🫠 Joe Sparrow ⧖⃝
@joesparrow.bsky.social
terelinck.com | Highly saturated artist; music biz word-vomiter; verbose bullshitter; furtive '93-'99 drum 'n' bass aficionado. Views “Я” mine.
*UNLURKS* Hey it's a new ep of I Formed A Band with Dunstan Bruce from Chumbawamba! It's a good one! I accidentally compare Dunstan, an anarchist art prankster, to Kier Starmer! @eddieargos.bsky.social reveals that he's met 3 of the Wu-Tang! It's all going off, TBH open.spotify.com/episode/3dwD...
Dunstan Bruce formed a band! Chumbawamba, anarchy, and accidentally writing a global super-hit
I Formed A Band · Episode
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Lordy it’s a new I Formed A Band episode format: The Argos Catalogue - in which we learn… how @eddieargos.bsky.social was a traffic warden and REFUSED to give Mel C parking tickets; his karate-feud with Kele off of Bloc Party; the value of Landfill Indie and more podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...
The Argos Catalogue: Eddie answers listener's letters (and reveals his time as a traffic warden, his beef with Kele from Bloc Party and the glory days of Landfiull Indie)
Podcast Episode · I Formed A Band · 13/03/2025 · 47m
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Unlurking to RUTHLESSLY PROMOTE me & @eddieargos.bsky.social's new podcast about – what else? – forming bands. In Ep.1: the amazing @bistheband.bsky.social, who talk about how their fanzine got them signed to the Beastie Boy's label. LISTEN HERE :) -> open.spotify.com/episode/0IJN...
Bis formed a band! Top of the Pops, writing the Powerpuff Girls theme, and hanging by the pool with the Beastie Boys
I Formed A Band · Episode
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This has been completely great; having live shows from @gillespeterson.bsky.social and the gang every day has 100% helped me limp across the line before I stop for xmas. Listen now! worldwidefm.net
WorldwideFM@worldwidefm.bsky.social · 2y agoℂ𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕛𝕠𝕚𝕟 𝕦𝕤! As we count down to Christmas, WorldwideFM will be broadcasting daily throughout December starting this Monday! @gillespeterson.bsky.social Stay tuned and watch the schedule for more details!
I absolutely, absolutely, absolutely cannot wait for this Robbie Williams/monkey biopic www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...
‘Fame is a drug like LSD’: Robbie Williams on success, sexuality and his simian movie alter ego
The former Take That star has made a biopic, Better Man, in which he’s played by a CGI chimpanzee. He talks about sex, drugs and the traumatic madness of 90s pop
theguardian.com
Jia Tolentino on the sometimes celebratory reaction to the death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and what it says about business & violence in America. “A denied health-insurance claim can instantly bend the trajectory of a life toward bankruptcy and misery and death.” [newyorker.com]
A Man Was Murdered in Cold Blood and You’re Laughing?
What the death of a health-insurance C.E.O. means to America.
newyorker.com
In his latest video, @hankgreen.bsky.social talks about a phenomenon you may have noticed here: LLM-driven bots programmed to relentlessly disagree with anyone and everyone.
Who is Creating The Non-Human Army
YouTube video by hankschannel
youtu.be
Just a little reminder that the South Korean president who just declared martial law was elected two years ago on a wave of anti-feminist backlash. Misogyny is routinely part of the authoritarian package. www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
Why misogyny is at the heart of South Korea's presidential elections
Disgruntled young men who resent feminism are the focus of candidates vying to be president.
bbc.com
I suddenly remembered the 1988 Pet Shop Boys annual I had as a kid and read from cover to cover a million times and then whoops, there goes my afternoon www.flickr.com/photos/57779...
Pet Shop Boys - 1988 Annual
Pet Shop Boys - 1988 Annual
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Has global warming accelerated in recent decades? If we look at the rate of warming between 1970 and 2008 and extend it through present, we see that almost all years since 2015 are above the previous trend.
The caterwauling around the new Jaguar is v. telling: fear of standing out, fear of change, fear of being challenged... rife, celebrated & normalised. The car is odd & imperfect but wow, how refreshing to see a globally-known name do something v. weird www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGl...
FIRST LOOK: Jaguar Type 00 – Let The Chaos Begin!
YouTube video by Top Gear
youtube.com
Reminder: you don’t have to be good at something to enjoy it, you don’t have to get better at it, you don’t have to monetize it, and it doesn’t have to be useful.
We all think plastic pollution is a problem, and it is. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic. But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!
Child’s View by Nobukazu Takemura is still a chill delight youtu.be/r7OQj_NEOZg?...
Nobukazu Takemura - Child's View [Full Album]
YouTube video by Wes S
youtu.be
they should make video games so that they listen through your mic for the sound of a beer opening and when it detects it your character in the game will also have a beer in their hand
Lovely stuff. Not my words. The words of Shakin' Stevens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=volq...
Goldie | HÖR - Apr 1 / 2023
YouTube video by HÖR BERLIN
youtube.com
“The lifetime value of a 13 y/o teen is roughly $270 per teen” #art #collage @bsky.art terelinck.com/2024/02/16/t...
