Thomas Britt

'Check it out...'

Dignified.

Is This What We Want? More than 1,000 musicians have come together to release Is This What You Want?, an album protesting the UK government’s proposed changes to copyright law.

FFO: Experimental Music
FFO: Silence or Ambience or the literalization of 'studio recording'.
FFO: Resistance to AI.
www.isthiswhatwewant.com

My kind of living on the edge.

Amen.

I wrote about four excellent albums for @popmatters.com‘s Best Albums of 2025: a melodic punk album (Nate Parrish), a folk album (Richard Dawson), a rap album (Clipse), and a soul album (Annie & the Caldwells). Add some music to your day

Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.

🎬 The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Day Remix Contest is on!

🎥 Celebrate Public Domain Day in January by creating a 2–3 minute film using at least 1 piece of public domain media from 1930.

📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...

Taking the tangle out of Pentangle since the 70s.

I don’t want to limn your estimate, but…

Ah, an upgrade (?) from the unmoving, single-file cough vector?

I’m more of a ‘never-hyped’ man. Just stumble across the file somewhere.

I've listened. I didn't get it. But critics rave.

Awesome! Congratulations.

Guiding a student through this currently. Such a great challenge.

every time I see an A-list actor in an ad for some slot machine phone game, I think about how Bill Murray's character in Lost in Translation doing advertisements is framed as basically the highest form of humiliation an actor could go through.

I am a 'Smashing Machine' fan, but I think the issue with that one is how slavishly (by design) it recreates the documentary. The story is what it is because that is how those scenes in the real subject's life played out. One can only wonder what the 'Bronstein touch' would have wrought.

So true. There could never be another series like it. I still can't believe they pulled it off.

Furthermore: He (like most on that show) did not have access to the entire script or even sequence he was a part of. Imagine doing THAT without context. Of course, he had one of the world's finest directors, but just think of what he had to come up with in his head and heart to bring that to life.

I’m a fan/defender. To explain fully would vastly exceed my word limit here. Yes, it is a film in which not a single right choice was made from a professional standpoint. It’s perfectly incoherent. Or, its coherence is so esoteric that the movie stands out as an art object. ‘ALS’ cannot be ignored.

I’ve carried that spirit with me as I spread the word about ‘After Last Season‘ in many places from Oxford to Cannes. Doing my part.

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.

Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.

This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

I think I first encountered it while deep in research about the mysteries of ‘After Last Season.’

Great interview! I've been asking my students that exact question, 'Have you seen Tár?' a couple of times every semester since 2022. And this semester, I was recommending 'Roofman' to them, though I'm not sure if any of them went to the cinema to see it. Maybe this will all turn around in 2026...

Annapurna Pictures for life.

Never not thinking of the UDUCU (Universal Dark Universe Cinematic Universe)

The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

That 'I know / She's gonna go / I know / She's gonna go' at the end gets me every time (and I've listened hundreds of times).

I've never appreciated an appreciation post more. Forever my favorite band.

That, too. One time I interviewed someone whose alarm went off several minutes into the call, frightened them, and had the effect of waking them up. Anyway, great snapshot of 'XTRMNTR,' the absolute peak of Primal Scream.