Daniel James Leith

Today marks 4 years since my friend, mentor and brillant writer Greg Tate died at the age of 64. He'd been in my city the month before, but I'd blown off the oppertunity to hang-out, figurin' there would be a next time...
--Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate lithub.com/afrodisiac-a...

College football remains a perfect microcosm of America writ large. Every problem treated as intractable, zero will to do anything other than make more money, so every issue festers until it explodes

Alabama-Oklahoma preview:

Easily the most actually on crack committee decisions ever. Ketamine thinking. Inhalant gorilla mind logic. Ray Liotta eating his own brain in Hannibal type arguments.

The debate never should have been about Notre Dame and Miami. It should have been about Oklahoma and Alabama. Because Notre Dame and Miami are clearly better than both. Alabama getting trucked yesterday and that not mattering is a complete joke. College football is the worst! 🏈

(on a plane and catching up)

Dropping BYU for yesterday but not Alabama is such a perfect chef's kiss on top of all of this. Honestly disgraceful, makes FSU's omission in 2023 look like a picnic

not even dropping alabama to 10 as a “okay you need to punished a little bit” move is just insane. is the sport about playing football games or not?

The sound of every year is mid-tier Indie

wolves by selena gomez artwork, ft a badly cutout picture of selena next to a badly cutout picture of a howling wolf on her left and a sort of cylindrical robot head with a crude face painted on it with crosses for eyes and a line for the mouth, all set again a backdrop of a dark night and a badly cutout mountain or something in front of her. selena gomez x marshmallow wolves is written at the top and the O in wolves is a full moon

from time to time i think about the artwork for wolves by selena gomez

Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter II' Turns 20 I couldn’t take Tha Carter II home. That wasn’t how it worked. The labels wanted their records to get reviews in glossy music magazines, which still existed then, but they were worried that critics wo...

Wrote about the 20th anniversary of Tha Carter II, an album that means something to me.

A goodly prize, fit for the devil’s grace!

CD’s by Sin Deliverance; Miki; Ano; Paledusk; Waldgefluster; Brandi Senki; Grima; Ethmebb; Broken By The Scream; Imperial Triumphant; Ava Max; Solea Morente; Histsujibigaku; Anamanaguchi; Algernon Cadwallader; PaleNe0; ByoNoiseGenerator; Hagane; Mei Semones

#CDFriday #AOTY

My 20 favourite albums of 2025

Kill Bill Is Back in Theaters in a New Version. It’ll Never Play the Same. The Whole Bloody Affair changed the way I saw Tarantino’s epic revenge film—and so did the reporting about its making.

I wrote about why cutting Kill Bill in half might have cost Uma Thurman an Oscar, and how the new 4 1/2-hour version makes whole the greatest performance of her career.

hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Talking to Yacht Rock Expert "Hollywood" Steve Huey “At this point, JD had started calling it yacht rock. Because you look at the cover of Loggins and Messina’s Full Sail album, they’re on a boat. They’re very, very happy to be on a boat. You look at t...

IHTOV is off today due to some scheduling shenanigans but..

my favorite yacht rock documentary is a year old, so let's repost an in depth interview @thecurmudgeon.bsky.social had with @hollywoodsteve.bsky.social about all things yacht rock ihavethatonvinyl.com/conversation...

Anyway if YOU feel like the algorithm has eroded your curiosity and you want to hear a bunch of varied and novel new music I strongly recommend taking part in THE WORLD CUP OF 2025 on @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social

In 1989, Technotronic instructed us to "Pump up the Jam". Sound advice. If your jam is deflated it can severely impact your fuel economy.

Yep, you can still love Columbo and believe ACAB

A float of Goku from Dragon Ball Z, smiling and holding his hand to his head with two fingers extended. There is a caption that says [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] overlaid on top of him.

We did it, folks. A huge thank you to everyone who voted, everyone who wrote Designated Cheerleaders, everyone who discussed and RT’d the matches here, everyone who reads the newsletter. It simply can’t work without you.

Other Dave 2025 Songs

Final playlists for the year on multiple platforms — ideal for shuffle.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/3NT...

YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Tidal: tidal.com/browse/playl...

Deezer: link.deezer.com/s/30uHAbCg3m...

"An observant life"

This is beautiful. Read and reflect on it.

YouTube video by Twice's Classic Reggae Vault ROOTS ROCK REGGAE 🇯🇲 The Jamaican Music Scene In 1977 🇯🇲

This whole doc is filled with amazing footage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP_I...

Doing this challenge made me firm up what I like about the 2020s and realise more than ever that people who think current music has stagnated are just weird. Surges of creativity across Africa, Asia and South America; a golden generation of women pop stars; tons of funny, filthy rap - good times!

RIP Jimmy Cliff 🙏

#TheTwen2ie5 Playlist

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#TheTwen2ie5 Day 50

1 (12 Points)

Hikaru Utada-"Somewhere Near Marseilles" (2022, Epic Japan) www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-ek...

#TheTwen2ie5 Day 49

2 (11 Points)

Fred Again ft. Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax-"Victory Lap" (2025, Atlantic) www.youtube.com/watch?v=08C9...

Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music - YouTube songs featured in Al Shipley's book Tough Breaks

I made a YouTube playlist of records I mentioned in Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music. I'm still adding to it, but there's over 100 tracks in there so far.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...