Playmixt aka Kevin
@playmixt.bsky.social
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Music. Records. Cats. Tiki. Podcasts.
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Wrote a thing for the I Have That On Vinyl site:
ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/mysti...
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Mystique and Deceit in R.E.M. Album Art
Back home in Pennsylvania, the next trip to the record store sent me straight to the βRβ bin: did they have any other records? βMurmurβ was already acquired, but the bin also held a blue-covered EP ti...
https://ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/mystique-and-deceit-in-r-e-m-album-art/
12 months ago
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The Tonearm
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"Now knowing of [Warhol's] fame, I thought of the Eno quote, and something didnβt sound right about it. Surely, with Warholβs involvement, the band would have been better known β and would they not then have sold more than 30,000 records?" How Popular Was the Banana Album?:
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The Velvet Underground Myth: How Popular Was the Banana Album?
The Velvet Underground Myth: Brian Eno was Wrong. The Velvet Underground and Nico Sold 150,000 Units in the Band's Lifetime. And this is How I Worked it Out!
https://grantmcphee.substack.com/p/the-velvet-underground-myth-how-popular?ref=thetonearm.com
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Behind this door at the Polynesian resort at Walt Disney World... on Dec 29, 1974... John Lennon signed the papers dissolving the partnership known as THE BEATLES.
#theBeatles
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Billy Bragg
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I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
YouTube video by Billy Bragg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW2ZikGW8
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Side B: Gil Scott-Heron β B-Movie Bob Marley β Burninβ and Lootinβ Nick Cave β We No Who U R John Prine β Your Flag Decal Rage Against the Machine β Know Your Enemy Dead Kennedys β Nazi Punks Fuck Off Public Enemy β Fight the Power Fugazi β Suggestion Wilco β Ashes of American Flags
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Making a mix-tape Side A: Bob Dylan β Itβs Alright, Ma (Iβm Only Bleeding) Neil Young β Ohio Leonard Cohen β The Future Pink Floyd β Dogs Talking Heads β Life During Wartime Radiohead β 2 + 2 = 5 The Clash β Clampdown XTC β Dear God Led Zeppelin β No Quarter Frank Zappa β Trouble Every Day
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Tonight's view of the Mai-Kai show from our table.
#MaiKai
#tiki
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Korero Press
4 days ago
Thank you for backing our project, Kevin πΊπ π΄π If YOU want to support
#DonTheBeachcomber
too & receive your copy early, click the link below:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kor...
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9 days ago
Big news, Tiki βohana. πΏ The Kickstarter for Searching for Don the Beachcomber launches this Tuesday. A limited edition Cannibal mug, based on a carving from his collection, will be available as well. Sign up to get first access
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kor...
#TikiCulture
#TikiHistory
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Coming soon: Searching for Don the Beachcomber
The extraordinary life of the godfather of Tiki culture and the inventor of the Tiki bar.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/korero/searching-for-don-the-beachcomber
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At the Mai-Kai.
#MaiKai
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Tampa
#sunset
. Boats in the sun's reflection.
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Terminal. National airport.
#photosky
#mcm
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Chris Steller
6 days ago
Lucinda Williams now looks like the hardest hitting veteran correspondent on cable news
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Jim Parrett π
6 days ago
We are normal and we want our freedom.
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Flannel, Steady Diet of
7 days ago
This is what being alive right now is like
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The Tonearm
7 days ago
"I was infatuated with these seemingly random photos of people holding oversized signs around London. They reminded me of folks on the side of the highway twirling advertisements for the local carwash or sandwich shop. Yet the printed logo gave them a Pop Art feel."
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How the Band Lush Captured 1996 London with 'Lovelife'
Singer Miki Berenyi and designer Chris Bigg walk us through the visuals behind the group's last album
https://theartofcoverart.substack.com/p/how-the-band-lush-captured-1996-london?ref=thetonearm.com
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Just supported the Kickstarter for the new book SEARCHING FOR DON THE BEACHCOMBER: INVENTOR OF THE
#TIKI
BAR:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/kor...
#TIkiBar
#Swanky
#Cocktail
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Searching for Don the Beachcomber
The extraordinary life of the godfather of Tiki culture and the inventor of the Tiki bar.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/korero/searching-for-don-the-beachcomber
8 days ago
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Criterion's DAVID LYNCH titles are 30% off:
www.criterion.com/shop/collect...
#DavidLynch
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David Lynch
Both a midnight-movie icon and an art-house visionary, this groundbreaking auteur created a surreal and singular style that blends midcentury nostalgia and nightmare expressionism. All titles 30% off ...
https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/499-david-lynch
8 days ago
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#TFW
you unexpectedly stumble on a modern vinyl reissue of a '90s cd you loved ("Oyster" by
#HeatherNova
) and learn she made an album in 2003 with
#MercuryRev
backing her!
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Hagerstown dusk.
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Did you ever love a band that you hoped would reunite one day? If yes, you need to watch this film.
#musicsky
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10 days ago
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FB Marketplace showing you stuff that's already been sold is like the restaurant where they're all out of the first 5 things you try to order.
10 days ago
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#NickDrake
fans should - if you haven't already - immediately purchase or stream the new "Making of Fives Leaves Left" box set. Disc one alone is worth the price of the entire package. Feels like I am in the room listening to him play and sing; phenomenal.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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The Making Of Five Leaves Left - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m4skTwjpjNJ35nzkPl_U9Ju_P2CObCv0U
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Ben Kuchera
12 days ago
I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.
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11 days ago
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It's still super weird (and not talked about enough) that Laura Palmer's mom and Donna Hayward's dad are Susan's parents on "Seinfeld."
#TwinPeaks
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O&A / David Lynch's Worlds
11 days ago
#DavidLynch
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If you're not subscribing to Nick Cave's "Red Hand Files"... well, I don't know what to tell you. You're missing all sorts of goodness:
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This is a marvelous essay on the work of
#DavidLynch
, who was fond of saying, "If you want a message, go to Western Union."
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Wind blowing tonight like we live in
#TwinPeaks
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16 days ago
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Beginning to think a lot of kids took the wrong message away from the after-school special "THE WAVE."
17 days ago
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Jon
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Never has a post needed this song more:
youtu.be/J763MqgYqOw?...
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19 days ago
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Rodney introducing a set from Bill Hicks:
#BillHicks
youtu.be/fNUoufypSJo?...
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Rodney Dangerfield Welcomes Bill Hicks to the Stage
YouTube video by Rodney Dangerfield
https://youtu.be/fNUoufypSJo?si=Np4QIJdZOHCPHGQJ
19 days ago
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"There will be no year 2000. Not as we know it." - Hunter S. Thompson
#HST
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Boxer in the morning.
#BoxerPJohnson
#catsofbluesky
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Was reminded today of how great the
#podcast
LIAR CITY was until it went dark. Did they hit a nerve somewhere? Highly recommend their episodes on the 1980s satanic panic.
#LiarCity
20 days ago
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Jim Parrett π
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On the big screen, tonight's entainments:
#TWINPEAKS
#DAVIDLYNCH
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"Give Up" is a soundtrack of my first years in the DC area. Driving between VA>DC>MD all winter; parking passes needed to visit friends at their apartment buildings. This essay explores the loneliness baked into the songs of this album.
ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/such-...
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Such Great Heights: on the Postal Service and Loneliness
There are albums in my life that act as a therapeutic friend who I only see a couple times a year, but is always there to pick up lost pieces of me. They donβt put me back together, they gingerly plac...
https://ihavethatonvinyl.com/essays/such-great-heights-on-the-postal-service-and-loneliness/
23 days ago
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Really glad I took my BP medicine at halftime. Thinking about seasoning our wings with it next week.
#Steelers
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1985: Steven Wright releases an album titled "I Have A Pony." 2007: Steven Wright releases an album titled "I Still Have A Pony."
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Once again I'm imploring Peacock and NBC Sports: I will gladly pay for non-Collinsworth audio.
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Hadn't spotted the Rave-ups poster in Ferris Bueller's bedroom before, left of the lamp.
#Raveups
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ATTENTION
#DAVIDLYNCH
&
#TWINPEAKS
fans in the mid-Atlantic and other nearby regions (don't know much about it but am intent on attending). Cc:
@davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social
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Night at the Black Lodge in Arlington Va 2.28.2026
Step into the dreamlike world of Twin Peaks and celebrate the art of David Lynch with an unforgettable night of surreal mystery and offbeat beauty with art, vendors, games and music.
https://nightattheblacklodge.com/?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=ig&utm_id=120237123306610491&utm_content=120237123307720491&utm_term=120237123306790491&utm_campaign=120237123306610491
23 days ago
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O&A / David Lynch's Worlds
23 days ago
Attention Los Angeles:
#DavidLynch
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"WE'RE AT WAR <All the papers say> WE WILL WIN <I read today> WE ARE STRONG <It wasn't us> WE ARE RIGHT <Who started this?>" - Big Country "Where The Rise Is Sown"
youtu.be/-sKnyEzuies?...
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Big Country - Where the Rose is Sown
YouTube video by tropicalstorm76
https://youtu.be/-sKnyEzuies?si=SfBReN9wMrJLsGbx
24 days ago
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Massimo
25 days ago
This guy recorded himself walking around a Blockbuster for a movie night in 1993 and its so nostalgic.
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bring on the dancing horses
25 days ago
really great essay about synchronicty
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This is simultaneously insightful and upsetting all at the same time. Well worth reading:
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Today I learned that actress Virginia Hey is not only the woman in the tube in the
#Buggles
clip for "Video Killed The Radio Star"...
26 days ago
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