MDonaldson →'s Avatar

MDonaldson →

@8sided.blog

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

352
Followers
412
Following
1,966
Posts
28.08.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by MDonaldson → @8sided.blog

I’m glad to hear that Dave Grohl has a soon famous daughter who can take up the mantle when he gets too old to be a talking head on every music documentary ever made

11.03.2026 19:20 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

a day late, but I’ll still consider this a birthday present

11.03.2026 18:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
The Paleo-Futuristic Cabaret of Lost Noises Office Holly Tavel, Sarah Morrison, and Beatriz Ortiz-Belt discuss 'cloud, castle, lake', their improvisational rehearsal process, and why music that creates a scene beats music that creates a feeling.

pleased to have The Tonearm's intrepid Steven Garnett shine the light on some much worthy Orlando talent, especially this trio consisting of those who have been in the off-kilter trenches for years and years — def check out the quiet radness of Lost Noises Office →

11.03.2026 15:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a screenshot of a Bluesky post: 

CNBC• @cnbc.com • 1h 

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five- word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror, says public speaking expert When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public ...

a screenshot of a Bluesky post: CNBC• @cnbc.com • 1h To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five- word response. Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror, says public speaking expert When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public ...

"'You Made Me Realise' midsection"

10.03.2026 17:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

that explains the time I heard a baby go DAL-DAL-DAL-DAL-DAL!

10.03.2026 17:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Singles and Sessions 1979-81, by Delta 5 19 track album

getting ready to publish an article on The Raincoats which sent me happily revisiting Delta 5 today →

10.03.2026 15:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

post your favorite Lord of the Rings character, wrong answers only

10.03.2026 02:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I think the WH troglodytes get their jollies when Radiohead tells them to “fuck off” on Instagram but probably wouldn’t be as chuffed if the band then publicly auctioned off a signed guitar and gave all the money to an immigrant legal defense fund — just sayin’

10.03.2026 02:14 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

would greatly dig it if when a prominent artist’s song appears in some evil WH propaganda video instead of just angrily posting about it the artist also maybe auctions off a guitar or does a charity show or maybe gives a slice of their millions to an organization fighting the evil thing in the video

10.03.2026 02:14 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

It's just one story, one illustration of all the terrible things that have happened. It's been a week since the very great noise/drone artist Siavash Amini posted this, from where he lives Tehran. There has been no update since. It could be for any number of reasons. We just don't know.

09.03.2026 21:15 👍 157 🔁 63 💬 4 📌 1

are you implying he's *my* side effect? ✨🤯✨

09.03.2026 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

should I report this as a potential side effect

09.03.2026 15:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

under observation after taking a test COVID vaccine and there’s a guy sitting next to me talking about how bigfoot is a multi-dimensional alien

09.03.2026 15:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

me whispering to my wife: that’s the white swan
me whispering to my wife a bit later: that’s the black swan
me whispering to my wife after several more minutes: that’s the white swan again

09.03.2026 02:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

going to the ballet tonight, which will finally stick it good to my arch rival, Timothée Chalamet

08.03.2026 20:48 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
Spring Forward, Breakdance This week: Loula Yorke, Erik Hall, Rachel Beetz, Fågelle, Aukai, and much more. Plus captivating recommendations out the ying-yang.

a weekly newsletter, you say? Talk Of The Tonearm? a new interview with experimental flutist Rachel Beetz? and also there's Loula Yorke, Erik Hall, Fågelle, Aukai, etc? and … wait for it … oodles of recommendations? 🤯

tell me more → www.thetonearm.com/spring-forwa...

08.03.2026 18:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
Of The Earth, by Shabaka 12 track album

today's 'putting the email newsletter together' soundtrack → shabaka.bandcamp.com/album/of-the...

08.03.2026 15:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

fake rock fact: Van Halen were commissioned to write and record the theme song for the TV show Manimal. unfortunately, their song was rejected, but, needing material for their next album, they made lemonade out of lemons by changing the lyrics. and that's the story of how we got "Panama".

08.03.2026 13:27 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Bare branches silhouetted against hazy sun with structure visible through fog, black and white atmospheric scene.

Bare branches silhouetted against hazy sun with structure visible through fog, black and white atmospheric scene.

a strange bit of morning fog accompanied by a freshly cobwebbed shrub and it appears I've woken up in a haunted cove

08.03.2026 12:45 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
07.03.2026 02:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Brucewayne Batman

06.03.2026 00:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

my mom’s brother was my dad’s college roommate. the brother borrowed my dad’s pride and joy, his Porsche (it was the mid-60s) without my dad knowing and totaled it. obviously that resulted in a falling out, but he still married the sister.

05.03.2026 13:51 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I had a studio engineer friend who, whenever hearing something like that on a mix, would adorably say, “sounds like someone got happy on the pan”

04.03.2026 23:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Seefeel - Ever No Way (Official Video)
Seefeel - Ever No Way (Official Video) YouTube video by Seefeel
04.03.2026 22:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
The Feelies celebrating 50th anniversary with 2 NJ shows (only 2026 dates) Night 1 has them playing ’The Good Earth’ in full, and Night 2 has them playing ’Crazy Rhythms,’ both with lots of other classics.

I really shouldn't go to this but I will probably end up going to this →

04.03.2026 18:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
10 Hours Ambient Drone - The Eccy road Co-op freezer Symphony (Sheffield, UK)
10 Hours Ambient Drone - The Eccy road Co-op freezer Symphony (Sheffield, UK) 10 Hours of Looped Sweet TonesField recording sourced from a @theGuardian video: the oddly beautiful, symphonic resonance of freezer units at the Eccy Road C...

chill

02.03.2026 18:47 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
a black-and-white photo from the '60s by Ralph Eugene Meatyard — a small child with a spooky old man mask covering his head sits and holds a female doll in his hands, outside in a stone enclosure.

a black-and-white photo from the '60s by Ralph Eugene Meatyard — a small child with a spooky old man mask covering his head sits and holds a female doll in his hands, outside in a stone enclosure.

❝ In his weirdest and best-known images, Meatyard staged fantastical scenarios in wooded areas or inside abandoned old houses, featuring his wife, children and friends wearing macabre masks and surrounded by dismembered dolls and other props. → undermainarts.org/meatyard

02.03.2026 13:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

gotta say if you have the psychic need to detach your brain from the state of the world for a couple of hours that new Elvis movie will really do the trick

02.03.2026 02:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Preview
The Honesty of Instruments Now playing: Ratboys, Patrick Smith, Erik Hall, Winged Wheel, Ian Wellman, and so much more.

a handy recap of our jam-packed week on The Tonearm (Winged Wheel! Ratboys! Marija Kovačević! Lala Lala!) plus a newsletter-exclusive interview with field-recording artist + musician Ian Wellman, discussing the devastating concept behind his extraordinary album, Particulary Dangerous Situation

01.03.2026 18:35 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Preview
The Pac-Man Grave Michael "Pac-Man" Leroy Luther loved playing Pac-Man as a young man. He did it so much that, after his death in 2007, his family commissioned a gravestone with images from the classic arcade game. It stands atop his final resting place in Thetford Township Cemetery outside of Clio, Michigan.Pac-Man lived a full life, having served 10 years in the US Air Force and then working for General Motors. He was married and had three children at the time of his passing.You can view other photos of the grave taken ...

❝ Michael "Pac-Man" Leroy Luther loved playing Pac-Man as a young man. He did it so much that, after his death in 2007, his family commissioned a gravestone with images from the classic arcade game. →

01.03.2026 14:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0