I’d like to see the Jacques Rivette version: the Earnshaws and the Lintons are rival theatre companies rehearsing competing productions of The Bacchae and it’s 15 hours long.

Is this from the new Cerf biography? (brb, gonna write me some “truth-essays”)

I thought of this album just the other day on the 25th anniversary of a nightmarish late-night drive through a blizzard in Idaho--total whiteout, no visibility, took 4 hours to go 20 miles, etc.--when I remembered that the CD was on repeat in the car the whole time. (Not sure I've played it since.)

Per your suggestion in the piece: I can verify that in 2018, I bought a complete run of 1977-86 UK original Costello LPs in Crouch End for £3 each. They gave me several of them for free because I was buying in bulk and “no one ever wants these.”

It’s not a real hotel unless there’s a Magic Fingers device hooked up to the bed and you have to beg your parents for a quarter to turn it on for five minutes.

cc: @douglaswolk.bsky.social

At least Howard Devoto eventually did it justice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7vh...

One of the great artistic catastrophes of the 1960s: it's one of Dylan's finest songs, and if he'd only waited a week to cut it, the Nashville cats could have nailed it in a single take. In the words of Reg Presley: "Fucking drummer. I shit him." (Not Richard Manuel's finest hour, either.)

There are hundreds of them on YouTube as well.

An instructive exercise: listen to a random episode of the 1930s-40s radio quiz program "Information Please" and, while listening, keep reminding yourself that while the personalities on the show are smart, everything they're talking about would have been considered "general knowledge" for the time.

It meets the moment.

He definitely saw it; Kaleb got C&D’d over it and it all got taken down.

Went looking for this as soon as I saw the news in order to post it, but you got there first!

“Drive-In Saturday” (Claudia Brücken & Andrew Poppy) > “Drive-In Saturday” (Morrissey)