AC Newman

It's fun to have a new favorite band. It's been awhile. Not trying to preach anymore, though, not trying to convert, just quietly shaking my head in disbelief at non-believers. Sure, go enjoy your inferior rock and roll music. Godspeed.

Udo Kier film should not be streamed on Netflix. envelop yourself I. the darkness of the movie hall and submit to the artist's vision

RIP Udo Kier, a true original
📽️

his one and only social media post:

Remote Becoming Holy by Flora Hibberd on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 3:51

Flora Hibberd.

Very easy on the ears.

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Code by Flora Hibberd on Apple Music Song · 2024 · Duration 3:13

This is new to me and I really like it.

Flora Hibberd

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and MJ Lenderman. Forgot about that one.

My 2025 band of the year is....

Are you kidding me?!? Clean sweep! ...

Geese!

A big year for Geese.

My 2025 album of the year is...

No surprise here and well deserved!...

'Getting Killed' by Geese.

A big year for Geese. Here's looking forward to 2026.

My 2025 song of the year is...

'Au Pays du Cocaine' by Geese.

Well deserved! Congratulations to Geese!

All the gigs I went to this year:

Nick Lowe
Courtney Barnett
Maya Ongaku
Minami Deutsch
Memorials
Shintaro Sakamoto
Geese

All brilliant. Day 2 of Woodsist also brilliant but that's a festival as compared to a gig. Levon Rambles as well but that's more of a hootenanny.

Happy new year to all.

A video captured of Maria a Street Vendor reunited with her
Autistic 15 yr old son after he was wrongfully detained for 50 days.

High school senior, a U.S. citizen, detained by ICE in Oregon The 17-year-old was held more than five hours Friday in an ICE facility, his brother said.

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.”

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

On the last night of SXSW the Dung Beatles used to play, maybe they still do. A feces-themed Fab 4 cover band playing hits like 'It's Only Dung', 'She Loves Poo' and the classic 'Felch!'

What made me remember that?

on this day we were warned that:

Swastikas and nooses do not betoken hate
&
Reminding the military to abide by the law is punishable by death.

g’night

One other person there. So close.

Lanthimos is not a horror director but he keeps you on edge constantly. The levels of unease crossed with the absurdity. Like the final scene of 'The Lobster'.

The way he sets up the 2 antagonists in Bugonia, it filled this guy with dread. Anything could happen.

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

Going to a 1:30 screening of Bugonia. Hoping for that rare 'only person in the theater' experience.

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

NEW:

In 2024, Tierra Walker was sick and getting sicker. She was also pregnant.

She knew abortion was illegal in Texas, but thought there was an exception for women like her, whose health was at risk. Doctors told her there was no emergency.

Then she died.

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

Pamphleteers were a big part of the last American Revolution. It's time has come.

'Like A Horror Movie': The New Pornographers' A.C. Newman Talks Ex-Drummer's Child Porn Arrest New Pornographers founder A.C. Newman gives his first interview about the shocking arrest of the band's former drummer on child pornography charges

It's my dog Banjo.

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Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments

"In retrospect, perhaps I should not have had sex with those trafficked teenage girls on the private island but I digress... where were we?.. yes, the Keynesian model..."

Summers, ‘Ashamed’ Over Epstein Ties, Steps Back From Public Commitments www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

i am going to continue to maintain that normal people hate this shit, and people will *especially* hate *this* shit

At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest (RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.

Organizers told me that at least 7 faith leaders were among those arrested on Friday.

In a statement posted on X, DHS referred to demonstrators as "imbeciles" who need to "get a job."

One pastor told me "this is our job," adding, "to advocate for the oppressed. religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Hit My Head All Day by Dry Cleaning on Apple Music Song · 2025 · Duration 6:03

More new Dry Cleaning.

Right on.

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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church.

The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.

Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...

Geese's live version of 'Domoto' really showcases Cameron Winter's songcraft. The way the melody + chords move, the singing, the closest comparison I can think of is 'Court And Spark'. To be able to do that and then effortlessly seamlessly move into grooving like the Stones in 1969, boggles my mind

Geese tonight in a little 250 cap room. Been to many shows that were legendary only after the fact, didn't know it at the time, like Nirvana opening for Sonic Youth, White Stripes playing to 100 people. Forcing the kid to go as a sort of musical history lesson.

Geese.

Great stuff.

Democrats 'clawed back' ground with Hispanics, with just a little help from a GOP that is openly trying to disappear all Hispanics off the street. If mainstream Dems are trying to claw back to something, it is a center-right status quo where corporations rule (ideally, hopefully, 🤞) benevolently.

It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.