Record store haul. Chet Baker Quintet - Blues for a Reason, Chastity Belt - Live Laugh Love, Bud Shank - Brazil! Brazil! Brazil! #vinyl #lp #chastitybelt

Foggy afternoon record shopping in Tacoma

Sunday morning drive in the snow with some tunes from #Pumpernickel #classiccarsofmastodon #type3 #vw

20+ years of music - a reckonmembering

Today I am revisiting a play list I made some time ago. It is populated by music that i have been listening to for at least 20 years. This, is itself a bittersweet study in aging, but also a joyful recognition of various moments in my life. I tend to recall very specific moments when I listen to a song. Whether that is the first time I heard a particular song or the foundation of some core memory.

As a result while listening to this playlist various moments come back full force.

Thumb - Dinosaur Jr. (outside the starlite motel going to see a girlfriend i didn’t like)
Schizophrenia - Sonic Youth (walking home from my job at a pizza place at 1 am on a winter night)
Girlfriend - Matthew Sweet (vibing stereo lights in a young ladies basement)
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys (song #1 on side two of a mix tape made by Danz from Chicago as i walked the college quad)
Sweetness - Yes (going to see buffalo 66 on houston in NYC and seeing VIncent handing out flyers)
Basketcase - The Vindictives (listening to this on vinyl in a spare room of a 1920s apt with a tiny 1960’s portable tv with just static on.)
I Get Along Without You Very Well - Billie Holiday (rocking my daughter to sleep on a warm late summer day the light filtering through white cotton curtains)
Food, Sickles and Girls - The Mummies (sitting in a friends west suburban st louis upper middle class den, recording the lp to tape)
Bad Day - Samiam (driving northbound on 270 in the middle of a work day after picking up some supplies from another location for the cafe)
Tiger Lily - Luna (sitting in a downtown park with a lady and noticing all the little bottles of jack and knowing a non 0 number were probably from her before i showed up)
etc etc… lot’s of thoughts and feelings….enjoy the tunes

I posted this a few years ago and not sure where it comes from But the sentiment stands!

Just another example of corporations ruining things. We need to wake up to the fact not everything has to make more money, more money, more money. Pitchfork Fest co-founder says he felt “pressure” from Conde Nast to book Justin Bieber

Fairy houses in a local park

The delightful PETER BJORN AND JOHN are touring in May of 2025

San Francisco, CA Pasadena, CA Salt Lake City, UT Denver, CO Minneapolis, MN Chicago, IL Toronto, ON New York, NY Boston, MA Washington DC

That time when the wife and I delivered our son in a VW Beetle next to a bridge on the south side of Chicago at 1:00am. Paramedics were helping clean up after we had already done the work. They were so ill funded they had to borrow a cop’s knife to cut the umbilical. Long night…

A silver Volkswagen Beetle is pulled over at night by police officers with flashing lights.

My wife continues to find ways to inspire me every day.
A cute knitted figure holds a sign that reads, Positive Potato: I may be a tiny Potato, but I believe in you. Go do your thing! in front of a keyboard.

Something very comforting and satisfying using my 1972 type 3 as a staging area for cleaning up my 1980’s era Shopsmith Mark V 500 headstock.

Shopsmith Mark V 500 head stock in open trunk of a 1972 orange VW type 3 squareback.

Nothing like a slice and a pretty car.

Reading Fedi.Tips for RSS feeds and this is such a banger!

How to follow RSS feeds from Mastodon

  1. Create a new post but don’t publish it yet
  2. Mention the RSS Parrot Fediverse account @birb@rss-parrot.net
  3. Mention the RSS address you want to follow
  4. Publish the post (it doesn’t have to be a public post, DMs will work as well)
  5. RSS Parrot will create a new Fediverse account that mirrors the contents of the RSS address you provided, and then reply to you with a link to the new account
  6. Follow this new account to follow the RSS feed

americans sure love giving their data away to the CCP in exchange for free stuff,

-Steven Heidel via weapon X

Well, American tech companies surely primed us for it…love the gymnastics people seem to jump through. Personally, I don’t have a user or need for AI on the daily. Emanuel Maiberg does a great job of framing this up via 404.

Walks with Finn

River gorge with a bridge in the distance. Steep hills on either side are covered in evergreen trees. Two tree trunks are visible I. The left of the frame foreground.Black lab named Finn with his mouth open looking back at the camera at the end of a leash in the woods.River gorge with tall evergreens on either side with a cloudy sky above

Sometimes your mental health feels like the towel bar which you can see is about to come off the wall. You could just fix the bar, but instead you are extra careful when pulling the towel on and off untill that day it breaks, and you have a total meltdown. I guess, don’t do that. Fix yo self!

The perfect way to end the week. A new version of “Never Arriving” from the upcoming live album So36. streaming links youtu.be/OAHoTyMFR…

Many moons ago I too worked in an office. I once had a disagreement with the person who sat on my right. Perhaps I’m better off WFH?

True story: My second car was a Chevy Citation I called the “pinto” due to the amount of rust it had. One night coming home I turned into the street, one away from home, and the axle broke. The car ground to a halt. The next morning all the kind and considerate schoolmates did not mention my car sitting halfway in the vacant lot on the edge of town with it’s right front wheel sticking out at a right angle (of course they fucking did! for months!) worldkey.io/@Libraria… #truestory #retro #cars #chevy

Many years ago I helped with the promotion, filming, and editing, of a nice poetry event called Rainy Day in Seattle. Here are a couple of the ideas for a flyer I just found. I cannot remember for the life of me if either was used. #poetry #collage #LiteraryUnderground