Tortoise's "What's In My Bag?" | Amoeba Music YouTube video by Amoeba

I usually read during lunch, but Tortoise on Amoeba’s What’s in My Bag? got 12 of my minutes immediately.

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Def try to give Andrew’s new one a listen

Illinois Becomes First State To Require Haircut Leave While Bob Grows Out SPRINGFIELD, IL—As the landmark bipartisan legislation passed into law Thursday, Illinois became the first state in the union to mandate paid haircut leave while an employee’s new bob grows out. “Effe...

Illinois Becomes First State To Require Haircut Leave While Bob Grows Out

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

I didn’t like spiders much, until I saw this beauty…….

World Rhythms, by Annea Lockwood 3 track album

"…a landmark work and a composition that, on its 50th anniversary, has gently carried forward over the decades, but arguably now is only starting to come into true focus, and be understood for exactly how revolutionary it was."

Always a pleasure to spend time with Annea Lockwood.

Happy #CDFriday to all those who celebrate 💿

American Kestrel deep dive. Toronto, Canada, April 17th 2026.
Photo by Jose Raposo

Depeche is life.

ads peaked in 1891 i guess

Assumption Parish marquee: “LORD, EMPTY ME. FILL ME. USE ME.”

which Nine Inch Nails song is this

Photo I took of these wonderful people (the faces of whom I’ve blacked out) singing happy Birthday to their lovely old dog at a bar I was at tonight in Portland

I was at a dog-friendly bar in NW Portland tonight and a table behind me started singing Happy Birthday and then I realized it wasn’t for a person but a really old dog who was wearing a crown and he was old and fucking adorable and I love this city

The calls are coming from inside the house

Animatronic (sur)realness

Music for a Failed Fruity Advert, by Scanner 9 track album

Some archival music for a famous sugary drink commissioned in 1994 and rejected, without payment. A new release for Bandcamp Fans Only, and you can join up for a very modest price for lots of exclusive Scanner sounds @bandcamp.com

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Sure sounds like one of those “low IQ individuals”

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Bajillion!

It is now six weeks since noted noise/drone musician Siavash Amini posted this from Tehran. Even with the wider Internet access problem noted, we do not know what has happened with him. Please listen to and share his music.

“….somehow”

Nuno Canavarro's hyper-influential Plux Quba back in, originally issued in 1988 as a private pressing, later famously reissued by Jim O’Rourke, full of early-sampling flights of the imagination wrapped around enigmatic, minimalist brilliance

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Also, are these guys twins?

He misspelled “Melania”

Our new single, out in June, takes a dash of influence from this soundtrack, specifically Journey to Blofeld’s Hideaway: open.spotify.com/track/6QYOHQ...

#jamesbond #newsingle #markgatiss #johnbarry

The covers of two books, with the titles Artificial Intelligence and Computer Security

The past's future, courtesy of Time-Life Books, 1986

“Will be WILD!”

Perhaps I’ve grossly misinformed about this man’s life and legacy

screenshot of the "Michael Clayton" entry on Criterion Channel for April 2026

It's real: Michael Clayton is on the Criterion Channel.

💚 Burnside Bridge Portland, Oregon