Mike Phillips

What do you MEAN going to discogs and buying another record won't make me feel better?

Random thought of the day: I own bath towels that are older than most of the people I interact with every day.

A photo of the sleeve of Traffic's 1971 album The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys sitting on top of a turntable.

Video editing music. Traffic, The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys (1971).

If you're into a more comic-style cover, I've been leaning pretty heavily on Daimon Hampton. He did the Chicago book cover and is doing the upcoming [redacted] cover.

I really wish I could!

I break out if I moisturize. I also can't use any shaving cream or lotion, otherwise I break out. It's a razor and hot water for me.

I am so freaking uncomfortable with how many of my left-leaning friends are yelling about putting people in prison. Abolition means abolition for everyone, otherwise you're just unhappy with who's holding the keys.

A photo of a record sleeve standing atop a record player. The record is Miles Davis's Jack Johnson, and the cover shows a bunch of African American people in 1930s dress sitting inside a yellow convertible.

Miles Davis (with help from Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, etc.) made one of the best rock albums and one of the best jazz albums of all time. This thing just does not stop.

This explains so much!

Apparently halfway during my first one, I tried to slap the doctors and shouted "ow! ow! fuck you, you fuckers!" Can't wait to see what hijinks unconscious Mike gets up to in the next one.

It's really short too!

Zardoz is so great. There's a book called "Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the 70s and Today" by Anthony Galluzo that really opened it up for me.

Jaroslav Olša - Miles (Miloslav) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer at the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Miles (Miloslav) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer at the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Born in Chicago to Czech immigrant parents, Miles (Mil...

We're co-sponsoring a lecture by Jaroslav Olša Jr. about Czech-American sci-fi writer Miles J. Breuer on February 6 at 3:30pm Central. In person at the University of Chicago or register to watch on Zoom at the link.

events.uchicago.edu/event/260646...

I am listening to Patti Labelle and transcribing a pulp adventure story published in a Black newspaper in the 1950s. There's a cat asleep on my legs. Sometimes things are perfect. This is one of those times.

I spent 20 years in film exhibition. Film people are introverts too, but they have to go outside to attend film screenings. You'd see people in the lobby and chat with them, and those people became your friends. I don't see anyone from the publishing world.

Publishing is lonely.

Awesome, thanks.

Wait.

Does doomscrolling count? Asking for a friend.

Same. I go months without working on my own stuff. Any "creative" time I have, I use on publishing company projects.

This post brought to you by a glance at my bookshelves, where I can see bookmarks poking up from THE GOLDEN BOWL and THE AMBASSADORS.

Novellas and short stories? Dude was the king. Novels? I'm on page 100 and I can't remember who any of these people are.

I have to say, shitposting for 200 followers is NOT as rewarding as shitposting for 4000 followers.

I have never been able to finish a Henry James novel.

They even sent out an email saying that everything is open and if students want to stay home they have to contact their professors about making up work. Ridiculous. Thankfully some entities have decided to close on their own, but not mine.

My job is a dick. It is -7 degrees and I have to go in to an in-person meeting that could easily have been a zoom.

On a wooden table lies a copy of "Pomfret Towers" by Angela Thirkell next to a tumbler of whiskey.

If you love P.G. Wodehouse, you will love Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire novels.

It and Blade are the only Marvel movies that I can remember anything specific about. The others just blur together, probably by design. And HtD is the only one I ever quote.

If Howard the Duck isn't on your list of the five best Marvel movies, can you really consider yourself a film lover?

I started One Battle After Another last night but stopped after about 30 minutes. Does it get better? I would hate to miss something but I am just not feeling it.

The only proper covers of the song, by the way, are those by Nina Simone and Meshell Ndegeocello, which retain the gender dynamic of the oldest known versions.