I prowled Bushwick, my footsteps instinctively leading to all my usual haunts, only to find them locked up, devoid of merriment. It was the evening of March 17, 2020, the first day of COVID lockdown... https://t.co/cRUlTR8F7B
Pink Floyd just released the full version of "Pigs on the Wing" which was split in half for the intro and outro snippets for the “Animals” album. The full version was only available on 8 Track. The new comp album is called “8-Tracks” https://t.co/dSANOVyCgD
“All objects emit gravitational waves, the doctor explained, and should those waves interact unfavorably with those of the self, through the calibrated physics of destructive interference, destruction ensures” —Weike Wang “The Dreamdrive” @NewYorker 2026-05-25
(11) “Christmas Is a Sad Season for the Poor”: “He kept the door of the locker room closed, for he sensed that the quality of charity is exclusive and that his friends would have been disappointed to find that they were not the only ones to try to lessen his loneliness.” #Cheever
(10) “Clancy in the Tower of Babel” : “All the qualities and airs of youth, which a good man puts aside gladly when the time comes, had been preserved obscenely in him.” #JohnCheever#ShortFiction#quote#LitFict
RIP #SonnyRollins. As an aside, there was an effort to rename the NYC Williamsburg bridge -- where Sonny used to practice -- as the Sonny Rollins Memorial Bridge. I hope that effort is still active. WillieB is still the chillest of all the Manhattan bridges.
Adriano Celentano, the Italian Elvis, may not have been as good as Elvis himself, but Elvis never had a pasta named after him (Barilla's "cellentani") https://t.co/T0vN24uFUx
Introduce yourself with a list of 10 artists you’ve seen live:
1 Sun Ra Arkestra (During the Eclipse)
2 Grateful Dead (Last show w/ Brent)
3 Albert Collins
4 David Bowie, Serious Moonlight tour
5 John Prine
6 kd Lang
7 PFunk
8 Neil Young/Crazy Horse
9 Miranda Lambert
10 Ramones
Michael Stipe :
"Ho sempre pensato che i Beatles fossero musica da ascensore".
Ringo Starr :
“I REM sono una grande band ma se non fosse per i Beatles farebbero le scale”.
“I considered the wonder of the things that befell me, convinced that my life was the best omelet you could make with a chain saw.”—Thomas McGuane, “Panama” 1978