My top 25 songs for 2025 (not ranked): Little Life by Cordelia The Field by Blood Orange Spiders by Lola Young Hold On To The Light by JackJohnson/Hermanos Guiterrez Under The Water Nation Of Language #MusicSky #NowPlaying

I may be jinxing myself but I have made it this far without hearing Last Christmas. Will I make it to Christmas? Public spaces are the biggest threat. Tomorrow night may be the last threat out there. Which me luck. #Whamageddon

My Top 5 Albums of 2025: #1 Phil Cook Appalachia Borealis #MusicSky #NowListening

My Top 5 Albums of 2025: #2 Blood Orange Essex Honey #MusicSky #NowListening

My Top 5 Albums of 2025: #3 Nation Of Language Dance Called Memory #MusicSky #NowListening

My Top 5 Albums of 2025: #4 Orebolo The Chateau #MusicSky #NowListening

My Top 5 Albums of 2025: #5 Bon Iver Sable, Fable #MusicSky #NowListening

At the Christmas Market.

My top five (okay, six) tv shows of 2025: It: Welcome To Derry Pluribus Severance Season 2 Task Adolescence White Lotus Season 3 2026 looks to be a banner year for tv. We shall see! #TV #TVShows #NowWatching

My 2025 top 5 reads(not ranked): Emperor Of Gladness by Vuong I Cheerfully Refuse by Enger What We Can Know by McEwan Beautyland by Bertino Vera, Or Faith by Schteyngard A quiet year of reading for me. A total of 26 books this year. Big drop off. #BookSky #NowReading

Thinking my time on Bluesky is done. Enjoyed the music challenges- they make me think meaningfully about music. Outside of that it is like a void. I killed my socials years ago because the negativity. Came back because Bluesky felt positive. It is. But social media is simply pointless I think.

Taking a spin at top five lists. I’ll start with films (not in order): Weapons Sorry, Baby Twinless Life Of Chuck One Battle After Another Haven’t seen Hamnet yet. Not a great year for movies I feel. #MovieSky

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Hanging with the pups. #Pups #Dogs

Trumps America. 🤦‍♂️

It is 13 degrees where I am visiting this weekend, December 13. I think Taylor Swift would be enjoying this numerological moment.

Been a minute. Since I am not doing a #MusicChallenge at the moment I am not as on line here. This is a great flipping song. Keep an eye out for each other out there, friends. You all matter and we need everyone one of you. #MusicSky youtu.be/Pmud5up0My0?...

Get out there #Hiking

Love the little holiday parade in my town. #Christmas

@scalzi.com I see you made the independent book store holiday catalog good sir! Shout out to my local shop The Bookman!

It is indeed beautiful. #Snow #Winter

Now spinning: Orebolo and the album The Chateau. My copy is 0301 of 2000 Good listen if you haven’t. #NowSpinning #Vinyl #MusicSky

Morning music #NowSpinning #Vinyl #MusicSky

No 1 So many songs could have been here. This is the one that I kept coming back to. The first 7 minutes are 90s musical architecture. The last minute or so is like floating in space. Thanks to @tansleyjames.bsky.social for this wonderful musical adventure #90sTop30 youtu.be/B09Ik9o5-2M?...

No 2 1995. Some songs are forever tied to time/place/people. This song is one. Life is short. I think about you all the time But I don’t need the same If it’s lonely where you are, come back down I won’t tell ‘em your name #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/2cSWZF4Ytt4?...

My local indie book shop love today and this looks like a good one for #90sTop30 I think

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No 3 The janky guitar intro pulls you in and the sonic layers and lyrics keep you mesmerized. Heard first in 1993 on a Sony Discman. “All our time can’t be given…back.” These lyrics get me every time. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/Vbu_K41efvY?...

No 4 By 1994, Pearl Jam had already become perhaps the biggest band in the US and one of my favorites. This album released and cemented their status. This song was instant excellence. Never released as a single. 🎶 I would rather starve than eat your bread 🎶 #90sTop30 youtu.be/FQkgIrfpLw0?...

No 5 Not much to say about this song for me. May be the best last song of any album in my view. (Those last three songs are all spectacular). Gives feelings of hope and regret at the same time. Leave the road and memorize the life that passed before my eyes #90sTop30 youtu.be/KIJGlTu5sEI?...

No 6 Not sure how many know this song. One of my absolute favorites and can still make me pause. 1992 was a great year for music. That crescendo at the 3:10 mark is stunning. 🎶 Close your eyes They’ve all gone now So it’s safe with me 🎶 #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/AgdUxT2Q8VY?...

No 7 It was 1995 and at first I want vibing with this one. 35 years later and it is a classic of the era that I can still listen to on repeat. Unban legend says it was influenced by Jeff Buckley. 🎶It wears me out It wears me out 🎶 #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/n5h0qHwNrHk?...

Got out a bit today. Lovely day

No 8 When I first heard this in 1993 I knew instantly this wasn’t just a song (or an album for that matter), this was a transcendent experience. The definition of soul for me. And that subtle guitar is perfection with her stunning voice. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/pKhfoKOTwZY?...

No 9 1997 this album came out and it felt like the future had finally arrived. I didn’t know what to think as I first listened . I did know that this track was and still is an ascending masterpiece. And one day I am gonna grow wings. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/ZVgHPSyEIqk?...

No 10 Such a moving song. Her cover of the Lucinda Williams song Passionate Kisses was the album’s big hit but this song ends the 1992 release with top notch balladry. 🎶Some people remember the first time Some can’t forget the last🎶 #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/5sVPQdFwdFU?...

No 11 A great song off a great album. 1993 brought us this amazing song. Produced by Brian Eno. 🎶 Amongst friends But all alone 🎶 #MusicSky #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/I_1FcdC7eso?...

No 12 Perhaps my most listened to 90s album. A massive fan of the band. I still come back to this great song that now feels ubiquitous when compiling songs from this era. 1992 still sounds magical. Here’s a little ghost for the offering. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/dLxpNiF0YKs?...

No 13 The live version of this appeared on Rock Spectacle, late 1996. I was vaguely in the know but this album introduced them and this amazing song to me. It is always fun to try and belt this one out when it comes on. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/TNbpKqc-Ylc?...

No14 January 1990. Beautiful lyrics. Beautiful voice. Feels a bit of The Smiths (same record label I think). The jangly guitars sound so perfect. 🎶 It's that little souvenir, of a terrible year, which makes my eyes feel sore 🎶 #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/FHsip5xOenQ?...

Anyone out there read the new Ian McEwan yet? I keep looking at it and thinking it should be the next one I read. #IndependentBookStores #NowReading #BookSky

No 15 1992 and grunge was a cultural force. I wasn’t cool enough to know Mother Love Bone and this tour de force version of this song until this soundtrack. It is eight and a half minutes and every second feels like part of the story. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/lH0gnwtSEGI?...

Snuck in a hike and a beach walk #Michigan #GetOutThere

Doing some bin digging today #NowSpinning #Vinyl #MusicSky

No 16 1994- this version of this song. Released a few months before his death. Watching it just now as I post this and it’s easy to take for granted how potent that moment was almost 32 years ago. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/aWmkuH1k7uA?...

No 17 A very 90s sounding song. Released in 1995, this was instantly my favorite song by these guys and one you still have to turn up and sing along with. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/JSxNqSAvkDE?...

No 18 Such a great song. So many DMB songs in the 90s could make this list. This one keeps resonating. Love the lyrics. Love the layers of instrumentation. It keeps inspiring me all this time later. #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/SYCxdWaN6iU?...

No 19 1992. I love this album. This was the first single release, full of angst and wondering. “Why don’t want more than good looks? Why do I want more than great books?” #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky youtu.be/U70hgtHG5t0?...

No 20 The 1990s were a diverse musical experience for me.1993 delivered this one. A beautiful song by Rickie Lee Jones. Just give me many chances Just give me time to learn to grow #90sTop30 #MusicChallenge youtu.be/uB89sotCQx4?...

Solemn and poignant.