Tom

Oh wow, hadn’t even picked up that the influence on Shrag was that direct. And now Dry Cleaning and to a lesser extent English Teacher. Suspect they’ll be a band that laid seeds that crop up perennially

I guess Help Stamp Out Loneliness did similar, but that split seemed to be on less amicable terms (what an album though!)

YouTube video by Lwb Fan Life without buildings – New Town (live)

Never thought there was even any live video footage until this turned up a couple of years back

Fallen down a Life Without Buildings hole again. One album, one live album, both perfect: immediately split up, no questions. Hard to beat tbh

Discovered today that the anti-folk singer Kimya Dawson is good friends with the AEW wrestler Bryan Danielson, and was like yeah that checks out

Silver Shamrock company faces backlash after admitting they used AI in creating their big Halloween TV commercial

Well that was an excellent night - took me a moment to adjust that everyone’s doing DJ sets rather than stage performances, but you end up getting into it

Who doesn’t want a shareable comic version of their paper though? I’m sure it would capture all of the nuances of it

That’s brutal

At the PC Music Halloween show, and the Jamie from Kero Kero Benito set in New York that they’re playing between the acts seems really good, and I’m glad they’re enjoying their DJ careers. But reform KKB godammit

I think that’s a v good point

And that’s been handled more or less successfully plenty of times in the past, but I’m not sure the Democrats or other centrist parties have the stones to do anything more than just gradually defunding them and asking them to be more polite

When they’ve been handed a gun and permission to target anyone they see as other, it’s going to take a concerted deradicalisation effort to get them to not be an ongoing problem in society

One thing I think about with the ICE situation in the US and other places where (predominantly) young men have been given authority and encouragement to be extraordinarily racist, is what you do with them afterwards

If you’re going to the cinema this week, go see Frankenstein instead! It’s a banger!

If you have nothing nice to say, it’s better to say nothing at all. So Shelby Oaks is definitely a film that I just saw

Increasingly I think the point of a wealth tax is not to raise money but to create space for raising income tax. The lethal thing in politics is when the compliant middle class feels like they have been taken for mugs; if you want to get money out of them, someone else needs to pay more too.

I gather they’re basically all very close variations on the theme, but I’m interested to see how that works out

Scariest thing I ever watched when I first saw it - tempted to give the sequels a go now I see they’re on Shudder

I know nothing about Dr Who, but, for Londoners, the phrase "Going For Dinner With Billie Piper" is the absolute best way to remember the order of the vertical streets running east to west in Soho (Greek, Frith, Dean, Wardour, Berwick, Poland) and has saved many a late night out

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

Just saw that for the first time earlier. What a deeply odd film. The plot doesn’t make a lick of sense, but somehow Dan O’Herlihy still sold me on it

Stop rebooting Michael Myers and do an updated remake of Halloween 3: Season of the Witch you cowards

Training and paying doctors to work in the National Health Service is actually EXACTLY where I want my cash to go as a taxpayer, Wes, and I'll have you out at the next election.

Okay, even more banned

Mate, you’re literally on a moped, get on the road

Was always slightly suspicious of pedal-free e-bikes, but encountered someone on one yesterday who was overtaking people in the bike lane on Mile End Road and honking at them to get out of the way, and now I think they should all be banned

one of the most brutally unpleasant and difficult to watch films i've ever seen (complimentary)

Also bugs! Loads of bugs, and spectacular dresses inspired by the bugs