Jason Spiro

@davidclowery He was referred to years ago by journalist Ira Kaplan as “sports blogger Gerard Cosloy”, and he actively discusses sports on radio and in ‘print’. But what do I know? I liked his label a lot, and the bands therein. He appeared to have if not endorse a sense of humor. Best, all

Always arguing in bad faith.

Meanwhile in Taylor, Texas…

@Abouterf197543 You appear emotionally and mentally disturbed, take responsibility for your bad behavior. Please take cues off the unbothered people around you, the problem is you. Thank you.

This happened at Colchester train station. The male member of staff can’t tell the sex of other humans!

@MarindaVannoy1 Elon Musk is a foreigner, a domestic terrorist, and a former unelected representative. You’re a hypocrite.

I will never understand why so many people voted for him.

@cdcarm Boxy and green, nice

I tried. My dad doesn’t like my taste in cars.

@davidclowery @cstbtweet Pitch a tent vs Matador, it’s a Cagematch Twitter has some life in it yet

Dumbass, We were never trying to challenge the "underlying systems" in Cracker. By 1992 punk rock was dead, and most of fanzines were dominated by pretentious rich kids posing as stalinists. It was so fucking boring we decided to just play rock. (Also I believe both the Box O Laffs cassette and CVB demos were favorably reviewed by MRR. I also distributed hard copies of MRR in Santa Cruz).

dude’s band - the unfortunately named “Cracker”, really did a bang up job of “challenging underlying systems” during their turgid, radio plugger-assisted run. please don’t ask him to name 3 writers for MRR

@davidclowery PS I wore the seersucker all day Thursday. It was a hot day, in an airy suit that got some nice compliments.

@davidclowery The heat is on here in nyc, time for the seersucker

Class presentations for my Public Policy class! #OOTD Got this suit at Stein-mart a while back. Doesn’t even have a brand name on the tag. It was cheap. I only have black bow tie, so next best option was a school tie (not my school colors). The Real Real for the canvas slip ons.

@JamesUrbaniak @AlsikkanTV The off camera unscripted “Jesus” from Hank Azaria. Anyway this is one of my favorite and oft quoted lines.

@AlsikkanTV Another great thing is that on paper, the line "Because she's got a great ass and you've got your head all the way up it" is a Jerry Orbach Law & Order-style side-of-the-mouth wisecrack, a throwaway, but Pacino makes 10 meals out of it.

my favorite thing about this moment is that you can see pacino’s lips about to say BIG ass but his instincts kick in knowing GREAT ass will be better and he was right and that’s why he’s al pacino

@cdcarm @davidclowery As long as there is Tascam Portastudio one wagers he cannot

@davidclowery please never retire

Imagine writers at 80s zines like Maximum Rock-n-roll, Flipside, Forced Exposure, or Bucketfull of Brains defending radio pay‑to‑play. That would have been absurd, because those publications defined themselves against exactly that sort of industry corruption. Today’s so‑called ‘indie’ rock culture, by contrast, rarely challenges the underlying systems at all. Its rebellion is mostly cosmetic: gross, nihilistic gestures rather than any real structural opposition. It’s a degraded form of counterculture: it wears the costume of resistance while living in a mutually beneficial relationship with the same institutions it pretends to resist. I say this as a 65 year old semi retired indie rocker who is much more interested in plain old regular culture rather than counterculture. I just think it's really funny what has happened.

@JamesUrbaniak It was by all accounts a horrible experience as well, so all things being equal… I’d still welcome the EMP.

Open the schools of rock

@davidclowery I have to admit as an almost 53 year old who perhaps too optimistically expects some spins of my recorded music that I’m interested in plain old record royalties. Plain old culture is also too, though, my only respite now.

@cdcarm @davidclowery Well I had a third album EP on vinyl and OBRS on cassette, so maybe, but it put me at a disadvantage. It took me a while truly to get into Cracker. Like maybe 12-15 years after you. Close-mindedness ain’t cool! Look no further than this Rolling Stone wanker as evidence of that.

@Spirometer @davidclowery You’re 4:40 older than me. And obviously cooler: I discovered DL through Cracker radio play/MTV, so 1992-93

I find it hilarious that about once a week I can retweet an Eric Alper tweet with “probably me” and it’s at least mildly funny.

@cdcarm @davidclowery 5:40 am

@Spirometer @davidclowery What time were you born?

@cdcarm @davidclowery I’ve known this since 1987-88 or thereabouts. Is that 38 years? We’re both the exact same age, so I figure this number is in the ballpark for you.

@davidclowery (those who know of you know, but more people should know of you.)

@miffythegamer “Nice one mate” as people sometimes say over there

Not sure about the new Laurence Fox, Dan Wootton, and Julia Hartley-Brewer lineup on GB News.

Yes, it's me! Haven't tweeted in a while... I've made a programme with my chum Sam West. C5 went with the rather prosaic 'Sam & Ade Go Birding' (fair enough, we do that). Though I wanted to call it 'Larking About' (which we mostly do). Tuesday 8pm C5. x.com/i/status/20425…

@Jo_Caulfield You can’t be expected to have rented from a Blockbuster. Any video tape rental place should suffice.

Someone posted this and said “I’ll bet nobody has done all 20” … a quick glance and I thought Easy! Turns out I was wrong. I’ve done 19.

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@davidclowery @BizballMaury I have always struggled with satisfactory intonation and now you have me wondering.

@BizballMaury Yeah, i've never recorded any records.

(Narrator) “It, in fact, changes absolutely nothing with your tone and locks the string in place.”