From the #vss365 jukebox, this is #Chaos Space Marine by Black Country, New Road from 2022's Ants From Up Here... released just after Isaac Wood left the band. We never got a tour for this album. 😢 youtu.be/Jqy6WPSfZSA?... #MusicSky

The people who are the slowest to respond are the most demanding for a prompt reply

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is #Fruits of My Labor, a Lucinda Williams song as covered by Waxahatchee on their remarkable 2021 album Saint Cloud. youtu.be/gGWO_wA8Jm4?... #MusicSky

From the #vss365 jukebox, I #tend to like this one: Tenderness by Jay Som off the 2019 album Anak Ko. youtu.be/Wd5FyYa_H_I?... #MusicSky

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is I and I by Bob Dylan. Yes you hear Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits), Mick Taylor (Rolling Stones) and Sky & Robbie. I and I In #creation where one's nature neither honors nor forgives I and I One say to the other, no man sees my face and lives youtu.be/eiByFXx3-Ig?...

I avoid the #temptations of flesh but embrace those of the soul leaving me in the long embrace of deep unresolved yearning there is no relief available to me no morality to guide me home so I make myself an island amid an ocean of bitterness and cut my own dry flesh in the name of our god #vss365

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is #Temptation by Tom Waits off the 1987 album Frank’s Wild Years. There is still no one else like Tom Waits. youtu.be/CdYk7frD6ds?... #MusicSky

~coming home~ returning to the old house now unkempt lawn ablaze with dandelions the old crack in the sidewalk still not fixed but found by the weeds i walk there in my own shadow steps echoing across the many missing years #vssdaily

fear arrives with the winter wind dancing on memories of fireflies trembling under blood-soaked moons above the bleached wildfire meadows the coal-dusted crows return slowly they cackle, sensing death in the air the sound deafens and deadens senses we all die crawling to safety #vss365 #vssdaily

Back for your enjoyment.

vssdaily@vssdaily.bsky.social · 5d ago

The #vssdaily #prompt for 8.1.26 is #return

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is Destiny #Arrives by Spellling from her excellent 2025 album Portrait of My Heart. This is an amazing song. youtu.be/sEqrOuYakGg?... #MusicSky

The most dangerous person in American politics is Caucasian Jesus.

The Fauci hearing was a rant session from an unhinged group offering no evidence and no explanation about anything relevant. This is a group bound only to old grievances and cruel threats. It was a reflection of the dysfunction of the current GOP and their commitment to lies. #I💙Fauci

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is #Break by Kero Kero Bonito. A song about slowing down and taking a break from the hectic parts of life. youtu.be/PEmqJBcQ2lg?... #MusicSky

From a book by John Fugelsang

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is #Coast by Kim Deal off her long awaited debut solo record, 2024’s Nobody Loves You More. You might know her from Pixies and the Breeders. youtu.be/MBu_Ec33byA?... #MusicSky

#vss365

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is Because the Night by Patti Smith Group. Come on now try and understand The way I feel when I'm in your hands Take me now as the sun #descends They can't hurt you now youtu.be/c_BcivBprM0?... #MusicSky

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is Venus by Bananarama. It is a 1986 cover of a 1969 song by Dutch band Shocking Blue. Goddess on the mountain top Burning like a silver flame The #summit of beauty and love And Venus was her name youtu.be/d4-1ASpdT1Y?... #MusicSky

Do not extend your arm towards a toilet if any circles, triangles or squares are flying into or out of it. Thank you.

~cadence d~ life moves in a rhythm the #cadence of death approaching approaching beats in a hollow chest like a sudden heart attack echoing into infinity #vss365

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is Fast Times by Sabrina Carpenter off the 2022 album emails i can’t send: My feelings used to be serrated But you speak in such a perfect #cadence Tiptoein' past so many stages But what the fuck is patience? youtu.be/Gla5AzlHnS4?... #MusicSky

Halfway there with a week to go…

vssdaily@vssdaily.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am willing to restart this prompt in August. But only if this post gets 100 or more likes. If that many people care, I’m all in. Otherwise, I’ll bow out. Thanks.

~spiroglyphics~ trails and trials embedded in the minds of fallen angels as they #ascend into ether nothing and no one can see but the frozen feeling stabs a heart exploded inward we are left dazed, homeless too long on the wrong planet as stars disappear one by one #vss365

From the #vss365 jukebox for #ascend, this is Ascending Forth by Black Midi off the 2021 album Cavalcade. youtu.be/FA3IJOodbWc?... #MusicSky

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is a lovely live performance of Night #Shift by Lucy Dacus off her excellent 2018 album Historian. She is an amazing lyricist and songwriter and the best part of Boy Genius. youtu.be/XDNjt2lHBO4?... #MusicSky

~uncle charlie’s first day of freedom~ at the #road’s end he stood torpedoed into the ground buffeted by wind and rain evoking a pitchforked guru “invade tranquility with silence” this was his unspoken lesson invoked by terrifying stillness betrayed only by cold shivers #vss365

The #vss365 jukebox has so many songs about #roads. I picked Roadwork Rappin’ by Aesop Rock because it is fun and ridiculous and I like it. youtu.be/jRHqjDnEFiE?... #MusicSky

The ultimate lesson of modern American politics: we can’t have good things.

From the #vss365 jukebox, this is #TAILWIND off the album Winning Live 13. It is sung by Hikaru Tōno as Matikanetannhauser, a character in Umamusume: Pretty Derby…a game where anime-style "horse girls" compete in races and perform idol-style concerts. youtu.be/TqtPjObLZa4?... #MusicSky