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View of the Pacific Ocean

View of the Pacific Ocean

Drove out to the ocean to get out of the house for a while.

Are elephant bell bottoms coming back? I just saw a lady in work attire wearing a pair. Never my favorite look, but it was good on her.

Ex-gay conversion therapy.

Every time I wake up to coyotes howling I think I’m hearing people cheering and I think “did it happen??” Maybe it will happen today.

Pretty much spent yesterday and today running full Pet Shop Boys concert films in the background while working on projects. I’m wrapping up now with Dreamworld, the “greatest hits live” tour. God, I love them.

Not as often as the LJ days. I’m barely on Meta, but we interact here and there.

I have a number of pieces which are personal favorites that don’t seem to connect with others. This is one of them. Steve IS punk - he was there. Pistols, Clash - he was friends with them all. Original t-shirt purchased at Seditionaries c. 1976.

Muttering “my preciousssss” under my breath as I load the blackberry Dr. Pepper Zero into cart.

24 songs I played during a 2-hour show

Here’s what I played.

My website may be having trouble loading at the moment, but you can listen to the show here: www.50poundnote.com/?p=333

In the new booth at WRFL, October 2018

Displaying a station-branded ball cap using the original station logo, made exclusively for alumni

Holding up a vinyl copy of The Cure’s Disintegration, with my original review taped to the back

A clipping from the campus newspaper describing alternative rock

The college radio station where I cut my teeth went on the air 38 years ago today. Photos from 2018 when I did an alumni show.

Lying in bed on the verge of tears because everything is overwhelming right now, so I’m bombarding friends with cute cat videos.

He’s accused the CIA of marginalizing rock music. Like, god forbid the culture move on. You know what the kids love? Listening to music by a 60-year old malcontent. 🙄 Rock music embraced pissing your parents off, then hip hop did it better. He’s mad they’re no longer doing it his preferred way.

This is a post about William Patrick Corgan, Jr.

I’m so fucking tired of whiny entitled white men and their podcasts. No, it’s not some vast conspiracy, you’re just an asshole and you repel people.

Still remember the rush of the first time I saw the video for “West End Girls.”

Don’t give me any ideas! 😁

I listen to CDs in the car. In December I loaded a small binder with New Order’s complete output, and today I finished. I started right back over with Movement.

I love this song! Epic Phil.

A view looking due east at sunrise, when a narrow orange band appears on the horizon below a deep blue sky

I love this time of day, when my view feels like a synthwave record cover. #synthwave #sanfrancisco

I was reading about it last night! 😊

Hahahaha I love that movie!

It’s pretty good! Ken Berry and Sandy Duncan…and Jake!

I also watched Escape To Witch Mountain (1975) for the first time. I wouldn’t have been allowed to see it when I was a kid because it has “witch” in the title. UFO mania really was a thing in the ‘70s.

Jake, the cat from outer space, sits at the controls of his spaceship

Been watching Disney’s live action ‘70s movies as comfort TV. I saw The Cat From Outer Space (1978) at a drive-in when it was new. I’d forgotten both McLean Stevenson and Harry Morgan were in it after/concurrent with MASH. I love Zunar J-5, aka Jake.

A little story about the Melvins, Mr. Bungle and me So I’ve just finished up a couple of interviews with Buzz Osbourne and Dale Crover of the Melvins, one of the greatest bands of time and space — more about that piece when it runs! Both…

Two different people have mentioned Mike Patton to me this morning, so it’s time to reshare my favorite-ever concert write-up, by @nedraggett.bsky.social. @steadystate.bsky.social was there, too. 😁

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Soul Coughing. Niiiiiiice.

Part of the reason I won’t do streaming!

Yes

I’ve been obsessed with the VLA since the movie Contact.