J Bogart
@jonathanbogart.net
Library worker, researcher and writer about culture from the first third of the 20th century, depressive.
https://jonathanbogart.net
https://jonathanbogart.net
exactly! i don’t want to write about what everyone else has already written enough to train an llm on! i want to create new knowledge! even though (maybe even specifically because) it’s not profitable!
One thing about these AI bots is you can ask them how to build a website or change a tire & they'll give you pretty good advice, but if you ask them how to stage an original & compelling historiographical intervention in the niche topic you're currently obsessed with you only get blank stares.
December 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
exactly! i don’t want to write about what everyone else has already written enough to train an llm on! i want to create new knowledge! even though (maybe even specifically because) it’s not profitable!
December 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
thinking about how i first learned to type diacritics in order to spell george pérez’s name correctly, and now every time i restart my computer i have to go into settings and remove the basic usa keyboard because windows 11 hates difference
December 9, 2025 at 2:13 AM
thinking about how i first learned to type diacritics in order to spell george pérez’s name correctly, and now every time i restart my computer i have to go into settings and remove the basic usa keyboard because windows 11 hates difference
December 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
December 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
actual bluesky challenge: post your favorite work of art from fifty years before you were born.
hazards of taking years between blog posts: i'd completely forgotten that i listed a certain record (rec. 11/32, rel. 1/33) in my 1932 roundup and was halfway through a writeup of it for 1933 before noticing.
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
hazards of taking years between blog posts: i'd completely forgotten that i listed a certain record (rec. 11/32, rel. 1/33) in my 1932 roundup and was halfway through a writeup of it for 1933 before noticing.
maybe it's just the ascetic religious separatism in my upbringing talking, but the idea that all cultural production is doomed because a bunch of megacorps are sunsetting the late 20th century model of funding and distribution feels premature. i'm not even a big DIY guy but: people will make art.
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
maybe it's just the ascetic religious separatism in my upbringing talking, but the idea that all cultural production is doomed because a bunch of megacorps are sunsetting the late 20th century model of funding and distribution feels premature. i'm not even a big DIY guy but: people will make art.
been thinking about ways to mark my 50th birthday, coming up in two years. i already have one project about a quarter done that will run all of 2027, but a more personal one, engaging with the art made in my lifetime that has mattered to me, is brewing,
December 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
been thinking about ways to mark my 50th birthday, coming up in two years. i already have one project about a quarter done that will run all of 2027, but a more personal one, engaging with the art made in my lifetime that has mattered to me, is brewing,
"no star (wars or trek), lotr, marvel, disney animated or pixar" is a pretty good thumbnail sketch of my aesthetic wheelhouse, as someone who grew up loving all of the above insofar as i had any access to it. but 1 Cor 13:11
December 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
"no star (wars or trek), lotr, marvel, disney animated or pixar" is a pretty good thumbnail sketch of my aesthetic wheelhouse, as someone who grew up loving all of the above insofar as i had any access to it. but 1 Cor 13:11
wilco discourse on my timeline like a quarter century didn't happen
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
wilco discourse on my timeline like a quarter century didn't happen
Reposted by J Bogart
And since I don’t want folks to think that the only thing notable about Albert Dorne was his resemblance to Abe Vigoda, here’s a reminder that he was, in fact, a world-class badass draftsman.
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
And since I don’t want folks to think that the only thing notable about Albert Dorne was his resemblance to Abe Vigoda, here’s a reminder that he was, in fact, a world-class badass draftsman.
Europeans refusing to recognize black Americans as Americans and considering the U.S. a white supremacist nation even more than white supremacists here do (they're trying to make it one again, which means they know it isn't) fuck off
I once got in an argument with a Norwegian coworker who said that America never created any real culture. I pointed out things like jazz and he was like “but really that’s African and Caribbean,” so finally I landed on ranch dressing, and I am proud to confirm that we got that goin for us
December 6, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Europeans refusing to recognize black Americans as Americans and considering the U.S. a white supremacist nation even more than white supremacists here do (they're trying to make it one again, which means they know it isn't) fuck off
listened to Titica's new album on my walk today, her third in fifteen years as Angola's premiere trans recording artist. kuduro, semba, dancehall, kizomba, and what i think i'm going to have to call funk angolana, using Brazilian rhythms in non-Brazilian ways.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Passarelas da Vida - YouTube
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:16 PM
listened to Titica's new album on my walk today, her third in fifteen years as Angola's premiere trans recording artist. kuduro, semba, dancehall, kizomba, and what i think i'm going to have to call funk angolana, using Brazilian rhythms in non-Brazilian ways.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
my favorite silent these days is most likely Límite (1931), one of the great monuments of Brazilian modernism and a late example of the populist avant-garde that vanished overnight with the conversion to sound.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWDW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWDW...
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
my favorite silent these days is most likely Límite (1931), one of the great monuments of Brazilian modernism and a late example of the populist avant-garde that vanished overnight with the conversion to sound.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWDW...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWDW...
J. Bogart klaxon: French-born singer of Cape Verdean immigrant parents blending CV coladeira and FWI shatta
youtu.be/YzpFr2B94to-d-
youtu.be/YzpFr2B94to-d-
Andreia - Full Bad (Official Video)
YouTube video by Andreia Musica
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
J. Bogart klaxon: French-born singer of Cape Verdean immigrant parents blending CV coladeira and FWI shatta
youtu.be/YzpFr2B94to-d-
youtu.be/YzpFr2B94to-d-
i just now realized that every time i've read the name paul dano i've been picturing paul bettany
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
i just now realized that every time i've read the name paul dano i've been picturing paul bettany
i know i'm the only person liable to be affected, but a new French avant-r&b singer and an established Brazilian rapper (among, I'm sure, others) both using the mononym Ebony is going to complicate my 2025 longlist bookkeeping
December 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
i know i'm the only person liable to be affected, but a new French avant-r&b singer and an established Brazilian rapper (among, I'm sure, others) both using the mononym Ebony is going to complicate my 2025 longlist bookkeeping
anyway here's one of my favorite current Cuban singers covering my all-time favorite classic salsa song:
youtu.be/ey3DSihbp9E?...
youtu.be/ey3DSihbp9E?...
Daymé Arocena performs Celia Cruz classic “Quimbara” (Live!)
YouTube video by Hispanic Heritage Foundation
youtu.be
December 4, 2025 at 5:12 PM
anyway here's one of my favorite current Cuban singers covering my all-time favorite classic salsa song:
youtu.be/ey3DSihbp9E?...
youtu.be/ey3DSihbp9E?...
the christmas canon in my house growing up
December 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
the christmas canon in my house growing up
Reposted by J Bogart
December 4. In Cuba, the day of Santa Bárbara / Changó. The day on which both Machito and his Afro-Cubans and Los Van Van were founded.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06C...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06C...
Celina y Reutilio - Que Viva Chango (Video Oficial) 1949
YouTube video by Celina y Reutilio
m.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
December 4. In Cuba, the day of Santa Bárbara / Changó. The day on which both Machito and his Afro-Cubans and Los Van Van were founded.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06C...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y06C...
i must be a music writer because i'm not anything else worth mentioning, even though i only briefly wrote for publications fifteen years ago. this, the 50th and final in a series of mini-essays i wrote over the first 25 days of the year, is the best i got: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2025/01...
December 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM
i must be a music writer because i'm not anything else worth mentioning, even though i only briefly wrote for publications fifteen years ago. this, the 50th and final in a series of mini-essays i wrote over the first 25 days of the year, is the best i got: www.jonathanbogart.net/blog/2025/01...