Benbo

Cameron Winter at the Sydney Opera House A kind of silly thing I was at.

On seeing Cameron Winter at the Sydney Opera House (and Geese at the Metro)

i hear good things | Podcast on RSS.com A podcast about music.

The empire expands: i hear good things the podcast

Collective Soul have three Essential Albums on Apple Music

Mr. Cig character offers a cigarette to a patient in hospital

AI helping software engineers

You should be able to check if someone remembers something without reminding them of it

Gilgamesh and rapid hope loss Morning never changes

Getting a little off topic on the email, subscribe for that intermittent reinforcement you crave

Painkillers that give you a headache are unfair

sydneymusicdotnet - 2024 In Review: The Sydney Tracks We Loved The SydneyMusic.net team's list of their favourite Sydney tracks from 2024

Looking for new Australian music and keen to support artists?

We've put our 2024 selections on Buy Music Club, a list-making service for music that's on Bandcamp.

Super easy way to listen to a bunch of stuff and buy what you're enjoying!

Gig Guide Playlist | SydneyMusic.net - Sydney's live music community guide The SydneyMusic.net playlist is updated every Wednesday and is streaming on Apple Music, Spotify and Tidal.

We've updated our Gig Guide Playlist with every artist playing Sydney over the next 7 days*. Tune in and discover something new, then go see it live!

Available on Apple Music, Spotify and TIDAL
sydneymusic.net/playlist

* that we could find on streaming

Comedians obsessed with 'wokeness' are the ones ruining comedy there's nothing less funny than old lazy jokes about cancel culture that we've heard before

uh oh! It's the internet's darling
@brocklesnitch.bsky.social, with one of the best arguments about "wokeness in comedy" I've read - namely that hack comedians who are obsessed with it are just bad at their job.
heterosexualnonsense.substack.com/p/comedians-...

Look at these daisies

Never look at ANYONE’s chin from the side, they are all horrific

Apple’s new AI feature rewords scam messages to make them look more legit 'This is going to catch people out and cost them money,' one expert told Crikey.

NEW: Apple's new AI features is rewording scam messages and emails to make them look more legitimate on Australians' iPhones and Macs, and even flagging them as priorities.

This puts them at risk of a greater risk of being scammed, said one expert.

www.crikey.com.au/20...

2024 no more '25 is alive

Getting the subby back together - if you're unfatigued by 2024 album lists, I wrote a little about mine

2024: The Playlist by Benbo on Apple Music Playlist · 63 Songs

4 hours of my 2024 favourites, meticulously arranged just for you

music.apple.com/au/playlist/...

open.spotify.com/playlist/3j5...

Cover of Agony by Take Care

The perfect album title/cover pairing

Letterboxd has become a top 2 social media for me (along with substack)
letterboxd.com/benbeilharz/

1. Beau Is Afraid (2023) - anxiety made manifest 2. Rosemary’s Baby (1968) - what they mean by cinemahh 3. Heavy Trip (2018) - Finnish metal band gets first gig 4. The Florida Project (2017) - wrenching view of childhood 5. Eighth Grade (2018) - excruciating view of young teenhood 6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) - exquisite breathing 7. After Yang (2021) - sad robot film 8. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - wowee animation 9. Martyrs (2008) - no one should watch this but it's very good 10. The Substance (2024) - old is bad 11. Challengers (2024) - gen z makes a movie 12. Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary (2024) - fun but I want chord charts 13. The Worst Person in the World (2021) - emotions 14. The Holdovers (2023) - nice smol movie 15. The Assistant (2019) - the banality of dread

Got sick of mediocre TV this year and decided to become a movie guy. These are the best movies I saw since records began on 25 August.

Upsetting

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Congratulations, you’ve won 40 Robux

This is a wild email to send about a 5c prize

Sløtface Film Buff album cover

How did I miss a new Sløtface album?? Every music outlet has failed me

I'm excited to share the Separation Sunday Pocket New Testament. This is a fan project I've been working on for 3 yrs & it's finally done. Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady turns 20 in 2025, it's my #1 album. Thanks for listening thanks for understanding
drive.google.com/file/d/1i-Y1...

Haven’t had a water bottle and a mint in an uber for a while

I’ve done the training, you shouldn’t use your home nickname on LinkedIn

Call me chives

garlic, onions, leeks, chives, shallots, the big five

Good idea, are you familiar with the five pungent roots?

Congrats on new job, I’d suggest complaining about how sore you are and casually mention the cool exercise you do, maybe flex a little