Ian (F) Martin

Just read someone describe a writer’s prose as “vertiginous” and now I’m angry.

My favourite thing in JRPGs is having to click through thousands of dialogue boxes that read “…”

Or two years ago I guess. I dunno. Time is a flat circle.

Yeah, it’s superb. I owe it more of my time really. I remember feeling that if I listen to it together with the R.Ring album from last year, they add up together to a pretty wild new Breeders album.

And I have a thing for sub-30 minute albums hashtagpinkmoon.

I keep coming back to that new Throwing Muses album. In a way that I haven’t so much with the Kim Deal solo album (which is still great). Partly that’s just my fractured attention span, but I think the TM album is perfectly pitched for my specific mental frequency this year.

I don’t remember it being this clumsy an experience. Pretty sure as a kid I could knock out beautiful, statuesque fives by the dozen. Fives you could put in a gallery. Not these crumpled snakes.

Why is the number 5 so difficult to write by hand?

Robert Pollard

The Green Party are going to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation in 3, 2, 1…

Remind me to get milk, loo roll and razors next time I go to the shops.

Heh, I think basically all the dust-ups you’re finding about thinking machines are also distinct from the deep philosophical discussion you’re looking for around thinking machines.

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Sorry I'm close.

As a Sonic Youth fan, I’ve always been delighted that Chiba is A Thousand Leaves. With some kinda creative translation, 大分 can be One Hot Minute too.

Writing this from my room in High Disc Temple.

The xenophobes and flag fuckers in the Japanese music scene have been really starting to show themselves in my Facebook feed over the past month or so.

disrespectfully, fuck merch cuts

Stop writing band names and titles of stuff in all caps. I hate it so stop it.

She has an organic data centre of about a billion fans, pouring meaning into her lyrics every day like some sort of viral Tlön.

“I disagree with her but at least she hates solar power” fuck off.

Fucking hell Grind Shaft kick so much ass.

A brilliant corner!

Duet Emmo fans have lorded it over us Newmanites too long.

Beat it, fash.

Movietone❤️❤️❤️

I might sometimes affect innocent wonder at how we’ve kept on going this long, but I know the answer: sheer bloody-mindedness.

Having 7-inches of both Guided By Voices’ The Grand Hour EP and The Head to Toe EP means I now how both bands’ versions of Shocker in Gloomtown. That’s <90 seconds of the finest weirdo-pop songwriting of the 1990s delivered by two of the best bands ever.

A new upcoming release from my label, with a couple of loosely related existing releases further down in the thread. Off-kilter guitar trash, for those who dabble.

Sweet Dystopian Daydreams, by Grandma's Garden 6 track album

After a year spent in the abstract realms, our scuzzy indie-punk face is back on with the debut EP from Tokyo duo Grandma's Garden out on 10/17 and available for pre-order now. Available to download or on cassette with a lovely little accompanying zine: call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-...

Afternoons At The Library, by Sun Drawing + SEA LEVEL 10 track album

Then late last year we partnered with Objects Forever in London to release this collaboration between Fukuoka's Sea Level and @matthewjashton.bsky.social's Sun Drawing project, which you could take as the rural or leafy 1st part of the journey:
call-and-response.bandcamp.com/album/aftern...