Big time Canadian Content at the thrift store today.

I've been trying to watch but soccer is just such a goofy looking game.

Continuing to peck away at Charlie Parker's Cosmic Rays. I feel like this double time phrase is getting close. Mochi is annoyed but surprisingly she has not left. I must be getting better.

The look of a cat who wishes I would stop playing the goddamn saxophone already.

Today's thrift finds.

I don't know what this indicates, if anything, but I feel like I've been seeing a lot more For Rent signs around lately. Even after moving day. Just went on a bike ride one neighborhood over and saw plenty as well as a bunch of For Sale signs.

Acclaimed Montreal indie rock artist Ada Lea has dropped a new music video for "copycat", a single from her forthcoming fourth album the end is a wave, coming 12 August via Saddle Creek and Next Door Records.

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Between this and the Eric Dolphy statue in Syracuse the Finger Lakes region is punching above its weight in jazz tributes.

I've never been to Philadelphia but I get the feeling that I'd really like it there. There's an alternate version of my life where I end up in Philly. I think about that sometimes.

This is exciting!

Just got a metal splinter from a can of tomatoes. This is what happens when you stop playing the saxophone to do anything else.

Me: I have to confess something. I have Sax Addiction. My wife: Yeah, you're always looking at hornography.

My kitchen hot take is that people are too precious with their cast iron pans.

There are small “c” conservatives like Jane Jacobs and her descendants who hate developers and block all housing in the name of maintaining Annex property values. Then there are community coalitions trying to block developers to buttress the spirit of punk culture. Do not confuse the two!

Here's a documentary about British progressive rock band Van Der Graaf Generator: youtu.be/rclxBz0C8oo?...

I'll give Montreal weather this. It was dry as shit today. 29% humidity? I'll take it every time.

It's a good website

Metaphors. Everywhere I look. Metaphors.

Daughter and I made a little chair for the arugula out of the metal thing that holds the cork in a bottle.

Trying to flip over a record while hold a piece of cheese. Send help.

btw if yr looking for a bargain prices are set a bit lower on @mirlo.space than bandcamp: mirlo.space/robert-dalla...

Just remembered that when I was in Dublin we were walking though Temple Bar in the evening (a mistake) and we were sitting down and a guy came up asking for change to buy a lighter. I didn't have any cash but I offered to let him use mine and he said "I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm going to use/

Media purchased digitally is just a rental. You don't own it. Physical media is sort of the way to go, but there's disc rot. I wrote about how to preserve media according to science! www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Prepped everything for fried rice and found out that the rice in the fridge was bad so I made it into a saucy thing to have over fresh rice. It's pretty good!

Had to take a break from Coltrane so I've been going back to Charlie Parker and learning Cosmic Rays. Yesterday I could only get the first double time line at the beginning of his second chorus up to 60% but today I'm up to 90%! Practice works! youtu.be/O3Lf0dlsUKc?...

Martin Newell

I have a vivid memory of listening to this album on cassette in our last apartment, sitting in front of a fan with a glass of whiskey on ice with no AC, sweating but it was perfect. No better hot, sweaty summer night album than this. No idea where that tape is but I scored this LP at a thrift store.

Ah, cool. My music's been used to train AI. What an honour.

Drinking whiskey and listening to fusion records. What better way to spend an evening.

Autocorrect just gifted me a great band name. Jean-Luc Panty.

It also excommunicates the religious leadership of Quebec City's neonazi group Atalante.

I find this so disturbing.

Got to see my good friends @fumerolles.bsky.social, Elementary Kuuda and Quinton Barnes perform tonight. Also got to hear stuff that I recorded for Quinton for his new album for the first time. You all are gonna flip when you hear this shit, it's amazing.

Excellent beers at Mellön.

About to kick up my cold noodle game a few notches.

Well, I wasn't planning on going to... sigh. Anyway, pretty eclectic haul today. Prog, fusion, Cage prepared piano and whatever it is that Tim Hecker does.

I'm playing saxophone in the kitchen because I'm simultaneously cooking lunch and woodsheding Coltrane stuff. I get that it's not something a "normal" person would do but it's not insane, right? Right?!?

I went to the bathroom after eating this and my family said the woman came by to pick up our plates and garbage and noticed that I hadn't used my utensils. She said that I ate the pupusas like a Salvadorian which I learned from years of watching people in pupusa places using a few different/

It's amazing how someone can be such an astonishing musician and yet you find their music totally boring.

I swear since the Large Hadron Collider went offline I feel so much better.

This is really good and frustrating.

Was someone on here talking about Jamaaladeen Tacuma yesterday? Cause I dreamed about this album last night.

I loved this song so much as a kid. I used to listen to pretty much only oldies radio (Oldies 990) and in retrospect I really responded to the chord changes and that wild outro. youtu.be/kK62tfoCmuQ?...

@simongandrew.bsky.social I wonder if you might be able to shed some light on these since both of these artists have a relationship to Egypt. I'm running out of rabbit holes to go down!

Well, I wasn't planning on going to a thrift store today but you know the drill. Picked up these two tapes. Can anyone translate these to see what I have?

Yesterday's AM on @cjsw.bsky.social is ready for your streaming & playlisting pleasure. Wrapping up June with an eclectic AM, throwing back to electro-poppers Seeland, checking on new releases from Fiver, PJ Harvey, and Maya Ongaku, and generally aiming to balance between waking up and calming down.

About to get pupusas at Mama Sofia hear Honor Beaugrand Metro and I have a VERY good feeling.

If you like Angine De Poitrine you may like this more song-based approach to microtonal rock music. Less math, more singing. It was originally recorded in 2013 but only released in 2021 thanks to Chandra Oppenheim and Jesse Locke's label We Are Time.

Went and dumped some stuff at the record store and came out with these.