Last night, when I wrote that piece, I had no conscious knowledge that tonight was the Wolf Moon. This is why events unnerve me, you know what I'm saying? This is why events unnerve me.

| howlin' wolf : little red rooster

| yello : goldrush

I won't lie, I could jump to the top of a hill and howl for hours, crying and screaming, spitting and cursing, rolling around in the dirt nekkid

| mantronix : who is it? (uk club mix)

| anselm : official us trailer

This is the famous "Knights of Malta Keyhole" found in Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta. I love the wabi-sabi of the doors, the wear of which is a testimony to the thousands and thousands of tourists who visit every year, just for a peek through the famed keyhole.

| duet emmo : or so it seems

| solaris (1972) trailer

Both of these were submitted by one of my good friends, going on 30 years now. He is a good friend, a true friend. I call him my cultural attaché, because he regularly turns me on to a lot of high-quality art. I wish there were more like him.

| tool : reflection

| ukonpower : decompress of empty

Speechless. I wonder what this page looks like with no text? Hey, I can do that.

| atlas sound : scraping past

| a guide to self transformation : the school of life

Every human institution is a mess of contradictions and conflicting methods and complex motives and no one knows this better than Italian Catholics and, I would argue, the Romans most intimately.

| chinese man : he said

| vatican fashion show : federico fellini (roma)

In the convoluted dance of epistles, this missive, like a Dublin fog, returns whence it came. Its purpose, akin to the elusive nuances of a Joyceian epiphany, eludes comprehension. -ChatGPT, because tired.

| lil louis - i called u

| soho : hippychick

She clearly isn't a regular smoker. They don't know each other very well, this is kinda their first date and they're just hanging out in a Roma-ntic city getting acquainted. I think it will go well.

| makossa + megablast : soy come soy

| olompali: a hippie odyssey official trailer

History has taught us, and we know enough now to head off periods of collective insanity, but it takes effort. It's all fun and games until it's not. And then, oops, it's really not.

| the human league : the things that dreams are made of (original dub edit)

| talk talk : my foolish friend