Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 11hInterconnected manga short stories that range from bittersweet to downright sad. A good library sale score from a number of years back. I don't think I realized this was volume 2 when I picked it up — I was just excited to find it — but it worked mostly okay starting halfway through. #JustRead 100
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I decided that this would be the year I read Moby Dick. It's a lot! — digressive, profound, funny, obsessive, a feast of language. Sometimes difficult to penetrate, but always absorbing. #JustRead 320
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Great post-punk bill last night starting with: Casual Hex (again)! 130
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A new King-Cat always jumps to the top of the reading pile. Another slab of wonderfulness from @johnporcellino.bsky.social. #JustRead 041
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I was just reminded that I've had my songs up on Bandcamp for 10 years now, jeez Louise. Of course, the recordings themselves are from ~30 years ago. apartland.bandcamp.com/album/the-ti... For a while I've been considering making another "album" of my more experimental/noise stuff. Maybe someday.apartland.bandcamp.comThe Time of Year: Selected Songs 1994-1999, by Apartland19 track album 120
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I got a film negative scanner and I've started scanning my many hundreds of photos from the '90s. Mostly concert photos, which I'm still figuring out how to present, but here's the first and hopefully not last cat pic I've come across. Ethel, 1995: 190
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Perennial are really keeping the dream alive in the PNW. 040
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Highlights of the Northern Sky Festival held at Oyster Bay Farm outside of Olympia today — The Owl and the Pussycat! 150
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Is it bad that the more Murderbot gets in touch with its emotions the more I relate to it? System Collapse has MB using its obsession with TV in a creative way that I appreciated; Platform Decay starts with a teamup with MB's new "friend" that I wish lasted longer. #JustRead 130
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026As someone interested in learning more about the workings of my own brain, I found this pop-sci book about cognitive neuroscience to be a little bit disappointing. Some interesting tidbits, but a lot of it just seemed obvious to me. #JustRead 021
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I haven't posted anything else about Dromfest yet, but it included a screening of this film on Sunday morning. #JustWatched 030
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A terraformed planet is seeded with a viral intelligence by a megalomaniacal scientist, but it infects the wrong species. Meanwhile, another megalomaniac leads the remainder of humanity to colonize the planet. That's the setup for this era-spanning novel. Not recommended for arachnophobes. #JustRead 030
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I needed to purge a lot of files to free up some storage space on my phone, and I must have deleted about 300 Simpsons memes 330
Reposted by Mike Baehr (he/him)liz pelly @lizpelly.bsky.social · 01/09/2026people like to celebrate when they were at an early show of someone who went on to tour w/ a celebrity, play MSG or whatever but you know what's also cool...being in a small room of people you've gone to shows with for 10+ years who kept making & caring about art despite the odds being so against it 111521
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Something random, so I don't have an awful September 010
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A group of misfit special ops soldiers in a series of fun one- (or two-) and-done adventures, with lots of slam-bang action and violence, peppered with that trademark Kirby wit. Solid stuff. RIYL to see a lot of Nazis bite it. #JustRead 030
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If anyone ever knew the power of comics, it was Jack. Squeezing in a little Kirby at the last minute on his birthday. 030
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026A tale of 3 cities, really: one tyrannical, one lawless, and one alien and utopian, all on a tidally locked planet colonized long ago by humans. Themes of loss, memory, emotional obsession, loyalty, and transformation. Beautiful but a little jumbled at times. The ending begs for a sequel. #JustRead 020
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Thrift store sights today. Maybe should've bought that t-shirt 020
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Choose Your Own Adventure books taught me that most of the choices you make will end badly 040
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026From somewhere in the state of Texas, Paper Jam! 010
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 24/08/2026From Paris, France, all the way to Olympia, WA: Dona Casque! 130
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026London/Glasgow vinyl finds (details in alt text) 040
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 19/08/20261990. I wouldn't even own a CD player until a few years later, when I was well out of my brief Dead Can Dance phase, but I taped it on my downstairs neighbors' stereo. You probably didn't know I had a Dead Can Dance phase, but it led me to other 4AD stuff like Cocteau Twins and Pixies/Breeders, so 👍 140
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026#JustWatched on the plane. I kinda went off on this movie. 010
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I did this, and so can you! It was incredibly fun. 041
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Glas-Goes Pop day 2 video dump commences with Comber 170
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Lande Hekt again! This song is about her cat. 141
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026My London solar eclipse experience. Oh well. 020
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Hello from London. We capped our jetlagged first evening here with a visit to this nice cozy pub called The Pride of Spitalfields that was having a live piano singalong. A lovely time. 150
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Yesterday we went to a signing at Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery for Roberta Gregory's new book Bitchy!, and we got her signature on this rare LP she did cover art for in 1995. It's a compilation with a very cool lineup of indie musical acts, which benefitted a UK charity for battered women. 1111
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Pretty nice score at the thrift store today. 140
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Maybe my favorite thing I've watched so far this year. Just amazing. #JustWatched 030
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Was just shown a post of mine from 2008 about using an empty paper towel tube to dry my hands. "It was surprisingly absorbent" 030
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I thought a Miyazaki would be a good wind-down after a stressful day. Friends, this is not really a chill-out movie. No regrets though #JustWatched 140
Reposted by Mike Baehr (he/him)Jen Matson (DJ nstop) @nstop.com · 03/08/2026Got my copy in the mail today of Where the Wild Gigs Were: Vol 2 @hozacrecordsbooks.bsky.social book.. with a piece in it by yours truly! Big thanks to @timdaggerboy.bsky.social and Eric Eggleson. I wrote about early 90s times at long-gone NYC rock club The Spiral. hozacrecords.com/product/wtwg... 4194
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Tonight's viewing — pairs pretty well with the Murderbot books I'm reading. #JustWatched 040
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of my moving here to Seattle. That's nuts 020
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026agita bizarro knackered psych-out username 130
Mike Baehr (he/him) @mikebaehr.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Part serrated satire of privilege, racial politics, publishing, and social media; part psychological thriller about a highly corrosive and disordered combination of narcissism, obsession, and profound loneliness, all from the antihero's POV. Dark, tricky, and compulsively readable. #JustRead 030
![Screenshot of my 2-star review of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025, Verbinski):
I dunno, man. I think this movie tries too hard. It's a movie that pretends to be smart but is actually pretty dumb.
I can definitely enjoy suspending my disbelief for a couple of hours, but there's too much about this movie that just makes no damn sense. Why does Sam Rockwell even need to recruit a ragtag group of randos (one of whom just happens to turn out to be [big spoiler]) to fulfill his mission in the first place? Maybe there's an explanation but I missed it. At least one of them has a convenient deus ex machina. And it's so painfully obvious who the expendable characters are going to be — they all have a trait in common and it's not a good look for the movie.
The final boss is a 9 year old computer programmer who eats Cheetos, har dee har har. Oh and he's also a [spoiler] for some reason. I enjoyed the "form of the destructor," although, like, where did it come from? Why even bother with a couple of pathetic hired goons when you have that much power behind you? And who's paying for all that technology? Where is IT? Who's supporting the app? Where's marketing? The movie would be more interesting if there were an entire company instead of just one kid. Even Lex Luthor has Lexcorp.
The twist at the end isn't a huge surprise, but it works pretty well, and there was some other stuff that landed okay. A few of the characters help ground the film in spots. I laughed a few times and got caught up in some of the visuals. I didn't really hate this movie, but I'm a little mad at it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rpzkljgui3pehpvfvqlpen6t/bafkreibz2sbhyrtktarv3elvvqljryur5drncpuopdkmcmjwq4opas7fba)
