For @wkmsfm.bsky.social: It was a packed house at WKCTC in Paducah last night for a PSC meeting to gather opinions on nuclear power in Kentucky. Many cited environmental concerns, corporate interests, and a perceived lack of transparency when it comes to nuclear projects already in the works.
fave march first-time watches
• my darling clementine (1946)
• diamonds of the night (1964)
• report (1967)
• ice (1970)
• messiah of evil (1974)
• gallipoli (1981)
• running on empty (1988)
• beyond the infinite two minutes (2020)
Reservoirs of geologic hydrogen – an untapped, clean energy source – might be pooling underground in parts of Kentucky, according to research published last year by the U.S. Geological Survey.
From @doperle.bsky.social at @wkmsfm.bsky.social
My latest on @wkmsfm.bsky.social: Geologists say an untapped, carbon-free energy source could be just sitting underneath parts of Kentucky, particularly the far western and southcentral parts of the Bluegrass State. So ... why isn’t anyone trying to use it?
www.wkms.org/science/2026...
As more musicians talk about using AI in their songwriting, how is the music-making process changing in the industry and for everyone else?
We dive into it on our podcast. Listen now:
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feeling good and chill about things
I was a journalist once and writing stories I didn’t feel passionate about is how I got good at it
fave february first-time watches, pt. 2
• slc punk (merendino, 1998)
• in the mood for love (wong kar wai, 2000)
• secretary (shainberg, 2002)
• the dirties (johnson, 2013)
• you were never really here (2017, ramsay)
fave february first-time watches, pt. 1
• band of outsiders (godard, 1964)
• the great silence (corbucci, 1968)
• the hired hand (fonda, 1971)
• just before dawn (lieberman, 1981)
• a moment of innocence (makhmalbaf, 1996)
• the last angel of history (akomfrah, 1996)
sunday morning media diet
Important Kentucky elections story right here 👇 #kyga26
new cassette pickups to add to the rotation
saturday morning media diet
fave january first-time watches, pt. 2
• cane toads: an unnatural history (lewis, 1988)
• american job (smith, 1996)
• sexy beast (glazer, 2000)
• awesome: i fuckin’ shot that! (yauch, 2006)
• local legends (farley, 2013)
• no bears (panahi, 2022)
fave january first-time watches, pt. 1
• the kid (chaplin, 1921)
• battleship potemkin (eisenstein, 1925)
— w/ pet shop boys score
• closely watched trains (menzel, 1966)
• the incredible shrinking woman (schumacher, 1981)
• where is the friend’s house? (kiarostami, 1987)
new year, new monthly film “discoveries” thread. a running tab of new-to-me movies that are at least a couple years old.
A small anti-ICE demonstration — no more than two dozen people — took place in front of the McCracken County courthouse in Paducah on Friday, as many across the country protest against actions taken by ICE agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in other places.
Oh, that's not what was I counting. I was going off classification on their overall map, which includes museums, film societies, microcinemas, and such.
www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
I agree they're a part of the independent film scene, but even things like the Art House Convergence classify Speed as being a different type of entity because of it being a museum. An incredibly valuable resource and screening location, just a separate type of space.
hey there! speed is mentioned in here but they are a museum with a theater, not a dedicated independent cinema. big fan of what they do, but there’s not first-run films there weekly like there were at baxter and like there still are at mac and at the kentucky.
In Kentucky, just two dedicated art house cinemas are still in operation, following the recent closure of Louisville’s Baxter Avenue Theatres. From @doperle.bsky.social at @wkmsfm.bsky.social
the pharcyde guys learned the lyrics to "drop" backwards phonetically so they could move "forward" through the reversed video. awesome mad science music video making.
youtu.be/8CBsxCUhNu0
friday vibing. one of the great music videos from spike jonze.
youtu.be/wqVsfGQ_1SU?...
Due to a bomb threat on Murray State campus, classes in several buildings have been cancelled for the remainder of Monday.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $900 million to a Paducah company building a uranium enrichment facility. General Matters' CEO said the funds would allow it to accelerate its timeline and open before 2030. From @doperle.bsky.social at @wkmsfm.bsky.social #kyga26
this is how i learn we have ways in paducah??
my 2025 in books (aside from sonya lea’s american bloodlines and kyle chayka’s filterworld, both on loan)
recent cassette finds
me personally? i’d need to talk to my aunt like A LOT.
Nonfiction: Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld + Liz Pelly’s Mood Machine + Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death (still wildly prescient despite it being a full 40 years old)
Fiction: Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America + E.L. Doctorow’s Ragtime + Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
