Alex and Kevin have a chat. Said chat is fascinating. That is all.

peer-to-peer root naming system. I can't say I fully understand this thing but I am intrigued. Blockchain TLDs as far as I can tell!

Every week for the past few years I've posted a new episode of my We Own This Town Music podcast. I scour Instagram and Bandcamp to find new releases from the Nashville area and put them into a playlist format. It's akin to running a radio show but there's nothing in regular rotation; I really do my best to try and play something different every episode. Today I released the 300th episode. It's a milestone for me and I'm honestly proud I've been able to stick with it for so long and continue to be so happy with the results. It's work but it's rewarding.

To celebrate the landmark occasion, I reached out to a bunch of members of the music community and asked them to submit one of their favorite local tracks (new or all-time). I'm quite pleased with the results and I hope you'll tune in to discover some new music; even if you don't live in the Nashville area.

To point a slightly finer point on it, We Own This Town (the entire endeavor) strives to be a destination to prop up the great creativity happening around where I live but it's far from the only destination for such a thing. A thriving music scene only works if everyone involved is promoting one another and not trying to hoard all the eyeballs (and likes and social currency) for themselves. Nashville's scene is so good because of all of the people that are involved in pushing awareness; not just WOTT. Maybe that's obvious but it felt great to ask others to participate and they were so willing to contribute.

Many thanks to everyone who submitted a track. Specifically, my gratitude to Patrick Rodgers, *repeat repeat, Negro Justice, Caroline Bowman, Six One Tribe, Olivia Ladd, Taylor Cole, Lance Conzett, Larissa Maestro, Wes Davenport of No Country for New Nashville, Villin dot net, Rebecca Delius from Memento Stori, Mary Mancini from Lucy’s Record Shop, Megan Seling from Snack and Destroy, Kathryn Edwards, The Groove Records, Leanne Merritt and Vinyl Tap.

From the feature film "Give My Regards To Broad Street" (1984). The makeup should never be forgotten.

nice little trip down memory lane here

built on top of Safari rendering engine but with a focus on privacy. Sort of want to try this if only for the "we handle cookie alerts for you" feature.

smitten with this EP; little tastes of hip-hop beat tapes mixed with twin peaks

Loving this channel! This piece on Afro-Surrealism is captivating.

Nice overall piece looking at Anderson but the first portion regarding the pacing and metronome is wild.

sorta want this... real bad

17 minutes is long for our collective attention spans but this was great.

note to self: read this... looks intriguing

The future is weird but entirely intriguing

I had no idea Andy Baio was responsible for the Star Wars Kid making it to the Internet. He shares finally getting to meet him after 20 years and the conversations they had.

On this day in 1995, the Chris Farley movie Tommy Boy was released. Let this serve as a reminder that in 2018, Dave Paulson released a concept album about the entire movie. It's a track-by-track retelling but it also gets to the emotional core of the movie. In short, it's fantastic. There's a great intro video explaining the whole record and a fun video for "Don't Let It Get You Down" - one of my personal faves from the record.

Tommy Boy director Peter Segal enjoyed it, as did Consequence of Sound, The AV Club, Ain't It Cool News and even FastCompany.

Everything you need to know about the record is on the official site sanduskyoh.co, there's a twitter for the album at @SanduskyAlbum, you can buy it on Bandcamp or stream it wherever.

I'm biased but I do recommend getting it into your life.

interesting angle... and good for Wardle

I was at this show in 1995 when I was 16 and, somehow, it was bootlegged, digitized and survives on YouTube. Internet is bonkers sometimes.

Seth Pomeroy has done approximately 40 of these commercials. I can watch this supercut anytime and always enjoy

Wordle for movie images. Like Heardle but more up my alley

I've been watching the Netflix documentary series The Andy Warhol Diaries. It's a pleasantly well-made six-part series about the artists life culled from the book of the same name, which was culled from morning conversations between Warhol and friend Pat Hackett. Each episode opens with a disclaimer that the voice of Andy Warhol heard in the series was generated by an AI, seeded by actual Warhol recordings and a little bit of Bill Irwin augmentation.

Hearing that Warhol has been recreated as a bit of a modern day robot is a nice reminder to spend some time cruising the Internet in search of information about the 1982 Andy Warhol Robot. Conceived as part of a "No-Man Show" intended for Broadway, Warhol worked with producer Lewis Allen and one-time Disney engineer Alvaro Villa to bring the entire project to life. 1985's Robots, machines in man's image described the show as such:

The robot will be seated on its bed in Warhol's rom, surrounded by its dog, a telephone, and two television sets. It will interact with these as well as with the audience. When a member of the audience asks a question, the robot will have five preprogrammed answers to choose from.

Not exactly compelling from a 2022 perspective but pretty novel for the mid-80s!

There are so many wonderful images and blurbs to discover about the project. I'll include a few below but I really can't recommend letting yourself have a deep dive at your earliest convenience.