Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke, & Jean Luc Ponty did a fantastic album called the Rite Of Strings. They toured and did the album live in concert first. This is one of the songs, called Renaissance. Music that doesn't suck #MutualMusic #JazzSky #JazzFusion www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOnt...

Not for nothing, but Florsheim are a middle-of-the-road to low end shoe brand that used to be really great (in like the 70s and 80s). When your billionaire boss buys you Florsheims, he's not expressing that high an opinion of you.

The money for public housing and the money for market-rate housing comes from different sources. They don’t need to be in opposition. You can and should build both.

@listenbrainz.org for the week. My love for A Wilhelm Scream continues, along with a healthy rekindling of my stoner metal love (the latest High on Fire goes HARD). Other recs, as always, appreciated. #listenbrainzmonday api.listenbrainz.org/1/art/grid-s...

It is a systemic issue, but a lot of folks that are hurting because of the gas prices took an implicit bargain: you can have a big, new house in the sunbelt and live an air conditioned, cheap existence out of community with others. You just gotta accept that you just keep burning dino juice forever

I saw Dogstar play Underground Arts last tour. I'm glad Keanu's having fun, but they obviously consist of a bass player who's spent the last 30+ years becoming a huge action star and two guys who were in a band with Keanu Reeves.

Hot Take: Making gas more expensive is the first/only thing Donald Trump has done that I actually like. Fuck cars.

It's ever this way. Ferrari's season starts out with hopes and dreams and then they forget how many tires are supposed to go on a car. Kimi will probably be our next World Champion, too.

"Land zoned for single-family housing would not be given any development advantage under the law" is absolutely insane. We shouldn't have single-family only zoning anywhere in Philadelphia, but definitely not right on transit lines.

Question, though: isn't it still cheaper to just double park and block up traffic? Cuz that's what people will do, instead. search.app/cYs8c

Philadelphians are exactly the same way about WaWa (or were until the last few years, when I have felt the loyalty waning).

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This is almost enough to balance out the horrors for a day. I'll no longer have to see that dunce on my TV screen every 1-2 weeks.

Pretty damn good, but not as good as the best album from the other Big 3.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

► FunHouseRadio.com <- TUNE IN #weed #meme #memes #bears #animals

To my fellow physical media heads, one of my favorite cheap movie sites GRUV is currently running a 3 Blu-Rays for $20 sale and there's a bunch of genuinely great stuff in here gruv.com/collections/...

Rob Zombie the musician is like Rob Zombie the director: people say all of it's the same, but that can't be right because some of it's good and some is awful. Like, if all the music's the same, why is some of it "Thunder Kids 65" and some is "Tarantula"? "Lords Of Salem" vs. "31"?

Really light week with @listenbrainz.org this week (I was home with the kids because of the snow and they scream when I listen to music). Big musical week for me, plus the new A Wilhelm Scream is really good. #listenbrainzmonday

Was there ever an Italian ero-fumetti "Magnum PI" rip-off series? Yes there was. It was called 44 Magnum, and here's the complete NSFW gallery. www.paultobin.net/blog-2-1/44-...

Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it

folks theyre saying the pale rider doesnt want us to break the seventh seal, theyre saying no one has the strength to handle it. what do you think folks, what do you think of that pale rider. should we do it? *crowd going absolutely ape shit* i dont know, i want to but they say I shouldnt

This is the first time I've heard Ryan Coogler say this, but it helps the vibe of Sinners snap into place for me: "I wanted the movie to feel like music and to have an aggressively dynamic range"

"Single family zoning is a subsidy to homeowners. It's a subsidy that's paid by renters by making housing in the area less affordable. And given that the average homeowner has 40 times the net worth of the average renter, it means that this is a subsidy to the rich from the poor."

I have, in fact, rolled dice with Harlem Unbound and I recommend others do the same. It's really awe-inspiring both as a gaming product and a history lesson.

What if the guy just likes seeing penises and this is a clever way to make that happen?

The Abominable angered me more than any other work of art I've ever experienced (except Birth of a Nation). If you're going to name your book that and make us read about mountain climbing for 700 pages, you better give me a yeti. Can't introduce the yeti and tell us in the same chapter it was Nazis.

Since this is an alternate title for City of the Living Dead, I'm not at all surprised children weren't allowed in. I showed it at a Halloween film festival and cleared out the whole party. Just a gross (but excellent) film.

This looks tailor-made for @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online.

Playing “41 Shots” to commemorate how many shots on goal Canada took.

also the prisoner: say, whatcha got in the way of weather balloons

Too much performative progressivism in the Absolute line for your taste? Get ready to see what AI spits out after it’s fed two decades of Bill Willingham scripts

At least they'll never own Dischord. Props to Ian, who will be the last man standing.

What in the fuck is my DC-obsessed ass gonna do now that my favorite characters are about to be owned by an overt Nazi? Fucking Superman is gonna be owned by Nazis.

Spot zoning (you'll never convince me that zoning overlays aren't spot zoning by another name) and parking minimums are going to kill Philadelphia yet. And City Council is going to ride it down like Slim Pickens.

This is a really cool story of just how small the world of jazz can be. Getting a gig as part of a legend like Sonny Rollins' band without even being sure he listened to your album is wild. #jazzsky

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

I don’t know if i can put into words the pain associated/hidden in our elders saying “did what we had to do” How that elder has taken years of Racist abuse and had to learn to shove the pain of it deep down and pretend to not hurt bc that’s what a Good Negro it’s supposed to do

Spike Lee is Henry Louis Gates' guest on Finding Your Roots tonight

As a Philadelphian, I'm obligated to treat all things New York with some degree of skepticism, but this is pretty damn great.

I think he's lost a little bit amongst the huge personalities in the band, but Bernie Worrell never really got enough credit as the architect of the P-Funk sound and, by extension, on 90s hip hop music. I remember barely a ripple when he died; most people just didn't seem that familiar

Philadelphians truly are the best. My kid is a big 5; look how huge this snowman at Lemon Hill is.

The movie's just alright, but this is the movie that got The Incredible Bongo Band ('Apache') together, so it has vast significance (at least obliquely) to hip hop history.

People are talking about Sinners for wrong reasons, so here: it's a phenomenal argument for the superiority of physical media. Watching it on HBO Max looks like dogshit, nothing like the physically beautiful film we saw in theaters. The blacks are grey, and that's especially wrong for this one.

As always, Propagandhi's got the songs. Dear Coaches Corner is (at least in part) about loving the game of hockey but being disappointed in the politics of most of the faces of the game. This is why, as big an asshole as he was, Sean Avery was a good dude.

I don't think it's as well known as it should be that the whistles were never intended for the song. The lyrics weren't done, so Otis whistled as a placeholder. He died before he got the chance to complete them. We lost so much.

Shoutout to Ahmaud's mother and the Ahmaud Arbery Foundation. If you wish to support, check their site: ahmaudarberyfoundation.org

Good week of listens on @listenbrainz.org It's corny, but I really dig that Bongolian record, and I discovered Irreversible Entanglements (who are playing Solar Myth in Pilly in a couple months. Finally, Refused is all @jamellebouie.net's fault. #listenbrainzmonday