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What? You’ve never heard an electric harp? Let's fix that with Dorothy Ashby’s funky, soulful, underappreciated album Afro-Harping (1968).
Just listen to the first few seconds of Ashby’s take on “The Look of Love” on YouTube. If you don’t instantly love it, you can tell me I’m wrong. 🎵
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Wow, look at him go
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Wow, look at him go
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Japanese Funk and Soul That Will Brighten Up Your Day 🎵
My Analog Journal plays fantastic selections from enviable vinyl collections. The sound, video, and overall vibe on these videos makes for perfect summer listening.
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Playing: American Truck Simulator while listening to Beck’s Midnite Vultures. “Sexx Laws” hits the spot while long-hauling imaginary freight from Seattle to Bakersfield. 🎵🎮
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Watching Orlando (1993). 📽️
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Reading: The Once and Future King. 📚
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Watched: It Comes at Night (2017), an incredibly well-written movie. 📽️
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@PineCellar 🎞️
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@PineCellar "Success sometimes isn’t crossing every “t” or dotting every “i”. Sometimes it’s just taking a step forward and learning from setbacks."
I need to remember this! 👆🏻
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@PineCellar I can’t believe how real this looks!
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@velocykel Thank you! He’s a challenging one, but cute.
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2024 is off to a promising start.
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Reading My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Only about 125 pages in, but Jones’s prose is fantastic. 📚
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Watching Rosemary’s Baby.
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Making a character in Shadowdark, which is a tabletop roleplaying game resembling what D&D used to be: a survival horror dungeon crawl. 🕯️
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Listening to Sofia Rei’s “De Tierra y Oro” 🎵
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Good morning! I’m listening to The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor.
It’s mystical, lyrical music for harp, vibraphone, and guitar performed by some legendary figures from NYC’s downtown experimental music scene.
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You’ve gotta hear “La Araña” by punk legend Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds! www.youtube.com/watch 🎵
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Learning about how pelvic floor muscles play into singing. Wild. How’d I never notice that?
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@PineCellar Cheers to a platform that doesn't incentivize people to farm each other for likes!
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Listening to Patchouli Blue by Bohren & Der Club of Gore while reading My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. 🎵📚
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“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift… but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
—The Country of the Pointed Firs by Maine legend Sarah Orne Jewett
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Bub looks like a teddy bear who lost a button. 🐈
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On to Gnostic Trio’s In Lambeth: Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake.
What a fun surprise to hear Ikue Mori’s distinct electronics work on track “The Minotaur” 🎵
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Listening to In Search of the Miraculous, an album of mystical-sounding music by John Zorn’s Alhambra Trio joined by guests Kenny Wollesen on vibraphone, Carol Emanuel on harp, and Shanir Blumenkranz on electric bass. 🎵
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Listening to: Derek Bailey’s Pieces for Guitar 1966–67 🎵🎸
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Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality wins the “most eye-catching book title” contest that I didn’t know I was judging. 📚
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Mr. Business says “daylight savings time” is a bullshit human construct. Lunchtime is now 11:00 sharp.
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@ArnoldHoogerwerf Now I can listen to everything Ikue Mori has ever released on Tzadik 🖤
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@PineCellar Those are nice colors, not gonna lie
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@PineCellar 🧛🏻♀️🧛🏻♂️
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@PineCellar Seeing you here puts me in an intense state of NAGE 📼
Welcome to micro.blog, Pine!
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@jean Not yet! Adding Truly, Madly, Deeply to my list. Sounds like a perfect Halloween movie. Thank you!
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@odd It's hard to categorize, but The Lighthouse really did feel like a horror movie to me. 😅 Really great acting and cinematography, though!
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@wm back at you! 😆
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@yurkevich Xena sitting on her horse in front of a burning building in commercials for the show is an image seared into my brain forever 🔥
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@Miraz I remember catching it here and there back in the 90s too, but it was on really late at night so I didn't see many episodes. The show's a lot of fun so far!
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@dominikhoecht Thank you, Dominik! 🧛🏻♀️
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@mbkriegh Beacon and Hudson Valley sure are photogenic 🌳
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@Chadgmoore Those themes definitely came through to this child-free person too. I also got to thinking about how tangling with problems that are larger than any one can inspire others and eventually lead to breakthroughs we didn't foresee. If only existential problems were easier to solve and harder to cause, eh?
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@odd 😺🎉
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@odd Thank you for reminding me—I loved the first Blade Runner and meant to watch the second!
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@odd I love that piece and think about it a lot, especially as I’m playing that new Chrono Trigger-inspired game 💚
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@MultoGhost thank you so much for these. Sharing these with my partner, who’s writing short medieval horror films right now 👻
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@jean Thank you, Jean! I love it here. Great onboarding experience 👍🏻
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@maique I love it here. Thanks for the warm welcome!
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@JohnPhilpin Thank you! 😄