Sharon O'Connell
@messyectomorph.bsky.social
Music writer (dCS Audio, Electronic Sound, Metro, Uncut). Ex staffer at Melody Maker and Time Out. Coastal dweller. Art, film, books etc.
The Met appears to be conducting a cold recruitment drive on LinkedIn, which strikes me as… weird. Though given their recent admission that 300 recruits were given inadequate or no vetting, I guess skimming over someone’s cv online must seem quite rigorous.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The Met appears to be conducting a cold recruitment drive on LinkedIn, which strikes me as… weird. Though given their recent admission that 300 recruits were given inadequate or no vetting, I guess skimming over someone’s cv online must seem quite rigorous.
I had no idea what Celebrity (or normie) Traitors is or how it’s played & planned to start in on it, weeks of ambient fuss having made me curious. Now there’s no point. What happened to the courtesy of spoiler warnings, eh?
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I had no idea what Celebrity (or normie) Traitors is or how it’s played & planned to start in on it, weeks of ambient fuss having made me curious. Now there’s no point. What happened to the courtesy of spoiler warnings, eh?
If you’re a Pavement enthusiast (that’s everyone, right?) then get your paws on this lively & comprehensive Ultimate Music Guide from @uncutmagazine.bsky.social I took a deep dive into Brighten The Corners (their best, imo) & tracked Malkmus’s solo adventuring but there’s a ton of w/e goodness here.
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
If you’re a Pavement enthusiast (that’s everyone, right?) then get your paws on this lively & comprehensive Ultimate Music Guide from @uncutmagazine.bsky.social I took a deep dive into Brighten The Corners (their best, imo) & tracked Malkmus’s solo adventuring but there’s a ton of w/e goodness here.
Waking up to good news is rare but Mamdani’s victory is that thing. Nice work, New Yorkers.
thing | Fate
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November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Waking up to good news is rare but Mamdani’s victory is that thing. Nice work, New Yorkers.
Three Donkey Day
A difficult day so pleased to have donkeys George & Letty -Lou come visit and cheer me up
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Three Donkey Day
Jesus wept. Those any-port-in-a-storm Democrats might want to have a serious rethink about MTG. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Marjorie Taylor Greene tells Bill Maher she believes extraterrestrials are demons
Georgia Republican lawmaker also claims she didn’t know Rothschild family, of her ‘space laser’ theory, was Jewish
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Jesus wept. Those any-port-in-a-storm Democrats might want to have a serious rethink about MTG. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Birthday felicitations to the brilliant Bill Woodrow, 77 today. I especially love this assemblage, Car Door, Armchair and Incident, from 1981.
November 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Birthday felicitations to the brilliant Bill Woodrow, 77 today. I especially love this assemblage, Car Door, Armchair and Incident, from 1981.
A cruel & unjust punishment, I think we’d all agree. His struggle starts now.
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
A cruel & unjust punishment, I think we’d all agree. His struggle starts now.
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled #304, 1994 #Halloween www.thebroad.org/art/cindy-sh...
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Cindy Sherman, Untitled #304, 1994 #Halloween www.thebroad.org/art/cindy-sh...
Halfway through & still dazzled & charmed by this skilful jump-cut of a novel. I loved his ‘… Kavalier & Clay’ but couldn’t get with ‘Telegraph Avenue’. At all. But this is a total joy - vivid, funny, profound, generous. A coincidence that ‘Wonder Boys’ is Michael Douglas’s best film? I think not.
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Halfway through & still dazzled & charmed by this skilful jump-cut of a novel. I loved his ‘… Kavalier & Clay’ but couldn’t get with ‘Telegraph Avenue’. At all. But this is a total joy - vivid, funny, profound, generous. A coincidence that ‘Wonder Boys’ is Michael Douglas’s best film? I think not.
Hyperbolic & fear-stoking headlines like this are infuriating: the footage isn’t “chilling” - the sharks don’t have some creepy ulterior motive, ffs, they’re wild animals, feeding. Neither is it anything as sensational as a “frenzy”. Enough of the Jaws cliches.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Shark feeding frenzy off popular Australian surf beach captured in chilling footage
‘Wonderful’ for people to see the predators so close and feasting on bait fish at the Gold Coast’s Rainbow Bay, near Snapper Rocks, expert says
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Hyperbolic & fear-stoking headlines like this are infuriating: the footage isn’t “chilling” - the sharks don’t have some creepy ulterior motive, ffs, they’re wild animals, feeding. Neither is it anything as sensational as a “frenzy”. Enough of the Jaws cliches.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
My god. Just seen the photo of Weinstein, Epstein & Maxwell together at Royal Lodge, invited there by Prince Andrew two months *after* a warrant had been issued for E’s arrest. It’s genuinely chilling & sickening in equal measure. Absolute irredeemable monsters, all.
October 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
My god. Just seen the photo of Weinstein, Epstein & Maxwell together at Royal Lodge, invited there by Prince Andrew two months *after* a warrant had been issued for E’s arrest. It’s genuinely chilling & sickening in equal measure. Absolute irredeemable monsters, all.
This is a great long-form profile of a truly intriguing Hollywood A-lister. Extraordinary that she’s never had any formal training - after-school drama classes, is all.
In a new Profile, Jennifer Lawrence talks to Jia Tolentino about fame, parenthood, and her new movie, “Die My Love.”
Jennifer Lawrence Goes Dark
She has been cast in maternal roles since her teens. Now, playing a mother for the first time since becoming one, she has chosen the part of a woman pushed past the edge of sanity.
www.newyorker.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This is a great long-form profile of a truly intriguing Hollywood A-lister. Extraordinary that she’s never had any formal training - after-school drama classes, is all.
Just caved in & put heating on. So I’ll be warm but also peeved I’ve broken my usual October 31 embargo. The glow of self-righteousness does nothing for cold hands & feet…
October 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Just caved in & put heating on. So I’ll be warm but also peeved I’ve broken my usual October 31 embargo. The glow of self-righteousness does nothing for cold hands & feet…
The surrealistically-inclined artist (& eco protester) Isabel Rock has imagined the need of fish for shoes when they wed - I mean, who would deny them? - & made these extraordinary pairs from papier-mâché accordingly.
October 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The surrealistically-inclined artist (& eco protester) Isabel Rock has imagined the need of fish for shoes when they wed - I mean, who would deny them? - & made these extraordinary pairs from papier-mâché accordingly.
Typically excellent Sunday listening w Cerys Matthews: cheesemaker Margaretha Van Dam talks history & methodologies (“mozzarella is a prima donna”), Erik Satie & Miles Davis are on the playlist.
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Typically excellent Sunday listening w Cerys Matthews: cheesemaker Margaretha Van Dam talks history & methodologies (“mozzarella is a prima donna”), Erik Satie & Miles Davis are on the playlist.
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Today would have been the 85th birthday of one of pop’s greatest songwriters, Ellie Greenwich.
She co-wrote River Deep Mountain High, I Can Hear Music. Be My Baby and many more.
Here‘s her own dreamy version of Be My Baby.
youtu.be/V-Rj4dP2d10?...
She co-wrote River Deep Mountain High, I Can Hear Music. Be My Baby and many more.
Here‘s her own dreamy version of Be My Baby.
youtu.be/V-Rj4dP2d10?...
Ellie Greenwich - Be My Baby
YouTube video by Carl Henderson
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October 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Today would have been the 85th birthday of one of pop’s greatest songwriters, Ellie Greenwich.
She co-wrote River Deep Mountain High, I Can Hear Music. Be My Baby and many more.
Here‘s her own dreamy version of Be My Baby.
youtu.be/V-Rj4dP2d10?...
She co-wrote River Deep Mountain High, I Can Hear Music. Be My Baby and many more.
Here‘s her own dreamy version of Be My Baby.
youtu.be/V-Rj4dP2d10?...
Liberty, Equality, Audacity www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Louvre thieves’ slow-motion getaway using furniture lift was caught on video
Footage showing two men appears to have been filmed from nearby window in museum
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Liberty, Equality, Audacity www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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The Farce Will Be With Him... Always.
Trump: "We have Darth Vader. You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader is a man who is sitting -- is that Darth? Stand up please. Does everybody know -- they call him Darth Vader, I call him a fine man. But he's cutting Democrat priorities and they're never gonna get them back."
October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The Farce Will Be With Him... Always.
Gah. How have I slept on Alfa Mist’s latest, ‘Roulette’? It’s a magnificent blend of cool jazz & moody alt-soul, with effortlessly stylish orchestral arrangements all over & a dash of boom-bap. Now need to time travel so I can amend my Top 20 end-of-year list.
October 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Gah. How have I slept on Alfa Mist’s latest, ‘Roulette’? It’s a magnificent blend of cool jazz & moody alt-soul, with effortlessly stylish orchestral arrangements all over & a dash of boom-bap. Now need to time travel so I can amend my Top 20 end-of-year list.
Just spotted my neighbour coming up his path with a (small) Christmas tree under one arm. Ffs, can we not, already?
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Just spotted my neighbour coming up his path with a (small) Christmas tree under one arm. Ffs, can we not, already?
Wondering if I underwent a humour bypass in my sleep last night: just tried first ep of Alan Partridge’s ‘How Are You?’ & was so thoroughly disengaged I didn’t even make it to the end. Does it get funnier? (I loved the AP projects bitd.)
October 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Wondering if I underwent a humour bypass in my sleep last night: just tried first ep of Alan Partridge’s ‘How Are You?’ & was so thoroughly disengaged I didn’t even make it to the end. Does it get funnier? (I loved the AP projects bitd.)
Just watched the Spinal Tap sequel:
my expectations were quite low but sheesh, it was tragic. The silence in the cinema was painful; I half-smiled twice (at Chris Addison’s character). Irrefutable evidence that you can’t strike the same match twice - especially after 40 years. In comedy.
my expectations were quite low but sheesh, it was tragic. The silence in the cinema was painful; I half-smiled twice (at Chris Addison’s character). Irrefutable evidence that you can’t strike the same match twice - especially after 40 years. In comedy.
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Just watched the Spinal Tap sequel:
my expectations were quite low but sheesh, it was tragic. The silence in the cinema was painful; I half-smiled twice (at Chris Addison’s character). Irrefutable evidence that you can’t strike the same match twice - especially after 40 years. In comedy.
my expectations were quite low but sheesh, it was tragic. The silence in the cinema was painful; I half-smiled twice (at Chris Addison’s character). Irrefutable evidence that you can’t strike the same match twice - especially after 40 years. In comedy.
Hang on - Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau?
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Hang on - Katy Perry & Justin Trudeau?
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“D’Angelo was a generational talent—an unusually artful singer, and an experimental and idiosyncratic songwriter.” Amanda Petrusich remembers the R. & B. singer D’Angelo, who died this week at 51.
D’Angelo’s Genius Was Pure, and Rare
The musician, who died this week, made work so sensual it prompted women at his concerts to howl for him to disrobe. But his artistry was always deeper than that.
www.newyorker.com
October 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“D’Angelo was a generational talent—an unusually artful singer, and an experimental and idiosyncratic songwriter.” Amanda Petrusich remembers the R. & B. singer D’Angelo, who died this week at 51.