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no. 7 on the chump list majordomo at the tonearm sprinkled liberally with amorous intrigues

Aida, a Siamese cat, sits in profile gazing to the side as the sun sets low over a calm lake behind her, a palm trunk and wildflower garden framing the golden water.
Letterboxd logo except it's Lettárboxd
NME headline: 41 per cent of people in the UK haven't listened to a full album in a year, poll shows
Headline: Phil Collins: “I’m assuming Noel Gallagher doesn’t really think I’m the antichrist!”
A still lake at sunset reflects a band of orange sky, tree-lined far shore in silhouette; lily pads and marshy grass fill the foreground under soft gray clouds.
A cast metal sculpture by Naotaka Hiro: a fragmented human torso, head, and outstretched hand lie flat on a white pedestal, surfaces rough and unfinished where the body dissolves.
Digital painting by Eliza Douglas: a green, cat-eyed creature's face emerges from smoky, rust-toned abstraction, bared teeth lower right, a white glowing shape above like a halo.
White cooler with a bilingual sign taped on, "DELIVERY PEOPLE: TAKE A DRINK!" / "LOS REPARTIDORES: SE TOMEN ALGO!", set on a yellow rattan stool on a brick porch.
A crowd gathers in front of a vibrant building-sized mural reading "Sun Ra Arkestra," depicting musicians in ornate dress playing saxophone, flanked by cosmic and reptilian imagery. A live band performs below.
Headline: Charli XCX teases collaboration on upcoming album; says you “won’t be able to guess” who it is
headline: Flag-waving nostalgia, sibling tragedy and a cartoon kangaroo: this Kinks album was snubbed for five decades. Then the world realised it was a prog masterpiece
screenshot article text: material because of the business constraints. "Most artists don't talk about political issues, because it's not encouraged by the system at all... if you get on a Spotify playlist and if you talk about political stuff-and you're not Springstein-it's kind of hard. Same thing with You Tube, same thing with Instagram, same thing with TikTok. It's impossible to get traction
Headline: The Weeknd has sold 3m tickets and grossed $40m in 2026 so far along with a photo of him, arms outstretch, a flame behind his head, which reminds me of something …
Headline: Alice Cooper thnaks man who found his lost credit card with a signed copy of his latest album
Large abstract canvas dominated by yellow, with a deep red horizontal band dividing a yellow upper field from a warm orange lower field. A thin white line traces through the red band. — Mark Rothko: No. 5 / No. 22, 1950 - Bright open weather — the yellow field carries the same radiant hour.
The Opsroom of Project Cybersyn: seven white fiberglass chairs with orange cushions arranged in a circle, flanked by wood-paneled walls bearing colored data displays and early computer screens.
Installation view of Haegue Yang's *Star-Crossed Rendezvous* at LA MOCA: dozens of Venetian-blind cubes suspended from zigzag neon ceiling fixtures, cascading toward the floor. A lone figure stands alongside.
New York Times headline: Huge American Flag Flies Into Power Lines, Knocking out Power for Thousands
Wide rice noodles stir-fried in a dark, glossy sauce with cubed tofu, broccoli florets, and collard ribbons, filling a large black wok.
Michael Donaldson speaks animatedly on camera, seated outdoors in a patterned red shirt and black glasses, framed by camera equipment and a softbox, with a lakeside garden behind him.
Gallery installation view: a small monitor mounted on a rough plaster wall displays a close-up of a human eye. Across the room, two barndoor film lights and a camera on tripods face the wall. Dora Budor, Jana Euler, Jasper Marsalis, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Nina Porter, Margaret Raspé, Davide Stucchi I Ciclopi (Eye, Camera, Myth) INCURVA, Trapani April 2 – June 28, 2026 Curated by Saim Demircan
Headline: Rico Nasty Says Dinosaurs Never Existed
I’m making a silly-scared face and so is Caroline because we’re standing next to the decaying skeleton of Norman Bates’s mother
Brion Gysin, Ensemble 2 from 8 Unit (1961) Courtesy Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. Abstract painting with a warm amber-orange ground overlaid with a blue crosshatch grid. Loose yellow-green gestural marks in repeating quasi-calligraphic forms scatter across the entire surface.
Marcel Duchamp Readymade Rack hanging and casting shadows against a white wall
screengrabbed text: On Tuesday (May 19), Radio Caroline - which services the Midlands and South England - interrupted 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up' to falsely announce that King Charles III had died. The declaration was followed by a recording of 'God Save The King', along with a 15 minute period of silence. The hosts reportedly apologised upon arriving back on air.
The stage getting set up for Belle & Sebastian in Miami. We’re third row center.
Caroline with a hat grinning outrageously and wearing fake diamond speckled sunglasses with word FAME across them — being adorable, of course
a beautiful white bad ass kitty cat
Wilted collard greens and kidney beans in a spiced tomato-based skillet, with chunks of golden tofu visible at the edges. A wooden spatula rests against the pan.
Headline: What To Expect From Joe Satriani and Steve Vai's Album
A humanoid robot in red and white Buddhist monk robes stands with hands pressed together in prayer amid a row of human monks bowing, before a glowing pink lotus sculpture.
The Mohammed VI Tower — 250 meters of quietly rocket-shaped ambition rising from the banks of the Bou Regreg river, which is now the tallest building in Morocco and the third tallest on the African continent. The building tapers deliberately upward from a broad podium base, grounded and coiled at once. Its north facade looks out toward the Bou Regreg and the ancient Hassan Tower minaret, a 12th-century landmark that has watched this city for 800 years.
Headline: Sing Explains Why His Kids Musit "Make Their Own Way" and Not Live Off His Money
Mdou Moctar at The Social, Orlando
via one of my buddies over on Mastodon (where my handle is @qburns@mas.to): Got me a movie, I want you to know Slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know It's a dead cow's eye, I want you to know
A porcelain praying doll in a white satin dress and gold cross necklace, displayed in a floral-bordered box at a thrift store. It's also creepy as fuck.
moments before the sun rises at dawn across a calm lake as golden streaks peek through the clouds on the horizon
THE BISHOP from Monty Python's Flying Circus
a glorious golden sunrise over a calm morning lake — two ducks, barely visible, swim by
dawn breaks over the lake — calm water, vegetation floats, orange and blues on the horizon, sputters of clouds and occasional airplane trail
Brion Gysin & William S. Burroughs, Dreamachine-gazing, 1979 | © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn ; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo: ONUK
A still from the movie Jaws. Brody tells Quint: "You're gonna need a bigger doomsday clock."
Email subject line: Manchester's rising indie-rock trio The Falls return with new single 'Open Fire'
it's the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme but I've magically yet awkwardly inserted Klaus Kinski's head from Aguirre, the Wrath of God
it's the Black Flag bars logo but instead it says Béla Tarr
Search interface showing "airtight ja" in field with autocomplete suggestions including "airtight jar," containers with lids, and jars for weed.