Everybody Already Knew It But the New Boss's Arrival Confirmed It:

Randle always was the @#$%ing kiss-ass of the group.

 

Speaking of the Sex Pistols, Which I'm Always Happy to Do

50 years ago last week, the Sex Pistols played "The Gig That Changed Music Forever" to about 40 people in Manchester:

On June the 4th 1976 The Sex Pistols played a poorly attended gig at a small inaccessible venue in Manchester the Lesser Free Trade Hall. There were only around 40 people in the audience that night but the impact of that tiny gig on the city of Manchester was absolutely seismic and the ripples of it are still spreading out today.

In fact it could be argued that without this gig the world would never have seen the Smiths, the Buzzcocks, The Fall, Joy Division, New Order, Simply Red, Happy Mondays and without the Smiths and the Manchester movement would there ever have been an Oasis and the Britpop movement.

Think about the ripples of inspiration that came as a result of those bands maybe there would be no Nirvana, Green Day, Suede, Arctic Monkeys, Blur Radiohead, all of whom are acts that owe a debt to bands formed in the sticky carpeted Isles of the Lesser free trade Hall.

This gig acts as a kind of balancing point for the music scene in Manchester without it things could have been very very different today not just for the city itself but for the UK as a whole and beyond.

Want the documentary about the show? You got it! And YES people, you ARE quite welcome!

Another Country Western Song Title in Search of a Song

I Spent So Much Time Trying to Re-seal the Lettuce Bag Perfectly So Air Couldn’t Get in and It Turns Out There Were Holes in the Bag the Whole Time Anyway 

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FINALLY du Jour

A real, definitive Sex Pistols documentary may finally be upon us, and our only clue right now that it won't be the usual "look how CRAZY!! these guys were, WACKY!! " bullshit nonsense is its apparent focus on Glen Matlock, the serious, humanly relatable one who also happened to have all the musical talent at the time.

CAN'T WAIT!!!

I Cant Believe I'm Rotting for The Knicks 🤣

They lost tonight but as we move on to Game 4 let's hear it for my two all-time favorite Knicks fans!! 🕺❤️🏀🙌🤗

(Keep It Up NYC from below available soon on So What Records.)

40 Years Ago Today

Brilliant du Jour

Some brilliant insights into the Republican male psyche, to be put atop their already-loaded baggage rack of daddy issues & weird purity tests for daughters.

 

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A Truth About White People

At a high school graduation dinner last week we all went around & said what (if any) senior superlative we’d received back in our day; with everybody else having matriculated at private schools I took a bit of relish in pointing out that not only was I voted Class Clown, I was voted Class Clown for a class that was 65-70% black & you’re goddam right that makes it much, much more impressive.

Painting du Jour

Mini Cab
by Stefan Bleekrode, 2010

via paintingsoflondon

Ramones Mania

You know what everybody, let’s give a little love to the now-completely forgotten/overlooked 1988 Ramones compilation album Ramones Mania, which is how I first heard a lot of their songs back when finding their albums was next to impossible. I can't believe I still have the tape 38 years later, we wore this fucker out in BP’s car one summer going to Kings Dominion as much as possible. 🤗🕺🎸

Not My Proudest Messaging du Jour...

...here's me following up in a chat with my doctor.

Ideas. I Have Them.

I wanna do a version of Gilmore Girls in which Lorelei is hideously ugly so nobody feels the need to stand there listening to her endless verbal diarrhea rambling on & on and people throughout Stars Hollow repeatedly tell her to shut the fuck up before she even gets going; all the episodes would be about four minutes long each. 

AN XMASTIME PRAYER CARD, by Xmastime 😔🙏

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Have I Finally Found My Soul Mate?

Moi say Moi back in 2009:

I've always loved grocery shopping. The miles of food surrounding you, the colors, the choices, the piling it all into a cart, your own little world of food in a moving vehicle. There's probably something you could say here like "you can tell a lot about a person from what's in their shopping cart," but I don't give a shit about anyone else. I always liked mine.

When I was in college I started doing this thing where I would go to Harris Teeter and completely stuff the cart full of stuff. Complete shit I would drool over - all the frozen shit you're not supposed to eat, piles of biscuits, enough ground beef to make the cart sag with a groan. And then when I couldn't lay anything else on top...I would walk out. Leave. A dick thing to do, somebody had to eventually come put the shit back. I don't really know what possessed me to to it. I literally felt as if pulled by some force.

Meanwhile, just saw this at Wegmans:

 

Ah Yes...

...another fun little artsy-craftsy idea of mine that I'll never, ever actually do: the broken cutting board as a saw that ironically could have been what took it apart in the first place! (spoiler alert - it just snapped in the dishwasher; I think it was part of a whole set at Wegmans for like $9 or some shit)

But now thanks to my new BFF ChatGPT (hi ChatGPT 👋👋👋!!!) you can still enjoy looking at it as if it was real, you're welcome you very much!!

 

🔥🔥🔥🔥 TAKES WITH XMASTIME!!!!

Susanna Hoffs & Matthew Sweet do cover albums with a lot of songs that I'm glad someone's covering but their versions are just warmed-over blah versions that are, in a word, pointless.

An Open Letter to Musicians

Dear Musicians,

Can you please stop naming your album collections of demos/outtakes/alternate takes /etc with any version of "The __________Sessions", please?

I remain,

Xmastime

A Documentary I'd Like to See

Is this true? I consider myself to be a bit of a McDonald's history buff(oon) and have never heard of this; I'd easily watch 6 episodes of this shit on Netflix.

Xmastime Rocks 2026

Oh No There Is Some DEI Up in the DNI Today, by Xmastime

A Note on the President's Speech Today at the American Agriculture Roundtable in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Moi Say Moi back in 2020:

One curious thing about Trump is he seems incapable of pronouncing the word “industry” correctly.

If any reporters wanna see Trump's head pop right off his neck they should ask him on live tv why it's June 5, 2026 and he still doesn't appear to know how to pronounce "industry" correctly.