I now do everything in my power to order directly from responsible companies and avoid the Amazon go-between. It's been working out well. My Amazon purchases are down 95% in recent months. I've even started to buy more books from @bookshop.org who now has their own e-reader app I use on my phone.

Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin’ Lovers! - 1956, 2026 tone poet reissue Frank with Nelson Riddle backing

Herbie Hancock - River: The Joni Letters - 2007 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #jazzsky

What I’d NEVER do as a brain injury rehab doctor: • Motorcycle • Tackle football (for my kids) • Ignore BP • Skip helmets • Normalize repeat COVID infections Because I take care of what happens next.

Brilliant! And all too real.

Floating Points - Lazarus (TV series soundtrack) - 2025 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk - 1979 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 - 2021 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #jazzsk #ambientsky

It’s reshuffle day on the vinyl shelves. Putting classical, ambient and jazz together into their own space, because I’ve decided they scratch the same itch.

Pretty sure without music the world doesn’t even spin

Brad Mehldau- Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles - 2020 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #jazzsky

Floating Points - Elaenia - 2015 There’s something beautiful about throwing synthesizers together with traditional acoustic instruments. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #jazzsky #electronicsky

Brad Mehldau - Largo - 2002 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #jazzsky

The world we’re living in today, people can’t even agree without disagreeing.

Train Dreams all but ignored. Unfortunate. Deserved more glory. Should have got cinematography at the very least, if not best picture.

A good day is finding out you are Canadian based on new Canadian law.

I recently bought a Nikon ZR. Over the years it’s normal for me to have some buyers regret after spending money on cameras. This is the first camera in a very long time where I’ve just been blown away and think it was worth every penny and more. Amazing video for price. #photography #Nikon #cameras

Angel Olsen - All Mirrors - 2019 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis - Deface the Currency - 2026 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #jazzsky

British Columbia is switching their clocks for the last time this Sunday. There's a lot going on in the world right now, but there is NO reason to not make daylight saving time permanent. Congress should pass my bill to finally lock the clock.

I have adored Mary Chapin Carpenter's work for decades. One of the great honors of my life to collaborate with her on this single of two covers of songs we love, out today! themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/put-th...

Kathleen Edwards- Billionaire - 2025 Love this album. Has that West Coast Americana Folk living on the edge of the world vibe that just feels like home. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Brad Mehldau - Ride into the Sun - 2025 Mehldau interprets Elliott Smith. Good stuff. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #jazzsky

Republicans scare people with lies. Democrats can’t even scare people with the truth. This has to change. Between now and November 100% of Democratic messaging should be about stopping the freight train of authoritarianism and anti-civil rights that is the Republican regime.

Mile’s Davis - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 Mile’s second great quintet with Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock & Ron Carter. An inventive and dangerously skilled group of players. 2 nights, 7 sets, 10 LP’s. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #jazzsky

Elliot Smith - Either/Or - 1997 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Big Star - #1 Record - 1972, 2019 re-issue I can’t recommend this enough if you don’t have it in your collection. Quiet pressing that sounds great, available and reasonably priced. Big Star changed the world, even if they didn’t know it at the time. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Reminder that I don't use Substack to post anything (it's to do with the Nazis there), but that I do have my own site, scalzi.com, which has its own blog, which is kind of like the 180-gram vinyl version of a Substack, and you can even sign up to get it sent to you in email (see the sidebar).

My top 10 desert island Jazz songs. #JazzDesert10 #jazzsky

Keith Jarrett - Facing You - 1972 Is there a better piano jazz song than the opener on here, “In Front?” If there is I’d love to hear it. All praise be Keith Jarrett. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #jazzsky

Melody Gardot - Sunset in Blue - 2020 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #jazzsky

Reiner & Chicago Symphony – Brahms Violin Concerto Heifetz - 1955, 2015 reissue Sun streaming through the windows, snow on the ground, seems like a good time to crack open my first Brahm’s vinyl. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcollection #classicalsky

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes - 2008 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

American Music Club - San Francisco - 1994 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Galaxie 500 - On Fire - 1989 If you want to block out the world Galaxie 500 is your ticket. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

R.E.M. - Automatic for the People - 1992 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Wayne Shorter — Etcetera — recorded 1965, released 1980, 2019 reissue #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #jazzsky

Interpreti Veneziana - Vivaldi’s Four Seasons #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcollection #classicalsky

Thelonious Monk — Brilliant Corners — 1957 , 2024 reissue Not a note, not a beat, out of place #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #jazzsky

Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night - 1975, 2025 reissue One way of viewing Neil’s career is as a travel log of the artist’s emotions. His greatness lies in never holding anything back. This was a dark period for Neil. Raw and beautiful at the same time. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity

Seahawks throwing gas on the fire, love to see it.

19-0, dominant defensive performance by the Seahawks.

Neil Young - Live at the Celler Door - 1970, released 2013 All these live solo albums from Neil‘s early years are just gems. Intimate settings, and just Neil with a guitar and piano. Is anything else required? #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Belle and Sebastian - Girls in Peace Time Want to Dance - 2015 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Julia Holter - Aviary - 2018 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses - 1978, 2018 reissue #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl

Vikingur Olafsson - Opus 109 - 1925 Why is his head resting on a bed of moss? I have no idea. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcollection #classicalsky

Miles Davis — In a Silent Way — 1969 I own a digital version of this, but finally made my way to a vinyl release. Such a good album. #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #jazzsky

Art Pepper Quartet — Modern Art — 1957, 2025 Tone Poet reissue #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylcommunity #jazzsky

Fontaines D.C - A Hero’s Death - 2020 #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylcommunity #vinyl