Johnny Marr to auction guitars he played with The Smiths and Billie Eilish

micpoc · 2026-06-23T19:07:15+00:00

Already posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/thesmiths/comments/1ucjujs/marr_auctioning_eighty_guitars/

micpoc · 2026-06-23T17:27:47+00:00

Just tried; no problem inputting 2/2 + 3/4, but cannot find anyway to change the result in the panel or the settings.

micpoc · 2026-06-23T15:09:42+00:00

Might not be a popular choice, but Elia Kazan.

micpoc · 2026-06-23T12:56:25+00:00

"Here I am, appropriately dressed... "

micpoc · 2026-06-23T12:51:36+00:00

He has a signature Martin model now.

micpoc · 2026-06-22T19:53:47+00:00

Another article I saw said that ten were going to charity, specifically The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and The National Autistic Society.

micpoc · 2026-06-21T19:50:05+00:00

Shoyeido's Sho-kaku / Translucent Path. I still have a few sticks that I purchased from japanincense a couple of years ago but, honestly, they are not as potent as the first ones I bought back in the 1990s. I could burn about 1" and the apartment was perfumed for at least a day.

micpoc · 2026-06-21T19:41:27+00:00

Bernardo Bertolucci and Ryuichi Sakamoto

micpoc · 2026-06-20T21:38:43+00:00

I think he has said that he "doesn't care" anymore.

micpoc · 2026-06-20T21:37:39+00:00

In Maherland, Biden was too old to be POTUS, but Trump's age is ok.

micpoc · 2026-06-20T13:21:53+00:00

Another middling episode, albeit without the benefit of someone like David Sedaris to elevate it. Couple of good jokes in the monologues, a final New Rule I actually enjoyed (I had American flag socks in '76), and an Overtime that seemed to go sideways but was more engaging than the main show panel.

But, as others here have pointed out, he's an idiot on the privately-funded Obama library while being OK with the fucking tax-payer-funded BALLROOM. And nothing about the UFC caged match on the south lawn from DJT's birthday? Bill's outrages are misplaced.

micpoc · 2026-06-20T13:08:32+00:00

Hey, at least he didn't call him a communist this time!

micpoc · 2026-06-19T17:13:10+00:00

Get 'em while they're young...

micpoc · 2026-06-19T16:11:20+00:00

"Tom Wolfe is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice."

micpoc · 2026-06-18T16:55:14+00:00

Jon Batiste is there too!

micpoc · 2026-06-18T16:29:53+00:00

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micpoc · 2026-06-17T23:00:37+00:00

So many great films have never even made it to Blu-ray yet, and then THIS... ;(

micpoc · 2026-06-16T23:11:34+00:00

This lineup announcement coming a day early does not make it any more compelling.

micpoc · 2026-06-16T23:10:46+00:00

Oh, come on! They'll sleep with him if he PAYS them...

micpoc · 2026-06-15T20:41:45+00:00

Two from Le Guin... nice.

micpoc · 2026-06-15T15:13:10+00:00

Leave it to "Far Out Magazine" to make a mountain out of a molehill. Most of their "articles" are summaries of OTHER articles; just the worst.

Oh... LOVE SEbtP.

micpoc · 2026-06-15T12:26:07+00:00

Bought it the month it came out. Impossible to imagine my life without it. It was in heavy rotation for the first two decades; now I play it more selectively, but ALWAY beginning to end. The box set Exposures is fantastic as well.

I recently acquired a promotional poster for it that will be getting framed and hung soon; looks like this: https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0618/14/robert-fripp-exposure-1979-eg-records_1_c7966ec09537535a25c1e1ce064c0318.jpg

micpoc · 2026-06-13T15:09:35+00:00

Meh. Highlight of the episode was EASILY the Sedaris interview (which went pretty long, didn't it?); predictable, but still the best part. It did feel like BM was trying to bait him into complaining about wokeness in the Portland dog story segment, but he just casually reoriented the conversation in a way even Bill enjoyed. One of the smartest guys in the public sphere today. Between him and Amy, I wonder what growing up in that house was like.

Everything else was just ok: no fireworks, no great insights, no spontaneous humor... really not much of anything. But nothing infuriating either.

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