matthew reed baker 🤘😇🤘

Higher power.
Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Canada.
440pm vendredi 8 août 2025

The beverage of champions: The Clamato caesar, aka the Canadian version of a bloody mary, served up in a can. Contains vodka, anchovy, and clam.🤘😇🤘
Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Canada.
530pm jeudi 7 août 2025

La cité de bois et d'acier.
Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Québec, Canada.
1207pm mercredi 6 août 2025

l'idylle lunaire
mont-tremblant, québec, canada
825pm mardi 5 août 2025

Wildfire sunset, parts 1 2 & 3.
Knox County, Maine.
656pm and 715pm Sun 3 Aug 2025

Demoltion derby is for the children.
Union Fair, Union, Maine.
642pm Sat 2 Aug 2025

Thunder owl, descending.
Knox County, Maine, USA.
834pm Fri 1 August 2025

Infinity Station.
Owls Head, Maine, USA.
744pm Mon 28 July 2025

This sweet baby cow is totally metal.
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Union Fair, Union, Maine, USA.
349pm Thurs 31 July 2025

Coloratura, we fell in through the clouds

knox county, maine, usa

804pm sat 26 july 2025

Today's run: 3 miles.
Soundtrack: Master Of Reality (1971) by Black Sabbath.
Result: I'm being healthy on a bright sunny day, but I've been thinking about the loss of Ozzy Osbourne this week, and hey, this fantastic record is so dank and heavy that it's genuinely beautiful and good for the soul.

Didn't know these existed until yesterday, but Selena Gomez has her own Oreo style. We picked up a package, and they taste like a cinnamon bun transformed into an Oreo. Pretty good, and I'm no bad liar!
Damariscotta, Maine, USA.
Fri 25 July 2025

ONE WORLD.
penobscot bay, maine, usa
730pm thurs 24 july 2025

YouTube video by Chuck Mangione - Topic Feels So Good

Also, most people just know the short 3-minute single version of "Feels So Good," but the 10-minute LP version is way better, with a more elaborate arrangement, some sweet jamming, more beautiful horn solos. Check your bias, check it out, and just enjoy:
youtu.be/FExBwfQHXlE?...

Chuck Mangione has passed away at age 84. Music fans used him as a punchline if they didn't like jazz fusion, but he was a horn player of the 1st degree, a great composer, and his hit "Feels So Good" has made millions of people happy for decades, which is nothing to laugh at. Peace be with you, sir.

The observing man, by my son.
Searsport, Maine, USA.
112pm Thurs 24 July 2025

(Not only did my son take this photo of me, but he titled it too, and I present it here with no edits or filters, because he did a great job, and he is wicked awesome)

WE PRAY.
friendship, maine, usa
214pm tues 22 july 2025

Oh man, these two albums were so formative for me in my early teens when I hung out in parking lots, learned to smoke, set off cheap fireworks & engaged in other dubious behavior. Even today as a non-smoking dad & husband, they thrill me & I love them. Miss you, thank you, Ozzy.

Neon forest.
Lincolnville, Maine, USA.
206pm Mon 21 July 2025

i am a mountain
knox county, maine, usa
752pm sat 19 july 2025

Now spinning at my house, to close out this most Coldplay-centric week for me & my family:

Parachutes (2000), the band's debut album...a lifetime ago, before I was married & had kids, I saw them for the first time on this tour at Irving Plaza in New York. Thanks for the memories, then & now.
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One more Coldplay lunchbox cartoon, for the road. Thanks again, my dudes, for coming back to New England after so many years. See you next time.
cheers---mrb
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So-hey-Coldplay-were-wicked-awesome-last-night-at-Gillette-Stadium lunchbox cartoons. My apologies to the band for their dubious likenesses, as I drew these things quickly, bleary-eyed in a hotel room at 6am this morning, but they're meant as a heartfelt thank you nonetheless. Weds 16 July 2025

It's hard to believe, but 11 years ago, "A Sky Full Of Stars" by Coldplay was our anthem when I drove my daughter to preschool, and now I'm taking her to the #ColdplayBoston show, and she has the lyrics handpainted and pinned to her leather jacket. Time is magic, music is love.

Super-thrilled-to-see-Coldplay-tonight lunchbox cartoons. Tues 15 July 2025

Now spinning, as the kids & I are seeing Coldplay tomorrow in Foxboro!

Moon Music (2024) by our favorite family band, one that my kids have waited literally more than half their lives to see in concert & I haven't seen in 20 years...so excited! By the way, my son gave me this record as a present 💓

a mere wall between thee and the great big sea
narragansett, rhode island
915pm sat 12 july 2025

fog, diagonals
narragansett, rhode island
8pm sat 12 july 2025

For all you Queen fans out there...Greetings from this New England beach town, and wow, do I have a totally random and somewhat unsavory t-shirt for you.
Narragansett, Rhode Island.
Sat 12 July 2025

Now spinning at my house, a pure-gold 1970s Philly Soul compilation:

Collectors' Items (1977) by The O'Jays, with this colossal trio singing Gamble & Huff classics like

"Love Train"
"Back Stabbers"
"For The Love Of Money"
"I Love Music"

and 10 more in full album-length versions...I mean, c'mon!!!