Forgot Air play Moon Safari!

I don’t go to as many concerts as I used to, but saw some cool stuff in 2025:
FKA Twigs
Charli XCX
Upchuck
Boris

Eyeball cabochons on a pair of rings in Celine and Julie Go Boating

Rainer Werner Fassbinder wearing a bolo tie with an eyeball cabochon in Kamikaze ’89

Was eyeball jewelry like this ever a trend at some point in the 70s or 80s? I’ve only ever seen it on film in Celine and Julie Go Boating and Kamikaze ’89.

Thoughts and Prayers | Official Trailer | HBO YouTube video by HBO

There is a new HBO documentary about it out this month too. youtu.be/aRv23_VWglQ?...

The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

There’s already an entire industry built around school shootings. www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...

My nephew’s first week of 1st grade he had a lockdown for a real shooting on the military base where his school is.

Aly & AJ - Take Me YouTube video by AlyAndAJVEVO

My favorite Alex Ross Perry film is his Aly & AJ music videos. youtu.be/UqmxHwLI9yg?...

if i were christian id say this ai shit is literally satanic. talking to these creeps is like i’m eve in the garden. “come here. bite this apple. it’s full of worms and piss and will destroy the earth and drain all the water from it but you’ll get to have a bank balance higher that four figures.”

If Lordi end up at UMK the year I skip it, I will freak out. A 20 year anniversary Eurovision 2nd win would be incredible though.

This beats the box of free Dr. Bronner’s seasonal soaps that I got for replying to a tweet.

The Digital Preservation Outreach and Education Network (DPOE-N) currently has microgrant applications open to support professional development in digital preservation. This round of funding will be disbursed in January 2026. www.dpoe.network/professional...

Open Call: Microgrants 2025 Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarship, and digital preservation.

Funding is short in a lot of places right now, so hoping reposting any opportunities may help someone. There are still a few days left to apply (October 10) for a microgrant from Rhizome for projects experimenting with technology. rhizome.org/editorial/20...

w/o downloading anything new - where are you mentally?

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

Black and white photo of Robert Redford that your mom secretly kept under her pillow.

As a public mental health service all media is now photos of Robert Redford for the next 48 hours.

Goodbye imported escapism. 💀

I got a few art books from @aksiomaorg.bsky.social and a nice stack of 4K Rollin films from @indicator.bsky.social before the de minimis exemption on shipments to the US ends. This whole thing is going to be a disaster for businesses and consumers.

There is always The Hippos cover.

Please tell me that indie game is real and I can play it.

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

Can’t believe we lived in the actual vicinity of the first Bennifer era.

your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people

no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

Baller has really grown on me as a song and I think Germany is my favorite of the Big Five this year.

I still can’t believe Tommy Cash is competing for Estonia. Is this the first ever act to have a music video on P***h**?

I went to a screening of Metropolis with a live orchestra in Berlin. Most of the concession beverages were in glass bottles. At the end of the screening everyone took their glass bottles and put them in recycling crates in the lobby. The etiquette blew my mind.

It’s Eurovision week. While there are several EBU decisions I disagree with, I’ll be watching to support a handful of acts I’ve been rooting for since national selections. Everything up to and following UMK has been a fun distraction from my own country.

PSA: Strange Days is on Criterion Channel.

How ‘Sinners’ Cinematographer Pulled Off That Surreal Juke Joint Music Sequence and Made History By Shooting on 65mm Imax Film How 'Sinners' cinematographer Autumn Arkapaw shot that Juke Joint music sequence

If you’ve seen “Sinners” you may enjoy this (spoiler-ish) interview from @jazzt21.bsky.social with the movie’s terrific cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw, who also shot “The Last Showgirl.” ALL of Coogler’s features have been shot by women DPs. variety.com/2025/artisan...

“Draw what you see, not what you know” is such a basic concept, but it’s wild how you have to retrain your brain to do that. I still remind myself to do it.