Loon sketch!

Good morning from Harlem #GoodMorningFromHarlem

Don't listen to these too often but always have fun when I do. In a sort of domestic horror movie soundtrack kind of way.

OK my turn for a few drops

This. I use Amazon for quite a lot of stuff. But I moved my digital music purchases to Qobuz, my audiobook subscription to Libro.fm and my physical music purchases to Rough Trade (and I buy ebooks from Kobo), only using Amazon for those where they're the only option.

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

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Movies Silently@moviessilently.bsky.social · 2d ago

A reminder: If you absolutely cannot boycott Amazon, don’t. But can you make them NOT your default? If every Amazon customer cut their spending by just 10%, Bezos would burst his facelift sutures. This doesn’t have to be an all or nothing.

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · 5d ago

Massive Attack has been banned from Singapore after they held up a Palestinian flag during their concert here last week. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is ridiculous. Editing for length is fine (though I think anyone who does that should also give buyers a download code for hi-res versions of what's missing) but "we hadn't actually finished making the record so the vinyl is sloppy rough mixes missing important parts" is outrageous.

idca@idca.bsky.social · 2d ago

can confirm i was mad about this ages ago, ahead of the curve once more www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

cabaret, by the way, is a musical set in a nightclub that starts as part of a deliciously seedy underworld where people of all genders, sexualities and ethnicities are welcome but which ends up conforming to mainstream fascism. if you’ve been on bsky for a while i think you’ll really “get” it

Ed Morrish@edmorrish.com · 2y ago

just saw cabaret in the west end, and good lord what a production. never seen anything like that effort put into the atmosphere. btw pro tip: the cheap seats in the upper circle are absolutely fine - you see and hear everything.

A pilgrimage to Mount Morris Park in Harlem to ascend to the top of the #NYC #Landmark-Designated fire watchtower (circa 1855) is a must-do for James Bogardus (1800-1874) stans.

GothamToGo@gothamtogo.bsky.social · 2d ago

Join Urban Park Rangers on Aug 16th from 1-3pm for a climb to the top! Visiting the Historic Harlem Fire Watchtower substack.com/@gothamtogo/...

I think ePhonic's Invader 2 is the best sounding small analogue synth VST I have. Always sounds good. No dead spots. Overdrives internally in a pleasing way. It's the closest experience to a hardware analogue that I've had in software. An absolute sleeper and it's PWYW.

Good morning from Harlem #GoodMorningFromHarlem

Wind from the Sea by Edward Gordon

12x12 on wood

It’s always nice to see Eric Adams get welcomed with warm words like “you belong in prison”

Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d ago

“‘Let me tell you something: My name is Eric Adams,’ he continues, as the boos begin to rain down.” hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

A little Roman octopus to wish you a happy week! 🐙❤️ From a Roman villa mosaic at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, AD 100-200. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

Badalamenti's music is also the answer to the hypothetical question "in the event of disaster which film scores would you risk your neck to save?" (which nobody has ever asked, obviously). It's this, Barry's "Ipcress File" and the Cliff Martinez "Solaris" score that I'd be scurrying back to rescue.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

‘A gentle poetry in the everyday’: why The Straight Story is my feelgood movie

Good morning from Harlem #GoodMorningFromHarlem

More decluttering finds... From 2006, this was how we would share music with other PEOPLE WE WERE ACTUALLY WORKING WITH! And I notice the sticker is still intact, 20 years later! Must have never listened to it, so it stayed very secure.

Just found some papers in a drawer that reminded me: Jonathan Demme's film "Rachel Getting Married" had a working title of "Dancing With Shiva," which I preferred. More evocative, less generic. I enjoyed working on the film (as sound designer) & Jonathan was always a pleasure, in my experience.

I have rarely been charmed and delighted as much as seeing Patti fangirl out over the Chicago Pope.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 6d ago

The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.

The fever dream of Le Corbusier + Punjabi insouciance.

Theo Honohan@theohonohan.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jane Drew, Higher Secondary School, Sector 23, Chandigarh, 1956. RIBA photo

This is one deeply reported, beautifully written (or edited) story, and you should find time this Sunday morning to read every word of it. 1/2 Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...

How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)

Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...

nytimes.com

I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:

Look. Fauci is not above criticism. As I and many Black health professionals have said many times before, Fauci's decisions lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths. At first, most of these deaths were Black people. Later, most were white people. As we said would happen.

Good morning from Harlem #GoodMorningFromHarlem

Vicki Wickham helped shape the British Invasion, helped Dusty find her way to Memphis, helped birth Labelle and was Nona’s beloved partner for 60 plus years. Sing her name! RIP www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/a...

Vicki Wickham, Behind-the-Scenes Force in Pop Music, Dies at 87 (Gift Article)

She managed artists like Labelle and Dusty Springfield, and helped run the influential 1960s British TV showcase “Ready Steady Go!”

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delicious coincidences of history led Vietnamese immigrants to recreate spicy French-inspired seafood-heavy cuisine for hot garden-rich weather from first principles in New Orleans and it's my favorite food in America

So I'm 90% through Cool Machine and I just gotta say that if Carney is not in possession of the coffee table at the end of the book - the one with the interlocking pieces of ash root, cherry, ivory, and whatnot - I shall be dissatisfied. After all this I'm not buying a MacGuffin.

Good morning from Harlem #GoodMorningFromHarlem

Sometimes, rarely, we would come up with an absurd justification like "maybe Tom Verlaine had a test pressing of that single and he gave it to the bartender" because I really wanted to use a specific song in a scene that took place a week before the song was actually released. 🙄