Us with our witnesses, French town hall

i may as well join the trend.

Ok, tried to do this without deep thinking, just 9 cds I'd grab for a long road trip. Might revise & resubmit…

Went to a University of Oregon football game. First football game in decades. First sports game since my son left soccer.

EXTREMELY out of my comfort zone: massive crowd, deafening noise, logos and flashing lights everywhere, lines for expensive mediocre food. The next day I just hid in the basement and napped.

Had a great time though. Would go again sometime.

9 wasn't enough. But now I'm realizing 18 isn't either. Oh well. I'll leave it at 18. Been fun watching everyone post their albums!

I have been meaning to post a photo of these shelves for ages and realized that it would be a perfect substitute for the my9albums app, except I have to list out the album titles:

Brian Eno/David Byrne "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
King Crimson "Larks' Tongues in Aspic"
Autechre "Amber"
Jorge Ben "A Tábua de Esmeralda"
Can "Ege Bamyasi"
Parliament "Mothership Connection"
My Bloody Valentine "Loveless"
Velvet Underground "White Light/White Heat"
Stooges "Funhouse"

Had a chance to do more this morning

Previously: https://mltshp.com/p/1RWUD

TL;DR I got a new camera back.

I am going to be a bit of a gear bore.

This came from Copenhagen for a very good price. It is an 8x10 > 5x7 reducing back made by Sinar. It means I can now shoot 4x5", 5x7" and 8x10" film (as well as a few other instant options in between).

5x7" black and white film is readily avaiable. Colour is tricker. There is a camera maker in the US who puts in a special order with Kodak twice a year or so. I have ordered 100 sheets from him, which is now waiting with my mother-in-law (was due to visit this month but had to postpone). I have joked that that many sheets could well last me the rest of my life, but I suppose it all depends on how prolific I am.

In the interim, a German company have started making Large Format film including a colour 5x7 film.
https://www.optik-oldschool.com/collecti...

Sinar still make cameras today and all of the parts are interchangable, even this green back which was first made in the late 1940's.

It's taken me a few years to get to this point, but I am now in a position where I can shoot on many formats, with different set-ups, using a single, modular system.

I did this earlier last week elsewhere. The site has a bit of a vibe code stench to it, but can't confirm and hope not.

Is my list late-stage adult autism confirmation? Maybe

Bought it last year on Switch 2 but had a backlog and finally got around to it and I might have made a huge mistake

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"Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin"

Photo by Alison Fisk

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Nothing cool or edgy. These are the only albums I remember owning from roughly age 10 to age 14.

Gross. I caved in.

#my9 #mlt9

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No Slint, but almost included Rodan.

Happy Thanksgiving from us, but particularly from this cat who was snoozing in the sun amongst fallen autumn leaves on our deck.

See previous post: https://mltshp.com/p/1RXAK

I think I mostly like music without singing. Yet vocals are slightly in the majority here.
#my9 #mlt9

I literally had to flip a coin between Interpol and Massive Attack as well as which Modest Mouse album - "Long Drive . . ." is also an essential.

For most people the R.E.M. album is Murmur, but since it first came out when I was barely alive maybe it just didn't have the same impact on me due to its decade plus influence on music by the time I came around to R.E.M., or maybe I just wasn't cool enough. Teenage Williwaw, however, wore out Reckoning in both cassette and C.D. form.

Townes and Jimi are doing an incredible amount of heavy lifting here.

i loved seeing everyone’s lists over the last few days (shoutout to @dogwelder’s top tier set) and i spent way too much time thinking about all of the embarrassing things i could put on this list.

decided to slim it down to the “formative” albums up to age 21. i could have added so many more, from the dumb magic of “what’s the story morning glory” (oasis, 1995) to the wonky rollercoaster of “ride the fader” (chavez, 1997). excluded a couple of formative artists that i just don't want to give the attention to anymore, fought myself between brief bursts of outsize influence and staying power.

i might go back and do a second list for 21-42 (current age) just so i can continue to torture myself

Big Aussie Units Series #78

Newest addition to Australia's collection of Big Units, with a pair of endangered Carnaby's cockatoos just unveiled in Moora, Western Australia

Have not visited (yet)

More Big Units https://mltshp.com/bigunits

More pics here and story here...
https://www.abc.net.au/news...

38th anniversary of National Coming Out Day!

I've been out of the closet for 36 of those years, and still happily queer.

Fuck the fascists, fuck the right wing, I can love whom I want, and I'll fight like hell for those rights to be maintained for all queers, especially kids.

(Pictured as found. Selection committee unknown.)

because i had to do another set for age 22-present
part one here:
https://mltshp.com/p/1RX8C

tried to grab a few gems that stuck with me in the ensuing decades (picking up in the 00s, the 10s, and giving a brief nod to the wild mass of new music i’ve been enjoying in this hellscape decade).

i'm hesitant to declare music from the last few years in my favorites, knowing how quickly my tastes can change, but i have to say there have been SO many amazing albums in this last year alone. it reminds me that i'm not done growing and taking in new things. to that end, i picked two (amazing) 2020s albums from artists i've loved for a long time, american football and deafheaven.

nearly made it: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

Inapplicable because it isn't an album but very important: the oldies station my mom always had on in the car.