Ezra Brooks
@ezbrooks.bsky.social
I love music, movies, mystery stories, and food from around the world.
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Do you dream of sharing your love of Japanese literature with the perfect translated book? Read Japanese Literature has 15 recommendations to cover everyone on your list.
Japanese Books to Give for the Holidays
Do you dream of sharing your love of Japanese literature with the perfect translated book?
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November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Do you dream of sharing your love of Japanese literature with the perfect translated book? Read Japanese Literature has 15 recommendations to cover everyone on your list.
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today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
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Touch to play the chalkboard! I did a deep dive on the Beam Sound Board featured in the Florian Schneider estate auction. I even managed to find a very close relative, which I show here, designed in communist times Czech. more over on YT:
youtu.be/Og5pRNy5bG0
youtu.be/Og5pRNy5bG0
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Touch to play the chalkboard! I did a deep dive on the Beam Sound Board featured in the Florian Schneider estate auction. I even managed to find a very close relative, which I show here, designed in communist times Czech. more over on YT:
youtu.be/Og5pRNy5bG0
youtu.be/Og5pRNy5bG0
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Some distortion and feedback is totally fine, but they never let it get in the way of the main melody. The band operates in a self-contained, almost childlike universe, wherein the normal rules of physics don't apply.
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/11/tulp...
@skepwax.bsky.social #tulpa #review
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/11/tulp...
@skepwax.bsky.social #tulpa #review
Tulpa: Monster Of The Week
A blog about music. The good stuff only.
www.herecomestheflood.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Some distortion and feedback is totally fine, but they never let it get in the way of the main melody. The band operates in a self-contained, almost childlike universe, wherein the normal rules of physics don't apply.
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/11/tulp...
@skepwax.bsky.social #tulpa #review
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/11/tulp...
@skepwax.bsky.social #tulpa #review
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Out now in potentially edible physical form - many thanks to @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social!
Mastered by the extremely productive @aoboyle.bsky.social
All That's Missed...
Mastered by the extremely productive @aoboyle.bsky.social
All That's Missed...
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Out now in potentially edible physical form - many thanks to @cruelnaturerecs.bsky.social!
Mastered by the extremely productive @aoboyle.bsky.social
All That's Missed...
Mastered by the extremely productive @aoboyle.bsky.social
All That's Missed...
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May we soundtrack your Thanksgiving? Title track will sound groovy when the tryptophan hits
Moorish Highway, by Trummors
11 track album
trummors.bandcamp.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
May we soundtrack your Thanksgiving? Title track will sound groovy when the tryptophan hits
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Our incredible audience, we want to hear from YOU!💥
We know you're a knowledgeable bunch, so we wanted to take this opportunity to ask you, our loyal audience, who you want to see at our next edition.
Who do you want to see on our Supersonic stage? Let us know in the comments👇
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We know you're a knowledgeable bunch, so we wanted to take this opportunity to ask you, our loyal audience, who you want to see at our next edition.
Who do you want to see on our Supersonic stage? Let us know in the comments👇
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November 26, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Our incredible audience, we want to hear from YOU!💥
We know you're a knowledgeable bunch, so we wanted to take this opportunity to ask you, our loyal audience, who you want to see at our next edition.
Who do you want to see on our Supersonic stage? Let us know in the comments👇
📸 by snaprockandpop
We know you're a knowledgeable bunch, so we wanted to take this opportunity to ask you, our loyal audience, who you want to see at our next edition.
Who do you want to see on our Supersonic stage? Let us know in the comments👇
📸 by snaprockandpop
I saw "Batman Begins" at a theatre that was showing it on rotation. As we filed in, the closing credits from the prior show were still running. Someone behind me said "Batman Begins? This is more like Batman Ends."
A reminder that watching a film in the 1930s was not a purist experience, from John O’Hara’s ‘BUtterfield 8’, 1935.
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I saw "Batman Begins" at a theatre that was showing it on rotation. As we filed in, the closing credits from the prior show were still running. Someone behind me said "Batman Begins? This is more like Batman Ends."
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I wrote about a couple of excellent gigs by Tortoise and SML @intlanthem.bsky.social www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
Tortoise Live In London Review: Genre-Defying Explorers Return
Chicago’s post-everything masters reassert their powers at first London show in nine years, while LA quintet SML show how much they’ve learned from them.
www.mojo4music.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I wrote about a couple of excellent gigs by Tortoise and SML @intlanthem.bsky.social www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto...
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wrote about the kind of cinema that can only be appreciated in a friend's basement. that's right, I wrote about MALLRATS!
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30
In the fall of 1995, Kevin Smith’s second film was a box office humiliation. Now, it’s become an embarrassment of riches. We chat with Smith about the movie and how it forever altered his career.
www.theringer.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
wrote about the kind of cinema that can only be appreciated in a friend's basement. that's right, I wrote about MALLRATS!
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
www.theringer.com/2025/11/24/m...
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Doom Trip is honored today - The new @mjnoble.bsky.social was selected as @bandcamp.com ‘s Album of the Day! 💿💿
We’re huge fans of Bandcamp and to see MJ’s hard work praised there means a lot to us. Head over to read the piece and listen to her album in full ⚔️⚔️
daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...
We’re huge fans of Bandcamp and to see MJ’s hard work praised there means a lot to us. Head over to read the piece and listen to her album in full ⚔️⚔️
daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Doom Trip is honored today - The new @mjnoble.bsky.social was selected as @bandcamp.com ‘s Album of the Day! 💿💿
We’re huge fans of Bandcamp and to see MJ’s hard work praised there means a lot to us. Head over to read the piece and listen to her album in full ⚔️⚔️
daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...
We’re huge fans of Bandcamp and to see MJ’s hard work praised there means a lot to us. Head over to read the piece and listen to her album in full ⚔️⚔️
daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the...
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#1236 Wu Fei’s Music Daily — Sesame threat
I recorded this double-guzheng improvisation today thinking of my children threatening to eat each other’s sesame treats.
wufeimusic.substack.com/p/1236-sesam...
I recorded this double-guzheng improvisation today thinking of my children threatening to eat each other’s sesame treats.
wufeimusic.substack.com/p/1236-sesam...
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
#1236 Wu Fei’s Music Daily — Sesame threat
I recorded this double-guzheng improvisation today thinking of my children threatening to eat each other’s sesame treats.
wufeimusic.substack.com/p/1236-sesam...
I recorded this double-guzheng improvisation today thinking of my children threatening to eat each other’s sesame treats.
wufeimusic.substack.com/p/1236-sesam...
I dreamed a burglar broke into a mansion in New England. It was abandoned, so he started squatting there. In one of the rooms he found a collection of rare Portuguese fado records, LPs and 78s. He turned the ground floor of the mansion into a bar so that people could come and listen to the music.
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I dreamed a burglar broke into a mansion in New England. It was abandoned, so he started squatting there. In one of the rooms he found a collection of rare Portuguese fado records, LPs and 78s. He turned the ground floor of the mansion into a bar so that people could come and listen to the music.
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for this week’s My Time Back i wrote about Raymond Carver’s short story collection Cathedral. it’s probably my favorite thing i’ve written this year. would love if you took a dive in and read mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/cathedral?...
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
for this week’s My Time Back i wrote about Raymond Carver’s short story collection Cathedral. it’s probably my favorite thing i’ve written this year. would love if you took a dive in and read mytimeback.beehiiv.com/p/cathedral?...
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It's here!! www.criterionchannel.com/blossoms-sha...
30 hours of Wong Kar-wai! INTO MY VEINS www.criterionchannel.com/blossoms-sha...
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
It's here!! www.criterionchannel.com/blossoms-sha...
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You gotta hear this:
新崎純とナイン・シープス - かじゃでぃ風節
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EA2...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EA2...
かぎやで風
YouTube video by m t (真黒クロスケ)
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You gotta hear this:
Today's found sound:
Phase Music for Two Gas Pumps
Phase Music for Two Gas Pumps
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Today's found sound:
Phase Music for Two Gas Pumps
Phase Music for Two Gas Pumps
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1. hell yes
2. am going to have to sit with this for a bit to consider all the implications for western public land management in the US, lol
2. am going to have to sit with this for a bit to consider all the implications for western public land management in the US, lol
A motorcycle ... with an electric motor, so it never needs fuel ... and two foldable solar panels, so it can recharge while parked, thus needing no outlet.
Effectively infinite range. Total freedom.
Effectively infinite range. Total freedom.
self-charging solar motorcycle by MASK architects frees riders from fuel and power networks
www.designboom.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
1. hell yes
2. am going to have to sit with this for a bit to consider all the implications for western public land management in the US, lol
2. am going to have to sit with this for a bit to consider all the implications for western public land management in the US, lol
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Lamonica looks to the future (One Way Ticket) and the past (Hot August Night) in his lyrics. He is an optimist despite the current Stateside mess. The songs on Pony Tales come out swinging, not to throw a punch, but as an invitation to dance the night away.
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/11/rome...
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/11/rome...
Rome 56: Pony Tales
A blog about music. The good stuff only.
www.herecomestheflood.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Lamonica looks to the future (One Way Ticket) and the past (Hot August Night) in his lyrics. He is an optimist despite the current Stateside mess. The songs on Pony Tales come out swinging, not to throw a punch, but as an invitation to dance the night away.
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/11/rome...
www.herecomestheflood.com/2025/11/rome...
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Extra codes for deluxe edition of Spirit Guide by @skyjellymusic.bsky.social
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band.codes
November 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Extra codes for deluxe edition of Spirit Guide by @skyjellymusic.bsky.social
band.codes/ihn/ihn009-s...
band.codes/ihn/ihn009-s...
Another recommendation for mystery lovers: Seicho Matsumoto's 1958 novel "Tokyo Express" (also published as "Points and Lines").
This police procedural is a tightly plotted tale of murder and corruption. You can read it in less time than it takes Inspector Mihara to travel from Fukuoka to Sapporo.
This police procedural is a tightly plotted tale of murder and corruption. You can read it in less time than it takes Inspector Mihara to travel from Fukuoka to Sapporo.
November 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Another recommendation for mystery lovers: Seicho Matsumoto's 1958 novel "Tokyo Express" (also published as "Points and Lines").
This police procedural is a tightly plotted tale of murder and corruption. You can read it in less time than it takes Inspector Mihara to travel from Fukuoka to Sapporo.
This police procedural is a tightly plotted tale of murder and corruption. You can read it in less time than it takes Inspector Mihara to travel from Fukuoka to Sapporo.
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Deeply delighted to share out @zachschonfeld.bsky.social's @pitchfork.com Sunday Reviews piece on one of my all time fave albums, the #BooRadleys 1993 masterwork _Giant Steps_. I helped Zach a touch with research and he kindly quoted from my 1993 interview with bassist Tim Brown.
The Boo Radleys: Giant Steps
Read Zach Schoenfeld’s review of the album.
pitchfork.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Deeply delighted to share out @zachschonfeld.bsky.social's @pitchfork.com Sunday Reviews piece on one of my all time fave albums, the #BooRadleys 1993 masterwork _Giant Steps_. I helped Zach a touch with research and he kindly quoted from my 1993 interview with bassist Tim Brown.
I dreamed I met someone who had invented a time machine, and I immediately hired them to take me to 4th century Wales so I could take scenic footage for a film adaptation of Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain.
November 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I dreamed I met someone who had invented a time machine, and I immediately hired them to take me to 4th century Wales so I could take scenic footage for a film adaptation of Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain.