Sea Level 🐻

Orthodox Christian, family man, musician, writer, slow poke, Houston Astros super fan, & proud Texan. Onward!

[Sea Level 🐻 @SeaLevelBear]

“Efficiency cramps my style, man.”
At forty-three, I don’t think it, or merely say it. Apart from aging, everything I do is inefficient on purpose. Quality of process > rate of process, nearly always.
Being is just way better, still.

[Sea Level 🐻 @SeaLevelBear]

@OwenBenjamin Ewww, hahahaha

[Talkin' Baseball @TalkinBaseball_]

Astros sweep the Angels and get to .500 for the first time since April 7!

They're one game back of the Rangers, who they'll play this weekend, for first in the AL West

[Sea Level 🐻 @SeaLevelBear]

R.I.P. Glen, and condolences to his wife and young son.

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

RIP to the incredible Glen Hansard. 🕊️

[Yo Banana Boy 𝕏 @yobananaboyX]

Fitzcarraldo by The Frames

[Sil @SilRigote]

On this day I had just seen @Glen_Hansard playing a beautiful show at a church here in LA. I got to thank him for posting this video when Bowie passed. Told him it helped w/ my grieving process to hear him singing my fav Bowie song. He then started singing Ashes to Ashes w/me.

[Sea Level 🐻 @SeaLevelBear]

❤️‍🔥

[Niecy O'Keeffe @NiecyOKeeffe]

🎶 So fill to me the parting glass
And drink a health whate'er befalls
Then gently rise and softly call
Good night and joy be to you all 🎶

Good night, Glen and Sláinte. 🥃💚
#GlenHansard

[U2 @U2]

Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….

Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence…
A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces...

Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.

To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others - a clue for any of us trying out different personas. He really was who you thought he was. He could never walk by a person living rough without checking they were OK… and more than that, he worked very hard so that less people had to live on the streets in the first place.

When the crowds got bigger and for safety’s sake Glen had to agree to move the busk to a stage kindly provided outside The Gaiety Theatre, he would say 'we’ll give it our best but it’s not a busk if we’re not on the street!’ …because that’s who he was - a performer at eye level in any situation. The stage was a separation he wouldn’t recognize. Of all the grand and gigantic venues he and The Frames played, you sensed the street was his most favoured place to perform. And street people, his favourite audience.

Voice of the streets. A choir of angels in one man. The rest of us blessed to stand there beside our very own and very earthed Angel Gabriel… All of us welcome in his choir, whatever shape or form.

….and I’m telling myself this morning that if he never existed, then he can never cease to exist. For me, he will always be everywhere I see a coin spinning into an open guitar case.

May you rest in the peace you gave to so many.

Bono

[Joe O’Neill 🐀 @actingjoe]

Poignant Video. This was recorded 1 hour before Glen (Rip) was killed. He was in the Wrens Nest, Strawberry Beds at a session.

[Sea Level 🐻 @SeaLevelBear]

@JayDyer @OwenBenjamin

[Michael (A_minute) @aminuteTips]

The greatest midfield trio in football history.

[Sea Level 🐻 @SeaLevelBear]

Gutted. R.I.P. Glen Hansard

https://t.co/5Kw1wv1G1m?

[FC Barcelona @FCBarcelona]

FERMINATOR IS BACK 🫡
Fermín López is officially rejoining the group.

[Sea Level 🐻 @SeaLevelBear]

@G_MONEY17 Been waiting all season! Ahhhhh, hahaha

[Sea Level 🐻 @SeaLevelBear]

@ContextfreeFCB_ Ronnie caught my attention, but Messi, Xavi, and Iniesta sealed the deal.

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

This is what the Sagrada Família looked like in 1906, just 24 years after construction began.

[Football VAR @Footy_VAR]

🇪🇸 Cubarsi at the World Cup 2026 vs 🇮🇹 Cannavaro at the World Cup 2006 stats comparison.

Cannavaro won the Ballon d’Or that year 👀🏆