Graham Smith

Xbox Jazz

had to do some research on this. is there some problem that prevents reintroducing the term Shoogly Train

y'all doing great work out here helping me continue to not ever even launch it. this is helpful

honestly i was just excited to learn about a new hoax. turns out it wasn't that new but it'll blow your mind.

"Ghosts of Iron Mountain" is like a non-stop greatest hits of putting the post-WWII pieces together. it knows it is that, and it is VERY pleased about it, which makes it slightly precious at times. still an absolute must-read for just about anyone who thinks it sounds good

i keep asking Damon Che how i can get THIS on MY license plate but it appears he has blocked me on X, formerly Twitter, the everything website

while i shudder to think about the future Lucien "La Grange" Grange has resigned himself to, it's STILL surprising Suno has not consented to whatever the demands are (yet)

REAL audiophiles know that mono is the authentic mix

“Thank you, Lord, for this message,” one commenter wrote. “I need you to heal me from the inside.”

errol louis frosty that "five times over" as many people talked to him about his SNL simulacrum as did about the actual debate. the realest

lithgow has like 15 of these joints. god's favorite man of a thousand careers

one thing i can't figure out is why did chewing gum blow up and then totally go away. there used to be multiple different gum brands fighting for my tv eye dollars, at least one spot in every break. what the fuck is wrong with us

oh yeah. instabuy + xmas gift to be. thanks!

also worth pointing out firesign theatre never went away, and also omfg: Negativland

bloom county has to be in the mix. for children of the older x'ers, i guess.

"this too-long-underseen masterstroke of world cinema stands alongside Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman" is a risky comparison to whip out. a single comma could change everything

every once in a while it helps to remember that Bandcamp *should* be enshittified if not just totally gone at this point, and yet it slipped through Tim Sweeney's edgelord fingers and into the hands of rights management private equity — but it is still basically the same platform as 2019 but better.

"The egg theme of the product package and the in-store presentation reinforced the feminine message."

no wonder Longstreth did a whole musical about him

Lily Allen: West End Girl Read Harry Tafoya’s review of the album.

glad she managed to rustle up a 7.3, but wow, this album sounds like at least 6 discrete bummers voltroned into one pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

call that god's plan

i always knew there was a reason i like reading it so much

i am not necessarily the world's biggest Leftovers fan, but i would say it kind of gets BETTER once Lindo gets free of the source material (which iirc is season 1?)

Some Beautiful Satisfying Pastry Tutorial

i wonder if anyone remembers Ted Dzuiba.

Why open source may not survive the rise of generative AI Generative AI may be eroding the foundation of open source software. Provenance, licensing, and reciprocity are breaking down.

this article says a lot of what i have been thinking about for the past year, and also alerts me to a terrifying new aspect of it. www.zdnet.com/article/why-...

they really should already know the answer to this

it wasn't quite the bombshell i've seen it referred to, or any at all, but it was still slightly refreshing for those of us who remember the whiplash of "this [slop MP3 of 'Nirvana' playing a Blink 182 song] is the best thing music could ever be" into "Nobody needs this stuff!! True value == zero!!"

it's kind of a similarly delightfully shocking progression to what the Gibbonses (and Coogan himself) have done with Alan Partridge. it really was a great lil movie

maybe the most fucked up LyricsFind mistake (in my opinion, i guess?) ever. unforgivable