You know I was absolutely blasting Rachel’s from my dorm room windows in a Saturday night.

I’ve seen this before but it was made of mashed potatoes.

This is on Kodak UltraMax 400; because of battery weirdness I wanted to test to see if I should shoot with the camera set to 100 or 200. From my comparison shots it doesn't look like it makes a ton of difference between 100 (first shot) or 200 (second), at least at 400

last week on my lunch break I went to a camera shop on the lower east side to buy film, and while there found out that they do development+scans for $10 on Wednesday, so I just took the rest of my lunch break and walked around shooting a test roll

the parking meter app had a data breach?! loose change would never do this to me

Village of Savoonga album cover.

I used to believe a truly accurate adaptation of Gravity’s Rainbow was impossible because only Kim Varney could play Tyrone Slothrop. But now that we have Tim Robinson…

I’m still in the middle of it but Praiseworthy is the novel of the decade, if not this century www.ndbooks.com/book/praisew...

This one of my favorite books and everyone should read it. You will love it.

Lake Mungo is an underrated gem of a movie. A great, sad movie.

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

constantly re-amazed at how much “king solomon’s marbles” resembles “splash” by can, released in november ’74. i think it’s just a case of 2 jammy bands deciding in approximate parallel that it’d be fun to shred in 7 over a latin feel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Ek... /5

I would buy any album with this cover.

Richard Thompson’s “Borrowed Time” is such an underrated gem in his canon. In a sea of misanthropic lyrics, few lines hit as hard as: You can’t live your life under no man’s thumb / they’ll all pay double for what they’ve done / our day’s coming but their day’s come

came across some great pro videos (with pro audio) of jim o'rourke playing with the full "insignificance" era band, which are dated (march 25, 2000) but no venue listed. guessing it's chicago, can anybody tell? tried & failed at some newspaper searches. youtu.be/OR7szKcx4lM?...

bro are you on the moors right now. are you in the fens. bro are you even in the gorse right now

bro where did you get this lucre from..... it's FILTHY

“APPRECIATE THESE CLIFFS.”

I started reading Tim Robinson's "Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage," but I am imagining it is written by the other Tim Robinson.

when I went to this general store in this town of like, 40 people, everyone denied all knowledge of the person I was supposed to meet until he showed up and they were reassured I was not a fed.

Not understanding what’s going on is the main thing I look for in a book. All I ask for from a book is that I am confused. Nothing else is worth reading.

I don’t remember my father playing music in the car, but if you rode with my stepfather, you were listening to a Glenn Miller 8 track.

Ewoks rule

My daughter is 7 1/2 and we've been discussing if she's ready to watch some of the more exciting animated movies and I realized that she's about six months away from the age I was when my father had me watch Psycho with him.

Starting a Led Zeppelin cover band with a bunch of other mediocre musicians and calling it SOSO

An unexpected connection: My TBR shelf (floor) has gotten way out of control the last few years, so recently I've been trying to plow through it (rather than fussily worry about exactly the right book to read next) without overthinking it.

I just finished reading Gerald Murnane's The Plains and Barley Patch. This is my first time reading Murnane and am completely in love with them. It is easy to say but hard to explain: These books really are not like anything else.

I’ve started listening to Grateful Dead live shows. I never appreciated them before, but as soon as I turned fifty I got it. It’s been a great source of pleasure.

La Center, Kentucky Pop: 959 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Center,_Kentucky Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38017835 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18515334 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25741429

Last night I dreamt I was in a mall & over the speakers was this Ronnie Spector-esque song called “Dirty Jim,” the lyrics, as best I could remember upon waking, went like this: Well his name was Dirty Jim & there was something odd about him, he was always hangin round searching for that dirty sound

oh feelies my feelies, just what i needed after this week, at @musichallofwb.bsky.social. acoustic comfort covers & full electric set of blissed feelie-beat, with proper "raised eyebrows"/"crazy rhythms" closer & more covers, including (i think) the debut of the MC5's rather timely "amercian ruse"

wrote about the very cosmic jazz of london-based trio flur for @pitchfork.com just astoundingly beautiful music

COLUMN: WCHL's Jon Gregory digs deep into the history of one of the staple restaurants in town, Carrburritos. Give it a read here:

Simpsonville, Kentucky Pop: 2,923 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsonville,_Kentucky Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=107273484 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93603392 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146886354

Polvo are one of the best to ever do it. A 10/10 discography. All hits, no misses. And some of the best lyrics of all time.

Lower, Wolves Gardening at Night Ages of You Pilgrimage Moral Kiosk Life and How to Live It

Average Rural Pizza Hut in 1987.

Was life better before the internet? Buddy, life was better before cable television. Nothing to do but read and occasionally catch the static-obscured second half of a budget sci-fi movie you will never know the name of on the one small television in the house.

I can't believe I've never been here before.

nice short profile of Vollmann, bringing things up to date. i’m sorry to learn he was diagnosed with cancer. absolutely a giant of American letters

I’ve seen Bardo Pond twice.

A classic Amazon review. It's about Leslie Scalapino's experimental novel, Defoe, which has nothing to do with Daniel Defoe and *definitely* nothing to do with Willem Dafoe.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

One of the few things that brings me any joy these days is how much my daughter loves Phoebe and Her Unicorn books.

Are you familiar with good music?

Gallimard's only comment upon rejecting Proust's manuscript of Swann's Way: "Too many duchesses!"

Back on my bullshit* *claiming US Maple did more than The Beatles

The Hairsmith Kevil, KY