Adam Klein

No Kings / the Warfield / 10/18/25
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Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Triumph Sends a Warning to Authoritarians Everywhere The Iranian director’s Palme d’Or-winning thriller, “It Was Just an Accident,” set the tone for a festival defined by dramas of political resistance.

Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winner, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, is now playing in New York and Los Angeles theatres. A film of blistering rage and implacable moral authority, in which Panahi's presence, experience and courage are stamped into every frame: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back

Health Experts Recommend Standing Up At Desk, Leaving Office, Never Coming Back https://theonion.com/health-experts-recommend-standing-up-at-desk-leaving-o-1819577456/

This explains the films of Guy Maddin

Was lucky enough to catch Setting when they came through SF in May '24, and have been thinking about that show (and listening to all their live releases on bandcamp) ever since

Got to see 'em yesterday at HSB and at the Camp Winnarainbow benefit on Wednesday! Coming to the scene later in life, it's been great to be able to see folks like Peter Rowan still around and playing. First time I caught DSO (at the Warfield), they had him front an acoustic first set; fantastic!

Marc Ribot on a small stage in the woods

Marc Ribot closing out day one at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass with electric & acoustic guitars, beat poetry, bible stories, and anti-fascist anthems

recently they've they've hidden reviews by default (tho not overall rating, sigh), which makes it slightly less terrible. i've been reluctantly using it for tracking the last couple of years, and do like it for that enough to put up with the ridiculousness

Post a poster you have hanging on your wall

they need to stop making all these different movies. just make one movie where everything happens

Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda. This Fall, we are activating a nationwide wave of creative resistance. Beginning November 21–22, 2025, galleries, museums, libraries, comedy clubs, theaters, and concert halls across the country will host exhibitions, performances, and public events that channel the urgency of this moment. Fall of Freedom is an open invitation to artists, creators, and communities to take part—and to celebrate the experiences, cultures, and identities that shape the fabric of our nation. Art matters. Artists are a threat to American fascism.

Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st...

www.falloffreedom.com

three musicians on stage in front of a red curtain, largely obscured by a rapt audience

Orcutt Shelley Miller killing it last night at Thee Stork Club in Oakland. @billorcutt.bsky.social barely visible to most of the room, made up for by his blistering guitar throughout. Picked up
orcuttshelleymiller.bandcamp.com/album/orcutt..., now (digitally) spinning it on repeat

tuesdays just won't feel quite right for the next while without the frow show. in the meantime, looking forward to diving into those 10+ years of archives!

A sign with a silhouetted person sitting on a beluga whale with a red circle with a line over it.

FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen

screenshot of image showing forecast for 11pm-2am Pacific Monday Sept 1 2025 indicating high auroral activity

There's a great chance to see some aurora tonight! A few tips for the casual observer in this thread.

First off, this forecast shows potential overhead aurora (green band) and the edge of where you might be able to see it near the horizon (green line)
www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aur...

finally got to see him play a couple years ago and had a similar feeling. nothing against the guy, just felt weird to not be digging his show and be unable to put my finger on what's missing

I didn’t know anything about how the world works before I started spending 15 hours a day on the computer

nearly 50 folks here a few minutes before showtime at an IMAX in downtown Seattle. stoked to see it on the big screen for the first time!

Thinking abt the Built to Spill "Doug" bench in Boise from 2022.

Math.PI - JavaScript | MDN The Math.PI static data property represents the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, approximately 3.14159.

π is irrational, which means `Math.PI` is only an approximation, the closest JavaScript number (IEEE 754 64-bit float) to π

Now that JavaScript has BigInts I propose that we should add a constant `BigInt.PI`, the closest BigInt to π. For symmetry

Chong and Cheech rapping on the street.

"Yeah so in my dream everyone was connected man...it was by these computers in yer phone which was portable an, an everyone was really depressed, just bummed out man, so I made these gummies that were made totally made outta weed and sold them to people to eat and chill out...it was far out maaan."

Bobo didn't believe in evolution, so God turned him into a flower.

Film review by Jorge Luis Borges of KING KONG (1933): King Kong: A monkey fourteen meters high (some of his fans say fifteen) is obviously charming, but perhaps that is not enough. This monkey is not full of juice; he is a dried out and dusty contraption with angular, clumsy movements. His only virtue-his height-seems not to have greatly impressed the photographer, who persists in not shooting him from below but from above, a plainly mistaken angle that invalidates and annuls his tallness. It should be added that he is hunchbacked and bowlegged, features that also shorten him. To ensure that there is nothing extraordinary about him, they make him fight monsters far stranger than he and find him lodgings in fake caverns the size of a cathedral, where his hard-won stature is lost. A carnal or romantic love for Miss Fay Wray brings to perfection the ruin of this gorilla and of the film as well.

Borges’ capsule review of KING KONG in which he mostly complains that Kong should be bigger

a placard at a grocery store displaying the text "DUE TO A RECENT CYBERATTACK ON OUR PRIMARY DELIVERY PARTNER, SOME PRODUCTS ARE TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK."

living in the future

This was such a fun show! I feel lucky he's been making the Chapel (a 10min walk for me) his SF home of late; got to see him do that Syd Barrett show last year. For the Beefheart songs, Allyson Baker (I think?) joined on electric guitar, adding angular textures while Robyn gave his all on vocals

Synchronous Orbit, by Jeffrey Alexander + The Heavy Lidders 3 track album

Perhaps you would like to listen to this new Lidders LP, out this week on Feeding Tube and Cardinal Fuzz. Or maybe it’s next week, I can’t keep up. Regardless, it features LEGENDARY AMBIENT COMPOSER Jeffrey Alexander, yeah you herd right

Toolmen Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.

“What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a … growing sector of the journalism class.”

aworkinglibrary.com/writing/tool...

band onstage with Robyn Hitchcock

Still basking in the afterglow of four nights of @actualylt.bsky.social at the Chapel in SF. Many highlights, but hard to beat Saturday's encore featuring @robynhitchcock.bsky.social singing VU/Floyd/Beatles

beyond psyched for this (and the following 3 nights!!)