Michael Riches

Everything about the music business in the late sixties sounds completely fake

Always exceptions to the rule

No disrespect to Ira Gershwin but rhyming brunch with lunch is hack. You can't just go rhyming a portmanteau with one of the two words it's derived from.

“You know, these plans are quite similar to the ones they have at the Reform conference”

Just give me a giant flashing neon GONE FISHING sign

One of the things I find hardest about severe episodes of mental ill-health is the number of people you have to lie to about why you’re canceling on them/late in doing something/forgetting to reply to messages/not doing your best work Exhausting!

In Sonic 3 (2024), End of the Line by the Traveling Wilburys (1988) is used as diegetic music in a flashback to 50 years before the present-day events of the movie.

All the more galling given that a period-appropriate pop song (The Beach Boys’ Wouldn’t It Be Nice) is used elsewhere in the movie.

“Will no one rid me of this turbulent place?”

I don’t even know why I still had an account on that exploitative and largely useless platform but as of today I don’t anymore.

Pete Mandelson? The Hartlepool MP?

I struggle to keep track of all those Leigh Francis characters

Imagine how frustrating it must've been to find that "giantpaedo" sans numeral was already taken

True admiration for Bruce Springsteen, the most “claims to be 5‘10” on Hinge but is 5’7” IRL“ guy in rock, making a tactical decision decades ago to flank himself with actual hobbits Steve van Zandt and Nils Lofgren

Arthur Miller died less than 7 weeks after the release of Meet the Fockers and we can't rule out the possibility that the two events were linked

In a month’s time we get a new Pynchon novel and I just think that’s neat

That’s Don Henley for you

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Academic request: do I know anyone, or do you know anyone, who has access to the journal African Identities?

I don’t speak to my father any more but alas I can never disown his description of TNG as “social workers in space” (he was a social worker)

Profound symbol of national decline

PSA: due to [reasons] I'm exploring changing my surname to my mother's maiden name, and I'm choosing Bluesky as a consequence-free place to test out how it feels. Given my career choice, this is the only way I'm ever going to obtain Riches.

[Youth Pastor turning to the Book of Genesis] “let me tell you about the original content creator”

Menswear ads on instagram are either for $49 suits from a sketchy dropshipping operation called either Spvrluocyj or Bloodlust and Hinterland Supply Co., or they’re for high-waist trousers that cost five million dollars

They should just make one cleanser and one moisturizer and one sunscreen that are good.

ill-advisedly ambiguous marketing copy from Spirit, here

I last saw him in London at the Roundhouse in 2016, standing ticket, and I swear it was no more than 30-35 quid. Springsteen in the same year (at Wembley, with a wristband for the pit at no extra cost for turning up early) wasn't that much more.

Please, I have my beloved [checks notes] Morrisville Raptors www.morrisvillenc.gov/recreation/p...

Wish they would build one of the UK's biggest stadiums in Boone, North Carolina. Somebody should try that.

I know some people who go to a lot of Big Concerts (hi @jorisbinned.bsky.social) and I simply do not know how they can do it. Will there be some kind of reset when the boomer disposable income audience starts dying off, or am I going to be paying 900 Space Bucks to see Waxahatchee in 2045?

An obvious point, made many times before, but surely concert ticket prices for established/legacy acts are unsustainable? I love live music, I have a decent salary, but I am simply not paying $140+ (for a crap seat), plus travel and accommodation for Elvis Costello or David Byrne.