DJ Shoe North interrogated by Phil Dellio (part 1) YouTube video by DJ Shoe North Productions

Phil Dellio interviews DJ Shoe North, who, as far as the universe is concerned, only creates deep cuts. youtu.be/_r06bwNZWtA?...

A+ (A Critical Meditation on Robert Christgau) YouTube video by DJ Shoe North Productions

Made this short film about Robert Christgau in 2022. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ntm...

DJ Shoe North Mixtape Feb 2026 (Top 40 Countdown) YouTube video by DJ Shoe North Productions

The Top 40 of your (fine, my) dreams: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEx1...

DJ Shoe North Mixtape Jan 2026 (Late night aircheck) YouTube video by DJ Shoe North Productions

Ron Asheton and Marie Osmond walked into a bar one night and...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzH2...

Cahier du Karaoke YouTube video by DJ Shoe North Productions

New link for Cahiers du Karaoke. Which no one watched anyway but which everybody should! Biased of course but it's a good mix.
youtu.be/9muAYUscpYs?...

Driving 'n Crying 'n Singing YouTube video by DJ Shoe North Productions

A cinematvscope montage of one of life's all-time greatest pleasures: singing along to pop music in the car (well, or on a bus, something I haven't done since grade 4). www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jQX...

I reside in an alternate universe where no such thing as "sampling wars" existed.

The version of the Clash's "Career Opportunities" on their album Sandinista! is performed delightfully (if at times pitch-impairedly) by children.

I appreciate that a lot, thanks. "Untrained" might be just another word for "in training."

I already fully knew this going on but my blindest spot re: art is basically just about everything that precedes modernism (and those few things which do precede it are definite precursors to it). I guess I'm like Iggy--just a modern(ist) guy. (Of course I've had it in the eye before.)

Decided to cap my #Choose20paintings list at 10. This will matter to less than zero people, but it makes sense to me. I LOVE art, but am pretty green on the subject and I'm liable to just list multiple Klees, Kandinskys etc. and what fun would that be? Worthwhile challenge getting to even 10.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you. One painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
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10. Richard Hamilton, "Swingeing London '67" (1968)

Definitely jarring.

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9. Alex Colville, "Traveller" (1992)

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8. Georges Seurat, "La Seine à la Grande Jatte" (1888)

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7. Marcel Duchamp, "Chocolate Grinder No. 2" (1914)

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6. Tom Hilborn, "Little Richard" (1986)

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5. Romare Bearden, "Serenade" (1979)

Maggie & Terry & Kate & Suzzy & Anna et al Playlist · Scott Woods · 130 items

This playlist is a mess--a data dump, really, with no curation or whittling whatsoever (yet). But there's a sound and a story hidden in here somewhere, I think.
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Finally, an economist/pundit shows off not her impressive book shelves but a cool, seemingly well cared for album collection.

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you. One painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
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4. Roy Lichtenstein, "M-maybe" (1965)

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3. Gustav Klimt, "Judith and the Head of Holofernes" (1901)

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Andy Warhol, "Orange Car Crash" (1963)

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Paul Klee, 'Fish Magic' (1925)

Current enthusiasm: I-IV-V (more or less) pop songs that sound like kids songs but whose kidsness is deceptive. Neil's "Til the Morning Comes" (dope dealer's threat?); Velvets' "After Hours" ("leave the sunshine out"); Beatles' "Don't Pass Me By" (woman narrowly avoids decapitation in car crash).

Unlike most people on this thread I don't have a hugely formed opinion of Rosemary Barton but this is the kind of resolve we need right now from an opponent of Poilievre and I look forward to more of it.

100% and he shouldn't be the only.

testimony against SB13, 2-27-25 YouTube video by Cheddar

Yesterday I testified before Texas's Senate Committee on Education K-16, against Senate Bill 13, which would affectively ban supposedly "indecent" and "profane" books in public school classrooms and libraries. Here's a clip:

PSB "Rent," learning on the 400th listen that it's "There's a big bang in the city/were all on the make" and not "There's a big band in the city/well, I'm amazed." Mine always seemed weirdly at odds with the song but over decades it came to work for me.

Not said enough (maybe not ever) about the Mekons's "Darkness and Doubt" is what a hot beat it is. Crushes.