And no, I don't consider nostr to be secure and I find many of the devs frankly untrustworthy so I'll go back to posting dumb memes and musical hot takes now.

Why does no one want to acknowledge this shit?

There is some bad, bad shit coming down the pipeline and no matter how many times you shut your eyes, click your heels together and tell yourself "bitcoin fixes this" it isn't going to change a damn thing. Bitcoin and nostr could be important points of resistance but there's way, WAY too much new age utopianism dragging both down at the moment. Anyone who lives in the western world currently lives in a totalitarian surveillance state beyond the tawdry imagination of Orwell and precious few bitcoiners seem willing to face the reality of the situation because their too busy counting their digital Beanie Boos and telling themselves they're smarter than the people who squandered their savings on retarded monkey JPEGs.

Every time bitcoin rallies too many people around here act like it'll never crash again and I honestly find the whole discussion around the subject maddening, particularly since it's all largely theoretical given that there are still no signs of mass adoption. To the bulk of social media maxis it's just a get-rich-quick scheme and frankly those people are no better than the teenage YouTubers pumping shitcoins.

Yeah, this is retarded, but quite frankly it's no dumber than those Bitcoiners who insist that precious metals are suddenly "irrelevant" now that people have fucking smartphones.

RIP Geordie Walker, one of the most inventive guitarists of the post-punk era. One of my most cherished concert memories is the fear of being brained by a mic stand he was threatening to hurl at heckler standing behind me when I saw them at Roadburn in Holland in 2012.

This live album from 1974 is too often overlooked in favour 1973's Space Ritual (greatest live album of all time imho) but the recording quality is better and it features hidden gems like this monster which was never recorded in the studio and only ever appeared on the b-side to the Psychedelic Warlords single.

Get back to work

I'm so glad The Brian Jonestown Massacre were able to keep their shit together for the Adelaide show. Ryan and Anton did have a brief shoving match and the situation was pretty damn tense, but at least they got through the set.

Cool garage noise project featuring Maso Yamazaki (aka Masonna) on vocals.

The original recording from before Roky joined The 13th Floor Elevators.

Music critics are forever tracing the origins of punk to deeper strata in rock history and at some point they're going to have to concede that its origins lie in gospel, but THAT'S a whole other story. If there's one band which can lay claim to the term "proto-punk" it's The Monks with their sardonic lyrics, squalls of feedback and couldn't-give-a-fuck attitude. It's surprising these American GIs stationed in Germany weren't court-martialed for some of their lyrical content, and yes, that's a goddamn banjo keeping time there in the background.

First time I saw a picture of Javier Milei I thought he was wearing one of Cyril Jordan's wigs.

In honour of Milei taking Argentina, I will be posting nothing but garage rock for the next 24 hours.