Spotify Continues to Remove Episodes of Joe Rogan’s Podcast ➜
I am not a fan of Rogan’s podcast; I think it sounds like if you grafted a mouth onto a lifted Dodge Ram covered in Punisher decals.
Ouch. Nick Heer has opinions.
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Typically gorgeous track from Frøkedal, taken from her upcoming album Flora.
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Quite enjoying Cheater, the new album from Norway’s Pom Poko. It really hits the sweet spot for jangly noise and pretty vocals, and if, like me, your formative years were the 90s, you’ll find a lot to like here. If you like what you hear, support the band on Bandcamp.
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Two types of recovery from the COVID recession, or how you cannot effectively fight plutocratic populism by returning to the recent past ➜
[T]his plutocracy cannot be fought with a return to what went as normal before, because what went as normal before created the plutocracy that we are trying to escape from. Fighting for democracy requires a turn to the left (in economic terms), and that is what we are seeing in the US. The reason is quite simple – without radical economic change in a left wing direction the reasons why enough people in the US voted for Trump will re-emerge. Moving left does not guarantee that will not happen, but it gives democracy a fighting chance. Returning to the neoliberalism that created Trump is just asking for a return of Trump.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights, dead at 101 ➜
Of the Beats, Ferlinghetti is more or less the only one whose work I keep returning to; Kerouac offers diminishing returns as I grow older, Burroughs makes my head hurt, and frankly, I’m too prudish for most of Ginsberg. When I was traveling around the US before moving home, I stopped at City Lights on my last day in San Francisco; as I was rummaging around on the second floor, the door to the office opened and there he was. He smiled at me and nodded before closing the door. As a farewell to the Bay, it was almost too on-the-nose.