(1) If you've ever wondered how delightfully small the world is, my brother was just telling me he was chatting with his rideshare driver this morning who's from Amman. My brother mentioned having a friend that moved their recently.

Think we're going to send it to Atlanta for Hawks/Bucks on 1/19 in a third attempt at seeing Giannis Antetokounmpo. Granted it's been several years since we've tried and the Bucks are much worse and Atlanta is a little better so hopefully he'll play in a more evenly matched game.

Latest Wilco release to Nugs is a show I went to last year: 05.12.25 from the BJCC Concert Hall in Birmingham. Photo is not from that show though as Jeff was wearing white. www.nugs.net/live-downloa...

Kinda peculiar that it autocropped to the background of the image and not the foreground, but here's the original for those that might care....

Switched my phone wallpaper to rotating images of nature pics I've taken over the years and it's been fun getting a little positive memory jolt every time you open your phone. Highly recommended.

Basketball school winning in basketball.

Blue Jays out here signing everybody: www.mlb.com/news/kazuma-...

Started reading this last night. Didn't realize it was an oral history, but I like those so NBD. I always wondered about the Spin Doctors' inclusion in this scene, but apparently they had a pop side and a more experimental side. I only ever heard the pop stuff and didn't care for it all.

Imagine thinking FIFA and the IOC care about any of this.

Honestly, having Matt Pinfield be the voice of the virtual DJ would be sick AF.

Still working on the full music #stats, but here's my sports #stats for 2025:

As a music lover and avid concertgoer, seeing shows in new venues is one of my favorite things to do. I saw shows in 21 venues I’d never been to before in 2025 and there were some real gems among them. Full list here (in the order I attended them):

MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD Uninvisible (2002) I often yearn for an alternate timeline where they never stopped touring and never stopped making records and I could look at someone and say yeah, I'm seeing my 300th MMW show next week, but alas, at least we have the records and the memories. #NowSpinning

Ole Miss winning the natty would be objectively hilarious.

Somebody do the dog pee celebration

BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO Progression: Art of the Trio, Volume 5 (2001) First listen of the year is a double live album from one of my favorite current jazz guys. I haven’t seen Mehldau in ages and really need to put in the effort to see him again while he’s still on top of his game. #NowSpinning

All of my Alabama group chats right now.

Cignetti is that guy. Good lord what a masterclass.

Hi, I’m a fan of a Kalen DeBoer coached football team.

We’ll have one more mid season from DeBoer and then we can move on from this nightmare

Can’t do anything but respect the ass whipping you’re receiving.

Didn’t think Alabama would win. Didn’t think it’d be tight necessarily. Didn’t think it’d be scorched earth.

Being a basketball school is where it’s at anyway 🤣

I still can’t believe the homers that watched the B1G Championship game and thought we were gonna boat race this team.

If we get down 13 we might be cooked

DeBoer is such an idiot

How are there so many bangers with Wichita in the song title? 🤔

I’m at the UAB vs Wichita State game and am sitting next to one of those guys that likes to yell vague “coaching” instructions from the stands: Shoot it! Pass the ball! Play defense! Rebound! Box out!

Seeing people slow dance to “Alone and Foresaken” is a mood 😳

MICK HARVEY Intoxicated Man / Pink Elephants (2014) The former Bad Seed has a real affinity for Serge Gainsbourg. So much so that he’s recorded four albums of his work translated into English. This re-issue from a decade ago presents the first two albums in a combined edition.

He’s always got it turned to 💯

Back home and in bed. Stopped for gas in Moody and some random guy stops us “Were yall at the game?” (We’re all in Falcons gear) And he was so excited for us and wanted to talk about it. Sometimes I really love the earnest excitement of conversing with strangers about shared interests.

A stadium’s worth of Falcons/Rams fan and an arena’s worth of Rod Wave fans simultaneously converging on the same MARTA station was ridiculously packed.

Falcons testing my nerves beyond what any football team should week in and week out. We win and my friend I’m with turns to me, “I hate this fucking team” 🤣

Soulja Boy is performing after Bijan’s TD. Adding Soulja Boy to my #stats.

This is supposed to only be playing the South! 😉

39° in Atlanta. 25° real feel. Every bar around the stadium is asses to elbows. We had to find a little hotel bar that’s virtually empty and mercifully has not normal hotel prices. Didn’t realize gates didn’t open til 6:45.

NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN The Final Studio Recordings (2001) Like all people that grew up in Alabama, I developed a real affinity for Sufi music from South Asia (qawwali). NFAK is the king of the genre even decades after his death. So glad he teamed up with Rick Rubin for these incredible sessions.

I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.

It’s not just the Phish/jamband fans posting about NFL bumper music. 😂

Found said banner today and it’s especially appropriate given Alabama is back in the Rose Bowl this week. #RollTide

I went to the 28th & 31st for YEMSG last year. I remember walking into the Garden on the 28th wearing a Falcons cap and the gate attendant giving me shit since the Falcons wrecked the Giants that week. I told him I was at that game and he said, “Go buy a Phish hat and put that one in the trash.” 😂

My pal @phishpointo.bsky.social is a bit of a setlist hound and I talked him into making a binder of them and as I was doing all this cleaning today I realized if amassed quite a few myself over the last few years and got myself a binder as well. Here’s a small sample:

NICK SHOULDERS Home on the Rage (2021) The more I listen to this guy the more into his stuff I get. If you missed me posting about him the other day it’s very old school country with good politics. #NowSpinning

I’ve done so much housework today, I’ve walked three miles in a two bedroom apartment 😮‍💨

Found my travel journal from Greece in 2008. Some wild stuff in here I don’t remember: “Arrived to Athens late due to weather issues. It’s well after midnight. Can’t sleep so I turn on TV. There’s a topless woman doing tractor repair. Don’t see that at home.”

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

JOHN DOYLE Shadow and Light (2011) Former Solas guitarist is still at the top of the Irish/Celtic guitar game. So good. #NowSpinning

EAST NASH GRASS Lance Chance to Win (2023) Legit real deal bluegrass out of Nashville. Discovered them a year or two ago when they were backing Dan Tyminski and he was raving about their work sans him and he was not exaggerating in the slightest. #NowSpinning

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