It’s for his PR company but I would welcome an Idiocracy sequel. We’re already living it.

Damon Krukowski always has something to say worth reading. I disagree with a few of the smaller details (movie theaters are not, for me, an experience you should talk during) but the broad point is very solid and very much letting your brain chew on.

a truly fantastic website

Reportedly, Kirby Ferguson's final video. Looking forward to watching.

More performant than the actual screensavers were

Instagram really pushing these on me... should I bite the bullet? Kind of a good deal, honestly.

TIL that Woody Harrelson’s father was involved with organized crime and convicted of assassinating a judge. Gonna dive into this podcast about it!

Uh, next series of 33 1/3s contains a volume dedicated to Chris Gaines (the Garth Brooks alter ego). Shocked but stoked!

interesting to a niche group but this guy is rebuilding an old Nashville theme park in VR; based off a ton of reference photos and the like. No clue if this will pan out but I'm intrigued to keep an eye on it.

Ironic or earnest? Impossible to know but entirely enjoyable regardless. via @johnbaldwinjr

My buddies in the band Tower Defense released a new video today for a new song called "Sea Ranch." I've always been a fan of what Tower Defense does and this new piece is certainly a sign that they're continuing to improve as a band, not degrade.

I never thought I'd sing along so heavily with the lyrics "Microscopic flecks of iron // Describing arcs of sound" but here I am, hollering along!

It's a song about cassette tapes. It's a song about pollution. It's a song about the the unstoppable force of water. But mostly it's just an enjoyable rock song that shows a band having a load of fun together.

born from the now-dead Atom editor. Looks promising but still a ways to go it seems. Keeping an eye on this one.

second record from a supergroup of impressive Nashville musicians

a lovely profile of one of my favorite bands. new record is quite good.

I recently learned of the passing of Sonatore; a Nashville based photographer and musician that I admired a great deal. His Instagram is filled with phenomenal polaroids from top to bottom and his Bandcamp was always a compelling and rewarding listen.

I only met him once but engaged with him a few times online. He was delightful and, clearly, immensely talented. I don't know what happened to cause his departure but I am bummed about it. I hope you'll take a moment to cruise his Instagram; it really is quite good.

I've found myself revisiting the musical works of 12 Rods lately. They were a Minneapolis based band that was primarily active from the mid-90s to 2004; releasing three fantastic full-length albums and a couple great EPs. If you consider yourself a fan of Self or Failure or that ilk, it's likely up your alley. They are supposedly gearing up to release new music. To that end, I've been diving back in deep to their whole catalog. I don't have the objective perspective to know if it's a good listen now as a new listener but it checks all the right boxes for me.

As part of that deep dive, I always came across this podcast episode with primary songwriter Ryan Olcott. It's a 2-hour chat and it's quite satisfying. It's also incredibly unfortunate how beat down he can come across because he truly is a talent.

Non-human authorship makes them ineligible. Pretty fascinating debate.

"Generate endless Super Mario levels for free with GPT." Pretty impressive and the Mario avatar animation is a delight.

Quick 3 minute piece about a job I never thought about. Stunning shots from inside the Memorial. Why this is manual labor is beyond me but makes for an interesting profile.

Quite happy to announce that New Man will be putting out a new EP on yk Records. Amazingly, the release is called The New New Man and the first track from it is available today. The plan with this one is to release each track from the EP on its own, every two weeks - with the full release dropping on Apr 28th. Haven't really released something in this fashion before so it'll be fun to see how that pans out.

You can hear "Hedgerow" over on Bandcamp or any streaming service.