Cinnamon, improper in summer, returns to us in Autumn. Welcome back, cool weather friend, you have been missed.
There are people posting that you should maybe not wear a helmet when riding a bike. Don’t look directly at their posts, you can only safely look at them in the reflection of your shield.
If you listen keenly, in the early hours of the morning, you can just hear your coats and jumpers starting to wake from their long, summery hibernation.
I spoke to an academic recently and they said that a lot of them were spending a lot of time talking to ai because they don’t have time to talk to other academics. A gorgeous blend of funny and sad.
Whole thing is risible but the fact that he’s called Nigel Biggar has fully flipped my pancake.
No idea if this new mRNA vax for melanoma might eventually help my ward but I’m having a quiet moment to think of the patients who are eligible for this. You don’t dare even dream of news like this. Just incredible work by the Moderna and Merck team.
Listen to the chat and get the record, very good, do it now!
John Doran@jahduran.bsky.social · 3w agoI had the pleasure of interviewing James Ellis Ford for a documentary about writing, playing and recording a whole album while isolating on a cancer ward between punishing rounds of chemotherapy. Lost In Another World is out via @dominorecordco.bsky.social this week. Ln1k in bio.
The fall of raybans will be taught in business schools like a fable. Absolute Icarus scenario.
Regardless of your enjoyment of the film, we all owe a significant debt of gratitude to the Odyssey for being a lightning rod for the worst takes imaginable during a tryingly hot period of weather.
Then, on the second day, I confronted my lecturer: ‘I like getting into the history of the words as much as the next guy but when are we gonna start properly learning about cool bugs?’
Ok, the big trick horse was way cool but my main takeaway is how key that basketball with a face was to the original movie.
For those of you who enjoy mysteries: a small, crystal hedgehog has arrived at our house. No one is claiming to have ordered it.
The brief here was to accurately render the scene where Alev was playing her new record, with all of the musicians, at a after hours gig on the Event Horizon when entirely coincidentally, in a separate part of the ship, they decided to test out the gravity drive.
Bandcamp@bandcamp.com · 2mo agoNew & Notable: Simian Mobile Disco co-founder Jas Shaw reworks Alev Lenz's last record into a sprawling, swelling, minimalist opus.
Not the most egregious example of wasteful corporate greed but we absolutely should not be allowing companies that sell bags to also sell clothing with pockets.
Went into a supermarket again, emotional. Zoned out for some time in the soup isle. Their perfectly uniform design means the top of one grips the bottom of the one above, potentially allowing them to form a vast wall of lunch possibilities, securely towering above me.
It’s true that London men cry when they have to take off their watch to leave their home and brave the burning badlands of zone 2.
Cracked it: A T-shirt that has a flap of material down the middle of the front that you can button or zip to either side so you have two front options, different images or colours.
Alev put an ad in The Wire for our collaboration and spelt my name Jas Smith. This was a wonderful thing for her to do and the typo has just made me enjoy it all the more. Plus, I’ve told her I’m fuming, properly licking the plate clean.
If you enjoyed projecting your values onto a leader that turned out to be disappointing as much as I did then next week could very well be our week!
Crackin’ news for those of us who enjoy reading about dystopian futures where wealth has accumulated to a small number of despotic psychopaths and who wonder if we might enjoy taking this reading experience to the next level.
My rejigs of Alev’s record came out yesterday but it’s still out today and at least as good as it was yesterday, go get! alevlenz.bandcamp.com/album/4-in-a...
4 in a Cycle of Thirds (Jas Shaw versions), by Alev Lenz, Jas Shaw
12 track album
alevlenz.bandcamp.com
Do you wish to become haunted by a salad spinner in under an hour? alevlenz.bandcamp.com/album/4-in-a...
4 in a Cycle of Thirds (Jas Shaw versions), by Alev Lenz, Jas Shaw
12 track album
alevlenz.bandcamp.com
Anyone in London wants in on Alev’s Atmos thing at 3, message and I’ll sort list or a code or whatever the venue will let me wangle
This Sunday, Atmos playback, comfy chairs, some slightly awkward chat afterwards, yes please.
Jas Shaw@jasshaw.bsky.social · 3mo agoThere’s a listening, well, not really a party because it’s in a seated venue, in the day. Um, it’s a listening, er, not really a meeting, that’s too formal. I guess it’s like a movie where there’s nothing to see? Hmmm. So, anyway, this is happening in London: polygon-productions.live/portal/liste...
What every mother wants is to be celebrated by the ones who love her, on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
Cracked it: internet searches are increasingly just pages of slop so why not message a friend your query?