T. Tauri

Yeah, succeeded in being more not-of-its-time (while still being of-its-time) than a lot of online-disco-enthusiast stuff from that moment.

His edits still hold up better than a lot of peers too.

I feel like it’s impossible to overpraise “Inspector Norse”—can play it anywhere, whether to the most jaded undergrounders or clueless normies, and the second it comes on everyone knows that it’s a *Party*.

When I was out to lunch today, I couldn’t recognize any of the artists behind the Christmas music—and as unsurprising as that’d be even for human-produced Christmas pop, it occurred that some budget-line-minded corporation could def be like, “Nah, let’s play the machine-made slop instead” this year.

Wondering if we’ve reached the point of Simply Having an All-AI-Slop Christmas Shopping Music experience yet…

YouTube video by DepecheModeVEVO Depeche Mode - Everything Counts (Official Video)

Wow, haven’t watched the video in FOREVER. 🙃

Makes me want to make a list of videos of the era where a synth part is mimed in the video with an acoustic instrument.

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I’m still mad not to have gotten the laser loon from Ramsey… 😤

It is tremendously expected, disappointing, and amusing to me all at once.

YouTube video by Maceo & The Macks - Topic Parrty (Pt. 1)

youtu.be/ZjGovhqus2g?...

Rhano Burrell, one half of legendary house duo The Burrell Brothers, dies · News ⟋ RA The twin producers helped set the blueprint for New York house.

RIP Rhano Burrell.

Photo of a cat comfortably asleep on a lap.

Going to vote will happen… a little bit later. 😐

I see that my cats have learned to recognize Churu not just by sight of the package, but by mention of the word too…

Photo of an OPEN sign, points of red and blue lights slightly blurred by condensation on the window.

Brake Bread Bakery, St Paul

Photo of a Halloween pumpkin carved with an image resembling one of Yayoi Kusama’s pumpkins.

Test lighting the so-so Yayoi Kusama pumpkin.

Drill bit wanted to wander when starting the holes, so more uneven than I hoped…

Remembering this costume majesty from last year, which still seems unsurpassed to me.

Film still of Large Marge from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure

“On this very night, 34 years ago….”

Jumborg Ace (1973)
Episode 42

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

If you see this post a vampire who isn’t Dracula

Photo of a white-furred Maine Coon cat, head and ruff poking through slats lining a stairway, paws hanging over the edge, looking towards camera

THE NOBLESSE!

[chef fingers]

Photos: White House East Wing Demolished For Trump’s Ballroom The privately funded ballroom will be approximately 90,000 square feet, much larger than the White House itself.

Thinking a lot recently about the outrage over Lizzo playing James Madison's flute

Photo of an orange Maine Coon cat sitting on top of a plastic storage container filled with cookies and looking seriously at the camera.

“Halloween cookies are for Halloween.”

(Sheru making sure cookies for guests do not get eaten early…)

Why is Apple, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Blackstone, Google, OpenAI, Amazon and others financing the destruction of the WH and desecration of the grounds, something that is infuriating to huge chunk of the American population? Do you hate your customers that much?

Yes

Q: what is the most bad-faith, bandwagon-jumping, sloppily-created disco song ever created?

Returning to my idea of time-machining back to 2006 or so to release a disco edit under the alias Stet Brephens, but realizing that to properly complete the bit, the edited song in question has to be the dumbest piece of crap imaginable, like “Disco Duck” or something.

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

Screenshot of April 27, 2011 headline from The Onion. Text reads “Trump Unable To Produce Certificate He’s Not a Festering Pile Of Shit”

Have always viewed this Onion headline from the Birther years as the most accurate, essential characterization, upon which very little of the zillion articles of analysis have improved:

Between the LP and the 12” remixes, the most flawless run of house music ever. Not a single track or mix better forgotten.

Also: Electribe 101 - Electribal Memories

Again, well-loved in its element, but invisible outside of it.