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rev recluse

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I do Vintage Edmonton: http://www.vintageedmonton.com/ Esquire Joe: https://esquirejoe.bandcamp.com/music Edmonton, Alberta

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Criterion Channel@criterionchannl.bsky.social · 3d ago

The towering literary genius and fierce social critic James Baldwin opened up a new space for the frank discussion of race, sexuality, and identity in American society, as well as leaving behind a dynamic cinematic legacy.

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Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · yesterday

Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

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Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Jeff Melnick@melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Yeah can’t stop won’t stop: you hear all this bullshit about kids today but these two DJs on WMFO, Tufts radio, are ending their show with one of the most beautiful, emotionally-complicated songs I know—Lou Reed’s “Coney Island Baby”

Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · 2d ago

#OTD I was at the 8/3/83 charity concert at First Avenue where Prince debuted songs that a year later appeared in the “Purple Rain” album & movie. During the song “Purple Rain" I said to myself: "Prince has gone folk." Only in retelling this recently did I realize the echo of “Dylan goes electric.”

Two images: Dylan at Newport Folk Festival 1965, Prince at First Avenue, August 3, 1983
Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · last yr.

42 years ago today, on Aug. 3, 1983, Prince "and Friends" (soon to be known as The Revolution) performed songs for the first time that would appear a year later on the soundtrack album and in the movie "Purple Rain."

Minneapolis Tribune, Sunday, August 7, 1983. Item in music news column with two photos from the Aug. 3 concert at First Avenue. One is Prince playing guitar with arm raised and a kind of wild look on his face, and the other is Loyce Houlton of the Minnesota Dance Theater with Prince beaming at her, on stage. The text says the concert, with tickets at the high price of $25, raised about $2,300 for the dance company. Houlton had caught Prince, who took classes the MDT, while the Purple Rain album/movies rehearsals were underway two weeks before. Crowd estimate: 1,100.
rev recluse@revrecluse.bsky.social · 2d ago

Still going through the records I bought on our road trip a few weeks ago; A Wes Montgomery LP I've been looking for; first pressing Simon And Garfunkel (w/o the poster, alas); Classic CanCon content; and Danko's very fine solo LP

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@stillfischer.bsky.social · 2d ago

That report reminds me of when a bunch of us kids found a raft affixed to the shore of a flooded quarry pit or peat sink by the mountain here. We poled out, but soon there was no bottom to grab. Then an afternoon wind rose. Finally, a group of half-drunk, pissed-off fathers rescued us by boat.