Niklas's thoughts

I'm reading Zygmunt Bauman's This Is Not A Diary, a collection of dated entries in a book: a chronology, more like, than a diary.

I was knocked out by how greatly this song, by Sheffield wonder Richard Hawley, was used at the start of the Banksy documentary named Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Fontaines DC - 'Dopamine Chamber' I've waited for the new Fontaines DC album.

The cover of Legs McNeil's Resident Punk.

Ahmed Berhan, TV-show host.

I dig Steve Albini.

Miss Clairon in Medea by Charles-André van Loo (1705–1765), 1760.

From Kapoor, Sayash, and Arvind Narayanan.

The album cover of The Dark.

A still image from Francois Ozon's film The Stranger.

The album cover of Danger Mouse's The Grey Album.

The album cover of The Beatles' Rubber Soul.

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.

The Independent Music Report 2026 is out.

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Alva Noto were, and are, respectively, two very respectable and laudable artists.

The image shows an Amazon Kindle e-reader with a cover.

By Fronteiras do Pensamento - Carlo Rovelli no Fronteiras do Pensamento São Paulo 2017, CC BY-SA 2.0, Link The following quotes are from the episode named Carlo Rovelli: complexity and value, from the radio show 'Start the Week'.

Damo Suzuki.

Phill Brown is an audio engineer. 15 years ago he had an autobiography published: Are We Still Rolling?

Death From Above 1979 have released 'Private Lives', the first single from their newly-unveiled next album, which bears the same name as the single.

This album is now out.

Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon is a blissed-out ambient masterpiece.

Can - 'Live in Arles 1975' Can were from other worlds than ours.

Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, what wondrous people.

Oasis' debut album, Definitely Maybe, partly sounds like it was recorded like a demo; this perhaps especially goes for the song 'Cigarettes and Alcohol', but there's something extra to say about how 'Fade Away' breaks up every time the bass and drums hit a

The following quotes are from the episode named The Future Starts with Us from the radio show 'Start the Week'.

Once upon a time, there was a band named Suede.

I'm currently reading End Times Fascism.

Since my last post about Ed Sheeran and morality, things have happened.

The cover of the Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds' album 'Ghosteen'.

The top image is a quote from Ed Sheeran's response to Macklemore's post on Instagram.

Macklemore, left.

A collection of compositions for films by Andrei Tarkovsky has just dropped: Tarkovsky.

Here are albums that I'm keen on listening to.

To quote Bruce Schneier about himself, he is 'a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people.'

Ian McKellen is a vampire, obviously.

My phone rang.

Yesterday I wrote about Boox Picco, a new small e-reader that's probably going to be released in November 2026.

This is a simple yet sophisticated album.

Detail from Rita El Khoury's article about Boox Picco for Android Police.

Thomas Mann.

It's Friday, so a lot of new music is released today.

Three years ago, on the dot, I saw Swedish synth-duo Kite live at Dalhalla.