Ben Arthur

Loved making this episode with Isabella Rossellini + @sharonvanetten.bsky.social What a joy and an honor 😍🐶 songwriterpodcast.com/isabella-ros...

New song called “Sweet Milk” — links to the streamers at BenArthur.com/Sweet-Milk

Lots of horrifying shit in here but also this particular combination of words makes me feel like I’m having a stroke

New episode of SongWriter ft a poem from Kaveh Akbar and a brand new song from Jamila Woods! SongWriterPodcast.com/kaveh-akbar-jamila-woods

Amazing to be back in Chicago, which *effortlessly* puts NYC to shame (How much is it to clean up vomit in a yellow cab??? We don’t even know!) Thank you to Jamila Woods and Kaveh Akbar for giving me a delightful excuse to visit one of my absolute favorite cities 🌆❤️

One month from today! @kavehakbar.bsky.social + Jamila Woods @metrochicago.com! metrochicago.com/event/songwr...

SF showing up for #nokings

An astonishing mosaic in Brighton!

Wrote a song for the good people of the Tees Valley! Looking forward to finally getting back to play at the R n B with @jackhedgesmusic and the wonderful @mrpaulmosley on 12/4 - hoping they’ll sing this one with me! “Singalong” streaming now - link below!

A songwriter's story: @benarthur.bsky.social on "Love Your Enemy" with #AesopRock popdose.com/a-songwriter...

My wording might not be precisely the same, but this pretty much sums it up.

Welp -- no good deed goes unpunished. heatmap.news/climate/extr...

Another bad thing about Spotify is sometimes you'll go into a coffee shop and hear Jessica Pratt or Vashti Bunyan playing and be like oh wow what a cool place this, I wonder who put this on? And then realize it's probably just a playlist called "rainy day vibes" and all the employees ignore it

Brushed a dog’s worth but somehow he’s still here

It’s listening to Low in the bath with a beer o’clock

I had a blast at Conclave, which I thought was delightful, surprisingly funny, and a legit throwback to the More And Better Movies era, but also my wife has roasted me for several days now because I said "hell yeah" during a brief scene where you see some tasty-looking tortellini being made.

Math problem. I have three apples and am traveling towards you at 17mph. It's not really a problem, more of a warning. Apple time, bitches.

In the new episode of SongWriter, Turkish journalist and author @aslieperker shares a story she wrote for SongWriter, scientist Dr. @ErhartItir talks about art and empathy, and Turkish rock star @kiremitciev performs a brand new song. Listen in: https://buff.ly/3Odpjxd

As a child, I assumed the electric carving knife was going to be a big part of my adult life. Yet another lie. Not as serious as "you'll eventually stop getting zits" but right up there.

Hallmark Christmas movie idea: A small town embraces fascist ideals since eggs are expensive & then they decide to hire a sex trafficking circus peanut as the chief of police. He is found rubbing one out on the 20 ft tall Christmas tree moments before the lighting ceremony. That’s all I have so far.

This time around, the Kennedys are assassinating us.

Anyone want to place bets on the date of Adams's "I didn't leave the Democrat Party, the Democrat Party left me" speech when he announces he's running for reelection as a Republican?

All those books about the declines and falls of empires that I never read.... do they cover how dumb things were? I was unprepared for how dumb things were going to get.

The only thing harsher than Gaetz as AG is if he re-appointed Merrick Garland Like, job well done, sir

My friend Jeff released a novel earlier this year and it’s a delightful read. Jeff once called me a ‘festering pustule’ and I’m still recommending his book. That’s how much I love him.

The fall of the Roman Empire but very stupid and everyone has phones.

Artists, you have the right to vanish from time to time, be sporadic and inconsistent online, and let your socials go for a while every now & then. It's healthy. I would argue it's fucking essential to your sanity & creativity. Take it from someone very few people have ever heard of!

Final episode of season 5 is up, with the extraordinary #davidsedaris and Jacob Ewald of Slaughter Beach, Dog! https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/songwriter-podcast/songwriter-podcast-david-sedaris-jacob-ewald

#author and founder of @mcsweeneys.bsky.social #DaveEggers speaks about #sineadoconnor #truthseeker https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyGqq2yOZiU/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

#songwriter Warren Zanes about the #repression, #secrets, and complicated power dynamics of being in a band, on the SongWriter Podcast https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuqTvLPJqOf/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

#Novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz about #adaptation, and complicated feelings about having books made into movies starring #HughGrant, #NicoleKidman, & #TinaFey https://www.instagram.com/reel/CumVwaYMEYf/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

#Songwriter Warren Zanes on his collaborations with Tom Petty on the biography “Petty” https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cuh8w1NNqlw/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Silly brain

Fascinating article that my daughter sent me about the ways that podcasts and parasocial relationships that form through them may be changing the way we talk and think https://www.wired.com/story/podcasts-speech-thought-history-enlightenment/

it’s not ALL wildfires, right?

[hissing at my PC] what the fuck, that's me. im the task manager

This episode is WILD #mashagessen got called for a meeting with Putin shortly after publishing a biography that accused him of murder Friends did NOT want Masha to go to the meeting…but as you can hear, there was never any question for them https://songwriterpodcast.com/Masha-Gessen-Maria-Sonevytsky