Blake

Hot take, but I think it’s the BEST Slowdive record…

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week."

This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Don’t see enough love for DMST 🙌

if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

Vinyl copy of the Albert Ayler Trio’s album “Spiritual Unity” sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand. The record plays on a turntable beside it. A record shelf can be seen below. #nowplaying #freejazz #vinylsky

Spiritual Unity, Albert Ayler knows. I think might’ve been the first non Sun Ra jazz record I bought. I’d say it was good instinct, but I’m pretty sure it was the cover & title.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Wild that people will try anything to make a buck besides “be a good person”

If at least 26 billionaires can waste at least $27 million trying to defeat Zohran Mamdani, then those same billionaires can afford to pay an extra 2% on their income over $1 million to make New York a better, thriving city for everyone — including themselves.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Vinyl copy of Ty Segall’s album “Slaughterhouse” sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand. The record plays on a turntable beside it. They sit atop a record shelf strung with Christmas lights. #nowspinning #garage

Sure is nice when the vibes are good. Ty Segall, Slaughterhouse. We rockin’ on a Tuesday.

I loved Lamorne and Joe as well. Juno was amazing. I think my favorite supporting actor in the whole show was Bokeem Woodbine. But that competition is stiff!

Damn, that’s tough! I think I’d go 2,5,3,4,1 — and I loved 1.
I think 4 is unfairly maligned and would rank it even higher if the other seasons weren’t so GD good too.

I read the hate before watching, and was prepared to grind through, and I get it, but I thought it was great and really dug it.

Twin Peaks, Better Call Saul, Fargo. If I had to pick one it would be TP (formative) but the other two are equally as incredible!

The Bottle Tapes An essential storehouse of Chicago music history

Today's newsletter is about The Bottle Tapes, an incredible new 6CD set of live avant-jazz recordings, and about the difference between the New York and Chicago music scenes:
burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-bottle...

Louisiana — the red state that Mike Johnson nominally represents — has the second highest percentage of residents enrolled in SNAP in the nation.

They’re pushing this fantasy about these being “Democrat programs” used only in blue states but that’s a PR fantasy divorced from reality.

Randy Holden - Dark Eyes [US, Psychedelic Rock] (1970)

Randy Holden - Dark Eyes [US, Psychedelic Rock] (1970)
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https://youtu.be/44i6snkyqRk

A tray full of freshly baked, leaning flaky biscuits. They tower with fluffiness and are a little on the well-done side, to everyone’s delight.

The biscuits. I was in a rush so they were hastily cut creating these leaning towers of deprecating appearance, though no less delicious.

Continuation, Vol. 1, by Sun Ra & His Arkestra 5 track album

Biosphere Blues is extremely my shit. An uncharacteristically quaint tip-toeing composition.

Vinyl copy of Sun Ra’s album “Continuation” sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand. The record plays on a turntable in the distance. They sit atop a record storage shelf strung with Christmas lights. #sunra #freejazz #nowplaying

Another Sunday, another batch of biscuits and a Sun Ra slab full of tracks with unknown origin. Continuation has contradictory stories, unlikely personnel listings and credits for a studio that doesn’t exist. Can only assume this one came from another dimension.

Hell yeah!

Vinyl copy of M. Sage’s album “Tender / Wading” sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand. The record plays on a turntable beside it which is sitting on a record storage shelf lined with Christmas lights. #nowspinning #ambientjazz

Pretty much a daily vibe since I got it. M. Sage’s latest is possibly the height of his ambient-jazz powers, and with that catalogue, is saying a lot. Stunner. Absolutely one of the year’s best. From Rvng. Intl.

Vinyl copy of Pharmokon’s album “Contact” sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand. The record plays in a turntable beside it, which is sitting in a record shelf strung with Christmas lights. #nowplaying #noise #experimental

Getting freaky in here now… Pharmakon, Contact. A Sacred Bones joint.

Vinyl copy of Marie Davidson’s album “Un Autre Voyage” sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand. The record spins on a turntable beside it on top of a record shelf strung with Christmas lights. #halloween #nowspinning #darkwave

Some fitting Marie Davidson jams, probably my favorite to boot.

Vinyl copy of Angelo Badalamenti’s “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me” soundtrack sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand. The record plays on a turntable beside it. They both sit on a record storage shelf strung with Christmas lights. #nowplaying #twinpeaks

Obligatory. FWWM is especially great Halloween music. Angelo is the king. The black dog runs at night.

Vinyl copy of the 40th anniversary edition of Goblin’s “Suspiria” soundtrack sitting in a velvet Victorian photo stand. The vinyl record plays in a turntable beside it. They sit on a record shelf with stranded Christmas lights. #nowspinning

A tray with an assortment of full-sized candy bars ready to be distributed.

Let’s get it going

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Vinyl copy of Demon Fuzz's album "Afreaka!" sitting on a velvet Victorian photo stand. The record plays on a turntable beside it. #nowplaying #fusion #psychedelicsoul

Demon Fuzz, Afreaka! Essential UK psych-soul-jazz-funk drops.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering