Jon Amadeus Markley
@xjamarkleyx.bsky.social
retired hipster / RnR blogger / record collector former spiritual advisor at yr local record shop currently a cat herder and ecommerce guru living in (and from) chicago IL zen one breath at a time. positive vibes only
You’re telling me major labels are selling shoddy product
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayA pressing issue: why are vinyl albums becoming so different from their digital versions?
“See mental afflictions as raw material, the way a potter would view clay. You don’t see clay as a problem; you see it as an opportunity to create something.” — Lama Kathy Wesley
“We are all the leaves of one tree; we are all the waves of one sea.” ~ Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-2022) #Painting by Meghna Parmar.
From time to time, I offer to do a little research on buildings in Chicago that you might be curious about. It has to be in Chicago and it can't be something that has its own Wikipedia page. If there's a building you've been curious about, let me know and I'll see what I can find.
“Even if the whole universe is nothing but a bunch of jerks doing all kinds of jerk-type things, there is still liberation in simply not being a jerk.” — Eihei Dogen (1200–1253 CE), Brad Warner translation
