Ted Mills
@tedmills.bsky.social
Artist and filmmaker currently working on my PhD in film/video art at Massey University, Wellington, NZ. Formerly Santa Barbara, CA. www.tedmills.com
www.mixcloud.com/millsmix/dj-... Two hours of music you should be listening to, from around the world
DJ Freerange on RadioActive.fm 07.18.2026 by millsmix
My latest two-hour set of music you should be listening to from all over the world. Toes will top, heads will bop.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHNh... RIP William Orbit, your classic "Water from a Vine Leaf" is inextricably linked to Michael Alexander St. John's read of Chris Morris' "Club Guide", I cannot hear it any other way
Blue Jam - Club Guide
YouTube video by Strathcarnage Lackadaisical
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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
"I'll see you again in 25 years." I'm covering the miraculous Twin Peaks Season 3—aka The Return—for @popheist.com, starting with the season premiere. I hate to say "this is not your father's Twin Peaks" since it's literally the same people, but there's no mistaking that we're seeing something new.
'Twin Peaks' Season 3 Premiere Recap: Meanwhile - Pop Heist
Now 'Twin Peaks' can be explicit with its aims and in its means of executing them in a way it couldn't before. It can titillate and terrify.
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Then they came for the Customer Service team, And I did not speak out, Because I was on hold, owing to an exceptionally high volume of calls. But my call was important to them.
Today, instead of doomscrolling, I can actually say I was joyscrolling. So many people having the biggest laughs, the biggest reliefs from seeing this demon shuffle off this mortal coil. A preview of times to come.
Didn't know until now that Ryuichi Sakamoto's Esperanto album is actually a dance music score for the work of the same name by Molissa Fenley. And here it is on Vimeo, with a slightly different mix! vimeo.com/1087570430
ESPERANTO (1985, choreography_ Molissa Fenley, music by Ryuichi Sakamoto)
Choreography: Molissa Fenley Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto Costumes: Jean Paul Gaultier Dancers: Molissa Fenley, Silvia Martins, Scottie Mirviss, Jill Diamond and Elizabeth Benjamin Recorded at Endo Mem...
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Anyway, did you see John Oliver was on General Hospital as some kind of secret government agency bigwig, and he played it completely straight? It's pretty fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtpH...
Every John Oliver Scene on General Hospital
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George Hurrell was one of the great portrait photographers of Old Hollywood. He helped provide glamour to stars like Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow & Clark Gable. Late in his career Hurrell did album covers for rock & pop groups in the 70s & 80s. Here's a thread! 🧵 Talking Heads: True Stories, 1986
Welcome to STC Sunday Morning! I reviewed Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me for @popheist.com. This piece means more to me than anything else I've written this year.
'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me' Recap
A prequel to 'Twin Peaks' the series, 'Fire Walk with Me' presents Laura Palmer not as "the dead girl," but as a whole human being.
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I just completed a work titled “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence, Slavers Redacted” for America's semiquincentennial.
Trump: It's not working! Why don't they love the fair? How do I make the crowds cheer? Oracle of DC: If you test your strength against the heat with a very long speech, the nation will celebrate harder than they ever have. They will party in the streets. No one will ever forget the night.
I’d love to see a gender breakdown on this because if the mainstream media thinks there’s a male loneliness epidemic now wait a couple of years until an entire generation of dudes are broke bois and the women of that generation aren’t.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · last mo.NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBVA... Ray Davies and band wander around a park with a bloke in a gorilla suit and it's charming. Also an earworm.
The Kinks - Apeman (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The Kinks
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thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-0... If you live in Wellington, you've seen Simon, but now you'll know his story
The inside story of Simon the sign guy, Wellington’s favourite street artist
From a traumatic cliff fall to a stint in a Thai prison, Simon Sherlock has been to some dark places. Now he just wants to spread the love.
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You absolutely must read this sign posted on our (temporarily closed) local brewpub here in Petone:
Larry the Cat, the appointed Chief Mouser of Downing Street, has now outlasted 6 UK Prime Ministers, and the Queen herself. He holds the true power over the country
The 17yr-old is talking about his favourite band. "And sometimes they release singles that aren't quite as good, and they call them B-sides, I didn't know why. Have you heard of that? 'B-sides'. Weird." I'm just crumbling away to ancient dust over here.
when It Happens, everywhere will feel like NYC feels right now
I made a playlist. Then I realised that the playlist was trying to tell me something. And this was the result.
“There’s no footage of the things he’s singing about. Except there is now. Almost.” Ghost hunting with Paul McCartney. | Pete Paphides
“There’s no footage of the things he’s singing about. Except there is now. Almost.” Ghost hunting with Paul McCartney. by Pete Paphides on Patreon. Join Pete Paphides's community for exclusive conten...
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Trump got mercilessly booed by New Yorkers during the national anthem. Knicks fans rock! 😂🤣👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHG... Bardo Pond's face-melting 16 minute (!) cover of Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets
Bardo Pond - Here Come the Warm Jets (Brian Eno cover)
YouTube video by A R (essencialmente azoto)
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samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let... "But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I will. There’s no hiding from me. If you let AI do your writing I will find out, and I will kill you.
If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
Did you think I wouldn’t be able to tell? I can tell.
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RIP to a legend, this tune is never far away in my whistling repertoire www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdak...
Sonny Rollins - St. Thomas (Official Audio) from Saxophone Colossus
YouTube video by Sonny Rollins
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