Ben Telfer

A chubby orange cat sits on a concrete floor with sunlight streaming through a window, creating bright rectangular patches across its back that look like a glowing battery charge indicator.

“You fool! That wasn’t even my final form!”

*health bar recharges*

at the David Lynch memorial at the Big Boy where he ate. people are leaving pie, coffee, flowers, Cheetos, cigs, and the most emotional notes I’ve ever read.

💔

Remembering Trish Keenan today.

Notes on Tony Slattery RIP.

YouTube video by mark saunders David Bowie Impersonates.....

Reading a book on Bowie & been reminded that he was a superb mimic.
Here he is doing Bruce Springsteen, Marc Bolan, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Anthony Newley, Iggy Pop & Neil Young over over Absolute Beginners.
The guy had a great sense of humour. youtu.be/NrtXFTw2ico?...

A TV screen playing Invincible S1 E6. The information on screen identifies the voice actors in the scene as being Justin Roiland and Ezra Miller. Yeesh.

Yeesh, I regret hitting pause.

An ad for a Regal Cinemas collectible GLADIATOR II deal featuring Tub & Cup, which are popcorn and drink containers with helmets. Very menacing.

Tub & Cup are the wacky comedy gladiators, like Timon & Pumbaa with swords.

YouTube video by N0ISYLAND David Kilgour - Beached (1994) —HD version 2024

David Kilgour's 'Beached' video, from the Sugar Mouth album. Director Stuart Page has given it an HD upgrade:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCwf...

I had no idea this series even existed, but after reading the Wikipedia entry, I must watch it.

Happy birthday, JPW! 🎉

I Have a new album coming out next month on Noir Age out of Miami Florida. Called "Beneath Soil & Sky" and its my first CD release. Mostly all tape loops and its about 35 different ideas collaged together to form a continuous whole

A million billion years ago when Bluesky was new and there were a handful of us here, I made a feed that will serve you up every Bandcamp link on this site: bsky.app/profile/did:...

screenshot of infowars.com at 12:52 p.m. EST on 14 November 2024: "Site unavailable till further notice."

sorry to be so giddy about this but Alex Jones is a piece of dogshit. this is a man who sic'd his worthless followers on the families of dead schoolchildren and couldn't even man up enough to say "I did that and I stand by it." to curbstomp him would be an insult to the curb. die broke, bitch

*groan*

A photo of Billy Bob Thornton looking like Rip Torn dressed up as late-90s Prince. Headline: « Billy Bob Thornton Knows Who He Is » Peter Fisher for The New York Times

And it’s Rip Torn auditioning for a Prince biopic.

Good morning Bluesky.

Here's a helpful starter pack for divorced men named Geoff but one has been murdered. Please help us find the killer.

go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

Bob Marley's greatest hits album is called Legend, so I think John Legend's greatest hits album should be called Marley

TOITŪ TE TIRITI!

STILL FUCKEN WANNA READ THIS

Ministry of Education to cut 565 staff, more than 400 roles go at Oranga Tamariki The announcement comes hours after Oranga Tamariki announced it was axing 400 roles.

You either believe the public service was wildly over-resourced with thousands of unnecessary jobs, or you understand that this govt is furiously kicking holes in the bottom of the boat with no plan for what is going to happen when the water starts pouring in. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

What NZ media is Murdoch-owned? Sky?

‘Cynicism doesn’t get you anywhere’: Warren Ellis on Dirty Three’s return, Nick Cave – and opening a primate sanctuary It’s been 12 years since the Australian instrumental trio’s last album. Since then, their violinist has become Cave’s right-hand man and set up a home for abused monkeys. Now they’re back with a fever...

For those of us eagerly awaiting new music from Dirty Three, this story and interview with Warren Ellis provides context for their reunion and further stokes the anticipation fires:

www.theguardian.com/music/2024/a...

Spending vs Years of Life Lost

I did this unholy mashup of many data sources in response to Brooke van Velden's opinion we spent too much stopping deaths.
There is a pandemic measure sensitive to the age of death - Years of Life Lost, and (with the assumption the existing health system matters). Nobody did better for cheaper...

Inspired by Beyoncé’s reinterpretation of Jolene I’m working on an update of The Gambler where I tell the gambler to shut the fuck up

Now we know what the orcas have been training for

Sir Russell Coutts slams 'extreme' dolphin policy after SailGP races canned 'I find it astonishing the amount of influence iwi have over the authorities here in New Zealand,' Sir Russell said in a statement.

Wanker.