In the early 1980s, the Boston radio station WGBH commissioned the 28-year-old choreographer Marta Renzi to make a half-hour PBS special. The result was her first film, YOU LITTLE WILD HEART (1981), soundtracked non-stop by Bruce Springsteen songs. It’s so good. Here’s a clip.

lot of replies to this w fake links, my shop is the first reply posted by op 🫶🏼

Everybody please watch the tv show Bad Monkey. Even if you don’t like it, play it in the background because I’ll cry if it’s cancelled. I need a lowkey and fun USA Network type show in my life. Please support me in this.

How about instead of a labor day sale, I conversely ask you to consider buying something from me at normal everyday price? ie whoops I took on too many shows and can’t get a job until November (by no means a sob story, purely a circumstantial suggestion) — techniquestreet.com

1. On this Labor Day, a reminder that FTC has issued a rule banning noncompetes. Noncompetes trap millions of workers, blocking them from taking better jobs or starting their own business. Over 25,000 Americans commented on our proposal. Here are some of their stories:

Gross as this entire enterprise is, I’m not going to make fun of a bunch of kids. In fact, if the libertarians get their own Val Kilmer, we may be in trouble.

Shockingly, my review of the new Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds was not quoted in today’s PR blast for the album.

New on Intervenxions— Revisiting the Community Las Madrinas Built in Los Sures 40 years ago, the ‘Los Sures’ doc premiered. Here, we revisit the pillars of this Brooklyn community. By Damaly Gonzalez (DamalyWrites) latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/…

the latest edition of the Midwest Road Trip Special is a "memorable" visit to the cursed river towns of Southern IL — ride with me on this journey down the Mississippi to maybe the creepiest place I've ever been. (link in bio)

Bad Monkey is so good everyone

tbc I was turned away from this meeting it’s not just guideline denoting a special interest meeting I’m OK I’ve got five years I know it is the antithesis of what we stand for it’s just dangerous to be turning people down who could be in desperate need of a meeting

I wrote about fictional pop music for the NYT Magazine, featuring Trap, corporate mind control, the 1975, and my defense of Vox Lux

Israel’s military assault in the occupied West Bank has entered its second week, while Gaza continues to grapple with infectious diseases as attacks intensify. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/u3hkal

This again but switching out “seeing as wild god came out today….” with “seeing as nearly every other review is just rewriting the album promo material…” 😀

Several observers also said the complicity of many Western nations in Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza has bolstered the Taliban's argument that the West is in no position to call out others right now #Afghanistan thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/…

Recent Bandcamp purchases (if you’re looking for recommendations… and don’t mind some potentially conflicting slash medium levels of political dodginess… 😀)

Greaser Phase album is pictured here. Thanks Zach! Greaser Phase is not here on (not) twitter, however you can find us on Bandcamp (and insta) 💿

Please inscribe in its entirety, in gothic lettering, this part of the Wikipedia page for the film, The 13th Floor (1999), on the urn where you keep my ashes.