up orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt..., now (digitally) spinning it on repeat

tuesdays just won't feel quite right for the next while without the frow show. in the meantime, looking forward to diving into those 10+ years of archives!

FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen

There's a great chance to see some aurora tonight! A few tips for the casual observer in this thread. First off, this forecast shows potential overhead aurora (green band) and the edge of where you might be able to see it near the horizon (green line) www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aur...

I didn’t know anything about how the world works before I started spending 15 hours a day on the computer

Thinking abt the Built to Spill "Doug" bench in Boise from 2022.

π is irrational, which means `Math.PI` is only an approximation, the closest JavaScript number (IEEE 754 64-bit float) to π Now that JavaScript has BigInts I propose that we should add a constant `BigInt.PI`, the closest BigInt to π. For symmetry

"Yeah so in my dream everyone was connected man...it was by these computers in yer phone which was portable an, an everyone was really depressed, just bummed out man, so I made these gummies that were made totally made outta weed and sold them to people to eat and chill out...it was far out maaan."

Bobo didn't believe in evolution, so God turned him into a flower.

Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger

living in the future

Perhaps you would like to listen to this new Lidders LP, out this week on Feeding Tube and Cardinal Fuzz. Or maybe it’s next week, I can’t keep up. Regardless, it features LEGENDARY AMBIENT COMPOSER Jeffrey Alexander, yeah you herd right

“What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a … growing sector of the journalism class.” aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool...

Still basking in the afterglow of four nights of @actualylt.bsky.social at the Chapel in SF. Many highlights, but hard to beat Saturday's encore featuring @robynhitchcock.bsky.social singing VU/Floyd/Beatles

beyond psyched for this (and the following 3 nights!!)

If you have a minute & a couple extra bucks, Chuck could use some help. There are mounting medical expenses that need to be dealt with, and recovery is going to impact Chuck’s ability to perform, record, mix/master, etc. - things he relies on to make ends meet. www.gofundme.com/f/chuck-john...

Lovely loud/soft, instrumental/vocal set by Papa M at the Regency, opening for Mogwai

Trying to think of any previous technology that needed this many people out there telling everyone that they're wrong about how it stinks and it is very good and helpfully actually

Okay so lots of people on the TL are struggling with the creation of art and whether it is worthwhile in this moment. Obviously, I think it is, but rather offer some platitudes about that, I’d like to instead talk about my experience of doing this, and what i have learned.

proud to join all the San Franciscans who turned out today!

got knocked over by this piece last night, and listened to the album 3x already since then

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Starting in 5 MINUTES!

Saturday March 8, 3-6pm: we will be taking your requests LIVE on the air for a $100 pledge to the greatest radio station in the world! Do it in advance: pledge.wfmu.org/donate?progr... Pledge to the Todd-O-Phonic Todd show & put your request(s) in “comment for DJ” Listen live -no archive!

Hey North Bay, East Bay, and Sacramento Way….. Luke Schneider and his pedal steel have something to say. And I (Mike) hope to see you on one of these days? Okay?

can't wait to play civ 7 like i play all the other civ games: exclusively play vanilla because expansion packs seem weird, play exactly the same style with the same civ for 1000 hours over the next decade, mostly ignore entire key game mechanics, and consequently never actually get very good at it

A centaur of the Bay Area film community needs help. Yes there many in need at this moment, do what you can where you feel it’s best directed. gofund.me/dec54c1b

Wrote about my favorite performance of the past year, and why what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in HARD TRUTHS really feels like it's in a league of its own www.vulture.com/article/give...

The Prestige has long been my favorite Nolan, in large part because the scope is limited, letting the structure of the piece (what I think he's best at as a filmmaker) come to the fore without shortchanging the subject matter. But also, of course, Bowie.

There's no better prank than having a child. Pulling a guy out of oblivion like congratulations these are all your problems now

back on @wfmu.bsky.social, beaming out hopeful frequencies & new music from now 'til midnight ET on the frow show. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Back in SF after far too long away and feeling compelled to post. But until I figure out what about, here's tonight's lovely sunset from Alamo Square (featuring the moon and Venus)

Always funny when someone criticises a film on here (or Twitter) and another person replies with, “Oh no, I was really looking forward to it!” Keep looking forward to it! Go see for yourself! Don’t be so in thrall to someone on the internet!

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 7. opening act: @sunrauniverse.bsky.social under the direction of marshall allen comedian: dave hill. mix CDR by alan sparhawk. post show DJ: todd-o-phonic todd. benefitting afrikana.org & artists-athletes-activists

Beyond stoked to be here for the last three shows

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 1. opening act: the sloppy heads. comedian: todd barry. mix CDR by bill frisell. post show DJ: joe belock (the people's champ). benefitting we act!

yule *what*??! 3 hours of pagan holiday jams on the frow show, from now 'til midnight ET on @wfmu.bsky.social. tune in: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

can we not do the "die hard is a Christmas movie" thing here please. "remember thing that wasn't entertaining or edifying on twitter but just a non-argument about which even the most bored person alive could not credibly be thought to actually care" can we not. for my Christmas present. please

It should be easier to predict when concerts will start and finish

Time for the best thing about Tuesdays!

thank you for the kind offer to “hang out”sorry it didn’t work out. it turned out there was a vast library of music available to all and an empty room in which to listen to it by myself for as long as I wanted without having to “catch up” or “have a conversation”

Post a picture you took to bring some Zen into the Zone

Post a banger that's not in English. youtu.be/LalPz4lIZYk?...

I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"