The coked-up motormouth that I see nearly every day at my thrift haunt does this weird thing where he tries to convince people that one or more of the tires on their car need air.

30 years ago tonight:

Gonna tell my grandkids that this is Blonde Redhead.

This has become the WHIPPED CREAM AND OTHER DELIGHTS of CDs. I see it EVERYWHERE.

On the flipside, every bit of nostalgic appreciation for Smashing Pumpkins was drained away after seeing them live. Corgan is an absolute pretentious tool.

Rush. I went to see them as a guest of a friend, thinking it would be good for a few laughs and was immediately blown backward by their songwriting child and, yes, musicianship. Followed that with the doc on the band and learned that they are great humans to boot.

This sounds & looks great: complete Wolfgang Press concert at the London Town & Country that kicks off with a blistering version of “Kansas”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0S0...

Braille edition of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I watch this on the regular.

Listened to more Blink-182 this past week than I have in my entire life. All for the sake of this review. www.vinylcut.net/reviews-blin...

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

16-year-old me would like you to get out of his room.

Spent this morning watching DIRTY DINGUS MAGEE, a particularly awful 1970 Western starting Sinatra in the titular role. Here's the level of humor in this flick: in one scene, a Union soldier is running out of a brothel. One of the sex workers hands him a chicken saying, "You forgot your cock!"

Fuckmonkeys

Your job is to pick the worst actor to play James Bond.

MANDATORY TIMELINE CLEANSE

People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.

So for Bandcamp Friday we have a live EP that we recorded at Bridge City Sessions after the run of shows we did following our album release.

Happy birthday to Betty Boo. Here's a reminder of the time she rapped with Public Enemy in the McDonalds at Shepherd's Bush back in 1987 (look out for the unimpressed manager!)

Hell yeah fuck yeah damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/album/whats-...

If you were on the fence about watching SHORESY, I implore you to check out the first episode of the new season and watch how it masterfully downshifts from wickedly funny crassness to open-hearted empathy.

After Jason Lee opened a camera shop in Eagle Rock, I thought, man, that'd be a fun story to do. I did not know that it would eventually lead to him threatening to take me to court. For @defector.com, the whole bloody affair: defector.com/a-compliment...

Next time someone asks you to sum up MAGA in 30 seconds or less, show them this clip of Andrew Tate explaining why he doesn't read books.

The last thing I expected to do was write the feel-good story of the year. But . . . [gift link] racketmn.com/yes-that-man...

I've interviewed Joe Rogan, Rob Schneider, and Jim Breuer.

The real Avengers™

Forgot to do this a day or two ago - my rundown of the albums released in February that I really liked starting with... Ishmael Ali's BURN THE PLASTIC SELL THE COPPER ishmaelalimusic.bandcamp.com/album/burn-t...

Got through two and a half seasons of INDUSTRY and had to hit the eject. It got to a dramatic scene where it was floated that *gasp* Pierpoint might be done for and I realized I wanted all of the people in this show to wind up destitute and working at a Nando's.

How I arrived on BlueSky

My kinda mail day.

News from my shop.

Found some interesting“Styx Van” info on an A&M Records fan forum: forum.amcorner.com/threads/styx...

I'm begging someone to do some investigative journalism and find out what happened to this van.

Angry, weird, pulsing, blasting, chanting art punk gem. Thanks @superelectricrecs.bsky.social for playing it for me. Easy to say “RIYL The Raincoats or Kleenex” but that doesn’t really tell the whole story

Abbey Lincoln. Accept no substitutes.

Saw PILLION (loved it) and when Alexander Skarsgard instructed Harry Melling to get a butt plug and...I may be a changed man now.

Cannot recommend this enough.

Timeline clense

Great pint here.

Important subject @ronanfarrow.bsky.social We ask folks to subscribe & support local outlets. To facilitate this we created a 50-state searchable local journalism directory. No pink slime, no giant chains. 2,200+ local outlets. www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...

This Timbers match has been 80 long minutes of suckage.

While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger. www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...