Dustin Krcatovich
@dustinkrcatovich.bsky.social
AKA Golden Feelings. Former music/film/arts writer. Current graphic designer and kosmische musikmaker. Future corpse. | https://dustinkrcatovich.com | https://goldenfeelings.bandcamp.com | https://www.clippings.me/dustinkrcatovich
Well, it's officially that time of year, so here's the piece I wrote for @riotfest.bsky.social in 2019 about why Christmas music is good, actually. There's a pretty good playlist at the bottom of the article, too.
riotfest.org/2019/12/10/h...
riotfest.org/2019/12/10/h...
From Naughty to Nice: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Christmas Music
So, you hate Christmas music. I totally get it, and I was once like you. Things, however, have changed.
riotfest.org
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Well, it's officially that time of year, so here's the piece I wrote for @riotfest.bsky.social in 2019 about why Christmas music is good, actually. There's a pretty good playlist at the bottom of the article, too.
riotfest.org/2019/12/10/h...
riotfest.org/2019/12/10/h...
If you're looking for a hate-read this Thanksgiving, this opinion piece is mercifully short but will still make you want to punch something. Its shitty prose and poor support for its thesis also gives easy fuel to its obvious counterpoint.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
If you're looking for a hate-read this Thanksgiving, this opinion piece is mercifully short but will still make you want to punch something. Its shitty prose and poor support for its thesis also gives easy fuel to its obvious counterpoint.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
A movie that takes place where you're from (technically this takes place/was filmed 45 minutes away, but there is not a single story remotely worth telling from my hometown)
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
A movie that takes place where you're from (technically this takes place/was filmed 45 minutes away, but there is not a single story remotely worth telling from my hometown)
Don't know if I'm actually making a 2025 favorites list, but if I do, this is on it. I almost definitely won't do a RANKED list, but if I did, this would be right around the top spot. Great band and great folks.
Your response to Visible Light has been overwhelming. It’s been two months since our debut album has entered the world, and it means so much to see the music reaching people. Thank you for listening. visible-light.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Don't know if I'm actually making a 2025 favorites list, but if I do, this is on it. I almost definitely won't do a RANKED list, but if I did, this would be right around the top spot. Great band and great folks.
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just when you think you’ve seen it all, you find a bootleg TURTLENECK
November 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
just when you think you’ve seen it all, you find a bootleg TURTLENECK
I've never heard an OG lounge record that sounds THIS much like a precursor to Quintron, wild drumming
Terry Nespor- Theme From 2001 [USA, Organ Lounge](70’s?)
https://redd.it/15afyrw
https://youtu.be/9O7w8OTOmbU
https://redd.it/15afyrw
https://youtu.be/9O7w8OTOmbU
Terry Nespor- Theme From 2001 [USA, Organ Lounge](70’s?)
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've never heard an OG lounge record that sounds THIS much like a precursor to Quintron, wild drumming
In the pre-streaming days, even the best TV shows (Simpsons, Cheers, Twin Peaks, etc) would take awhile to refine their characters and find their stride. 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' hit the ground at a proto-Lynchian sprint and rarely let up. It's Norman Lear's masterpiece. youtu.be/zQqHAWWKwcw?...
"Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" #001 January 5th 1976
YouTube video by Hollywood Video Vault
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
In the pre-streaming days, even the best TV shows (Simpsons, Cheers, Twin Peaks, etc) would take awhile to refine their characters and find their stride. 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' hit the ground at a proto-Lynchian sprint and rarely let up. It's Norman Lear's masterpiece. youtu.be/zQqHAWWKwcw?...
I have 99.9% boycotted Starbucks for 25 years because the company and their coffee has been ass the whole time, but I stand with the employees and support more mass actions!
Zohran Mamdani says that New York City stands with Starbucks employees!
He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.
That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.
Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.
He points out their CEO made 96 billion last year.
That’s 6,666 times the median Starbucks worker salary.
Boycott Starbucks. Support the workers. Demand they receive a living wage.
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I have 99.9% boycotted Starbucks for 25 years because the company and their coffee has been ass the whole time, but I stand with the employees and support more mass actions!
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
TWO Bit-O-Honey with my Sweetwater order? Looks like I better go buy a lotto ticket
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
TWO Bit-O-Honey with my Sweetwater order? Looks like I better go buy a lotto ticket
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🚨 Pelosi is retiring, and the hospital lobby’s praise shows why that matters: she kept Medicare for All off the table and protected the private insurance model they profit from.
www.levernews.com/pelosi-gets-...
www.levernews.com/pelosi-gets-...
Pelosi Gets Hospital Lobbyists’ Award After Blocking Reforms
The American Hospital Association feted the former House speaker for “advancing health care” following her years-long effort to obstruct Medicare for All.
www.levernews.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨 Pelosi is retiring, and the hospital lobby’s praise shows why that matters: she kept Medicare for All off the table and protected the private insurance model they profit from.
www.levernews.com/pelosi-gets-...
www.levernews.com/pelosi-gets-...
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it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
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General strike on Black Friday. Right?
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
General strike on Black Friday. Right?
I more or less want to transition back into food/drink/bud service when I return to PDX next spring, but if I stay in marketing, I really hope it's with a company that has some semblance of structure or strategy in that department (btw, looking for work there next May if ya hear anything).
October 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I more or less want to transition back into food/drink/bud service when I return to PDX next spring, but if I stay in marketing, I really hope it's with a company that has some semblance of structure or strategy in that department (btw, looking for work there next May if ya hear anything).
It has been positively KILLING me lately to not be back working where I belong: a cluttered, musty used record store. An infinite number of worse things happening in this broken world, I know, but it would still be nice if that one tiny wrong could be righted.
October 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It has been positively KILLING me lately to not be back working where I belong: a cluttered, musty used record store. An infinite number of worse things happening in this broken world, I know, but it would still be nice if that one tiny wrong could be righted.
Was excited to have an eleventh hour guaranteed addition to my favorite music of 2025, but it's not actually out until January. Anyway, this is an unbeatable, heady lineup and I can't wait to hear the whole thing.
barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-...
barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-...
Paleo Sol, by Barry Walker Jr.
8 track album
barrywalker.bandcamp.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Was excited to have an eleventh hour guaranteed addition to my favorite music of 2025, but it's not actually out until January. Anyway, this is an unbeatable, heady lineup and I can't wait to hear the whole thing.
barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-...
barrywalker.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-...
The problem with listening to Tuluum Shimmering is that it gets me too excited to play music myself so I rarely get through those long tracks in one sitting at home.
tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/tuluum...
tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/tuluum...
Tuluum's Time Travel Tape Trunk, Vol. 3, March and April 2010: Calling from the Top of the Mountain, by Tuluum Shimmering
6 track album
tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The problem with listening to Tuluum Shimmering is that it gets me too excited to play music myself so I rarely get through those long tracks in one sitting at home.
tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/tuluum...
tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/tuluum...
🎶 CD Baby
CD Baby
CD Baby
Attacked by Rats 🎶
(For advertising to me too aggressively on YouTube)
youtu.be/-To8BnOdMDs?...
CD Baby
CD Baby
Attacked by Rats 🎶
(For advertising to me too aggressively on YouTube)
youtu.be/-To8BnOdMDs?...
City Baby Attacked By Rats
YouTube video by GBH - Topic
youtu.be
October 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
🎶 CD Baby
CD Baby
CD Baby
Attacked by Rats 🎶
(For advertising to me too aggressively on YouTube)
youtu.be/-To8BnOdMDs?...
CD Baby
CD Baby
Attacked by Rats 🎶
(For advertising to me too aggressively on YouTube)
youtu.be/-To8BnOdMDs?...
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Judy Henske and Jerry Yester - Snowblind [USA, Psychedelic folk] (1969)
https://redd.it/6onwsm
https://youtu.be/mOGQGIRfDdQ
https://redd.it/6onwsm
https://youtu.be/mOGQGIRfDdQ
Judy Henske and Jerry Yester - Snowblind [USA, Psychedelic folk] (1969)
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Judy Henske and Jerry Yester - Snowblind [USA, Psychedelic folk] (1969)
https://redd.it/6onwsm
https://youtu.be/mOGQGIRfDdQ
https://redd.it/6onwsm
https://youtu.be/mOGQGIRfDdQ
Last week, I indulged in the best deal in entertainment: $12 for all in-print minicomics from Matt Feazell's NOT AVAILABLE COMICS. It's a big stack, some stretching back to right before I was born. Eternally charming, and a MASSIVE influence on me since 1994.
www.mattfeazell.net/CYNICALMAN/c...
www.mattfeazell.net/CYNICALMAN/c...
October 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Last week, I indulged in the best deal in entertainment: $12 for all in-print minicomics from Matt Feazell's NOT AVAILABLE COMICS. It's a big stack, some stretching back to right before I was born. Eternally charming, and a MASSIVE influence on me since 1994.
www.mattfeazell.net/CYNICALMAN/c...
www.mattfeazell.net/CYNICALMAN/c...
Early holiday shoppers: put up a deal on the s/t Golden Feelings CD. 5 copies for $10(!), give 'em to whoever you know needs a relax. goldenfeelings.bandcamp.com/album/golden...
"Blankets of dreamy pads coalesce into a verdant space where a river of catharsis awaits." [email protected]
"Blankets of dreamy pads coalesce into a verdant space where a river of catharsis awaits." [email protected]
Golden Feelings, by Golden Feelings
5 track album
goldenfeelings.bandcamp.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Early holiday shoppers: put up a deal on the s/t Golden Feelings CD. 5 copies for $10(!), give 'em to whoever you know needs a relax. goldenfeelings.bandcamp.com/album/golden...
"Blankets of dreamy pads coalesce into a verdant space where a river of catharsis awaits." [email protected]
"Blankets of dreamy pads coalesce into a verdant space where a river of catharsis awaits." [email protected]
Feels weird to say since he's a homie, but Fred Thomas can completely murder me with one line. For modern songwriters, hard to beat.
Also, not be a boomer, but Dylan, Joni, Neil, Carole, Sir Paul (among others): all still alive. That dull millennial solipsist isn't even in her generation's Top 20.
Also, not be a boomer, but Dylan, Joni, Neil, Carole, Sir Paul (among others): all still alive. That dull millennial solipsist isn't even in her generation's Top 20.
I also need to know: I am fairly middle-of-the-road on Taylor Swift but someone I know called her the Greatest Living Lyricist. She is not.
Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?
Who is yours? Either the greatest or your favorite?
October 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Feels weird to say since he's a homie, but Fred Thomas can completely murder me with one line. For modern songwriters, hard to beat.
Also, not be a boomer, but Dylan, Joni, Neil, Carole, Sir Paul (among others): all still alive. That dull millennial solipsist isn't even in her generation's Top 20.
Also, not be a boomer, but Dylan, Joni, Neil, Carole, Sir Paul (among others): all still alive. That dull millennial solipsist isn't even in her generation's Top 20.
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Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
trib.al
October 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
Truth: No cars rammed ICE
Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in
Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle
Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired
Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her
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The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...