“Randall📀Roberts”

If what was happening in Chicago was happening in NYC, there would be wall-to-wall cable news coverage

A cozy, dimly lit listening nook filled with vinyl records, books, and audio gear. On the top shelf sits a silver Technics SL-1200 turntable next to a Rane TTM 57SL DJ mixer, both connected by visible cables. Below them are stacks of records and books, and a sign reading World History propped on a rear shelf. A black-and-white Laddio Bolocko album cover featuring a saxophonist dominates the center of the scene, partially leaning against the shelf, while another monochrome record Laddio Bolocko inner sleeve with a portrait of rad bassist Ben Armstrong from Edwardsville, Illinois rests among the LPs below. The warm tones of wood, sunlight, and orange fabric lampshades give the room a nostalgic, analog glow.

Laddio Bolocko on a Saturday. #records

If they’re into Daft Punk I’d suggest Aphex Twin’s ‘I Care Because You Do’ or Boards of Canada’s ‘Music Has the Right to Children.’ Oh and Björk’s ‘Vespertine.’

"Too."

ON MIND: Steve Roden, An Archive, An Unreliable Narrator The Kitchen is one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, showing innovative work by emerging and established artists across disciplines. Our programs range from dance, music, performance, and th...

A beautiful text on Steve Roden and the nature of archive.

I occasionally check in with Al, not just because there's filthy gig money in Al training but also to see where the tech is at, and ask it to write an essay about California by me and the results are always so bad, so unfixable, so obviously counterfeit, that it gives me motivation to write again. It just reminds me l'm the only entity that does what I do. Never mind getting more validation than that, it tells me l'm not a statistic.

While going through text messages from Kaleb—insert an image of Charlie Brown saying “sigh” here—I found this, from about a year ago. The point he was making applies to all of us.

I count myself among the craven.

Attempting to capture the Hacky Sack guy while driving. He’s been keeping it up for 40 years.

As always, today is a great day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for someone's Patreon, go to a live theater performance, purchase someone's album from Bandcamp. You can also leave a nice comment or write a review.

“Not gonna lie, the chicken kicks ass. It ain’t Roscoe’s, but the crunchy breading is bizarrely satisfying, and you can taste the grease killing you slowly, which is what makes chicken delicious.”

The last magazine writer What left with Kaleb Horton.

Kaleb Horton RIP.

The dumbest most craven people alive are being paid 6 figure salaries to be actively dangerously wrong about things and Kaleb Horton, a better writer than pretty much anyone, couldn't find work and now he's dead. Just upsetting

*plus I’ve never been able to listen to a whole Zoogz Rift album — or song, even — from start to finish.

So tempted to respond with Zoogz Rift/Kendra Smith but we both know that would be performative.

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Welp, I didn't ask for it, don't want it, wouldn't recommend it, but I've been raptured. These people are insane.

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health what until you see what guns do.

YouTube video by Beverly Glenn-Copeland Ever New (Kelsey Lu’s Transportation)

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Alt text: A black-and-white page from William Gass’s novel The Tunnel shows two triangular diagrams titled “The Pennants of Passive Attitudes and Emotions.” Each pennant is subdivided into labeled zones representing negative traits. The left pennant lists envy, spite, secretiveness, resentment, bigotry, long-suffering, frigidity, niggardliness, and malice. The right pennant includes sullenness, churlishness, hypocrisy, self-pity, vindictiveness, pettiness, procrastination, sloth, and jealousy. The shapes resemble flags, with darker and lighter shading distinguishing the emotional categories.

From William H. Gass’s ‘The Tunnel,’ a grimly prescient novel about fascism and narcissism, conveyed by a horridly unreliable narrator.

Per a post from his wife, JD passed in a moment as they held hands and were listening to this compilation he'd assembled during lockdown, inspired by his wife's daughter. It seems good to share it, it is free to listen to in full. His accompanying note is worth reading. JD always paid it forward.

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“I hear Vanity Fair has a new West Coast editor.”

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(me rn)

The Caretaker - ‘Everywhere at the End of Time,’ a six volume work that attempts replicate the sensation of descending into Alzheimers.

me for not following the rules of the prompt: No stars.

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Review.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.