Al Murb

almurb.bandcamp.com/album/brd-sht BRD SHT is available now. Favorite album I’ve ever made. RIYL: ‘90s Drag City, ‘70s car chase soundtrack, 2010s basement with leaky water heater, bumper music for ESPN 2 when they had the chicken scratch logo, Modest Mouse

Robert Pollard has written more songs than all the people actually included on the New York Times list of greatest living songwriters combined.

@brofromanother GREENER GRASS (2019)

So far thinking: SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, CANDY, LAND WITHOUT BREAD, CREMATOR, MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, DAISIES, 4TH MAN, UHF, SHAOLIN SOCCER, FOUR LIONS, I AM NOT A WITCH, PEOPLE’S JOKER plus plenty of excerpts…

Working on long list for satire-movie course but it could always get longer... thoughts?

Goodbye to Bob Weir. I’m guessing many Dead fans are like I was, where you pay much more attention to Jerry first. But Weir, esp early on, was one of the weirdest and most interesting rhythm guitar players ever, and a great songwriter.

Spent today writing a bit about Rob Reiner, out eventually; the best tribute I can think of, in the meantime, lies here, from one ball knower to another youtube.com/watch?v=pCRjJx…

@MagicJohnson Don’t you own movie theaters?

Kaleb was quietly one of the best music writers of his generation. His blurbs on X and The Minutemen from this 110 Best LA Albums list we did were basically perfect. He deserved so much more from this industry than he received. What a terrible loss. thelandmag.com/110-greatest-l…

@GetAlternative Fuck that album is almost 10 years old

She played rock guitar. She hated herself, also.

The most electric phone acting ever committed to film. Redford was probably underestimated because of his looks, but he was a goddamn movie star. What a giant, what a loss.

@theneedledrop LIQUID MIKE

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY TODAY!!! what are we listening to????

Shits live on the web liquidmike.bandcamp.com/album/hell-is-…

@SeanFennessey @TheBigPic I am just so hyped on all the Altman stuff you are involved with upcoming. Fav director of all time and doesn’t get talked about nearly enough IMO. Thank you for championing

September on @TheBigPic: 9/1 25 for '25 - No. 13 9/3 Telluride, Venice + 10 Most Anticipated Fall Films 9/5 HIGHEST 2 LOWEST + CAUGHT STEALING 9/9 The Robert Altman Hall of Fame 9/12 The PTA Movie Character Draft 9/15 TIFF + Everything We Missed in August 9/17 25 for '25 - No. 12 9/19 A Physical Media Extravaganza 9/22 HIM + A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY 9/24 25 for '25 - No. 11 9/26 ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 9/29 A ONE BATTLE Mailbag

Stephen Malkmus performing Spit on a Stranger at La Fontaine de Belleville (Paris, 2019)

would hate to be a winged creature flying into this room

No thats Slint

Nathan Fielder learned how to fly a 737 only to be ignored by the Emmys, which i am feeling normal about

Happy birthday to Abbas Kiarostami, the man who taught me living is an art.

“AT&T” out now everywhere. Vinyl Pre orders on bigcartel. youtu.be/JWgf-cZJtyI?si…

RIP Brian Wilson. Words fail me. One of the greatest artists of my lifetime in any medium. In terms of rock songwriting, he's on the extremely shortlist of all-time greats. Ditto production. So many beautiful songs but this one kills me the most. youtube.com/watch?v=gikGLz…

A Richard Linklater movie set in Virginia in the mid 80s, a college comedy based on the friendship of Stephen Malkmus, David Berman and Bob Nastanovich.