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Recommendations from December 1, 2025, to February 28, 2026

Selected albums:

• Mothership Connection [1975] by Parliament
• Racing Mount Pleasant [2025] by Racing Mount Pleasant
• Selected Ambient Works 85-92 [1992] by Aphex Twin
• System [2025] by Prewn
• West End Girl [2025] by Lily Allen

Selected singles:

• Avalon [2025] by Sam and Louise Sullivan
• Bog Body [2025] by Viagra Boys
• Emily [2025] by Racing Mount Pleasant
• Forgot [2025] by Prewn
• Nonmonogamummy [2025] by Lily Allen
• Unfunky UFO [1975] by Parliament
• Xtal [1992] by Aphex Twin

Selected things read:

• Many Differences between Liberals and Conservatives May Boil Down to One Belief [2023] by Jer Clifton
• Scientists Identify Five Distinct Eras of Human Brain Development [2025] by Claire Cameron
• The Empress of Salt and Fortune [2020] by Nghi Vo
• The Goon Squad [2025] by Daniel Kolitz
• The Militia and the Mole [2025] by Joshuan Kaplan
• Uprooted [2016] by Naomi Novik
• Worm [2013] by Wildbow

Selected things watched:

• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple [2025] directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland
• Adolesence [2025] created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, and directed by Philip Barantini
• Best in Show [2000] co-written by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy and directed by Guest
• Bugonia [2025] directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy
• Coen Brothers Films. Watched final 4 (of 18) Coen Brothers movies are all are recommended.
• Eddington [2025] written and directed by Ari Aster
• Glengarry Glen Ross [1992] directed by James Foley and written by David Mamet
• John Candy: I Like Me [2025] directed by Colin Hanks
• Megadoc [2025] directed by Mike Figgis
• Wake Up Dead Man [2025] written and directed by Rian Johnson

Selected Video Games Played:

• Brotato [2023]
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 [2025]
• Megabonk [2025]

Features:

• Birds eventually

Postremo:

“The abbey at Singing Hills would say that if a record cannot be perfect, it should at least be present. Better for it to exist than for it to be perfect and only in your mind.” – The Empress of Salt and Fortune [2020]