I wrote about playing Bloodborne while reading Michel Foucault's "Madness & Civilization" while living through the last two years of American violence

I saw a stage prop of two giant guns in the shape of angel wings fall on Marilyn Manson and break his leg

watching deni avdija win on some absolute bullshit was not the note that I needed this night to end on

I made a list open.substack.com/pub/lamnifor...

Clippers in-game opps celebrate a "SoCal Military Moment" and yeah sure, I guess you could call it that

got the crib to myself so i'm blasting Shostakovich with a b-ball game on mute, getting rowdy with the boys (the cat & the dog)

is it just me or is Jaxon Hayes playing like 50% better after getting elbowed in the nuts?

do the Phoenix Suns always have burning jazz fusion as their "go to commercial" music? incredibly sick move

fucked up for a Friday to feel this much like a Monday

the world needs jazz fusion

wrote about some movies open.substack.com/pub/lamnifor...

Annihilation (2018)

I can't explain how this is possible, but I have both Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is" and Decapitated's "Spheres of Madness" stuck in my head simultaneously.

Pels are a mess but are kinda making it work?

Minnesota playing Prince's "Controversy" during a coach's challenge lmao that is inspired

CAVS ARE TRASH

Spurs might be my favorite team to watch with or without Wemby this year, great guard play, fun bench guys, good wholesome vibes, and you roll the dice on watching a game breaking player when he's healthy

a delight to hear Eric Collins calling non-Hornets games, we should all strive to be as effusively passionate about our vocations

"his next missed three will be his last!!" - unintentionally threatening commentary from Dell Curry

a little bit refreshing that ads on Canadian tv are roughly as depraved as US ads these days (this post brought to you by [REDACTED] basketball streams)

i know it's chic to complain about eoy stuff as a music writer but idk I love the challenge of delivering a handful of high calorie sentences per record

the spurs broadcast calling Harrison Barnes "Mr 100 percent" is very cute, glad that guy's ended up having a solid career instead of being relegated to the guy who got replaced by Kevin Durant

"this man eats gravity for breakfast, so you knew he would wreck this" crazy bars from @nbabeau.bsky.social

I can't explain it, but the Knicks rockettes dancers thing strikes me as way weirder than the rest of the league's cheer situations. like some how even the *extremely Los Angeles voice* laker girrrrrrls creep me out less

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.