I always thought Outlandos dโAmour was the greatest Police album. But I just discovered Eberhard Schoenerโs Flashback, which came out the same year. Sting vocals, Summers riffs and Copeland fills commingling with German experimental electronics? Yes, yes, yes.
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Ah, yes, the influenzaโs gambit, the dregs of the cunning cold, when the illness retreats to the safety of the U-bend between the nose and throat, where it knows no amount of coughing or hawking can touch it. I loathe you โ but I respect your guile.
Almost cried getting my knee ditch tattooed just now โ but only because Black Sabbathโs Solitude came on in the shop.
Nobodyโs heard from him in weeks. Friends and family fear heโs playing Slay the Spire.
I recently restarted with a fresh file too. I have logged almost 500 hours and have gold stickers on every joker and itโs still not enough ๐
Restarted Elden Ring recently. Godrick may be the most fascinating character in the game โ and we get so little of him! Iโd be happy if Alex Garlandโs film focused on grafting and how Godrick became a deluded demigod trash-lord weasel fuckboy hated by everyone from his subjects to his superiors.
A few strong mail days courtesy of Eureka and @filmsradiance.bsky.social recently. (I can stop whenever I want!)
Shoutout to Bad Bunny for, among other things, featuring a double dolly shot in his Super Bowl halftime showโฆ which reminds me, I was high as hell on the Amsterdam Centraal Station ferry recently and, as it was docking, I blurted to my friends, โduhhh, look! itโs like weโre in a Spike Lee joint!โ
โIโm mad I canโt understand Bad Bunnyโs lyrics because theyโre not in Englishโ
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, youโre just boring and racist
Obsessed with these unhinged box sets I just found at Record Mania in Amsterdam. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence alongside Hulk Hogan dreck and Tommy Cooperโs greatest moments! I love this shit.
Incidentally, Pharmakon is the name of my new tech-punk thrash band ร la Voivoid.
Fascinating essay on navigation, the โinvisible agentโ that is AI and the effects of stripping the online search system down and obfuscating its pathways. Capital! Cognitive decay! Pharmakon!
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There will surely be few more fascinating acts in music this year than Mustaine choosing to close Megadethโs final, self-titled album โ and his 40-year career โ with a Metallica cover. Never change, Dave.
Happy 80th birthday, big man. You wouldโve loved Lauraโs blue velvet suit.
BREAKING NEWS: Nasty Jack claps back at Fancy Freddie, calling salt-and-vinegar โoverratedโ and opening up about his love of Frazzles.
Can we call a moratorium on the term โopened upโ? Sick of news sites framing every interaction as if itโs some earth-shaking scoop, as if the speaker has divulged something of enormous importance, when itโs usually, like, โREAD NOW: Fancy Freddie has opened up about his favourite flavours of crispโ.
Can tell Leeโs talking about Zack Sabre Jr from the thumbnail pull quote alone.
Saw Dying Fetus last night. Can we acknowledge what a feat of graphic design this is? So many metal logos are performatively illegible but when you have such a horrid, provocative name, why not simply batter people with it? Sometimes a designerโs job is to know when theyโre not needed.
To my surprise, the most repulsive part of Angel, a 1984 action-thriller(?) about a 15-year-old student sex worker who has been on the streets since she was 12(!), is actually the bit when this guy sucks a raw egg from its shell. The scene lasts 60 disgusting seconds.
i did a single night shoot as a supporting artiste on Greenland 2: Migration ask me anything
Bela Tarr in a pirated DVD store in Peru posing with the owner and a selection of his films
Bรฉla Tarr visiting a store in Peru selling pirated DVDs and posing with the owner and bootlegs of his own work, one of the realest ones, RIP
Oh, what a week! What a lovely week!
Yes, this made me cry.
Giving it all and being broken down one final time, having to endure a procession of your oldest friends and rivals โ ghosts of your past, of your future โ coming out to literally give you your flowers, and then being left, finally, after all those years, alone in the ring. Thatโs a real send-off.
There is no greater theatre of drama than the ring, and no more emotionally rich event than the retirement match of a wrestler โ a commingling of character work, shenanigans and veil-dropping, honest-to-goodness, real-time reckoning with ageing and mortality. Farewell, then, Hiroshi Tanahashi.
Maniac Cop suffocating a guy in wet cement to show how violence is embedded โ by the police! โ into the very streets of New York City? Come on!
First flick of 2026. Hadnโt seen this in about a decade. With 10 years and a bunch more Larry Cohen joints under my belt, man, this thing really sings. Big Bob Zโdar is brilliant and director William Lustig shows just the right amount of him. Gimme that sweet, sweet New York scuzz.
I know! Criminal that this film hasnโt been tarted up and given the lavish Blu-ray treatment. Maybe thisโll be the year!
My final film of 2025 โ Gaz and Babs in a clear-cut five-bagger. Billy Wilder never misses and this is, for my money, funnier, sweeter and spicier than Howard Hawksโ better-known screwball about a fiery feminine shaking up the life of a fusty academic fella. Canโt wait to watch this again.
Got my old man a nice pullover and a ticket to the new Avatar movie for Christmas. Fleece Naโvi, dad.
