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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · Aug 25

I contributed a chapter titled "Not Afraid to Show a Savage Face" about the evolution of Andy Cohen's narrative voice from the start of Silkworm through a palpable change in the Touch & Go years. It took a lot of restraint not to spill the beans on this book!

Jon Solomon @jon.wprb.com · Aug 25

Now available: Lay it Down In Full View: Collected Writings On Silkworm And Their Music.

The 14 essays in this landmark 416 page tome adopt a range of approaches from memoir and historiography to music criticism.

Details here...

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Cover for the book Lay It Down In Full View: Collected Writings on Silkworm and their Music

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 10m

Selection goes hard

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 2h

Jon getting to Rob Liefeld proportions thanks to the cream and clear

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 10h

The loser of this game should be decided by which team has a member fall asleep in the dugout first.

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 10h

I never doubted you, Jack Flaherty. I knew you were up there saying “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear” to yourself.

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 11h

That one definitely hit the bat first

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 17h

Stranded has the new Exek live LP available for order domestically

EXEK - Live At RRR LP Legno - Stranded Records

Release Date: October 31st, 2025 Edition of 200. We met EXEK at a 'Halloween party' we held at our old studio in 2022. They had flown from Australia to Milano that very same day and played in a state ...

www.strandedrecords.com

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 1d

I listened to these records today

Smog - Knock Knock
Spiritualized - Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Clark - The Last Panthers
Beths - Straight Line Was a Lie

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 1d

I’d put the number of times I thought “Oh THIS is the titular bullet in the head” at 5. John Woo is not one for restraint or subtlety.

Overall it’s very good, but the Deer Hunter heaviness means I’m less eager to revisit it than The Killed / Hard Boiled / A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2 / Once a Thief.

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 1d

Finishing John Woo’s Bullet in the Head today and I was unprepared for the degree to which it is a cross between The Deer Hunter (friends traumatized and broken by the Vietnam War) and Rambo: First Blood Part II (insane shootouts with the Vietcong). There’s a lot of bloodshed, hard to call it heroic

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a Ford Galaxie 500 last weekend and did the Leo pointing gif in the car

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 2d

I listened to these records today

Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Beach House - Bloom
Antarctica - 23:03
Pulp - Different Class
Smith, Elliott - Figure 8

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I see Jazz Chisholm Jr.

Are You A Big Jazz Boy Or A Little Jazz Boy?

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 2d

Live, Laugh, Tork

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 2d

Those kids were too busy renting cars to finish the season

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 2d

Now watching John Woo’s Bullet in the Head, which I’d started as a Workout Watch (on mute with music on headphones). The benefits of a normal viewing are clear: the introductory montage of wayward youth antics reminiscent of Rebel Without a Cause is set to a zany sax cover of “I’m a Believer.”

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve seen 21/38 films in Criterion Channel’s Hong Kong Action Classics. May not get through all of the unwatched titles, but I started with Sammo Hung’s Pedicab Driver.

It’s all over the place tonally: ribald farce, serious romantic drama, lessons on Respecting Women, friendship hijinks.

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 2d

22 seconds faster per mile. Not quite up to my fastest times (although I was in that range for miles two and three), but I’m happy with it.

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

It’s twenty degrees cooler than Monday, time to see if I run faster or if I’m still recovering from my cold

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

It’s twenty degrees cooler than Monday, time to see if I run faster or if I’m still recovering from my cold

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

I listened to these records today

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Protomartyr - Formal Growth in the Desert
Evans, Bill - Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Hecker, Tim - Shards
Sultans - Shipwrecked

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

Watching Dracula (1931) for the first time, although it doesn’t feel that way because of all the other Draculas and Nosferatus I’ve seen. Dwight Frye goes all out as Renfield, but this is Bela Lugosi’s picture, and it’s exponentially better when he’s on screen.

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Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

I didn’t think people actually confused Bill Paxton and Bill Pullman, but this MLB announcer just did

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve only heard good things about its quality but yeah that’s a hard cinematic experience to choose right now.

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

Now they have four Russian guys

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

That’s a great autumn album, I’ll throw it on tomorrow.

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

Former Tampa Bay Lightning head coach Guy Boucher looking like his brain is about to explode

Sebastian Stirling @newartillery.bsky.social · 3d

Getting hyped the only way I know how

3800 Tigers, by Protomartyr

from the album Formal Growth In The Desert

protomartyr.bandcamp.com

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