the wizards heard y'all were talking shit

LeBron tomahawk dunk dopamine hits in 2025 >>>

watching Utah Jazz in arena footage is like getting glimpse into a parallel universe where swag was never invented

grinned like a big idiot when the shaker part came in on the new Converge song

one of my favorite ways to unwind is to watch a basketball game on mute while listening to an ambient album. tonight I'm pairing Lakers vs Jazz with Steve Roach's "Structures From Silence"

Clippers on the receiving end of the not-as-rare-as-you'd-think Krejci shooting barrage, that guy can really play

last night I learned about the statue in Glasgow that keeps getting a traffic cone placed on its head, authorities are incapable of stopping this prank, the most spiritually Philadelphian thing I've ever heard of on this side of the Atlantic

lol & also lmao, incredible news to wake up to

Europe is crazy because on one side of the street there's a Uniqlo and on the other it looks like fucking Anor Londo

you haven't heard someone cough until you've heard someone with a Scottish accent cough

listening to the world series on the god damn radio approaching midnight, experiencing unparalleled levels of unc initiation

blocked shot straight into an above the break 3 is Wemby's signature move, looks like

I said this in my newsletter but I'll say it more directly here, a music fest of all the bands that have left Spotify would own

This week I wrote about what the artists leaving Spotify have in common, and what we can expect from the anti-Spotify movement going forward

I can't explain it but Gary Larson returning in the same month as a new Pynchon novel makes all the sense in the world to me

it's a shame that this Nets team's near immediate dissolution and the Bucks subsequent failure to make it to the Finals again has swept their absolutely incredible match-up and this all time performance from KD into the dust bin of trivia

Inspired by the concurrent releases of "One Battle After Another" and "Shadow Ticket" I wrote an introduction and overview of the novels of Thomas Pynchon open.substack.com/pub/lamnifor...

*charlie and the chocolate factory voice* I got a Shadow Ticket

I can't tell whether my sudden urge to post again is coming from being away from ~*my girlfriend*~ or whether it's cause I'm back in New York City

it would have been REALLY funny if Rush had hired Philo Tsoungui

the cliche is that as you get older new youth oriented music is supposed to sound incomprehensible and shocking to the senses. my experience is the opposite. I'm listening to a much hyped "future of music" type release from this year and it just reminds me of being on tumblr in 2011

has anyone put A'ja Wilson highlights over the drum solo from "Aja"? Bet that'd be pretty sick.

This week for the newsletter I wrote about one local show and one high production arena show. can't say enough about how much I loved the NIN tour.

they’re doing an everything must go sale over there for hardcore band names

interesting that most of the notable bands leaving Spotify are millennial/gen x, I wonder if there are younger bands bouncing that I'm too washed to know about (Hotline TNT doesn't count, the lead guy is older than me)

"We do not apologize for the inconvenience" is the spirit we need from more underground bands, its time to re-embrace some semblance of a counter culture.

I learned how to play "III. Universe" by The Microphones on drums and confronted my artistic jealously and eventual ego death as a young songwriter open.substack.com/pub/lamnifor...

damn those last hundo pages almost push Against The Day into second place...

no joke, I've got a collection of 1800s music criticism and the reports on the Bayreuth read nearly exactly like coverage of any of modern day music festival

my most persistent posting urge is to always talk about something else when it seems like my feed is talking about one thing exclusively

less than a hundo pages away from finishing Against The Day so here goes nothing: 1. Gravity's Rainbow 2. Mason & Dixon 3. Against The Day 4. Inherent Vice 5. The Crying of Lot 49 6. Bleeding Edge 7. V ... 8. Vineland

can I watch Highest 2: Lowest if I haven't seen the first Highest movie?

not all musicians are cowards

two basketballs dunking themselves in an eternal wheel

Excited about @tesseractcinema.bsky.social opening a micro-cinema in Pilsen next year

I am by no means an expert on Eddie Palmieri, but this record "Unfinished Masterpiece" is one of my favorite salsa records and a big part of why I've gotten so obsessed with the genre recently, you should check it out if you haven't.

when the first track has a fade out <<<<<<

psyched for this

Always happy to see former roommate Seth get some coverage, the man has been putting in years of work recording and playing in bands, and is a great dude to boot!

One of my subscribers asked me to write about Lil B's surprise cameo on the latest Justin Bieber album. I was happy to oblige that request. open.substack.com/pub/lamnifor...

would rock this until the wheels fell off

So far we've got Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, King Gizzard, Immortal Bird... am I missing anyone else who's pulled off of Spotify in the last month?

Wrote a bit about Ozzy and not taking legends for granted open.substack.com/pub/lamnifor...

an unquantifiable amount of my life experiences, jobs, hobbies, friendships, outlets of personal expression, flows downstream from the music that Ozzy made with Black Sabbath. idk man feels impossible to sum it up, just sitting here in awe and cosmic appreciation for the dude

never spent much time with Ozzy's solo stuff but lately I've been in love with this track www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwWV...

my b-day buddy

first "person" to tell me happy birthday was Death Stranding, weird

makes no sense to me that Neil Peart is considered a better drummer than Phil Collins, spend 30 seconds watching either of them play and it is immediately obvious who has more command of the instrument

I wrote about Deerhoof leaving Spotify and the movie Independence Day for the newsletter this week open.substack.com/pub/lamnifor...