feels like the trajectory would be long, circular debates for half a century or more, and then Trump just gives it to them in 2017 ('it's just a box of dust')
03.03.2026 19:41 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0feels like the trajectory would be long, circular debates for half a century or more, and then Trump just gives it to them in 2017 ('it's just a box of dust')
03.03.2026 19:41 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0wow, the only one of these I can recall offhand is "Act of Contrition"
03.03.2026 19:23 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0odds this van caught fire at some point? probably decent
03.03.2026 17:46 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0contest ad to win a red van with Styx LP art on the sides and a band logo on the hood. Allegedly worth $20,000
somewhere in the US in 1979, someone was driving around a Styx van they won from A&M records (Billboard, Feb '79)
03.03.2026 17:43 β π 112 π 29 π¬ 3 π 10i think she was essentially a friend of one of Bowie's bandmates, and sang as a one-off thing
03.03.2026 17:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0no idea--she may be around, too
03.03.2026 17:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0with Vernon's passing, I believe the only person still alive who worked on DB's debut album is the drummer, John Eager (and not sure about him)
03.03.2026 16:52 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0RIP Mike Vernon, producer of Bowie's first album, among many (& more successful) others: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
03.03.2026 16:47 β π 37 π 7 π¬ 2 π 5aw man, was just thinking about diamond dave. peace to a genuine subterranean.
03.03.2026 07:35 β π 45 π 7 π¬ 1 π 2I feel like I've seen David Ellison somewhere before. Can't quite put my finger on it.
03.03.2026 13:55 β π 130 π 29 π¬ 7 π 3Thin White Duke 50: Bowie in Chicago, with an audience tape that does give you the sense of being in a bad seat in a surly crowd. www.patreon.com/posts/isolar...
03.03.2026 13:22 β π 8 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0The Maduro escapade was a disastrous precedent: convinced them they could do these mafia-style hits and nothing else would change
03.03.2026 02:38 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Happy birthday Ned!!!
03.03.2026 00:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0no, that's good
02.03.2026 20:10 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0oh yeah don't get me wrong---at least half of my high-school class were reactionary assholes who almost certainly voted for Bush and DT. but were they that much different from the class of 1980 or 2000? i dunno..
02.03.2026 20:10 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0i mean, it's like "Boomers" includes Trump as well as my dad, who delivered sandwiches, voted Dem. his whole life, and listened to Jackson Browne records. the broad-brush is the broad brush. it's patina of "science" in this meme that's really grating
02.03.2026 20:07 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 4 π 0i know it's a gag but man i am kind of getting tired of this: i am of the age with the absolute most exposure to lead, according to this likely bullshit chart, and i don't think I am more brain damaged and irrational than people younger or older than me.
02.03.2026 20:02 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 2 π 1!!
02.03.2026 19:22 β π 69 π 14 π¬ 0 π 0"the new record is okay but a real territorial retreat from the daring of 'Original Wrapper'"
02.03.2026 19:21 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0also cracking up at Pete going "where's your wine-bar sax, Lou Reed? get with the times, old man!"
02.03.2026 19:18 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"If you want to talk nostalgia & take one on the nose, go see Tom Petty...I thought [Lou Reed's] New York was a great album, but I would have liked to have heard a saxophone or maybe even a synth. I don't know who's living in the past & who's living in the future, really." Pete Townshend, 1990
02.03.2026 19:12 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0
Ron Carter :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview
aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/03/02/r...
Dig that.
yeah she has a Wiig and Jan Hooks quality to her--am hoping the show lets her thrive
02.03.2026 18:35 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Neil Young was invited. He declined, then changed his mind too late, so he'll be in the audience."
a very Neil Young photo caption (Toronto Globe & Mail, July '69)
02.03.2026 18:17 β π 13 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0This month we read The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano - a far-ranging tome about poets who never seem to write any poetry, but do a lot of other crazy stuff. (No guarantee that this picture will make any more sense after listening, but you should tune in anyways!) #bowie #booksky
02.03.2026 17:53 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0yeah, it's just baffling there's no Albany-Pittsfield-Springfield-Worcester-Boston connector. one would think you'd get some riders for it. Instead it's been vaguely talked about for the 20+ years I've lived here, and you still have to take a train to New haven if you want to go to Boston.
02.03.2026 17:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0cracking up at a truly phoned-in Bowie concert review from '76. "one number led into another...the concert continued, without interruption, until its conclusion."
02.03.2026 17:11 β π 24 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0it drives me just bonkers that there is no train service between Boston and western MA; it's more convenient in some ways to go to New York City than the capital of my own damn state
02.03.2026 17:06 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0yeah the frustrating thing is that he's very talented--the 1986 Live at Blues Alley is pretty great. He just should be ranked on the same level as, say, Don Pullen, and not as the Spokesman/Saviour of Jazz
02.03.2026 16:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0yep! yeah, it would've been much different.
02.03.2026 15:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0