Ah damn Beloved Indie Rock Musician, Inspiration for the Replacements’ Alt-Rock Anthem ‘Left of the Dial,’ Dies - Parade share.google/44xegqYR4G1U...

A million things to love about "Marquee Moon" of course, but the little drop Smith adds when everything breaks down into a million pieces is genius — like a boat going over Niagara Falls

RIP Fred Smith of Television — one of the coolest bassists of all time.

"...be of good heart, cry the dead artists out of the living past, our songs will all be silenced, but what of it, go on singing..." youtu.be/VGPPUY40Y7k?...

Mid '70s rock tours often included a visit to Gerald Ford

20 now, a bit hard to believe. the last B&S album I really liked.

Thin White Duke 50: Bowie in San Francisco. Quaaludes, numerology, a "hastily-assembled" 'Diamond Dogs' tour debut: www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

Henry Threadgill (& Air) were masters of this, inc. "Keep Right On Playing Thru The Mirror Over The Water," "Great Body Of The Riddle Or Where Were The Dodge Boys When My Clay Started To Slide," and "Card One: Cutten (2 Knuckles, 2 Widows, 2 Tracks) / 3 X 1"

40 years of True Confessions! I'm kicking off a new miniseries tracking the Dylan / Petty tour that Bob talks down in Chronicles but is secretly great. First stop: New Zealand

"I'm a big Mac user. Always have been. They're great. But ultimately it doesn't matter, because one day Java is going to rule, working across all systems. It's just got to go that way." Bowie, 1999 interview

From: Epstein To: HBO Game of Trhones dragging on too long wrap it up asap blind kid wd b good king

one constant of audience gripes is that DB playing a 90 minute show is considered to be way too short. it's fascinating that less than 8? 9? years before, you were lucky if an act played a half-hour as part of a rock revue. the concert experience changed so much from '69 to '76.

things to see in San Francisco, Feb 1976 (SF Chronicle)

I have benefited my whole life from the Post book section. My first appearance in print was a letter to Michael Dirda that he published when I was 8. I’ve reviewed for them, and they listed my most recent book in a 2025 roundup. This is a huge loss to US literary culture. Fuck all billionaires.

Thin White Duke 50: Bowie in Portland, OR, for what sounds like an off night. www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

yeah, this is the sort of album whose release created a "before" and "after" like few others in the '80s

Lou-natics unite! Here's a previously uncirculated gem from the fall of 1972 — Lou Reed + the Tots in London. Probably the best quality recording I've heard from this era ...

a great example of a voice that much of the country at the time knew ("Joy to the World," "One"), but not the name of the man singing on the radio

Thin White Duke at 50: Bowie hits Seattle; some fans are cranky. www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

Very belatedly (I've been off in a cycle of rebirth learning to be a better person): A Life In Film #20, Groundhog Day keithpille.com/a-life-in-fi...

evening reboot for the '76 tour kickoff. plus a "cast of characters' prologue here: www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

hey hey i'll be reading from my new(ish) collection of SF stories ANOTHER WORLD ISN'T POSSIBLE Weds Feb 25th at the storied Ditmas Lit www.ditmaslit.com/upcoming

We really crossed a rubicon with the Queen one. An incompetently directed film that made 4 bajillion dollars because people still love the original music a whole lot. They want to walk around in the music like the Van Gogh exhibit and see a very famous person in SNL makeup lipsync to it

50 years ago tonight: the "Thin White Duke"/Isolar tour begins, in Vancouver. What people who were there thought of it: www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

On a new #HitParadePod –The Bridge, now live on @slate.com, my guest @bowiesongs.bsky.social says David Bowie both wanted hits & wanted to stay weird…worshipped jazz & American Black music…& had Eras years before Taylor dreamed it up. Plus…trivia—and a next-episode preview that fills up your senses.

The full run of SCTV for free. God bless and keep the Internet Archive.

nearly as colossal an undertaking as its subject

Isolar Tour 50: Dramatis personae, inc. Iggy and Slash. www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...

20 minutes of the SNL cast rehearsing a sketch with the Stones, Oct 1978: youtu.be/7n3i9a4HKZo?...

the greatest assemblage of comedic talent ever loses another icon cherish these people while they’re with us

Sending this one out to the people of Minnesota — the Replacements opening for R.E.M. back in the summer of '83. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8071796...

On SCTV. It's fitting in a way that the only complete version of a show may be someone's off-air VHS from 1987

A new, hopefully fun trifle for the next few months: the Thin White Duke at 50. www.patreon.com/posts/149524...

"One solution might be to let people listen to samples of my upcoming tracks, then let them buy the ones they want. That would be ideal, because the days of the album as an entity are numbered. As a consumer myself, I very rarely feel like listening to one in its entirety now." Bowie, 1999

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Okay so an old ILX thread reminded me that @steadystate.bsky.social once said "[Catherine O'Hara's] best moment was her on SCTV doing Brooke Shields dancing to and singing to Devo's "Whip It"." Not wrong. Watch the whole bit but the URL should take you straight to it.

Sarah Polley, on getting comedy acting tips from Catherine O’Hara www.gq.com/story/how-th...

I honestly keep forgetting that Catherine O'Hara's sister is Mary Margaret O'Hara, a still underrated musician and singer. What an amazing family, right there.

Incredible short film Catherine O’Hara and Andrea Martin made for Late Night with David Letterman, so dark and nervy, filmed in Toronto too youtu.be/ZwLTCayIeSw

And finally, the Margaret Meehan Super-Cut. Her facial expressions alone are a master-class, and then we had 40-45 years of brilliant comedy (and occasional drama) after that.

When the veil of dreams has lifted/And the fairy tales have all been told/There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow/More precious than a pot of gold 🌈 www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

A reminder: Catherine O’Hara was hired in 1981 for Dick Ebersol’s first SNL season, shot cast photos, and would probably have been one of the 10 greatest cast members ever, but she was freaked out by ultimate esgelord Michael O’Donoghue spraying DANGER on an office wall and peaced out

One of my favourite facts in cinema: the Gus Polinski scene in Home Alone is all improv. It was scripted but when you have Catherine O’Hara & John Candy you throw the script out & know they’ll give you what you need by the end of the day..

here's to Phil Collins at 75. discovering his prog-rock side when I was in high school was a bit mind-blowing, as if Michael Bolton had worked with Harmonia in the 70s www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNwh...

yes and the Breeders' "Pod" too---Walford's peak hours

totally agree with Twin Cinema and Every Picture as great drum albums. would add Mellencamp's Uh Huh (Kenny Aronoff's finest hour), Weather Station's Humanhood (Kieran Adams), Fiona Apple's Idler Wheel (Charley Drayton) and any Bowie LP with Dennis Davis on it

turning 50, 40, 30 & 20 in February, respectively

The cover of New Worlds magazine for February, 1969, edited by Michael Moorcock. On the cover, "Jeremiad", a Jerry Cornelius story by the late James Sallis; inside there's one of Thomas Pynchon's earliest short stories plus JG Ballard on Salvador Dalí, and Moorcock's obituary for Mervyn Peake.