Kevin Maguire: "The person I always had in my mind was John Cassavetes from THE DIRTY DOZEN—his Franko character. That, to me, was Guy Gardner."

IDK if it’s bad form to repost “1 like = 1 x” stuff (thus possibly multiplying OP’s workload) but I could read this Uncle Tupelo stuff all week. Also, I co-sign the Dino Jr points

I think it's a moral abomination for Ezra Klein to have Chris Rufo on his podcast and then get a transcript of it published in The New York Times as if this is a conversation between equals and not a radical centrist and a fascist telling each other 'exaaaaactlyyyy'

CASABLANCA (1983)

Apparently Sergei Bondarchuk's Soviet-era superproduction of WAR AND PEACE is going viral. I must therefore re-share this piece I once wrote about how it was made. www.vulture.com/2019/02/the-...

A little more than 13 years ago, I started an obsessive project that centered around documenting comics I read. I think about it from time to time.

Don't miss the scorching June 1956 live recording of the Brown-Roach Quintet that's included with this article!

I just learned the sad news that Bruce Tull of the Scud Mountain Boys (and many other great bands) has died. Had the pleasure of meeting him once or twice and nearly was able to have him play on some of my songs. His guitar leads evoke my home landscape more than just about any other sound. RIP

This is a terrific interview. "How on earth did a Millennial weaned on the Internet get so deeply into these fading relics?" recordlung.substack.com/p/inside-the...

Holy cow!

hydration break

Attn fellow Nixon-obsessives - 6/17/72: Happy Watergate Day!! www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte... Much misunderstood [at stake: exposing what AG John Mitchell called the "White House Horrors"] From us, via Cineaste, on RN's enormous influence on the #70s Film: midcenturycinema.org/wp-content/u...

R.I.P. Abdullah Ibrahim Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your gift with the world. We all are better for it. Your musical legacy will live on and on and on. Godspeed, Sir! #Jazz #JazzMusic #Music #JazzSky #JazzMusicSky #MusicSky #DollarBrand youtu.be/LJA3vrLSdqA?...

Fresh Prairiewolf LP up for pre-order! Six new long-form jams recorded on stage in Colorado, edited, collaged and mixed into new forms - Anthem of the Sun-style. Our freakiest batch yet. ⚡️🐺

A new book, 'Hip Hop Flyers '74-'84,' reproduces "flyers and various ephemera" of early hip hop, and features art by Buddy Esquire, PHASE 2, and others (linking to my 2025 post on the era below) beyondthestreets.com/products/hip... #books

Warren Hinckle documentary in the works! www.zalafilms.com/hinckle/

This is a tremendous essay.

This deep appreciation by @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social makes me excited to dig out FLYING COWBOYS, an old favorite I've been away from for years. jasonpwoodbury.substack.com/p/theyll-be-...

One week ago, I was about to see JAŸ-Z with The Roots on the Belmont Plateau. The show was magnificent, and I decided to take my time processing it. Here are those thoughts — about the performance and the festival that housed it.

Now archived @wfmu.bsky.social Bayeté on Iapetus: Todd Cochran Interview STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

In 2000, Paul Thomas Anderson directed a pilot episode of The Jon Brion Show, a variety show that didn’t get picked up. Brion—who wrote the scores for Magnolia & Punch-Drunk Love—spent some of the show playing songs with Elliott Smith, including this gorgeous cover of John Lennon’s “Jealous Guy.”

Tomorrow bsky.app/profile/obso...

For clarity: I’m still working as much as usual, but now I need to work a LOT more to make ends meet after some recent, unexpected, tough life events. Any new paid work would be amazing right now. Thanks to everyone who’s reposting!

There's a nice (and quick!) one-pager in the new issue of Washingtonian magazine, spotlighting some of the greatest hits from THE CAPITOL.

Fun fact: the fundamentalist in question here is still alive and was an important mentor to Michele Bachmann.

"You listen to this, Christians": fundamentalist Beatlephobia, long before the "bigger than Jesus" moment (Newsweek, February 15, 1965)

I am not going to go through all 350 pages of comments, but some of the hand-written responses are enjoyable.

Plastic Man for the Ascot Textile Corporation, 1964

If you were to donate books and cool ephemera in Philadelphia, which thrift shop or organization would you choose? Think 1960s bridal magazines, books on ceramics, back issues of World of Interiors, various academic titles about things of Victorian concern, etc.

"Ain't Broke, Ain't Hungry" by Polka Dot Slim www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK0S...

On the occasion of the Backrooms film release, reposting my 2022 essay on the phenomenon, the inherent tensions btw collective worldbuilding and surrealist art, and Kane Parsons' original web series (which I predicted even then was bound for Hollywood). borderstudies.substack.com/p/the-backro...

My hope is that the sooner everyone buys Strata-East's gorgeous reissue of LIVE AT SLUGS, the sooner the label can also reissue GLASS BEAD GAMES. mackavenue.com/products/cha...

Trivia: In 1970, David Peel & the Lower East Side crashed the Folklife festival. As an American flag burned, Peel shouted his version of the “Pledge of Allegiance” (“...to the bag / of marijuana made in Mexico...”). Four cops on horseback and a squad car cut through the crowd to storm the stage.

Does anyone have any dictaphone/digital voice recorder recommendations please? Don’t want to solely rely on my phone any longer for in-person interview recordings, and it’s long overdue!

1936 print advertisement for THE INVISIBLE RAY, starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.

Absolutely wonderful tribute to legendary comics scholar John A. Lent who passed at 89 recently by Bart Beaty. I didn’t know Lent outside of reputation, but every word of this makes me wish I did and makes me wish there were more scholars of his inclusiveness & kindness. www.tcj.com/remembering-...

Beau Bridges, Maud Adams, Jean Renoir and the natural light of Los Angeles in THE CHRISTIAN LICORICE STORE, 1971.

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

"The Colorado Information Analysis Center cautioned in a March bulletin that 'violent extremists' might perceive 'White Supremacy Ideology in ICE Recruitment Materials, Leading to a Potentially Increased Threat Environment.'” theintercept.com/2026/05/21/i...

Reading a forthcoming nonfiction book where the underlying subplot is that Larry Schiller managed to alienate everybody, this may be my favorite new subgenre

LUCKY LUCIANO, with narcotics agent Charlie Siragusa, at left, playing himself, and Edmond O'Brien, center, as Harry Anslinger. This zany movie's purpose seems to be ... laundering a decades-old Federal Bureau of Narcotics smear campaign against Thomas Dewey. Whole monologues devoted to it.

The Riverside Bar, as depicted in LUCKY LUCIANO (1973).

Lovely effect through the prisms in the lobby floor of the Barclay Hotel (Morgan & Walls, 1896), the oldest continuously operated hotel in Los Angeles, when swinging a light around the basement.

Some fine jazz for your evening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyt0...

Fifty years ago tonight, the Manhattan launch party for HIGH TIMES magazine's short-lived B2B spinoff publication DEALER ("The Magazine of High Finance")

BECKY SHARP "will be henceforth as important to the cinema as 'THE JAZZ SINGER" —Murray Boltinoff, 1937