Loving the swing on DIGGER from “what a bomb!” to “what if it’s good, actually!?”. Still can’t decide if I liked it. Might even have to see it again…
Adam Klein
@ajklein.bsky.social
Lover of music; live, recorded, or both. Devotee/arm-chair critic of world cinema. Would otherwise prefer to be outdoors. Previously: V8, WebKit, Chromium.
Basking in the afterglow of an all-timer Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this past weekend in Golden Gate Park. New and old favorite artists singing new and old favorite songs, hanging with new and old friends, in perfect weather. All the things a festival should be! #HSB
Sorry, sorry, I like Don Cab okay but sometimes math rock sounds like three different cars tuned to different stations with their doors open in an underground parking garage, but it's okay because the most normal men in the world are here to explain how time can be fun to you.
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
All it takes is a few days of active engagement on these apps to remember that it’s mostly an exercise in badly landing jokes and literal responses to abstractions that never meant anything in the first place be still we march on lord forgive us all
Can’t tell if lack of baseball posting in my feed is just because the M’s are out, or if there’s genuinely not a team to root for as fun as last year’s Blue Jays
i'm reminded that when "social media" started it was called "social networking," and i'd always thought the shift was arbitrary. but i recently realized it's because networking is concrete, it's a direct method for forming relationships. media is definitionally an abstraction of reality.
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Come see our discussion
AK Press@akpress.org · last mo.Bay Area! Come see Walter Riley, Jesse Strauss, Boots Riley, and Legacy Left series editor James Tracy discuss CIVIL RIGHTS AND STRUCTURAL ATTACKS on Monday! The event will also be livestreamed for virtual attendees. RSVP: citylights.com/events/walte...
Naylor being like "oh. No thank you" here on this awful throw that set him up to get trucked at first is very much the experience of watching the 2026 Mariners
rise up into the perfumed evening with the frow show, 3 hours of new music, etc., from now 'til midnight on @wfmu.bsky.social. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...
No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky on your camera roll...
✨🌸Astrid Indigo🌸✨@astridindigo.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo cheating. Share the last photo of the sky on your camera roll...
I somehow managed to miss out for decades on Jon Hassell’s incredible Eno/Lanois-produced ECM album—spiraling minimalist ethno-chug of the highest order—so I am now urging you not to make the same tragic mistake.
Spending the afternoon in Santa Monica to beat the heat before night 2/3 of Jeff Parker IVtet. LA: not bad! Especially thanks to rail transit (shout out to Metro A/D/E and Metrolink VC lines)
Wednesday at the Neptune! Also Friday at the UC Theatre in Berkeley, and I’ve got two tickets for that up for grabs.
QueenCityJamz@queencityjamz.bsky.social · 2mo agoGreat show from Bill Callahan and his crack band. Very impressed by Matt Kinsey's atmospheric electric guitar work & Jim White was a monster in the skins. We left the venue belting out: 🎵 I'm not a robot and I never will be I'm not a robot and I never will be 🎵
David Bowie wore the famous zig-zag ‘lightning bolt’ face make-up just once: for the Aladdin Sane album cover shoot in January 1973. Just that one time.
Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?
Again, woke 1 was not silly. None of the things that Black people asked for were inappropriate or unnecessary. Y'all just stopped listening to Black people, and started talking amongst yourselves about what you thought woke was. Then you called that silly. You listen to nazis over Black people.🤷🏿♂️
People of the San Francisco Bay Area! My funtime dance party cover band @nascum.bsky.social is playing LCD SOUNDSYSTEM songs on Friday Aug 21 at Rickshaw Stop! We're performing with a Daft Punk tribute. All ages! Tickets here: wl.eventim.us/event/lcd-so...
My newsletter continues this week with a piece asking some folks who play the music of Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia the question of why GD/JG connects with them and why the band is still connecting with people six decades on. www.isthisrealpdx.com/the-enduring...
The Enduring Sound of the Grateful Dead
Happy Thursday to all you lovely subscribers and readers of Is This Real. Hope the day is treating you well. I'm watching hopefully for the wildfire smoke to dissipate in the outside air and praying f...
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In many ways it could be regarded as the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper".
WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 2mo ago60
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Really good trolling would be to go see Picnic at Hanging Rock with some friends and then 35 minutes in get up and leave the theater and disappear and never be seen again by anyone in their entire life
A modest proposal, inspired by yesterday's Argentine ridiculousness: for each 10 shots on goal, a team is awarded 0.1 points
I love this short little video montage of actresses during Charlie Rose interviews. No dialogue, just quiet reactions. Musical accompaniment by Laurie Anderson (O Superman). [instagram.com]
"Hello? This is your Mother."
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