I saw this meme, and it made me realize I had an email from 2007 with wildly funny URLs made back when the internet was a silly, fun, innocent, and weird place rapidly onboarding people that had only existed (more…)
Alan Watts’ Trust the Universe, Baudrillard’s Simulacrum, Eckhart Tolle’s Joy Ease & Light, BBC’s Adam Curtis & Hypernormalisation, and stepping back into the really real world
WHAT YOU STARE AT IS ALL THAT MATTERS. It’s part of my decoupling from the manufactured world they want us to live in, vs just staring at beautiful things like water and rolling hills. =) I think that’s (more…)
Owning in lieu of subscription fatigue: physical media is on the rise
AI Slop really is biting Youtube, IG, and Spotify. Even my wife, sis and dad who don’t care and just want a pleasant playlist are caught off guard they’ve heard fake artists and fake albums. But it’s (more…)
A manufactured overlay to make reality seem simpler: Epstein Files vs the BBC documentary Hypernormalisation
The 2023 BBC Adam Curtis’ documentary is getting renewed attention, its day in the sun so to speak, as we have simply just uncovered a global criminal elite wealthy technologist pedophile ring (more…)
Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Live 105 KITS Legendary Radio Station Induction & SF Sketchfest Alex Bennett and friends!
BAY AREA RADIO HALL OF FAME I worked on a morning show in 1995 that was bigger than Howard Stern here. Live 105.3 KITS from 1980s or 1990s, and it just got inducted into the bay area radio hall (more…)
I hate the F*ckin Eagles, man.
I refer to this too much and need a non paywalled link to share with people who’d never subscribe. The Eagles’ ego ruined the young LA music scene, why Big Lebowski made fun of them, and T (more…)
Physical Media, AI art in front of human royalties, and knowing nothing in the backrooms of the digital realm.
Some fun, and then serious thoughts “Physical Media Collector Pumped for the Downfall of Humanity” https://theonion.com/physical-media-collector-pumped-for-downfall-of-humanity/ MUSIC (more…)
Newsletter #0074 – “Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
The quote is from Cesar A. Cruz. Below, a poem as relevant now to the human experience as to any time in history, because it loops and bends backward onto itself. You will have a hard time believing this (more…)
My Birthday Month Movie Marathon of July 2025 is probably a world record: 66 films in one month.
This was for the record books. I am really proud, and it was really fun, but it was ultimately challenging and exhausting. And totally worth it. I watched as many films as I could possibly watch in (more…)
AI Slop is ruining music like AI is ruining minds. Spotify publishing new songs from dead artists
Spotify Publishes AI-Generated Songs From Dead Artists Without Permission (no paywall here: https://futurism.com/spotify-ai-blaze-foley) https://www.404media.co/spotify-publishes-ai-generated-songs-from-dead-artists-without-permission/ According (more…)