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years ago I told a friend of mine, who is french, about paul gogarty’s unparliamentary language in the dáil, and showed him the video. he was very entertained. and so, for years afterwards, he would occasionally jump out from behind things and, in his kerrygold-ad-level french accent, shout...

avdiivka is falling, congress is refusing more money and weapons, putin is cruising to re-election, the middle east is on fire, biden is slowly becoming more senile. what a mess. it would be great for the war-hawks if there was some kind of distraction, especially one that allows people to do...

amazing answer from Phill Niblock in this interview from a couple of years back. basically “I thought about music for five minutes in 1968 and then spent the rest of my life doing it” from this: https://toneglow.substack.com/p/tone-glow-082-phill-niblock

Phill Niblock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phill_Niblock

that footnote is doing some heavy lifting

Rita Lee https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/09/rita-lee-dead-brazil-os-mutantes

bob dylan’s first ever appearance on record was playing harmonica on a harry belafonte record as an unknown 20-year-old kid. the story is great:

Gáspár Miklós Tamás https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A1sp%C3%A1r_Mikl%C3%B3s_Tam%C3%A1s https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii80/articles/g-m-tamas-words-from-budapest

Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_O'Doherty https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/brian-odoherty-dead-1234645947/

that’s really awful news

Northern Ireland trade unionist (and ulster unionist), May Blood also notable for accidentally ending up with the most metal name imaginable after winding up in the house of lords — Baroness Blood https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-63343390

it’s really shitty news, I feel terrible for everyone who knew the guy, who worked with him, who loved what he did. I feel particularly bad for hey colossus — they put out an amazing album in 2020, with lanegan as a guest vocalist on a couple of tracks. because of the pandemic they’ve basically...

fuck, poor guy

bell hooks

Alvin Lucier

yeah I know maybe I should have said genocide or something please don’t cancel me thumped, I was just curious about a thing

ok. to be clear, I am not trying to minimise or make excuses for statutory rape. I just wanted to clear up that he wasn’t also a murderer or something.

what did bowie do? I’ve seen a couple of these sorts of snide comments about him but it never seems to resolve into any particular specifics. as far as I’m aware, he had the time when people thought he was a fascist, and he rode a load of possibly-underage groupies when he was a cokehead. not...

oh look, another senior swiss diplomat has mysteriously turned up dead, funny how that keeps happening https://www.dw.com/en/thailand-swiss-woman-found-dead-at-waterfall-in-phuket/a-58777885 I’ll just mention in passing that the swiss diplomatic service happen to be the middlemen for any...