It's time for #AlternateFridayMusic by @MIngs🇳🇿 and @בנימין (Alex) ➡️ Boost this when you see it, so lots of people can enjoy their Friday. The word for January 16, 2026, is "Renewal". Post with the hashtag and tell us about a #song with a title, lyric, theme or meaning related to the word. The upcoming biweekly word is: Jan 30 #Kid (child or joke or baby goat) Then 2026 races in February (bye-bye New Year resolutions!) and we have: Feb 13: #Bee Feb 27: #Obey Also, join in the biweekly #FortnightFridayMusic next week. The upcoming word is: Jan 23 #Indecision Going into February: Feb 6 #Purple Feb 20 #Underground Notorious Nags😼: @dgar @Bishopjoey @AqiDrago @alfvaen #Music #Renewal

Back to the 1970s with the Brain DJ, without a single misquoted lyric – David Bowie, "Song for Bob Dylan" (1971) #Music #DavidBowie

Useless quote for 16 January: "Their talent is being able to anticipate their superiors’ opinions; in meetings, they show a sixth sense for guessing what the most powerful person in the room wants to hear." ~ Pauline Kael, in "Why Are Movies So Bad? Or, The Numbers", The New Yorker 16 June 1980 Link to source:

The New Yorker

Why Are Movies So Bad? or, the Numbers

From 1980: Hollywood’s managerial sharks might fancy themselves creative giants, Pauline Kael writes, but what they’re really into are the numb...

#UselessQuote #PaulineKael

Still in the 1980s with the Brain DJ, and a left turn into ska – The Selecter, "Missing Words" (1980; live in studio 13 Sep 2013) #Music #Ska #TheSelecter #NeolDavies

Useless quote for 15 January: "Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty." ~ Katherine Anne Porter, in "The Never-Ending Wrong" (1977) Link to source:

The Never-Ending Wrong - 77.06

Atlantic Unbound: The Atlantic Monthly Magazine Online

#UselessQuote #KatherineAnnePorter