@nedraggett.bsky.social
Hi! I write about music at various spots (@thequietus.com, @thewiremagazine.bsky.social, Shfl and my Patreon, also in the past @allmusic.com, @pitchfork.com, @bandcamp.com etc. etc.). Plus podcasting about #Tolkien with friends at @bythebywater.bsky.social
Honestly pretty impressive to have the same name as the worlds most famous guy and become famous anyway
We do know James Cameron and Guillermo Del Toro showed each other Battle Angel Alita and Patlabor on VHS, so this may very well have predated the earliest AMVs. However it’s inarguable Michael B Jordan knows the Naruto ‘Search for Tsundae’ arc better than either.
And once more all is well because this fellow is being restful.
It's bad when the President's social media posts become so bizarre as to remind one of the..."extreme outsider writer" Francis E. Dec, whose published rants about a Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God, etc, became an object of hipster fascination in the 90s
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...
This is still the greatest movie related moment of 2025 for me
Icarus: 👀
Timothee: 😫
Narcissus: 👀
Timothee: 😭
Man look at this photo of Toshiro Mifune this is out of control
Erika is indeed pretty great as are you so there ya go.
Sir we appear to have created a sexy suicide coach
Will you delete the app that feeds, etc
As one does. Hope the visit is great — very much loved mine.
Have a blast!
I’m outside Chase Center for the Nine Inch Nails show. Everyone in an old school synthpop t-shirt smiles and nods (mine is New Order).
Bad movie paradise.
I have seen an incredible number of worthy defences of alt-text but this is a new one on me
My Ides of March fun fact is that the place where Caesar was stabbed is now a cat sanctuary, and I think it’s beautiful that creatures with tiny knives on their feet live there
Bailter Space Live at Lounge Ax 1994-04-23 https://archive.org/details/ajc03019_bailter_space_1994-04-23
Oh, fuck, it's still 2026.
The whole world is writing 'have a great summer!' in the US's yearbook.
The Medieval city of Sijilmasa and the empires of North Western Africa. (757-1818 CE)
Journal of African Cities: chapter 20
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-mediev...
I dare Jack Harlow to look in a mirror and say Kendrick’s name three times.
kicking off with Pale Air, a band from the thriving Shanghai scene that melds the woozy vibe of MBV with current genre trends
#shoegaze
friends it is once again #shoegaze Sunday
join me as I continue exploring the underappreciated Chinese scene
Internet Annoyed Firefly Revival Makes Them Remember Adam Baldwin Was an Actor
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Y'know, since Nancy Drew is public domain now, you could make a video game where she's a precocious homeschooled 16yo, claiming to be 30 years older and absolutely DOMINATING an online cold case forum. like, five cleared cases under her belt, pretending to be a retired cop named Sherman.
Every so often, I throw this into the universe:
I.R.S. Records, please, I implore you: release your entire back catalog and the full episodes of The Cutting Edge while those of us who might care are still alive.
important
CAESAR
The ides of March are come.
SOOTHSAYER
Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
Also, holy HELL