Zan McQuade

Wow Annie; tremendous!

I have bags under my eyes from staying up too late listening to the Rosalía album. 😍🫩

It is such a great show.

Am I the only weirdo who likes it when the clocks go back because it’s lighter earlier in the morning?

Honestly the best thing about late October is randomly hearing Warren Zevon in public

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

I didn’t watch (I don’t love watching baseball on TV) but I think baseball is beautiful because it can last as long or as short as it needs to

I love how in spite of trying to make baseball shorter (why) they succeeded in having a World Series game that lasted so long and everyone is complaining about so much that I can’t even tell who won based on the posts about it.

Starting a list of products whose ads include people tapping the product with their fingernails as a note to never buy said product, can we not

Yes I’m “getting into physics and metaphysics”

When everything around me feels like it’s crumbling, the most soothing books to read have been about science & philosophy. Understanding how the universe came to be (& will continue to be) beyond humans is deeply comforting, as is reading about how humans think about the world around us

This Google image search & subsequent thoughts were prompted by reading Luis Sagasti’s Fireflies—I will contend that it’s impossible to read Sagasti (or Labatut or any similar South American fictionalist) without simultaneously googling every character

If ever they make a biopic (a word I still pronounce to rhyme with “myopic”) of Joseph Beuys and Walton Goggins isn’t playing him I will be disappointed

Human in Crowded House baseball cap squatting in dry creek bed with text overlay that reads “I keep thinking about how impotent Al feels when I fill my life with real, communal, outdoor; offline experiences. Readings & puppet shows & live music. Nature hikes & conversations in the backyard at dusk. Warm bodies and laughter bigger & louder than "lol". Holding a book in my hand or playing a new song on the piano. Real life is so good.”

I play Right Beside You a lot in the bookstore! (Today!)

I feel like I only pop into this place when there is a new musician I’m obsessing over so much I have to shout it across every social media platform. I’m just here in my little corner shouting GEORDIE GREEP CATE LE BON LABI SIFFRE HERBIE HANCOCK DRY CLEANING AAAAAAHHHHH I hope that’s okay

YouTube video by Labi Siffre - Topic Summer Is Coming

I can’t find proof of this, but tell me Massive Attack didn’t sample or at least find inspiration for “Unfinished Sympathy” in this Labi Siffre song: youtu.be/OG3T0OYkQ5k?...

*cough*

It’s called “Old”

Even if you have never had your heart broken that lyric will break your heart, what an amazing curse

YOU’LL NEVER GET AWAY FROM THE SOUND OF THE WOMAN THAT LOVED YOU

If you can listen to “Silver Springs” without closing your eyes, forming your hand into a fist and holding it tight against your chest with deep emotion during the rising chord progression of the chorus, you are a very different kind of human to me

YouTube video by joltinjack Rick Springfield - Inside Sylvia

I spent all night playing Rick Springfield’s “Inside Silvia” on the piano which is its own kind of dance anthem youtu.be/PFTKq_pkEXQ?...

Loreen’s “Euphoria” never got the American attention it deserved

Every few months I remember how much I love dance anthems

And Michele was there too!

Yes! It was so good. I’m in love with Nancy Wilson.

I love rocks and I love Todd Rundgren, so seeing Todd play “Rock Love” at Red Rocks was almost more than I could handle

Here’s Todd Rundgren the night of his RRHOF induction… rocking the hell out of Cincinnati

Maybe the whole reason she won’t leave her castle is because she’s embarrassed to rock her JNCOs in public