This week’s listening.

one of my favorite things is the random bowie anecdotes that pop up in youtube comment sections occasionally

Weirdly, in 1973, the Edgar Winter Group featured a Britpop time traveller.

I clicked on it and it came up with a link which went to the page above.

Seems to be a link to record company medium.com/@ostinatorec...

SYNTHESIZING THE SILK ROADS LICENSING CREDITS

All tracks on this compilation have been licensed directly from the artist or their families / next of kin if they are deceased.

I hope this means the costume has prominent steel nipples.

The point where The Platters, Roger Corman, American International Pictures, and Eric Dolphy converge? Here. It’s right here.

rock all night (1957): the platters (with eric dolphy!) - the blockbusters

YouTube video by Gen. Buck Turgidson

#CDFriday Love this and am keen to check out the new demos album. But more than an any other artist, pleasure is tempered by the loss of what might’ve been.

Among the great joys of Kenneth Williams diaries is reading about his friendship with Maggie Smith. It’s always apparent how much he adores her. From 1973: “I told Maggie how incredibly her talent had matured…”

This is what I mean when I say Hollywood is in its flop era It's not because people in creative roles have lost their mojo. It's because studios have decided that relying exclusively on IP is a business plan Ciara Moloney writes more about that here

How Capitalism Incentivizes the Destruction of Art

Capitalism is supposed to encourage innovation. But in Hollywood, studios are creating a narrower range of films to avoid taking any risk at all.