After finally watching IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, I started reading a book that mentions a bluesman called Peg Leg Howell, is this the simulation talking
@andrewmale.bsky.social nailed it for me when he compared Pynchon to Tom Robbins, who I can’t stand. I do love Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love.
I so dislike PTA’s Pynchon movies it makes me reluctant to read Pynchon
Oh wait I was talking about OBAA, Sinners is smart!
[inside voice] it was not that smart
"A woman accesses a computer with free internet inside Mother Hubbard's Pub in Chicago." (1997) Photo: Chicago Sun-Times
so we rescued a set of cinema film scanners
does anyone need a set of cinema film scanners?
if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at hello@alyx.sh
just a couple of the typos in this music bio I’m reading on netgalley:
Tony Basil
[Chic] singer Norman Jean Wright
I misread this and thought No Trend’s “Teen Love” was on the juke
the string section makes me imagine a Jamaican spaghetti western, please tell me that’s a thing
Hank Marr - Marsanova [USA, Bossa Nova] (1963) Swanky organ Instrumental
https://redd.it/at47v9
https://youtu.be/_6GQtlin4MU
I always suspected that someone in Trump's admin is familiar with culture jamming. Now the evidence emergence someone in that admin studied Oblique Strategies in their spare time.
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My Life With The Ghosts Of Bush
Speaking of which, I learned about this particular card in a generally meh new Bowie biography
Search your camera roll for hell
TIL that one of the cards in Brian Eno’s OBLIQUE STRATEGIES is “Use Unqualified People,” which explains a lot about the world today
I had no idea!
TIL Kathryn Bigelow fronted Red Krayola in 1976 for Zoran Popovic’s film Struggle in NY handelstreetprojects.com/zoran-popovic
Rineke Dijkstra’s Buzzclub video saw 90s club kids and captured adolescents finding their voice; SIRAT imagines those club kids grown up and broken.
You will see her two more times if you do bad
BOTD Timothy Carey!!
MCCT5: 5)1-Eyed Jacks 4)Minnie/Mosk 3)Killing 2)Chinese Bookie 1)Paths/Glory
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I blame the new David Sedaris collection for a dream where a pink hippo burst through our living room window, making our chihuahua bark
Looking forward to the hawkish Swell Maps album, Operation Epic Soundtracks
Shreveport’s Paula Records is best known for John “Judy in Disguise” Fred, and also released albums by Cajun comedian-chef Justin Wilson. This is solid psychedelic sunshine soul a few years behind the times, with a modest voice that suits the Paul Williams comparisons, and lots of fuzz guitar.
Reaching the "chocolate milk used to be my friend" stage of Lent
what if Nick Drake but indifferent lyrics and wax paper drums? Nicest thing I’ve heard in a rideshare in forever tidal.com/track/439569...
My new favorite animal is the guy who thinks people on the Beatles thread dismissing Jethro Tull don’t appreciate anything a little avant garde
Only 18hrs 23 min left to go in THE POWER BROKER
I wish Elvis had lived long enough to star in a Robert Moses musical biopic
