First Electronic Chillout Music Theremin Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman, Composer Harry Revel, Conductor Leslie Baxter Originally released in 1947 and 1948 Morning listening

I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

As featured in Gilliam's Brazil, and apparently now a gym (kasiacharko.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/t...)

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 2 No one does bleak-but-beautiful-winter like artist Rowland Hilder

Hey babes (that's all of you; you are the babes). If you're ever thrown back in time to feudal Japan and NEED to create an equivalent of Frankenstein's Monster, then you're in luck. I wrote up a little guide on how to do just that. Get your #Frankenstein fix! www.tokyoweekender.com/art_and_cult...

Forgot to share this... the most recent RF program. Will be back on the air on WZBC this Thursday from 10-midnight. www.mixcloud.com/rarefrequenc...

Happy 1st of December! ❄ The Mari Lwyd is coming... 🐴

UK #Techno duo #Orbital consists of brothers Phil and Paul Hartnoll who took the band’s name from greater #London’s Orbital Motorway (the M25) which they used to hop from warehouses to clubs during the #AcidHouse explosion- their 1989 track “Chime” was a Starck classic #1980s youtu.be/tg5eTjqefHM

An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Too late! Du Blonde It’s Christmas and I’m Crying 🎶who gave the sherry to the kids🎶 dublonde.bandcamp.com/track/its-ch...

"Two tickets for Itchy The Killer please"

More Irish folk horror from youtube: youtu.be/GIN5aTyy5MA?...

Tony Blackburn and John Peel at the Radio One Christmas Party, December 1983.

The first ever showings of a film of ACR playing NYC in 1980 this week; Manchester on Wednesday is now SOLD OUT Last few tickets remaining for Walthamstow this evening (Monday) are here; www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/acrnyc-198...

Bidding is now open on my fuzzy felt Mari Lwyd, along with so many other wonderful works of art. All funds go to domestic violence charities, please do bid if you can afford to and feel able, it would be great to raise as much money as possible🐴💀👻 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/15748996...

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BerriesandBeaks A species very interested in Berries is the Common Blackbird, female here

Day 1 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We retrieve the Bloody Boy ornament from the box of china Mummers. Some say it's not blood that makes his skin red, but crabapple bark dye. I say best not spoil the seasonal magic. Besides, we all know where the skin of his drum comes from.

Tonight 👀

Not sure why but Roger Whittaker's New World In The Morning has always sounded like the words of a sociopath to me. They're the thoughts of a Tom Ripley, a Travis Bickle, a John Dowell. What other (non-obvious) songs give you the chills for similar reasons. youtu.be/7A0ZgIzICBY?...

The West End Waiting for Godot cast we should have been given in any just alternate universe

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 1 ‘The village’ Artist: SR Badmin

Good morning! Woke to find that it’s apparently now December, winter solstice within touching distance! Somehow I know I’ll dreaming of the light all day! Happy new month to you!

tQ's albums of the year 2025 have landed! As ever, it'll be a joy over the next 12 months speaking to people excited about the releases they discovered through it – this is why we continue, into our 18th year. I hope you'll find something you love herein: thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...

Francis Monkman The Long Good Friday OST Morning listening

starting Dec 1st! ie tomorrow! for structure to eke out pages at a bonkers time of year (that is also a precious writing-est time): you can do 250 words a day! books get written that way! if more, amazing! if not when grading or festive-ing, that's ok! check in daily at #acadecawriteathon

“…the opening of the REM has vaulted Canada’s 2nd largest city from a transportation laggard to a frontrunner. It’s also provided a low-cost template of quick-to-build rapid transit that every Canadian city struggling with gridlock, long commutes and inflated transit costs can, and should, emulate.”

Tenerife scene report in rear view:

Robert Johnson - Preachin' Blues(Up Jumped The Devil) youtu.be/BwsiBI_7UHk?... Recorded 1936 for Vocalion records

Chico Hamilton & Gordon Parks trade places I don't know how good Hamilton's photos were, but Gordon Parks could do anything.

I was trying to track down the source of Gramsci's "time of monsters" quote and found that it's a "mistranslation" (ie he just made it up) by Slavoj Zizek. Gramsci's line clearly translates as "morbid symptoms" instead. Mad that you can just rewrite a famous quote and get it widely accepted.

they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star www.christies.com/en/stories/t...

Tonight’s entertainment, the Dirty Three at the Classic Grand in Glasgow. #dirtythree #warrenellis

Czech poster for ALIEN (1979) Directed by Ridley Scott - BOTD in 1937

Brunnich’s guillemots, Norway. #SuperSeabirdSunday

The Kestrel. What a fabulous bird! I watched this one for quite a while today. Perfect conditions, but it didn't seem to be catching anything..... #UKBirding

Here's to good writing, which makes life more liveable. Many found in Stevenson’s work, particularly his essays, “hope to live and courage to die.” That's a life well lived. #authors lithub.com/robert-louis...

Virginia Mayo in "White Heat" - BOTD

Scotland's real monsters are in its pages. This St. Andrew's Day, explore the brilliant new wave of Scottish horror authors. Our guide features 4 must-read Scottish authors and the publishers & festivals championing them gnofhorror.com/scottish-hor... #ScottishHorror #StAndrewsDay

Compare and contrast. John Peel's Festive 50 from the same year open.spotify.com/playlist/6ge...

“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” -Mark Twain #BOTD

Sunday evening/Monday morning appropriate Jill McDonald Puffin Post illustration

#BOTD 1912 Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks: "American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans."

This is the 45th Parallel Half Way Between Equator And North pole. #ThingsYouSeeOnABikeRide

Kurt Schwitters, (Relief in Relief), 1942 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124190

A snippet from Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia.” In act One, Scene One, Thomasina, a young girl, is learning about Fermat’s Last Theorem from her tutor, Septimus. But she is distracted because she recently overheard someone saying that they saw Mrs. Chater in “carnal embrace”:

#BOTD #RidleyScott My piece on his first film, The Duellists - cinephiliabeyond.org/ridley-scott...

Jenny Erpenbeck: ‘I’ve seen a whole system collapse and fade away’ observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Sunday plans: Nonchaloire (Repose), John Singer Sargent, 1911.