Los Angeles friends, don't miss your opportunity to leave the 24/7 dread machine that is 2026 behind and take the Muzak-elevator express to a better, funnier world. It's One-Hour Martinizing for the soul, if I may be so bold. Aug. 19 at Vidiots, get those tickets soon.

Rachel Lichtman@rachellichtman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Programme 4 continues its broadcast day at VIDIOTS with many special surprise guest stars! Tickets are going fast! 🎟️ vidiotsfoundation.org/movies/progr...

There's some kind of magic hearing your song played on the radio. Thanks to Dan Montgomery on WEVL 89.9 in Memphis for putting me in such great company on last night's installment of Foggy Notion. Replayable for two weeks right here: spinitron.com/WEVL/pl/2282...

Foggy Notion Tue Aug 4 with Dan on WEVL Memphis 89.9 FM

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Glen Hansard’s great live cover of my all-time favorite song by anyone, Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks”. Rest In Peace, Glen Hansard. 💚🇮🇪 youtube.com/watch?v=H82p...

Glen Hansard - Astral Weeks - 3/16/2012 - Stage On Sixth, Austin, TX

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Oh, my God. Nicest guy. Was on the Pogues bill at Carnegie with him. His love of music was palpable, infectious, radiant. I’ve seldom seen a musician as connected to the moment of the song as he was that night, in deep communion with the song & the people playing it. So many felt it. Hard loss.

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Glen Hansard has died in a motorcycle crash at age 56

Former Eisner winner here, still making comics & comic art! If you subscribe to the zines tier of my Patreon, you'll get a new zine every month from the artist Conan O'Brien called "one of the greatest comedy brains on this planet" & the NYT called "derangedly funny" www.patreon.com/MichaelKuppe...

“A thousand sparkles in the champagne glass, all under a couple hours” Thank you to @textfiles.com for this beautiful essay on Programme 4. ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5850

The Browner World: In The Realm of Programme 4

My great pal Eric Drysdale sent out one last note to a set of friends about an event he thought that set would enjoy, and I am extremely lucky to be included in that set. Eric has a beautiful and e…

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I've always loved this picture of Johnny Cash and baby Rosanne Cash, taken 70 years ago today at the Memphis Zoo.

I was telling a friend about this conversation and I said “Speaking with Lenny Kaye is like speaking with music history itself.” Have a listen, won’t you?

Paul Myers@pulmyears.bsky.social · 2w ago

NOW ON THE RSD PODCAST: LENNY KAYE on his debut solo album, Goin' Local, playing with Patti Smith, Nuggets and more in this very special conversation.  The Record Store Day Podcast Wherever you get your podcasts or: bit.ly/RSDPODCAST

I wrote on @boingboing.net about @rachellichtman.bsky.social's polyester turtlenecked, easy listening world of Golden Sands. Surreal television and radio from an imagined town stuck in the groovy '70s. boingboing.net/2026/07/22/e... cc. @franksantopadre.bsky.social @tedleo.bsky.social

Enter Rachel Lichtman's groovy, shag-carpeted world of Golden Sands

I just discovered, through Frank Santopadre's podcast Fun for All Ages, the radio and television universe of artist Rachel Lichtman's imagined 1960s/1970s town of Golden Sands. It's a surreal town…

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The good thing about our incredibly rancid culture war is that you can and should fight back (in part) by celebrating culture that you love. Especially culture that centers and uplifts marginalized people and rejects the miserable, joyless attitude that's at the heart of so much of our politics.

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If you are anywhere near NYC, you MUST come to this extravaganza at Le Poisson Rouge, Thursday night (July 16th). kydlabs.com/e/EV6b612b7e...

Programme 4: Television of Tomorrow - With Dave Hill, Josh Gondelman, Ted Leo, Tammy Faye Starlite, Angela DiCarlo, Nath Ann Carrera, Eszter Balint, Dave Foley, Doug Gillard, Chris Murphy and Eric Dry...

Programme 4: Television of Tomorrow - Live at LPR on Thursday, July 16th, 2026 7:00 PM doors | 8:00 PM show With Dave Hill, Josh Gondelman, Ted Leo, Tammy Faye

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So sorry to hear the news about Dave Kendall. Never officially met him but I was at the first Lollapalooza & I think I accidentally crashed into him approximately 15 times, which by my standards makes him a former lover. Can't even begin to count the bands 120 Minutes introduced me to. Thanks Dave.

Robert Ham@robertham.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am a singer/songwriter with occasional side trips in screenwriting & theatre. Two of my sisters run a big Montana ranch and train horses. I've been on a horse once, and by "on" I mean I immediately slipped off & inexplicably held onto its tail as it dragged me through 300 yards of dirt & gravel.

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

L.A.! My friend @josephscrimshaw.bsky.social’s movie is premiering in L.A. this Saturday evening. My other friend @jamesurbaniak.bsky.social stars! (Yes I have two friends.) I am also in the movie. Ticket info in poster!

Look it's late and I'm tired but it still took me fully 20 minutes to realize they weren't talking about Mitch McConnell.

My David Lynch lecture that was recorded in the Spring is now online for anyone to view. I discussed LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DRIVE, and INLAND EMPIRE. The people who tuned in live seemed to enjoy it, and I hope you do too. youtu.be/iflD-eitIZs?...

David Lynch's Evil Los Angeles / Willow Maclay

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RIP Randolph Mantooth--one of my favorite things about Randy (and his TV sidekick Kevin Tighe) is how these two stars of a mostly-adult focused medical drama somehow competed for dreamy teen idol pinup space alongside Donny Osmond, MJ, Jack Wild, David Cassidy, etc.

Just got a call from Mitch.

ICYMI, at @popheist.com I took a look at Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, David Lynch's feature-length collection of fully canonical deleted/extended scenes from Fire Walk With Me. It plants the seeds for much of Season 3, but even some Twin Peaks fans don't know it exists.

'Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces' Recap

The emergence of "Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces" was our first real sign that it might, indeed, be happening again.

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The English songwriter, singer, guitarist and keyboard player never made it big, but he is an essential artist in the power pop, post-punk and indie pop scene. www.herecomestheflood.com/2026/07/i-he... @wallytbm.bsky.social #edwardball

I Helped Edward Ball Escape – A Tribute To The Times & Edward Ball

A blog about music. The good stuff only.

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On this day in 1976 I nearly drowned in the South Platte River in Littleton, Colorado. My teenage uncle and some other race track kids were trying to see how long they could hold me under (hilarious game!) when I choked in a lungful of water and floated downriver. (1/x)

A must!

Fun For All Ages with Frank Santopadre!@funforallages.bsky.social · last mo.

HEY FRANKSTERS! Don't miss your chance to see the Programme 4 Television of Tomorrow Presentation! Thu July 16th, 2026 @8:00PM For info and tix: lpr.com/lpr_events/p...

THE TAKING OF ANDRE 123

YOUR REGULAR REMINDER THAT THE UN DEFINES GENOCIDE AS "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a group... [including] Causing serious bodily or mental harm.. .. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part..." Yes.

mattie lubchansky@mattielubchansky.com · last mo.

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

@briantallerico.bsky.social with a read on why The Prisoner coming to Criterion Channel is such a big deal

The Prisoner didn’t just predict the next 60 years of TV—it predicted the next 60 years, period

The Prisoner didn’t just predict the next 60 years of TV—it predicted the next 60 years, period

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Another day, another human I know well who has had their brains cooked by AI. I told them they were acting like a cult member. They told me "not if but WHEN" I would be using it for my writing. I told them I'd rather have my kidneys removed from my body with rusty scissors.

“I’m a really lazy bitch, but I have a punitive superego. The two go together.” I profiled NYC’s own Colson Whitehead (@colsonwhitehead.com), who made me gumbo, opened up about his life, and showed me around the Harlem of his riveting crime trilogy www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Colson Whitehead’s Big Score

As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.

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