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  this is one of the best of Criterion Channel's new monthly lineups in a while → https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8335-the-criterion-channels-january-2024-lineup I'm especially excited to sit down with that Ikarie XB 1 restoration!

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  𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Lawrence Peryer speaks with synth pioneer Suzanne Ciani about handing her one-woman Buchla to a 50-piece orchestra on 'CIANI/ORKEST', keeping fifty players in time with a tiny Korg drum machine, decades of playing to folks who wouldn't listen, and finally saying 'yes' at 80 → https://www.thetonearm.com/speaking-the-word-of-the-buchla-suzanne-ciani-orchestral-wave/

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  the latest Talk Of The Tonearm email newsletter has spread its leathery wings and is now descending upon the unsuspecting villagers features a rundown of our week's stories, a bevy of recommendations + clickable links, and the inside scoop on a new remix project featuring The Sun Ra Arkestra https://www.thetonearm.com/invented-phonetics-theatrical-instincts-newsletter/

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  jeez more like Stingy amirite

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  an excellent mini-doc on how Yasujirō Ozu adapted his characteristic meticulousness, objectivity, and use of 'rhyming' shots to the advent of color in film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5P22nEmF3k

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  a remake of Logan's Run but it's set in a futuristic Brooklyn where those who turn 30 are forced to quit their indie rock bands

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  👀 https://helloskinny.bandcamp.com/track/hello-skinny

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  ❝ How many scenes in the canon depict farting? … a few years ago, my friend Cassey Lottman and I created the Great Farts of Literature database, an ongoing project dedicated to cataloging the best butt bombs in print and from which this list is adapted. → https://lithub.com/seven-of-the-greatest-farts-in-western-literature/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KR4DWW3S6W47BQQRGP1WW3JB&_kx=rt_1n3amTfg-jAt_3THWzOv_2OHXAq2WCrX5affQzjU.U5D8ER

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  ❝ In 1962, the American Legion picketed the Pasadena Art Museum for showing one of his constructions built around a crumpled American flag. After someone broke into the museum at night and tore off the flag, Mr. Herms left the shell of the artwork on display, inserting a note that read, “Despite this degradation, the forces of creation will go on.” → https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/arts/george-herms-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hFA.7gfh.4rRmkD8QYOYK&smid=url-share

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  ❝ Celebrating losers in the battle is exactly what we need right now, because we need to fight without a guarantee, and sometimes seemingly even without a prospect of victory. It’s the only way to counter the gross iniquities of our time. → https://dadadrummer.substack.com/p/the-struggle-continues

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  Moroccan rocket building → https://mossandfog.com/a-rocket-shaped-building-rises-in-morocco/

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  so stoked to have Maria Schneider on the podcast today — there's a good bit of bird talk, too → https://podcast.thetonearm.com/maria-schneider-composing-in-the-age-of-curated-rage-american-crow/

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  like a model rocket, the latest Talk Of The Tonearm is now sputtering up to the sky before parachuting gently into your email inbox this weekend's edition features a newsletter-exclusive interview with saxophonist Chris Potter about his John Brown-inspired album, 'Alive With Ghosts Today' dig in! subscribe! → https://www.thetonearm.com/her-instrument-damaging-technique-newsletter/

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  ❝ For the temple, this marks the first time a robot has participated in the sugye initiation ceremony, when followers pledge their devotion to the Buddha and his teachings … While a human monk normally receives a small incense burn on the arm, instead Gabi received a lotus lantern festival sticker and a prayer bead necklace. →

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  happy mother's day!

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  tl;dr: diggadoo-diggadoo-diggadoo-diggaddo wowwowwowwowwoooooo diggadoo-diggadoo-diggadoo-diggadoo

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  here's my regular reminder that you are free to listen to Genesis's "Mama" any time at all, not just on Mother's Day

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  getting back to my roots with a Cajun-inspired dish for tonight's din-din — collards from the garden, kidney beans, crispy tofu, tomato sauce, smoked chipotle peppers, lots of spicy goings-on, to be served over rice

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  just one of the uncountable multitudes victimized by the administration's federal goon patrol, but this one hits Orlando's music scene pretty hard and they grabbed him in his own fucking club https://bungalower.com/2026/05/11/uncle-lou-longtime-mills-50-music-figure-reportedly-held-under-ice-hold/

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  after a few days at Big Ears hearing most of the performing bands using loopers and effects, Tom Skinner's acoustic jazz combo (drums+cello+double bass+two winds) was refreshing … and v. good! here's the conversation The Tonearm's Jonah Evans and I had with Tom after the show → https://www.thetonearm.com/tom-skinner-silhouette-music-kaleidoscopic-visions/

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  pls read this essay (The Tonearm debut of writer Jon Buckland) on Metal Machine Music and its unlikely tribute albums and then, once finished, go back and read the Lester Bangs review linked within the article → https://www.thetonearm.com/power-to-consume-and-lou-reed-metal-machine-music-afterlife/

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  ❝ It is the ultimate Gothic inversion: the living child is transformed into a data set to be optimized, while the host performs a pantomime of joy to mask the sound of a tomb clicking shut. → https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon

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  I was just pitched a band described as 'post-indie' which I guess means they've signed to a major label … ?

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  that prior to the 1500s the only place you could find potatoes was in the Andes never ceases to blow my mind … and then the hypothesis that the 'little ice age' of the 1600s might have been caused in part by an explosion of wild growth in farmland abandoned by all the people who died over here wtf https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002rrvz

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  when Florian Fricke appears on screen in Werner Herzog's 1968 film Signs of Life

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  ambitious home dinner creation after several days of travel — vegan vindaloo curry with collards (from the garden), peppers, broccoli, and tofu — huzzah!

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  a lot of bad news stories out there but this is up there among the worst → https://www.nme.com/news/music/bob-marleys-dreadlock-expected-to-fetch-25000-at-auction-3938176?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bob-marleys-dreadlock-expected-to-fetch-25000-at-auction

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  glad I'm not baked rn as this would probably make me way paranoid

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  way too many bands out there called Sky Mall