rewatching the 2020 NBA finals for research for something I'm writing. the piped in crowd noise & video screen are even weirder in retrospect and extremely off putting but not as bad as jeff van gundy

Steve Von Till & Aaron Turner

I learned how to play a Kevin Gates song on drums and wrote about working way too many jobs lamniformes.substack.com/p/drumming-u...

my fiancée's friends refer to me as "a spectral presence" and "the harbinger of 10 PM"

matheron makes the clippers significantly more watchable

spurs have the sauce, or the rockets don't

spending my IWD in deep contemplation of the discography of HEART

clasp your hands say yeah

There's a bunch of Willie Colón albums on Bandcamp if you've never heard 'em, great gateway into salsa, speaking as someone who only just got into the genre myself williecolon.bandcamp.com/album/lo-mato

RIP Willie Colón, the original hustler www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1sF...

one of the most audacious but spiritually accurate google suggestions I've seen in my life

a rough era, for sure. but before lonzo got injured, and especially when derozan hit those two back-to-back game winning threes, that first year was a blast.

Listen to more jazz

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