James S Murphy
@jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social
London Irishman in Nottingham. Podcasts: the Last Exit Show, Pex Lives, Pop Could Never Save Us, We Learned More From a Three Minute Record.
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Andrew Rankin RIP. A tasteful and versatile drummer and, arguably, the best singer in the Pogues.
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February 11, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Andrew Rankin RIP. A tasteful and versatile drummer and, arguably, the best singer in the Pogues.
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Age verification? When I was a kid, this was our social media.
February 10, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Age verification? When I was a kid, this was our social media.
Looking forward to not being blitzed out of my head on edible for only one reason:
1) To find out if the idea I just had is a game changer for behavioural psychology
Or, like all the other ideas I've had while high, merely amazing, well worth implementing, not dangerous incoherent nonsense, etc.
1) To find out if the idea I just had is a game changer for behavioural psychology
Or, like all the other ideas I've had while high, merely amazing, well worth implementing, not dangerous incoherent nonsense, etc.
February 9, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Looking forward to not being blitzed out of my head on edible for only one reason:
1) To find out if the idea I just had is a game changer for behavioural psychology
Or, like all the other ideas I've had while high, merely amazing, well worth implementing, not dangerous incoherent nonsense, etc.
1) To find out if the idea I just had is a game changer for behavioural psychology
Or, like all the other ideas I've had while high, merely amazing, well worth implementing, not dangerous incoherent nonsense, etc.
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👍✨All good!!✨👍
February 8, 2026 at 8:45 AM
👍✨All good!!✨👍
We know that if Elon was a poster like dril, he'd be at peace & would leave us in the same. For Trump, a couple generations older, he would only have found satisfaction if he could be Regis. Cackling with Joan Rivers. "Oh, you're so wicked!" Sadly for us all they're the least witty men to ever live.
February 6, 2026 at 10:54 PM
We know that if Elon was a poster like dril, he'd be at peace & would leave us in the same. For Trump, a couple generations older, he would only have found satisfaction if he could be Regis. Cackling with Joan Rivers. "Oh, you're so wicked!" Sadly for us all they're the least witty men to ever live.
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At the British SNL writer's table, 2026.
April 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
At the British SNL writer's table, 2026.
De La Soul Is Dead is the peak of art created by nice guys desperate to show they're tough, too. It's in the same quality ballpark as the debut, but you feel the studious screwface through all of it.
December 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
De La Soul Is Dead is the peak of art created by nice guys desperate to show they're tough, too. It's in the same quality ballpark as the debut, but you feel the studious screwface through all of it.
POLONIUS: ...and purchase not calendars as the ash of the year drops to tallow.
Nor within the several bright following dawns!
Wait, instead, until at least the fifth eve of January, my boy.
Sellers will reduce prices for their perishable stock, yet would you have use for them prior to that day?
Nor within the several bright following dawns!
Wait, instead, until at least the fifth eve of January, my boy.
Sellers will reduce prices for their perishable stock, yet would you have use for them prior to that day?
December 30, 2025 at 11:48 PM
POLONIUS: ...and purchase not calendars as the ash of the year drops to tallow.
Nor within the several bright following dawns!
Wait, instead, until at least the fifth eve of January, my boy.
Sellers will reduce prices for their perishable stock, yet would you have use for them prior to that day?
Nor within the several bright following dawns!
Wait, instead, until at least the fifth eve of January, my boy.
Sellers will reduce prices for their perishable stock, yet would you have use for them prior to that day?
That's on me. That's my fault for expecting good burritos in a Cobham service station on Christmas eve.
December 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
That's on me. That's my fault for expecting good burritos in a Cobham service station on Christmas eve.
How great is it that we can see extinct animals in cave paintings? Big old dead aurochs, visible to us through the artistic eye of a prehistoric artist. Magic.
December 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
How great is it that we can see extinct animals in cave paintings? Big old dead aurochs, visible to us through the artistic eye of a prehistoric artist. Magic.
GEN X RAP SNOB: In my day, we sampled records made with REAL instruments.
December 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
GEN X RAP SNOB: In my day, we sampled records made with REAL instruments.
RZA's ballet score is beautiful on its own terms. It's also fascinating on the meta level because he's swaggeringly confident in the new form.
We still hear the artist who looped soul records with dialogue from kung fu films on 36 Chambers. It isn't hip hop at all, but the spirit's easy to feel.
We still hear the artist who looped soul records with dialogue from kung fu films on 36 Chambers. It isn't hip hop at all, but the spirit's easy to feel.
December 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
RZA's ballet score is beautiful on its own terms. It's also fascinating on the meta level because he's swaggeringly confident in the new form.
We still hear the artist who looped soul records with dialogue from kung fu films on 36 Chambers. It isn't hip hop at all, but the spirit's easy to feel.
We still hear the artist who looped soul records with dialogue from kung fu films on 36 Chambers. It isn't hip hop at all, but the spirit's easy to feel.
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'Tis the season for
M!
R!
James!
M!
R!
James!
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
'Tis the season for
M!
R!
James!
M!
R!
James!
Don't want to hear the reality. This is Sir Mix a Lot crashing an orchestral evening, the musicians spontaneosly bursting into Baby Got Back, and a room full of socialites losing their minds on hearing the song for the first time. Many a monacle dropped. Give me this much.
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"Baby Got Back:" Sir Mix-A-Lot with the Seattle Symphony
YouTube video by Seattle Symphony
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December 18, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Don't want to hear the reality. This is Sir Mix a Lot crashing an orchestral evening, the musicians spontaneosly bursting into Baby Got Back, and a room full of socialites losing their minds on hearing the song for the first time. Many a monacle dropped. Give me this much.
youtu.be/w59e20ijOpE?...
youtu.be/w59e20ijOpE?...
Starting to feel like good odds that the last coherent thought that fires across my dying synapses will be
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December 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Starting to feel like good odds that the last coherent thought that fires across my dying synapses will be
01818118181.
01818118181.
The Princess Bride and Spinal Tap are two of my favourite films of all times. If either was starting right now, I'd watch to the end. Reiner as a director was unflashy. He didn't have much of a recognisable visual style. He just made the best film in the style that suited the story.
December 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Princess Bride and Spinal Tap are two of my favourite films of all times. If either was starting right now, I'd watch to the end. Reiner as a director was unflashy. He didn't have much of a recognisable visual style. He just made the best film in the style that suited the story.
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📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm
December 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
📌 ciaraioch.com is now taking Christmas orders for prints, cards, and vouchers - each archival-quality print on heavy art paper is made in Ireland, ships internationally in eco-friendly packaging with discount tracked postage, and comes with a FREE card and treats for every customer 🎁 #SpéirGorm
"And now we come to 'people I worked with 30 years ago who objected, in the most mild terms, to my decade long, monomaniacal campaign of targeted abuse against a vulnerable minority, targeting countless specific individuals and the group as a whole.' Some real bastards in here!"
December 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"And now we come to 'people I worked with 30 years ago who objected, in the most mild terms, to my decade long, monomaniacal campaign of targeted abuse against a vulnerable minority, targeting countless specific individuals and the group as a whole.' Some real bastards in here!"
So I pull the sleigh
Looking for the answer
Am I Rudolph
Or am I Prancer
Looking for the answer
Am I Rudolph
Or am I Prancer
December 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
So I pull the sleigh
Looking for the answer
Am I Rudolph
Or am I Prancer
Looking for the answer
Am I Rudolph
Or am I Prancer
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Marlon Brando 🤝Superman III
Got wrecked by Richard Pryor
Got wrecked by Richard Pryor
December 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Marlon Brando 🤝Superman III
Got wrecked by Richard Pryor
Got wrecked by Richard Pryor
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This one got me.
December 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This one got me.
Not on the Wikipedia for 'Dub Be Good to Me,' so it's been wiped from history to an extent. Check the music mags at the time & find Norman Cook, Housemartins member, DJ, & architect of the single spend a few weeks claiming the bassline came from "...an old ska record..."
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Beats International Dub Be Good To Me
YouTube video by G R O O V I S S I M O
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December 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Not on the Wikipedia for 'Dub Be Good to Me,' so it's been wiped from history to an extent. Check the music mags at the time & find Norman Cook, Housemartins member, DJ, & architect of the single spend a few weeks claiming the bassline came from "...an old ska record..."
youtu.be/-MnELifX3sQ?...
youtu.be/-MnELifX3sQ?...
Spotify wrapped must be madly off. What kind of a lunatic would have an obscure 1980s Bob Dylan outtake as their number one listened-to song for 2025?
December 6, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Spotify wrapped must be madly off. What kind of a lunatic would have an obscure 1980s Bob Dylan outtake as their number one listened-to song for 2025?
A guitar loving man came round my house with the rest of his band. He looked at my battered, charity shop acoustic, used up like a toddler's favourite soft toy. "If you file down the neck, [several other helpful, intelligent suggestions that I stopped listening to] you'd find it plays better."
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A guitar loving man came round my house with the rest of his band. He looked at my battered, charity shop acoustic, used up like a toddler's favourite soft toy. "If you file down the neck, [several other helpful, intelligent suggestions that I stopped listening to] you'd find it plays better."