Michael Pelusi

Also annoyed that this is not going include Briggs’ preferred mix with the “raps.”

YouTube video by steelygray Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness - 2000-01-14 [hq]

Here’s a very old Wilco performance on Conan where there are sandwiches on the Hammond organ and a telephone on the piano.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEMINI (1980)

I am only now just learning about this movie set in South Philly starring Madeline Kahn and Rita Moreno.

"It's not your job to be as confused as Nigel" says a lot about our current political moment.

Lunatics, haters, and punk trash

Something I found while searching for stuff for work. Apparently, the government can call something a "chili cook-off" without any chili being cooked. Of course, AI is involved.

Turned on the game just in time to see this.

Heathcliff rides down the street in his open-top ham car past an autumn tree whose colored leaves are falling. Two meat store employees watch from their shop's entrance, and one says "This is great ham weather."

13 Oct 2025

Easily my favorite celebrity encounter ever. RIP to a queen

He also produced Prine’s debut! Despite all the adult contemporary on his resume, between those albums, Dusty in Memphis, and The Bee Gees, he’s one of the GOATs.

Mia Wallace, preparing to listen to Urge Overkill on a reel-to-reel player in PULP FICTION.

Good news for Mia Wallace, at least.

DID YOU KNOW? Neil Young is, in fact, cool. In this essay I will

For any Neil fans with 14 hours to kill today.

From the LiveFromNewYork community on Reddit: S11E03 Pee Wee Herman Goodnights (Sex Machine) Explore this post and more from the LiveFromNewYork community

Rather than thinking about baseball, why not watch Pee-Wee Herman singing “Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine” during the SNL goodnights?

Sensei Sergio St. Carlos telling an officer that he’s had “a few small beers.”

Go Phils.

PJ Harvey's STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA

Spike the bulldog rounds a corner wearing a pink helmet that says NO. Unbeknownst to him, Heathcliff is on the other side of the corner, wearing a pink helmet that says YES. Two birds watch the impending confrontation from a nearby tree, and one of them says "Hold on to your butt."

07 Oct 2025

3rd and Market, about three minutes ago.

Phillies stink, SEPTA is infuriating, let’s do this.

Yes choppy on both broadcast TV and HBO Max.

Pizzelle and Trea Turner

Pizzelle, focus on the game, please. #gophils

YouTube video by lumpytwangage Latin Playboys - live "Mustard" 15-Apr-99

I wish the Latin Playboys episode of SESSIONS AT WEST 54TH was online, but at least there's this.

YouTube video by Chris Willman Stephen Malkmus and David Hidalgo at Jerry Garcia tribute concert

That Pavement-Los Lobos-Heartbreakers-Watkins Family supergroup you ordered.

YouTube video by Ralph Longobardi David Hidalgo and Marc Ribot perform Merle Haggard's The Running Kind

A thread for David Hidalgo's 71st birthday, highlighting covers, guest appearances, and his effortless musicality.

Only One Performer Has Won Three Best Actor Oscars. Is It Fair That He’s Also a Joke? He might be the greatest actor of all time—and the most misunderstood.

I finally got a chance to write one of my dream assignments, an in depth evaluation of Daniel Day-Lewis, an actor whose achievements and methods cast a long shadow over the field, and whose work is often misunderstood.

slate.com/culture/2025...

Colson Whitehead telling the truth in the New York Times.

This quote will be my first tattoo.

Same. I’m glad that eight years after Jonathan Demme’s death, PTA is still finding ways to pay homage.

Warriors, come out to play.

How ‘American Girl’ Enhances a Scene in ‘One Battle After Another’

Oh yeah. Alright. (Gift link)