Someone is happy that I’m back home

Big Ears Festival, Day 4: Blind Boys of Alabama, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Nels Cline plays “Lovers” (1)

I went to CHURCH

Big Ears Festival, Day 3: Bill Orcutt, Mary Halvorson’s Canis Major, Richard Thompson, Jeff Parker (1)

Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band put out probably my favorite album of 2025, and my expectations were sky high for their Big Ears Festival set tonight. Folks, IT WAS EVEN BETTER THAN I COULD HAVE IMAGINED.

Big Ears Festival, Day 2: John Zorn’s Masada, Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock, Chris Forsyth’s BASIC, Jeff Parker Expansion Trio (1)

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Big Ears Festival, Day 1: Deerhoof, SML, SML XL (w/sg John Dieterich of Deerhoof + Rob Mazurek), SUSS

SML whipped ass and my Boilers are headed to the Elite Eight!

Big Ears! LFG! Deerhoofin’ it to kick off my festival weekend.

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I stretched out in the recliner for a little snooze and ended up with a nap buddy (and a black shirt covered in white cat hair)

Good thread as to why we’ll have comps titled something like “Wild Garage Rock Freaks of New Mexico 1964-1970” but never one titled “Wild Garage Rock Freaks of New Mexico 2002-2009”

The Big “Ten” Conference

Sonny would probably deny that he and Benny are pals, but I have the photographic evidence

Yeah, I’ve experienced or witnessed lots of situations where parents’ refusal to honestly deal with aging ends up causing immense stress and heartache for everyone else. Wanting politicians to acknowledge reality is not ageism!

Yeah, I definitely do this

A new restaurant named Feather & Ball is opening up in my city … and generating some, uh, interesting mental images

Ah yes, the “British” tradition of piling toppings on baked potatoes. We called it a potato bar and had it for dinner all the time when I was a kid growing up in Indiana.

Etran de L’Aïr has to cancel US tour do to visa restrictions on citizens of Niger. Heartbreaking for US fans of this amazing band. Devastating for the band themselves who say that US tours comprise about 70% of their income. Help these guys out and buy a record: etrandelair.bandcamp.com/music

My Entanglements? Irreversible

My Tones? Def

My Fits? Divine

My 97’s? Old

Happy birthday to Jorge Ben! Revisit our beginners guide to the prolific samba maestro's catalog www.treblezine.com/best-jorge-b...

I memorized “The Walrus and the Carpenter” and “Jabberwocky” as a kid (also three chapters of Romans and a bunch of Psalms, but that’s a whole nother story). Can still recite “Jabberwocky,” but the rest is lost in the sands of time.

Speaking of changing the channel, this Duke-TCU game is damn near unwatchable

I always mute halftime bullshit during the NCAA tournament, and now I have to change the channel too? Thanks, “Old Ball”!

The tuna salad sandwiches I had to eat as a child. Also, every Cuban sandwich I’ve ever ordered from a non-Cuban restaurant.

My first @robertjbennett.bsky.social book, but definitely not my last. Can’t say I’ve read many novels that blend fantasy and detective genres, but I’d gladly read several more of these. So much fun.

Great story about all-time NCAA assist leader Braden Smith. I’ve really enjoyed watching him play for Purdue the past four years.

Oh hey, it’s the CVS I went to when I lived in Columbus

Hurray for the Riff Raff's 'Live Forever' is now available digitally, with the CD / 2LP due May 8. It was captured live over the course of two sold-out summer nights at Chicago's @oldtownschool.bsky.social: hurrayfortheriffraff.lnk.to/liveforever

Got rear-ended on an icy bridge the other night. Still waiting on the insurance verdict, but it’s not looking good for my beloved 2018 Mazda3 stick shift. Probably going to replace it with a (small-ish) hybrid, or maybe my first EV if the payout is good. Anybody drive one they’d recommend?

The Big Ears Festival is a week away, so of course I’ve been obsessing over the shows I want to see (and bracing for last-minute time-slot shuffles to mess up all my plans, lol)

This has never been one of my top-tier Yo La Tengo albums, but I recently ran across the LP and grabbed it anyway — and boy does it go down smooth and pretty across four sides of vinyl

"Yeah, the president sucks, he's a war pig fuck His shit is out of luck, it's the song I hate, it's the song I hate" youtu.be/eWzIlCJAw-o?...

Damn, Siena came so close to making people forget about FDU beating Purdue

Zune: Messiah — presented by Microsoft

I don’t think Pete Hegseth would like what I’m praying for in the name of Jesus Christ

OBAA, Secret Agent, and It Was Just an Accident form a really interesting triptych of trying-to-live-in-an-authoritarian-state stories

Today is looking up

Back in the early 90s, we got a guided tour of the Seyfert’s factory from the Potato Chip Lady

you know it

Loved loved loved One Battle After Another. Loved loved loved Sinners. Couldn’t care less about movie awards.

Stopped to grab a sandwich in Lebanon (the town next to the school district that elected a Nazi and removed a classroom’s Hate Has No Home Here sign) on my way to a concert tonight. Saw a big bearded good ol’ boy leave the restaurant and get into a pickup truck with this hat on the dash. BRAVO, SIR.

the most pathetic thing i can imagine is being a grown ass adult addicted to using the R slur. like it’s embarrassing enough to have it vestigially lodged in your vocabulary but to go to bat for your right to use a hateful word everybody normal got bored of in the sixth grade…?

*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.

Jazz/instrumental, classical, and Everything Else, organized alphabetically by artist/composer last name or band name within each of those three categories. I keep new acquisitions separate (organized the same way) and mix them into the collection once a year or so.

This is a tough one, because a bad carb (dry, flavorless, too thick, too fragile etc) is worse than none at all for a breakfast sandwich. But assuming good quality: On the go: tortilla or roll Knife and fork: biscuit Homemade: a good ol Thomas’ English muffin