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Wet orange leaves.

Orange concrete wall textures. Idk, is this stucco?

Contrast of wet blacktop street and orange leaves fallen.

Various leaves and earth tones at a cemetery.

Recent sightings of burnt orange and other various textures in Philadelphia.

A large ten foot tall green cat sculpture. I missed the details on the card.

Justice Not Retribution graffiti.

Helium Welcomes Janeane Garofalo sign. She was funny!

Recently seen in Philadelphia.

Portishead - Third vinyl record. Cover design by Marc Bessant.

Soothing sounds of Portishead - Third. I love Portishead and this album took the longest to grow on me since its release in 2008.

Movie poster for FIRE IN THE SKY (1993) with the text "Alien abduction, November 5, 1975, 5:49 pm, White Mountains, Northeastern Arizona. Based on the true story"

Remember, remember, the 5th of November...

When Travis Walton was abducted by aliens 50 years ago today! 🛸

Street graffiti in front of Silk City. It reads "Silk City Philly. Everything Old Is New Again".

A sign which reads "Let's bring back critical thinking'.

Sunset

Some scenes around town lately.

Frankenstein and skull cupcakes with a rush job on the details.

Last night was the coolest most fun Halloween I can recall in years. Fun out front with friends/neighbors, then inside the house for a party that just kinda happened naturally. Second batch of cupcakes not a big improvement 😂🎃🧟‍♂️💀

Thanks! More to come later!

Seven cupcakes made to resemble Frankenstein.

Baking spooky cupcakes. These are Frankenstein('s monster) made from scratch as the test run. Turned out excellent for the bake and frosting but I hope to improve the design.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - All Souls vinyl record. Album art is a marigold, a symbol of the Mexican Day of the Dead festivities.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - All Souls. Perfect for the season and a wonderfully curated selection of songs. Sure, I kinda already associated many of these songs with autumnal qualities. But for a band with a stellar catalog of albums and compilations, this most recent one is a welcome addition.

Octopus lamp. Also a ceramic vase in the background made by a friend from college.

Banister with caged ravens with flickering lights.

Here are some of the above-mentioned.

Up late on a Saturday with the lights out except for an amber octopus lamp behind my head and a string of flickering lights inside cages of ravens wrapped around the banister. Loosely watching Halloween (2018) in the background while Thorns - Ærie Descent plays in one ear.

This sounds so fun!

Stage with lit screen for The American Revolution documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Boststein, and David Schmidt airing on PBS November 16.

Ken Burns (left) on stage being interviewed by Terry Gross (right).

Scenes from the seats.

Ken Burns On The American Revolution : Fresh Air Burns' new six-part PBS documentary series includes the perspectives of women, Native Americans and enslaved and free Black people — all of whom were initially excluded from the declaration "all men a...

Happy Friday 🍻 This episode of Fresh Air with Terry Gross interviewing Ken Burns on his new American Revolution documentary played earlier this week. It was an interesting talk and a fantastic preview of the doc. Also, I was in the audience!
www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...

This entire album is something I connected with so deeply, it feels like part of me in a way that my relationship to it continues to grow, forever and always. Love it, start to finish.

Yes! I will be at the one in Philly on Saturday. Solidarity ✊🏻

It's my favorite! This is also when I really started appreciating Celtic Frost. I'd heard the earlier stuff for years, but I never connected with it in the way it seemed so many people did. Now I love it all, but Monotheist was my real gateway into the band. Got to see this tour too, it was amazing.

Celtic Frost - Monotheist vinyl record. Album art by Michel Casarramona.

The Sunday sounds of Celtic Frost - Monotheist. Outstanding album.

The FLoP isn’t messing around!

From the mastodonband community on Reddit: Paul Romano's original Leviathan painting is up at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia right now Explore this post and more from the mastodonband community

It was fascinating hearing him talk about making some of these pieces. Here's a Reddit post where someone snapped a pic of Leviathan and its custom-designed frame.
www.reddit.com/r/mastodonba...

Visual Artist Paul Romano (MASTODON, THE RED CHORD, HATE ETERNAL, More) to Display ‘Hushed and Grim’ Paintings in Full This Weekend - Decibel Magazine For the first time ever, the celebrated artist is displaying the visual side of Mastodon’s latest album to the public.

Got to see this show today which features a lot of Paul Romano's work. Totally mind-blowing seeing so much of his work in person all at once. That Leviathan painting for Mastodon is full of fun and surprises when you really stare directly at it for a while.
www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/10/09/v...

Absolutely.

Philadelphia Art Museum

Philadelphia's Schuylkill River and one of the bridges.

Graffiti on a stone of a duck man with an apple it its bill.

The full-ish moon in the post-sunset sky

More visuals. The soundtrack was a lot of Scala & Kolacny Brothers. Also a fair amount of Ween.

Blue ske with white streaks of clouds. The Schuylkill River and green grass and trees.

Purple, yellow, red, and light blue flowers amongst the green.

The path ahead with sky, buildings, and the Schuylkill River.

Selfie in front of the Philadelphia Art Museum. Front Line Assembly - Caustic Grip shirt.

Beautiful day for a walk in Philadelphia.

It's Friday and the weather here is so pleasant. It's also a therapy day for me. Looking forward to unloading some thoughts and hopefully feeling some personal growth.

Full Album Stream: Antihælix - "A Serpentine Staircase Into Oblivion" - Decibel Magazine Explore the cosmos with black metal duo Antihælix and their mind-bending new album.

Explore the cosmos with black metal duo Antihælix and their mind-bending new album, 'A Serpentine Staircase Into Oblivion.'
www.decibelmagazine.com/2025/10/01/f...

A Serpentine Staircase Into Oblivion, by ANTIHÆLIX 6 track album

One of my favorites of the year just arrived. ANTIHÆLIX - A Serpentine Staircase Into Oblivion. I need this soothing chaotic hypnosis after such a punishing day.
antihaelix.bandcamp.com/album/a-serp...

Shari Vari commanding and hypnotizing the room at Johnny Brenda's stage in Philadelphia in ways that only she can do.

The show on Friday with Qual, Void Vision, Nuxx, and DJ Baby Berlin was excellent. Void Vision is truly special. If you ever see this Philly woman coming to your town, do make the effort. She's carved out her own unique sound and presence.

Crypt Sermon - Saturnian Appendices vinyl record. Artwork by Brooks Wilson.

A fine day for Crypt Sermon's Saturnian Appendices.

Lard - The Power of Lard vinyl record. Artwork and concepts by John Yates, Jason Traeger, and Jello Biafra. I think it's a sea anemone?

Lard - The Power of Lard EP. Hellfudge is fantastic. Time to Melt is a gem.