It's here! 🏆 The Record Club 2025 Year in Review: record.club/2025

My Favourite Music, Movies, Recipes, etc of 2025 jondueck.ca/journal/2025...

2025 Listening Stats jondueck.ca/journal/2025...

“If you don't recognize a lot of names featured, that's the point. You should think of this post as an opportunity to find your new favorite band.” www.noexpectations.fyi/p/the-100-be...

Good idea, “Record Club user jd” (2025 Favourites of the Year blog post coming soon)

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen: Whitney Tokyo Police Club Said the Whale Japandroids We Are The City

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

A concerned friend texted me asking if I had left Apple Music because I hadn’t listened to the new Geese record in 4 days.

𝘞𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘶𝘱 Wake me up to drive 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘐’𝘮 𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘥 I don't wanna miss the ride

Hello Friends. I am ecstatic to announce that I have reacquired the entire Spontaneanation catalogue and effective immediately you can find every episode wherever you get your podcasts. Don’t get drunk and fight each other.

After reading Vineland earlier this year, and seeing some initial critical reactions to One Battle After Another, I’m worried I’m letting my expectations get too high.

#HotteokSky Nintendo DS photography by @yohnnie.bsky.social

💔 Brian Wilson. The greatest. song.link/i/1440841254

Teamed up with our chief TV critic @poniewozik.bsky.social and our genius visuals team to figure out that crazy kid Nathan Fielder, who’s done it again folks www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/a...

life update: my wife’s headed to germany for surgery next month. we’re doing a little fundraiser to help out — come drink coffee with us june 1 if you’re local. if not, you can support by sharing this post or contributing at thewiebes.ca

“Somehow, whatever I do, it ends up seeming like I did it. When it’s processed through me, it kind of comes out this way.” Great piece on Wes Anderson ahead of his upcoming film. www.vulture.com/article/wes-...

Game 5 WPG 4:0 DAL

There’s a Burnhamian Funny Feeling to enjoying a 30°C weekend before May long.

The Winnipeg Jets

I’ve seen enough, ready to call this election:

The brave, Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land is available to rent in North America until 8 May: gathr.com/vod/910d0c3b...

5 covers of Avril 14th for this April 14th

The most important #elxn45 coverage: youtu.be/stlWcmJSNuk youtu.be/TZmh_PNMImE .

Hey southern Manitoba folk, my work is hosting Voter Information sessions in Morden, Apr 9, Altona, Apr 10, and Winkler, Apr 16. More info at link. Please share with any new citizen, new voter, soonto-be voter. pvlip.ca/govote/

Turned on Winnipeg radio while driving and they were reporting the US stock market over The Drums singing “I don’t have any money”

Favourites in a (surely regrettable) rush: - Howard Shore’s score for The Lord of the Rings is rightly regarded as a masterpiece. - Joe Hisaishi’s score for Princess Mononoke - Emile Mosseri’s score for The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Despite snow still in the forecast, I’ve started a playlist for spring: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...

Using system fonts on the web is building with local materials.

Of interest to the Canadians: I am launching a pop-up newsletter for the upcoming federal election. It'll be a campaign dairy meets a place to dump interviews, policy analysis, and a bunch of other stuff. Join us! www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/introducin...

🐦‍🔥 tapbots.com/phoenix/

"use this gift hyper link to read the article" to me every hyper link is a gift

It’s about time. Today we’re removing the waitlist and making Record Club generally available to everyone! Come join us. 💜

Testing onefolder.app for managing a local inspiration folder. Any others to consider before I write a blog post? (I started with eagle.cool, which seems nice, but Idon’t care for its unique duplicate folder)

As someone who has yet to experience most of Lynch’s work, I think social media should continue to be primarily David Lynch memorials.

It's here! Take a look at our first-ever Year in Review and revisit the highlights of 2024.

. @jwie.be built the new best Last.fm stats tool: jwie.be/playground/l...

My favourite music, movies, etc of 2024 jondueck.ca/journal/2024...

2024 Listening Stats jondueck.ca/journal/2024...

Working on my 2024 Favourites of the Year blog post. Any category requests for this year? Big or small. Art, media, anything.

Here are my 60 favorite albums of 2024. At No Expectations, I recommended ~130 LPs from the last 12 months. I also loved a lot of new music that I didn’t write about. The very best are all here. Thanks for reading and supporting the newsletter this year. www.noexpectations.fyi/p/the-60-bes...