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Hardworking and trustworthy, punctual, team player, loved by dogs, great with children, heart of gold. A human being in the world.
Probably twice a year I listen to the acoustic version of Shallow Bed by Dry the River and have a quiet transcendental experience.
I feel like reading a lot of books about dystopian futures has not helped me with the dystopian present.
If you are going to rain then I am going to play sad lo-fi indie.
Absolutely superb conditions today for saying ‘it doesn’t feel like a Tuesday.’ Say it early, say it often and just have fun with it. It’s a small talk goldmine and you’d be a fool not to get involved.
So confused by the sound of rain I turned off my music and stood up to work out what it was
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Stood in the sea watching a giant smoke plume rise from the woods above the buildings. Ash began to rain down on the crowded beach and the air turned acrid.
Texting "what a rare privilege and joy it is to be lost in the modern world" to my wife who is lost in the woods and doesn't have enough signal to load Google maps.
Walkers should start producing small bags with exactly eight Quavers in them called Semibreve send tweet
Watching the place where you felt free as a child burn live on TV is certainly a mood.
Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way.
Tara Clerkin Trio performing live for NTS earlier this month. Looking forward to seeing them again at the ICA in October youtu.be/HKYFzuT8LF0
Tara Clerkin Trio | NTS Studio Session
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In memory of Brian. There'll never be another.
“Despite my protestations to the contrary, he followed me round the house simulating the hiss of Max Roach’s hi-hat. Tsk, tsk, tsk!” Brian Case (1937-2026) | Pete Paphides
“The lives of jazzmen and journalists are poles apart, the player operating on a short, ecstatic curve, the writer laboriously tweezing toge
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Brian Case died this week. @petepaphides.bsky.social has written the most beautiful appreciation of his work as a jazz writer. It’s wonderful. And this extract is just as profound about why music writers write about music as it is about jazz.
I have made it an annual tradition to document Mark Twain’s hatred of July 4th celebrations, but I saved something special for America 250. Twain was part of the centennial celebration in Philadelphia in 1876. He was part of what the dubbed the “Congress of Authors”…
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2y agoMark Twain hated the Fourth of July. He was often invited to speak at Independence Day festivities. His audiences assumed that his reliably unpatriotic remarks were tongue-in-cheek jests. But he meant that shit. 1/9
eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time
I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.