Tim Howard

The blues singer Smokey Hogg

I heard your dad’s in hospital with a bad case of

Mate I can just hit a fucking E on GarageBand or whatever and tune from that

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Dug out my electric guitar and went to use the tuning app I liked in the past and

I'm kind of surprised that the new Dora the Explorer series is just her navigating the emotional fallout of a failed startup.

W.E.B. Du Bois could have listened to the 45 of "Love Me Do"

"The smashing machine" is Bertie Wooster's assessment of your new Bentley.

Letterboxd entry for a 1984 thriller called Innocent Prey. BEING TERRIFIED IS JUST THE BEGINNING A woman living in Dallas discovers that her husband, from New Zealand, is actually a crazed serial killer who murders prostitutes.

That “from New Zealand” is a hilarious non sequitur

I like this. I actually have one of her sister’s albums on CD. It’s great, although I haven’t looked any further into flamenco yet.

Black and white cat on her back with her legs in the air playing with a scratching tree in a sunbeam

The same cat seconds later asleep in the sunbeam

Sunbeams are great, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

Pronouncing “deranged” to rhyme with “defanged”.

Him and Ezra Klein. I don’t want to know what these people look like.

I wonder how many people have been permanently poisoned by that fucking "More Cowbell" SNL sketch and don't realize that Blue Öyster Cult were actually one of the greatest rock bands of all time

Like when the 60s Nirvana sued the 90s Nirvana.

Oh wait no he sued them too, and won.

From the mid-1990s through the early 2010s, the album was out of print due to rights issues after a lawsuit from Jon Stainbrook of the band The Stain forced Sony to cease production of the album. 81[9] In November

TIL that Living Colour’s album Stain was out of print for years because someone called Jon Stainbrook from a a bad called The Stain sued Sony. Yet Staind have been allowed to roam free all this time?

My partner is a lifelong pen pal and it’s gone from being a cheap hobby to being eye wateringly expensive.

A particularly garish Pantera t-shirt, red white and blue tie-dye with the band's name in blue and white and a panther surrounded by skulls

When you want all the class of an airbrushed panel van in convenient t-shirt form

I can’t starting! I can’t!

If bluesky tanks I can’t starting all over again on another social. I’ll have to give you all my number and you can just text me your opinions and witticisms.

Every girl crazy bout a sharp-edged flan

“Checks notes” come on I don’t believe you’ve taken any notes

Me to all my homies in their 40s

I recently picked up Funky Good Time, a compilation of tunes by various versions of Brown’s backing band The JB’s. Highly recommended, just non stop funk goodness.

CDs lying flat on a table: Archandroid by Janelle Monae; The Worse Things Get by Neko Case; A Love Supreme by John Coltrane; Someday My Prince Will Come by Miles Davis; Dirty Mind and Love Symbol by Prince; Substance by Joy Division; Tongues by Keiran Hebden & Steve Reid; Younger Than Yesterday by The Byrds; The Last of the True Believers by Nanci Griffith; Live at the Apollo by James Brown

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NSFW but it's just a picture of someone not wearing steelcap boots

Don't get too attached to being able to digest calorically rich foods!

Not really advice, more of a grim warning

You will soon be unimaginably old

We just watched the 70s BBC anthology show Supernatural and there's an episode with Jeremy Brett in a kind of Jekyll and Hyde role and he's hilarious. Some real Rik Mayall chaos energy.

“Who’s that dude who looks like abwashed up former thrash metal drummer and ongoing intravenous drug user?” a thought I just had as I caught sight of myself in a public toilet mirror.