Dan/iel Mudford

Here is the new album by The Bionics, entitled NEON DEUTSCHLAND. Harking back to the days when you might bump into someone interesting on a West German street corner. It comes digitally & physically. Danke schön @neondeutschland.bsky.social thesonsofsilence1.bandcamp.com/album/neon-d...

Please consider buying a print. This is just a random plug and definitely isn’t because I’ve just had a massive bill from the dentist. marswasrubbish.etsy.com

One of the reasons I like President Lula is that every time I see a photo I think That's what Bill Bailey might look like in 20 years.

Jacques and Agnès sitting in a tree, F.I.L.M.M.A.K.I.N.G.

I suppose if we’re not going to make the streets safer for women, the least we can do is make gherkins more affordable.

Two ducks sat at a restaurant table, reading the menus while the waiter hovers. One duck says "I wish we hadn't filled up on all that bread."

This was difficult to put down. Different perspectives on an ever growing snowball of wrong moves, iffy decisions and awful pop industry behaviour. Dark humour and wry observations galore. Great debut. #Booksky

It doesn't come any more adorable than living in a house together with the band's name on the doorbell.

Woke up to the news from Brasil and Serbia and this popped right into my head. youtu.be/NxFGrkwqZPk?...

How's your extra hour going?

Really excited at the prospect of more theatre from the great man: The Impecunious Costermonger. The Munificent Mister Weinstein.

Also, a film I recall loving a long time ago, disappeared, and then discussed it here recently. rarefilmm.com/2018/11/i-lo...

Another human endorsement for our new album. Come on, it's Saturday night, you're all set for slightly drunk shopping. I know I am (non-slip doormat in basket).

What better to spend a gloomy autumn afternoon than with the blazing technicolour An Autumn Afternoon (1962)?

Well done Graeme Thomson and @mojomagazine.bsky.social for a really outstanding piece about Fela Kuti. It starts with a really gripping, jaw-dropping story and goes from there.

"And your time starts...now. What was the name..." "Biff Pang Pow"

The replies are an extraordinary catalogue of things that have objectively improved. If we didn't have the climate crisis and the far right authoritarians and the tech barons overshadowing everything I'd be whistling every day

Cataracts treated in outpatients. Stamps sold in shops. The end of Drill And Fill. Indoor smoking. AIDS treatments. Guns gone (UK) Global cuisine. Affordable musical instruments have improved in quality.

The Fucking What??!!

Few things fill my heart like coming across a really wet Yew.

I remember the last time we were told to stockpile (not why though,early 2000s?). My gourmet brother and I discussed what to store and settled on things that are edible but not so tempting as to risk opening prematurely. My solution, still unopened, was this.

A class of 30 students all reading the same book. An obvious mistake. - John Cage

Yeah, looks like they put a lot of effort into those costumes as well.

I suspect I may be in a minority loving BANDE A PART as much as I did when I saw it for the first time in the cinema just now. #FilmSky letterboxd.com/danielmudfor...

#NowPlaying an extraordinary find, it's 33rpm and the A side sounds like it's made up entirely of false starts, that slow floaty twiddly stuff before it all kicks off, but it never kicks off and therefore sounds like Heaven.

A joyful thread to lift the heart

If anyone's worried that they'll never become cool, show them this picture of Japan.

THIS is what I love about this place: both the best record I've heard and the best book I've read in ages I would have never heard of had not been for my timeline.

I don't watch GBNews on principle generally, but this is AAAAGGHHH funny. I can't imagine what the gallery are saying during this. "Great content" probably.

Good good good for The George resisting these turds.

Oh I knew I had one: Hugh Grant was looked after by the same publicist for the whole of his career until June 1995 when he wrote to her "I love you like a sister but I need someone who can get me on the front pages", got a new PR. Two weeks later he was caught with a sex worker on Sunset Strip.

One can easily see how the father's influence led to the son co-composing classics such as 'The Itchy Glowbo Blow' and 'Frou Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires'.

Happy 80th birthday to the late and greatly missed Lux Interior.

Oh no I'm at the I Want To Know What Happens With This Wonderful Book But I Don't Want It To End stage...

Mexican food in London has always seemed a bit of an oxymoron to me, but then I think of tacos as Mexican vol-au-vents so I'm hardly an expert. But despite its unprepossessing site in the not-hip end of Bermondsey, Adelita is an absolute joy. And joyfully busy on a wet Tuesday evening. #FoodSky

John Baer, Shadow Study, Manhattan, 1960

Bands of Lines One Inch Wide in Four Directions in Black and Gray https://www.wikiart.org/en/sol-lewitt/bands-of-lines-one-inch-wide-in-four-directions-in-black-and-gray-1985

I promise I'm not being funny here: I always found, in moments of deep stress and acute sadness, singing the phrase "And it's going to be Alright" (Sterling Void/Pet Shop Boys). Maybe it's the breathing, or the ridiculousness of it, but it's pulled me back from a brink many times.

So, so funny on endless rewatches, and made with such obvious affection for the source.