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Happy 82nd birthday to Billy Cobham! youtu.be/unxshBHfVsY?...

Billy Cobham was born in Colón, Panama on this day in 1944. He turns 82 today.

Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry and Ornette Coleman at the Five Spot, New York City, 1960. Photo from the collection of Charlie Haden

hope you’re not sleeping on this marvellous record. a fearless distillation of everything that was ever good about ‘indie pop’ with just the right balance of toughness and vulnerability https://fikarecordings.bandcamp.com/album/after-the-rain-strange-seeds

Detroit #Tigers pitcher Jack Morris hurls a no-hitter vs. the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park! (1984) Happy 71st Birthday Jack! #MLB #Baseball

here's to Robert Fripp at 80! his "Wimshurst" solo on Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" is one of the loveliest, most dazzling things he ever recorded. when i'm low, it never fails to lighten my spirits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZKc...

the spectrum of Fripp's looks in the 70s alone, from "theory hippie" to "guy who likes to rap to his friends about Orgone therapy" to "Sapphire and Steel"

Thank you, Arizona Public Media! ✨🍿🎬 We are so thankful for the community support we have received and look forward to serving the community in these new spaces for years to come! WATCH NOW: youtu.be/jVcv6Ba9Adw?... #azpm #TheLoftCinema #supportlocal #localcinema #fyp

Sun Ra & June Tyson.

Born on this day in 1565, in Utrecht, the great Dutch architect & sculptor Hendrick de Keyser. Here, my own favorite: the Huis met de Hoofden, 1622. Yes, it has heads. How not to love this?

Gettysburg Times 1909 #PhantomsFriday

I’m not 100% sure this Edward Gorey illustration of a lady in white is a phantom but she does have an ectoplasmic aura. #PhantomsFriday

The first music writing I've done in over a decade. I had to stop at 15 records or I would have kept going forever. Maybe a sequel someday. Thanks to my kid for the actual photos of album covers. This was fun. Please share if you like. Link in comments.

bobsday 85! this tuesday 5/19 on @wfmu.bsky.social, 9pm-12am ET, the frow show's annual cornucopia of live tapes, covers, outtakes, novelties, answer songs, & other dylanological pleasures, filling in for @kendraplex.bsky.social. get your tape decks ready.

Here is a baby otter to round off your week in the best possible way.

As a friend who survived that time put it: "never forget conservatives want to kill you and liberals want you to die quietly."

this is the last photo on my parents' video birdfeeder before it was mysteriously destroyed we may never know what happened

James Mason, with his gently purring baritone and deep emotional range, was one of the best actors of his era; he was #BornThisDay in 1909, in Yorkshire. You can see Mason's greatest performance in Carol Reed's ODD MAN OUT (1947) on the Criterion Channel right now.

🐶 A French toy spaniel named Lazare thought to have been "the world's oldest dog" has died aged 30, his carer said on Friday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SRsZ

Cornell president car thing reminds me of this incident from down the road a few years ago.

The president of Cornell hit some students with his car, lied about what happened, and cast himself as the victim. Cornell's trustees, palpably aghast at the idea that a powerful man could be held accountable for his actions, have issued an official statement saying fuck the students

I am writing to say I do not wish to receive any more "Wonderful World of Music" CDs.

MRS. M. MANCHESTER DOES NOT WISH TO RECEIVE MORE CASSETTES IN THE FAVOURITES FROM THE CLASSICS SERIES. THANK YOU.

Remembering James Mason on his birthday 🎂 📷 Lord Snowdon, 1950s “Talent, intelligence, versatility, independence, and enterprise made Mason’s career remarkable.” - David Thomson

Remembering Claudio Monteverdi on his birthday 🎂 🎨 Giovanni Grevembroch, 18th century "There’s very little artifice in Monteverdi’s music. It’s his own blood directly on the page." - Robert Hollingworth www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FXE...

"Vespers in Venice" In Jonathan Fulford's short documentary film, John Eliot Gardiner talks about Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers of the Blessed Virgin. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnC...

Coffee with Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) & Phillip Vandamm (James Mason), in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, 1959. ☕️ The uncredited still photographer on the set was Kenny Bell. #stillonset

Terrific piece on Gary Fisketjon, literary hero, publisher & former editor at Random House who wanted to introduce small-press writers he'd admired as a reviewer for the Village Voice to a larger audience. His Vintage Contemporaries series introduced me to a lot of my fave writers! More: alt text

alternative history novel where things are mostly the same except we’re living in a world where townes van zandt was the bassist for the 13th floor elevators

The Rolling Thunder Revue plays a prison…again! And Joni Mitchell unexpectedly shows up…again! The dream of 1975 is alive in Gatesville

Doc Chad! Greensboro, NC resident.

OK, a long feed but bear with me - it's a goody for more than one reason. It involves a Mod group, the Peter B's, who saw a bizarre and frightening phantom at 2am in November 1965 as they were in their van returning from a gig. The figure was beside the A3 near Cobham, #Surrey. #PhantomsFriday #Mods

In case you hit a paywall:

From me: O'odham leaders seek answers about damage to 1,000-year-old geoglyph

Teresa Wright was superb too as Charlie, his niece. The semi-incestuous undertone throughout is deeply unsettling and none more so than in this scene. The waitress’ brief appearance is heartbreaking. youtu.be/nqNx2lI4vgg?...

It’s Joseph Cotten’s birthday. An underrated actor but he was the most believable & disturbing of all of Hitchcock’s antagonists as serial killer Uncle Charlie & his bone deep misogyny is still chilling & sadly relevant. That turn to the camera still shocks on the big screen youtu.be/LEoTXa_52A0?...

Albini fan spotted on campus this morning walking to work.

My head evolves on my neck,

The oldest known sculpture of a horse. It was crafted in mammoth ivory about 35,000 years ago

“World Peace and Prayer Day was founded in 1996 in the Black Hills of South Dakota by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe of the Sioux Nation. Arvol Looking Horse was led by a vision to honor sacred sites…” WPPD 2026 — World Peace & Prayer Day

Very excited for the online World Peace & Prayer Day, this event organized by Chief Arvol Looking Horse was the first I heard (3 years ago) about AI/fracked gas data centers from a concerned Mohawk elder, saying it was the new infrastructure of colonial oppression. Theyre always ahead of the curve.

It’s Joseph’s birthday tomorrow.

One of the best adaptations with Brett & Burke youtu.be/Ixq_zgjJQNQ?...

RIP David Burke The first of two excellent Watsons (the other being Edward Hardwicke) who played opposite Jeremy Brett’s iconic Holmes in Granada’s wonderful Sherlock Holmes series.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Chile, recently released its first images of the cosmos/deep space. Vera Rubin (1928-2016) was a pioneering US astronomer whose work provided convincing evidence for the existence of unseen "dark" matter in the Universe #WomensArt

Fall 1982 Roxy scene report on the Sunset Strip. Nina Simone, The Residents Mole Show (their first tour), Neville Bros, Peter Tosh, David Lindley & El Rayo X & Billy Idol. #DiverseLineup