So, George Evelyn emailed that tix for the In A Space Outta Sound 20th anniversary concert next March at the Royal Albert Hall are going fast, AND that it's the 30th anniv. of Smokers Delight (also part of the concert). #NightmaresOnWax: Nights Introlude (sampling Quincy Jones' Summer in the City)

Dutch late night TV has its take

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

About to see Mary Halvorson at the Regattabar jazz club in Harvard Square. #jazzsky #jazz #MaryHalvorson #Regattabar Posted about her latest album, About Ghosts, back in June:

"you can't have your cake & eat it too" (even if it's left out in the rain) #ColloquialSongs #MusicChallenge #JazzSky #jazz Maynard Ferguson : McArthur Park (M.F. Horn 1, 1970)

#ArtistFave15 Bonus: #TheAvalanches + #Soda_Jerk : "The Was" (2016) Part experimental film, part music video, part concept album. Constructed from >100 film & TV samples, w/ music from the Avalanches' Wildflower album, it's "a psychedelic detour through the neighborhoods of collective memory."

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept 1-15 #MusicChallenge #brilliantvideo #sampldelica #plunderphonics Artist: #TheAvalanches day 15, rank 1 The Avalanches: "Since I Left You" (Since I Left You, 2000--a sampledelic masterpiece comprised of >2K samples)

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, then select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15. #MusicChallenge #musicsky #sampledelia #plunderphonics Artist: #TheAvalanches day 14, rank 2 The Avalanches: "Close to You" (Since I Left You, 2000--a sampledelic masterpiece containing ~3,000 samples)

i can’t believe brian kilmeade had to stop mourning charlie kirk just to apologize for advocating the deaths of half a million poor, mentally ill homeless ppl bc he finds them icky. liberals are monsters.

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, then select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15. #MusicChallenge #musicsky #sampldelica #plunderphonics Artist: #TheAvalanches day 13, rank 3 The Avalanches: "Diners Only" / "A Different Feeling" (Since I Left You, 2000) youtu.be/iS5Oa6eN5xk?...

The #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Home Coincidentally, I've been back in my hometown going through stuff, including scanning old Polaroid & Kodak Instamatic photos. Like this one from June 1971 with my brother and me on our Stingray bikes in front of our house. #photosky #photography #EastCoastKin

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15. #MusicChallenge #musicsky #sampldelica #hiphop #SonnyCheeba #CampLo #GregBrunkalla Artist: #TheAvalanches day 12, rank 4 The Avalanches: "Because I'm Me," feat. Sonny Cheeba (Camp Lo) (Wildflower, 2016)

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

Left photo: MAGA, BEFORE finding out the shooter’s identity Right photo: MAGA, AFTER finding out the shooter’s identity I can’t qwhite put my finger on what changed? 🤔 www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-white-ma...

Maybe Kraft thinks "Cash Rules Everything Around Me," but he couldn't buy the election. Despite spending $$$$, Kraft got C.R.E.A.M.ed by nearly 50% points . . . and dropped out. 😄 bsky.app/profile/wutr...

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select and rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15. #MusicChallenge #musicsky #sampldelica #hiphop #MFDOOM #DannyBrown Artist: #TheAvalanches day 11, rank 5 The Avalanches: "Frankie Sinatra," feat. Danny Brown and MF DOOM (Wildflower, 2016)

Fire Island Sunset Memories. A pair of sunset photos from the Bay in Fair Harbor, Fire Island, from 10 days ago. Wish I was back there now. #photosky #photography #sunset #FireIsland #EastCoastKin more here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCso9y

Meanwhile … “The 16-year-old boy who shot two students and then himself at Evergreen High School this week appeared to espouse white supremacist views online …”

It is wildly unusual for lower-court judges to so publicly express frustration with the Supreme Court’s *behavior* (versus, say, a confusing ruling in a specific case). But the number of *different* examples is completely unprecedented—and pretty powerful evidence that something is seriously wrong.

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept 1-15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #sampldelica #plunderphonics Artist: #TheAvalanches day 10, rank 6 The Avalanches: "Two Hearts in 3/4 Time / Avalanche Rock" (Since I Left You, 2000) so many samples, and so very good

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #hiphop #coolvideo Artist: #TheAvalanches day 9, rank 7 The Avalanches: "Take Care in Your Dreaming," feat. Denzel Curry, Tricky, and Sampa the Great (We Will Always Love You, 2020)

Sunset memories: a longstanding Fire Island ritual of Gin & Tonics on the Bay at sunset. Late-Aug. - early-Sept. vacation in Fair Harbor, Fire Island, NY (and points along the Fire Island National Seashore). #photosky #photography #FireIsland #sunset #Gin&Tonic #EastCoastKin flic.kr/p/2rrwYut

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept 1-15 #MusicChallenge #sampldelica #plunderphonics Artist: #TheAvalanches day 8, rank 8 The Avalanches: Tonight May Have to Last Me All My Life (Since I Left You, 2000) Sampling Nancy Wilson, Fela Kuti, Tony Mottola

What you gonna do with those shoes? #Stunday #ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art #Eagles

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, then select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15. #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Artist: #TheAvalanches day 7, rank 9 The Avalanches: "Subways / Going Home" (Wildflower, 2016) "You walk on the subway, it moves around So you go to see what you found"

The sun starting to dip below the horizon in Saltaire. Shot from the dock in Fair Harbor, Fire Island. #Stunday #photography #photosky #sunset #FireIsland #FireIslandNY #FairHarbor #EastCoastKin flic.kr/p/2rrTU2t

Doctor I trust more than RFK Jr.

I bought this CD when it came out - love it. Flora Purim is fantastic on this track. Charlie Haden, Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Airto, Romero Lubambo, and Bob Berg (nice "While My Lady Sleeps" quote). #music #musicsky #jazzmusic #jazzsky youtu.be/8UwINmYJE_0?...

Coin rue Valette Eugène Atget 1923 SFMOMA #photosky

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept 1-15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Artist: #TheAvalanches day 6, rank 10 The Avalanches: "Wherever You Go," feat. Jamie xx, Neneh Cherry & Clypso (We Will Always Love You, 2020) Sampling The Voyager Golden Record (1977)

Unseasonably cold where I am tonight, so yearning even more to be back on Fire Island. Shot from the Saltaire dock last week with Fire Island Light, the Robert Moses Causeway, and Great South Bay Bridge in the distance. #photosky #photography #FireIsland #Saltaire #lighthouse flic.kr/p/2rrhfKU

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #sampldelica Artist: #TheAvalanches day 5, rank 11 The Avalanches: "We Will Always Love You," feat. Blood Orange (We Will Always Love You, 2020) sampling The Roaches & Robert Fripp

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select & rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15 #MusicChallenge #HipHop #sampldelica #plunderphonics #BizMarkie Artist: #TheAvalanches day 4, rank 12 The Avalanches: Noisy Eater feat. Biz Markie (Wildflower, 2016) "Quiet down Biz, you munchin' too loud!"

Early voted earlier for #MichelleWu in Boston’s Mayoral primary against billionaire boy son of Robert Kraft, Josh, who just can’t buy the election. Appropriately voted at City Hall, the Brutalist masterpiece (architecture loved & appreciated by me & Michelle both😄) #reelectMayorWu #ProgressiveMass

#ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, then select and rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15. #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #HipHop #sampldelica #plunderphonics Artist: #TheAvalanches day 3, rank 13 The Avalanches: "Livin' Underwater" / "The Wozard of Iz," feat. #DannyBrown (Wildflower, 2016)

Artist Fave1 5: Pick an artist, then select and rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15. #ArtistFave15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Artist: #TheAvalanches Day 2, rank #14 The Avalanches: “Reflecting Light,” feat. Sananda Maitreya & Vashti Bunyan (We Will Always Love You, 2020)

Great piece on what Democrats can learn from @wutrain.bsky.social as the party debates its strategy newrepublic.com/article/1997...

Kraft can't buy the election. He's still 30% points behind Mayor Michelle Wu (w/ very few undecided voters), spent millions, and will need to cut himself another 7 figure check to keep going. Wu keeps up pressure, going after Kraft’s family’s business and reporting him for unauthorized fundraising.

Stevie Wonder promoting the release of “Songs In The Key Of Life” (1976)

My Gov., Maura Healey, my Sen. Elizabeth Warren & Ed Markey, my Mayor Michelle Wu, & many others joined thousands of union workers & and labor supporters in Boston’s Labor Day Parade, protesting the Trump administration (replacing the city’s traditional Labor Day breakfast).

Another month of #ArtistFave15: Pick an artist, select and rank 15 fave tracks. A song a day, Sept. 1-15 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Artist: #TheAvalanches (even though much of their oeuvre isn’t single-song focused) day 1, rank 15 The Avalanches: The Divine Chord (We Will Always Love You, 2020)

Gin & tonic on the Bay. A longstanding Fire Island sunset ritual of drinks on the Bay at sunset, documented by photos. Vacation in Fair Harbor, Fire Island, NY (and points along the Fire Island National Seashore). #photosky #photography #FireIsland #sunset #Gin&Tonic flic.kr/p/2rqAsca

Herbie Hancock's Gershwin World has a few Stevie Wonder features. He sings AND plays the harmonica. If there is such a thing as jazz harmonica, Stevie nails it. Joni Mitchell on vocals. Summertime 1998 #StevieWondersHarmonica #Jazzsky #jazz youtu.be/HrU73XFKkjM?...

Wistful Skyline Wondering Lovely light and the #NYC skyline on the Acela heading into Penn Station Wed. afternoon. I intended to take a photo of this woman taking a photo out the train window, but wasn’t quite quick enough (she _just_ finished a shot). #photosky #photography flic.kr/p/2rq2WXq

The support of David Ortiz means the world to me—not just as a fan, but as someone who believes deeply in the spirit of Boston. Big Papi has always represented the heart of our community, and I’m honored by his endorsement. This is our city—together, we’ll keep making Boston a home for everyone.