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"Working on my tiny Chicago homes. Here’s a peek at 6… 6 more to go ahead of their debut at Open House Chicago. All printed with small metal type and measuring less than 3” square."

My 2026 General Election mail ballot has been counted! I got this cool "Blue Mustang" virtual sticker! Visit GoVoteColorado.gov for more election information

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!!LEONARD COHEN WAS SO OBVIOUS I FORGOT TO INCLUDE HIM!!

This is a culmination of two trains of thoughts inspired by all y'alls discussions & posts: the first is what our parents listened to and how it informed us; and the inclusions of certain Canadian artists that I'm like HOT DAMN YEAH! . . . I've been unable to stop thinking about both, so to calm my brain I'm makin' another set.

We didn't have a t.v. growing up, and what filled that space were tremendous amounts of books and music. My parents did not have a very large vinyl collection - I got the sense that Something Had Happened to their music collection, but never knew what - but the first 4 on this list were all a part of it and played A LOT. (They loved Ian & Sylvia and Ian Tyson solo, who I also adore, so I just picked one.) My dad loved playing music in the barn in particular, and Hank Snow and Gordon Lightfoot ringing from the barn as he worked on a tractor or played a song to "call in the cows" are an essential part of my childhood.

The second train: I've been wanting to make an "international version" of this list, because later in life I came around to so much elsewhere and I'm still growing, but an essential bridge from younger days to now has been music from Canada, and oh! how much I love it. I've worked quite a bit in Canada and always made a point of seeing local shows when I could, whether it was a good size venue in Calgary or a tiny little bar on Cape Breton (NS), and those wonderful Canadian artists have never disappointed.

Canada produces so much Good Shit. So shout out to Canada!

Honorable mentions:
Tegan & Sara
Great Lake Swimmers
Basia Bulat
The Band
The Weather Station
Be Good Tanyas

Tried to get this cutie to come down for a pat but he/she was very scathing of tourists. Pspsps might mean something else in Italian.

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someone dresses as pink panther in the french rallies

Interview from early 2026 with Guy Picciotto from Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Happy Go Licky, etc.

https://greedmagazine.substack.com/p...

Contains many, many good and interesting points about life as Fugazi, then, and life now. One such:

"Everything is about a negotiation and trying to figure out what is worth it. Certainly, now, licensing is a huge part of the way musicians make their money, right? People feel like they’re forced into having to license their music for whatever. My feeling has always been the same: do whatever the fuck you want! I don’t give a fuck. But the idea that there’s no exchange happening, that is bullshit. For most people now, if Apple wants to use your music, you’re doing little flips in the air with joy, how happy you are to be associated with this thing. But that’s an exchange, and what you’ve done with your music is not without valence or without impact about what your music feels like and becomes. I understand why people make their decisions. I don’t judge it. We do plenty of things to make our music accessible to people that might feel compromising to me in some way – I hate algorithmic nonsense but our music is in that gross soup. And you can’t pretend that there’s not an exchange or that there’s not something resulting from it. It’s always irritated me that people think there’s something holier than thou about the idea of having…integrity is such a stupid word, but just having a code or a way of structuring your life that’s not solely based on a profit motive. There has to be some room for that, because otherwise, what is there?"

Murphy hard at work on his sleeping regime.

https://www.theguardian.com/world...

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New location, same dedication to sleep.

may or may not be the most influential but my criteria was which albums/cds stayed on the player for absurdly long amounts of time

i don't have any of this media now and only a few songs are in my rotation

I think this is him at a much younger age than usual in his drawings

I mean, this is both an off the cuff and too long considered list? I guess this captures a certain kind of 80s transitioning into the 90s. Can't remember the last time I listened to Rocks or Appetite for Destruction but they definitely resonated deeply.

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Lithograph by Guy Buffet, 2000. Also, if it were really perfect it would be stirred and made with gin.

#inktober day 19: confused

#notesArt

Haloween lamp?
Verona.

We had a lot of laughs.

In the reflection, my wife tolerating me.

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I tried. This is what I have. I am not as big of a fan of music as a lot of people I guess. These are more or less chronological.

1. Culture Club - Colour by Numbers - The first album I ever bought, somewhere around 5th grade. I liked several songs on it. I remember thinking that it was a lot of money for what I got, and I was the only one who wanted to listen to it.
2. Van Halen - 1984 - The first album that I listened to repeatedly in its entirety.
3. N.W.A. - Straight outta Compton - This album was huge for me and my friends in high school. The world was changing, and this album made us question everything we had previously understood about the world.
4. AC/DC - Back in Black - This is one that my older brother played a lot while he drove us to school and for a good part of a year, the tape was rarely ejected from the radio in the truck. A lot is skipped school happened with this album as the soundtrack.
5. Metallica - Ride the Lightning - This was the first "old catalog" album I ever bought and exposed me to the idea of going back to listen to other songs from an artist that didn't get popular. I became a pretty big fan of Metallica in my time in the Navy, and I could probably just plop three other Metallica albums on here because I listened to them over and over, but that doesn't seem to fit the assignment.
6. The Streets - A Grand Don't Come for Free - I just really enjoyed that this album's lyrics told a story if you listened to all the songs on order and it being British rap was a combination that was just so novel for me that I still play songs from it regularly.

I did this as fast as I could, just the first nine albums I thought of that were important to me. Pretty happy with this list, although now that I think of it, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Boxer should probably be in here instead of the Simon & Garfunkel or the Tull

A Clutch of Vampires by Edward Gorey (1974)

#halloween #gorey #31daysofhalloween #lauraehall

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Trader Joe’s pumpkin ravioli (can no longer be arsed to do it from scratch), in a brown butter sage sauce (with leaves we grew and dried three or four years ago).

Mmmmm

Had to do one with The National and Wilco because I'm a dad. Then I went back to my iTunes Library, which is frozen in amber from 2011, and found a bunch more albums that qualify.

#OHBOY

🤤

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