Lang Thompson
@funhousejournal.bsky.social
Where Batman meets Henry James.
Youtube has vids of Dua Lipa covering Manu Chao, Alizée, Vanessa Paridis, the Scorpions, Abba. Beginning to think she's not American.
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Youtube has vids of Dua Lipa covering Manu Chao, Alizée, Vanessa Paridis, the Scorpions, Abba. Beginning to think she's not American.
All day has felt like Saturday. Hope day after tomorrow I don't show up at work without thinking about it.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
All day has felt like Saturday. Hope day after tomorrow I don't show up at work without thinking about it.
Rewatched Airplane! which I hadn't seen in about 40 years and odd how many gags I remembered. But not the racist bits like an African tribe innately good at basketball. Did nobody question that? The jive talk bits don't play very well now either.
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Rewatched Airplane! which I hadn't seen in about 40 years and odd how many gags I remembered. But not the racist bits like an African tribe innately good at basketball. Did nobody question that? The jive talk bits don't play very well now either.
For once I want to see a documentary about a musician/actor/artist that's not "She was a complicated person. She kept secrets. Did anybody know who she really was?"
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
For once I want to see a documentary about a musician/actor/artist that's not "She was a complicated person. She kept secrets. Did anybody know who she really was?"
Introduce yourself with five concerts you *could* have seen but didn’t, and most regret missing:
Prince's final show (I'd seen him before & figured maybe next time)
Ornette Coleman
original Pretenders lineup
Talking Heads
Motorhead
Prince's final show (I'd seen him before & figured maybe next time)
Ornette Coleman
original Pretenders lineup
Talking Heads
Motorhead
Introduce yourself with five concerts you *could* have seen but didn’t, and most regret missing:
Frank Sinatra
James Brown
Fela Kútì
Campaign for Musical Destruction (Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, 1992)
Minutemen
Frank Sinatra
James Brown
Fela Kútì
Campaign for Musical Destruction (Napalm Death, Carcass, Cathedral, Brutal Truth, 1992)
Minutemen
November 28, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you *could* have seen but didn’t, and most regret missing:
Prince's final show (I'd seen him before & figured maybe next time)
Ornette Coleman
original Pretenders lineup
Talking Heads
Motorhead
Prince's final show (I'd seen him before & figured maybe next time)
Ornette Coleman
original Pretenders lineup
Talking Heads
Motorhead
Though this good girl was at Thanksgiving.
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Though this good girl was at Thanksgiving.
I had Thanksgiving with a bunch of engineers and they have a pretty different view of AI than the humanities types I mainly know.
November 28, 2025 at 1:26 AM
I had Thanksgiving with a bunch of engineers and they have a pretty different view of AI than the humanities types I mainly know.
Somebody I know just posted an AI pic of her sitting on a couch reading but why? Does she not have a couch?
November 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Somebody I know just posted an AI pic of her sitting on a couch reading but why? Does she not have a couch?
Introduce yourself with five bands/artists you've seen multiple times:
Replacements
Cheap Trick
Sonic Youth
John Zorn
Derek Bailey
Replacements
Cheap Trick
Sonic Youth
John Zorn
Derek Bailey
Introduce yourself with five bands/artists you've seen multiple times:
Lou Barlow
Eleni Mandel
Psy
Grizzly Bear
Ben Folds
Lou Barlow
Eleni Mandel
Psy
Grizzly Bear
Ben Folds
Introduce yourself with five bands/artists you’ve seen multiple times (non-jamband edition). I’m going with five times minimum:
Radiohead
Sigur Rós
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
TV on the Radio
Russian Circles
Radiohead
Sigur Rós
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
TV on the Radio
Russian Circles
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Introduce yourself with five bands/artists you've seen multiple times:
Replacements
Cheap Trick
Sonic Youth
John Zorn
Derek Bailey
Replacements
Cheap Trick
Sonic Youth
John Zorn
Derek Bailey
Saw Death Laid an Egg (Giulio Questi 1968)
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Saw Death Laid an Egg (Giulio Questi 1968)
I used to play them on my radio show but cut end of name to Mothers.
Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers - Ultracore (Italy, Hardcore Punk) [1983]
https://redd.it/6nufca
https://youtu.be/0RG9ERBQGz4
https://redd.it/6nufca
https://youtu.be/0RG9ERBQGz4
Cheetah Chrome Motherfuckers - Ultracore (Italy, Hardcore Punk) [1983]
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I used to play them on my radio show but cut end of name to Mothers.
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My 7 year old just reached for a piece of pizza fresh out of the oven and exclaimed, in the same tone as an adult swearing…
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My 7 year old just reached for a piece of pizza fresh out of the oven and exclaimed, in the same tone as an adult swearing…
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
“English folklore, that’s hot!”
I choked laughing ENGLISH FOLKLORE AS A SWEAR? WHO ARE YOU?!?
Got both flu and covid shots this morning and now I'm so blah I can't do anything but it's too early for bed.
November 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Got both flu and covid shots this morning and now I'm so blah I can't do anything but it's too early for bed.
Another day, another meme I don't understand.
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Another day, another meme I don't understand.
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Buckaroo Banzai Vs. The World Crime League
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Buckaroo Banzai Vs. The World Crime League
I work half a day tomorrow so will spend all night wondering where to have lunch. The sushi place that opens so late I rarely go there? Crawfish po-boy? Barbeque? Grilled veg at Lebanese place?
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I work half a day tomorrow so will spend all night wondering where to have lunch. The sushi place that opens so late I rarely go there? Crawfish po-boy? Barbeque? Grilled veg at Lebanese place?
I showed Jeanne Dielman back in the 80s. Would have killed for feedback like this.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I showed Jeanne Dielman back in the 80s. Would have killed for feedback like this.
There's more bright colors in this than the entire actual film.
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
There's more bright colors in this than the entire actual film.
Lol I beat the rain to work by three minutes! I rule!
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Lol I beat the rain to work by three minutes! I rule!
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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11 days apart. Brutal.
November 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
11 days apart. Brutal.
Today's person upset at trivial thing is guy on FB annoyed at Steam's Black Friday sale and goes on for *pages*, listing dozens of items that should or shouldn't be on sale, comparisons to past sales and general grumpiness.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Today's person upset at trivial thing is guy on FB annoyed at Steam's Black Friday sale and goes on for *pages*, listing dozens of items that should or shouldn't be on sale, comparisons to past sales and general grumpiness.
Read Bey Logan - 36 Chambers of Kung Fu Cinema, Volume One (2018)
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Read Bey Logan - 36 Chambers of Kung Fu Cinema, Volume One (2018)
Hardly any traffic this morning. It's lovely. People must already be gone on vacation.
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Hardly any traffic this morning. It's lovely. People must already be gone on vacation.
Uh wow just wow. This is an astonishing story and just gets more so as it goes. Seriously, get to the end. (I checked and Wikipedia supports it.)
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Uh wow just wow. This is an astonishing story and just gets more so as it goes. Seriously, get to the end. (I checked and Wikipedia supports it.)