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I got married!
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Us with our witnesses, French town hall
my9albums.com
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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"
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"
now THIS is a format i like
(also, a few months ago, my local record shop got a pristine 70s japanese pressing of "white light/white heat" and i'm so mad someone beat me to it)
(also, a few months ago, my local record shop got a pristine 70s japanese pressing of "white light/white heat" and i'm so mad someone beat me to it)
@niikuneko Oh wow, that would have been awesome to have. My copy is from the Sundazed Mono Boxset, which is fun but not necessarily the most fulfilling copy to have.
IRL version of this meme game is the best version
Too soon?
This may not be safe for viewing at work.
Me
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Me in shared with the sun behind
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.
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.
Sko Ducks
🤘
Women Fish Men Fear
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Man wearing a t that has a photo of a fish-topped mermaid in a bikini, and reads
"Fish women love me
"I fear them"
"Fish women love me
"I fear them"
very true!
YES
"Why couldn't she be the other kind of mermaid? With a fish part on top and a lady part on the bottom?!"
--Phillip J Fry
--Phillip J Fry
New kit
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A large format camera on a monorail and tripod. The back is green and we can see some black bellows in front. There is a light on a stand to the right and a backdrop pole with a sheet of acrylic resting on some trestle tables to the left and rear.
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 available. Colour is trickier. 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 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 available. Colour is trickier. 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.
Humongous
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<image of McDonald’s posting a happy national coming out day message>
“D+15 midterm indicator”
<image of Frank from Always Sunny in Philadelphia talking on the phone>
“So you come crawling back, you cheap sack of shit”
“D+15 midterm indicator”
<image of Frank from Always Sunny in Philadelphia talking on the phone>
“So you come crawling back, you cheap sack of shit”
100% on the Danny D quote here.
WIP: continued
my9(more)albums
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9 more albums...
David Greay - White Ladder
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
Cornershop - When I was Born for the 7th Time
The Cult - Sonic Temple
Bowie - Hunky Dory
The The - Soul Mining
Singles - OST
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
David Greay - White Ladder
Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream
Raphael Saadiq - Stone Rollin'
Cornershop - When I was Born for the 7th Time
The Cult - Sonic Temple
Bowie - Hunky Dory
The The - Soul Mining
Singles - OST
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
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 hadn't thought about soundtrack compilation albums, this might change everything on my nine
@idogcow yea, I could probably do 9 just consisting of soundtrack comps.
I'll bite
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grid of album covers
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
Trainspotting Soundtrack
Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Songs Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
The Breeders - Last Splash
Alton Ellis - Sings Rock and Soul
The Body - I Shall Die Here
Trainspotting Soundtrack
Red Red Meat - Bunny Gets Paid
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Songs Ohia - Magnolia Electric Co.
Tim Hecker - Radio Amor
The Breeders - Last Splash
Alton Ellis - Sings Rock and Soul
The Body - I Shall Die Here
I'll admit each of these is doing a lot of heavy lifting and all are standing in for probably a dozen other somehow-related albums. I've arranged them sort of in chronological order of when they peaked in importance for me. First row is mainly high school, discovering strands of punk, electronic, new wave, and nascent indie rock; primarily finding new things by browsing in record stores. Second row is college, when my horizons really started to broaden (and maybe solidify a bit more). A lot of indie and college rock but also more complex electronic music. I learned more from the internet and file sharing, but also my college radio station where I DJed for a couple years and the itinerant record seller who showed up in our student center every couple of weeks. Third row is post-college (so we're really condensing things at this point…), both discovering the depths of albums I only knew the singles from when I was younger, digging deeper into soul, roots, and world music, and strains of heavy music that I've only really started vibing with in the last 10 years or so.
Ask me to do this on another day and the 9 would probably be totally different. In fact, here's a credible alternate list:
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Husker Dü - New Day Rising
Pere Ubu - Cloudland
Philip Jeck - Vinyl Coda
Neil Young - Everyone Knows this is Nowhere
Moondog - Moondog
David Bowie - Lodger
Electrelane - The Power Out
Pulp - This is Hardcore
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks
Husker Dü - New Day Rising
Pere Ubu - Cloudland
Philip Jeck - Vinyl Coda
Neil Young - Everyone Knows this is Nowhere
Moondog - Moondog
David Bowie - Lodger
Electrelane - The Power Out
Mmmmm Jeck
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anything but metric
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photo with the title "americans will use anything but the metric system"
photo shows what appears to be subfloor construction with pressed wood flooring held up by a joist. The joist has wording printed on the side that says "242 dicks"
photo shows what appears to be subfloor construction with pressed wood flooring held up by a joist. The joist has wording printed on the side that says "242 dicks"
monkey see, monkey do.
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i may as well join the trend.
i ALMOST put "the fragile" on my list (in fact, my copy was literally sitting on top of my turntable as i was writing mine)
*wolf whistle*
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A color photograph of an item at a museum. "My photo shows an ancient Greek pottery bowl with a rounded, deep body, wide open mouth and flared rim. It has a large handle shaped like a human leg, extending from the left side of the bowl in my photo, bending at a right angle and ending in a flat foot. The bowl has a camel-coloured surface decorated with dark brown geometric patterns, which include zigzags and meander motifs arranged in horizontal bands around the body of the bowl and along the leg. From Attica, Early Geometric period, circa 850 BC. It sits on a light stone coloured surface in a display case at the Altes Museum in Berlin."
source: https://bsky.app/profile...
"Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin"
Photo by Alison Fisk
"Early Geometric period 850 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin"
Photo by Alison Fisk
Oh my god that is the best
a major award
flimsy
My 9
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9 album covers laid out in a 3X3 grid
Ok, tried to do this without deep thinking, just 9 cds I'd grab for a long road trip. Might revise & resubmit…
I haven't put Alphaville on in a long time. Adding it to the afternoon queue!
@homerj one of a small handful of LPs that I can just play thru the whole thing non-stop
Shout out for the worst bribe ever
all up in the
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advertisement for "fruit-nog mix"
The Knox That Wouldn't Die
you gonna call me a fruit-nog, you gonna call me it to my face
@nikkuneko ++
Grand Closing
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Foreground: Bright red and yellow pennant flags strung across a parking space. Background: A bank drive-up window with the shade down and a CLOSED sign. Another window above is partially covered with a piece of plywood.
that's great, love the composition
3x3
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9 albums that I love.
Oval - Dok
Einstürzende Neubauten - Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
This Heat - This Heat
To Rococo Rot - John Peel BBC Sessions 97 - 99
Tarwater - Silur
Severed Heads - Since the Accident
Melt-Banana - MxBx 1998 / 13,000 Miles at Light Velocity
The Fall - Perverted by Language
Oval - Dok
Einstürzende Neubauten - Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala
Bastro - Diablo Guapo
This Heat - This Heat
To Rococo Rot - John Peel BBC Sessions 97 - 99
Tarwater - Silur
Severed Heads - Since the Accident
Melt-Banana - MxBx 1998 / 13,000 Miles at Light Velocity
The Fall - Perverted by Language
thanksgiving cat
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a closeup of a black and brown tabby cat sleeping curled up on a pile of fallen leaves. Her face is in the sun, and she looks blissfully happy
Happy Thanksgiving from us, but particularly from this cat who was snoozing in the sun amongst fallen autumn leaves on our deck.
Happy Thanksgiving, friends to the North.
and they were ready
Happy National Coming Out Day!
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Keith Haring illustration of a blocky person stepping through a door from a dark room. The person appears to be dancing as there are motion lines around the hand and feet, and is colored a dark yellow. The door is orange, with a green wall and purple floor. the text reads
"National coming out day October 11-1988 national gay rights advocates"
"National coming out day October 11-1988 national gay rights advocates"
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.
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.
I'm glad to have you as a friend and so happy you're out and proud. Never apologize, never compromise.
I feel bad. I didn't know that was today. I would have worn my Haring T-Shirt!
28 years and counting!
doing the thing...
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I promise to fill this in shortly...
No Slint, but almost included Rodan.
Field Studies is totally underrated
Now I have regrets for omitting Jim O'Rourke's Eureka. It's too hard.
Game Theory ++. "Lolita Nation" is so flawed, so fascinating.
10 years late I started No Man's Sky
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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
It's on my list, and yeah, afraid to even buy it
i finally played it a bit through xbox game pass last year. at first i was worried it would become all-consuming, but my excitement for it burned out pretty quickly. i think i found the resource gathering too tedious; YMMV. i may return to it again someday, but...
I bought this when I got a new laptop that could actually run it and played it a lot for a while. It did eventually become less fun, though revisiting again later seems like it could be enjoyable. They keep adding new stuff.
I’m looking at you, Rochester!!
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we got a solid week of really nice hoodie-level fall weather...
...and then when i had a long weekend it jumped up to 88F!
(in fact, my menu bar is telling me it's almost 90 now, oy vey)
...and then when i had a long weekend it jumped up to 88F!
(in fact, my menu bar is telling me it's almost 90 now, oy vey)
We were at 90F all weekend here in Minnesota which is nuts, my blood is already thickening for the winter
@wjcstp I have a friend who’s from Rochester who now lives in St. Paul who told me on Sunday “We have crazy weather and it’s headed your way!”
I guess
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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.
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.
That Interpol album has some of the best basslines of the era. Just fantastic.
In me are two Scheherezades. Ozawa & Gurgiev + LSO
i pulled out "moon & antarctica" for the first time in many, many years last month and was surprised how much of it came right back to me.
My formative years
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Nothing cool or edgy. These are the only albums I remember owning from roughly age 10 to age 14.
Oooooh Pearl Jam, and REM!
Apocalypse 91 y’all.
Good album.
Good album.
i had to join in // wrong answers only
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a 3x3 grid of album covers on a light yellow background, titled “my9albums”.
top to bottom, left to right:
“abbey road”, the beatles
“i can hear the heart beating as one”, yo la tengo
“the photo album”, death cab for cutie
“owen”, “owen”
“pink moon”, nick drake
“downward is heavenward”, HUM
“adore”, the smashing pumpkins
“tidal”, fiona apple
“a better version of me”, rainer maria
top to bottom, left to right:
“abbey road”, the beatles
“i can hear the heart beating as one”, yo la tengo
“the photo album”, death cab for cutie
“owen”, “owen”
“pink moon”, nick drake
“downward is heavenward”, HUM
“adore”, the smashing pumpkins
“tidal”, fiona apple
“a better version of me”, rainer maria
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
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
I just realized that I picked 8 of 9 albums from high school years
@thelonius a person's core musical taste is basically locked in at 14-15 years old. A fact I find true (in observation, in self) and upsetting (ibid)
I'm super enjoying this, too. It's also super fun to see an album that was extremely formative for someone and go, ". . . I don't think I've even heard of it."
Re: dropping "formative artists that I just don't want to give the attention to anymore" was pretty key for me, as well. Pretty interesting to see what parts of myself got dropped along the way versus what music has a path forward towards who I am today. Almost want to make a second one just for the music left behind.
@thelonius I really wanted to pick some albums from my late 20s onward because I am still being made as a person but decided that made it too difficult.
Re: dropping "formative artists that I just don't want to give the attention to anymore" was pretty key for me, as well. Pretty interesting to see what parts of myself got dropped along the way versus what music has a path forward towards who I am today. Almost want to make a second one just for the music left behind.
@thelonius I really wanted to pick some albums from my late 20s onward because I am still being made as a person but decided that made it too difficult.