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In the Wake of the Edmund Fitzgerald https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/arts/edmund-fitzgerald-gordon-lightfoot.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.MyaM.8WtsXHa1Kr_6&smid=url-share (gift article)

^ Never understood going after Mann. Have two of her books. Spent Sunday at a lowrider event at Montalvo, likely my last one of 2025. Decided to take two cameras and have a little test between them - a dusty, slow Hassy 500cm with II 50c 50MP digital back & old Zeiss Distagon 50 f/4 T* and a shiny, snap-like Sigma 24MP BF (Beautifully Foolish) with a matching new 35 f/2 Contemporary. For fun shot at 1:1, which most definitely isn’t natural for me. Hassy Sigma

https://theonion.com/travis-kelce-gets-cold-feet-after-listening-to-new-taylor-swift-album/

Sorry, I was remote. I would have definitely reached out Al if in person. Hope you and Claire had a good time. Anyone catch Steve Earle? I don’t pretend to be objective there, but was messy fun, especially in the shadow of the Dukes breakup at HSB years ago. Will throw on The Mountain in a few minutes. Will miss tomorrow, unfortunately. Hope everyone enjoys.

She and Leventhal are pretty great. Smiled the most so far with Albert Lee.

Samara Joy and jumping back over to Rose City Band here (sadly overlapping).

^ Walden Green (Pitchfork) agrees with Petridis on Romantic https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/taylor-swift-actually-romantic/ ‘I’m also filling out my Jack Antonoff apology card as we speak, now that Max Martin and Shellback—ostensibly the great pop minds of the century—have aided and abetted in a song that sounds like the Kidz Bop version of the Pixies’ “Where Is My Mind?”’

I don't know if I love that review from a single listen to the album, but agree on similarities of Mind and Romantic.

Before Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, listening to a new gal on the scene, Taylor Swift, and her The Life of a Showgirl Ex.

How to Orchid

Miles Davis - Elevator To The Gallows/Ascenseur pour l'échafaud/Lift to the Gallows Soundtrack

Grados for in piano experience?

Congrats! Keep us up to date. Yesterday we retreated to the safety of the past-ish to hang with the happy weirdos. Left before cottagecore/mushroomcore took over.

Jeff Tweedy‘s Twilight Override

They're interviewing sperm racing investors at, of course, Peter Thiel’s Antichrist talk https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/16/peter-thiel-antichrist-san-francisco/ Tech bros versus cool kids

A… possibly… new camera manufacturer https://esquisse.camera/

Carol Kaye Is Being Honored by the Rock Hall. She Doesn’t Care. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/arts/music/carol-kaye-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ok8.jc_B.uWHtQAZ4VieQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare (gift article) The first time Paul McCartney played the Beach Boys’ 1966 album “Pet Sounds,” he was struck by the grand ambition of the music as well the intricacies of tracks like “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.” “And as I was a bass player,” McCartney noted in a recent interview, “I listened closely to the bass parts.” Like most people, McCartney assumed the song’s melodically affecting rhythms were the work of Brian Wilson. “Then later I looked at the credits,” he said, “and I saw it wasn’t Brian on bass, it was this girl, Carol — Carol Kaye. That was quite a shock to me. I started looking into what else Carol played on, and she was on everything.”

RIP Louise Vincent, Drug User Who Led Harm Reduction Movement “The idea is that we need to care about people who use drugs, whether they use drugs or not.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/health/louise-vincent-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oU8.Npj8.H-0PSTRpNPv8&smid=url-share (gift article) https://www.nprillinois.org/2023-11-19/one-womans-controversial-fight-to-make-america-accept-drug-users-for-who-they-are

Anyone else holding off on bathroom visits?

Finding Peter Putnam: The forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/ It’s easy to say why someone is wrong. The hard part is figuring out why they’re right.

This before my Disney+/Hulu sub runs out.

For those in the Bay Area, the Fraenkel Gallery has a Katy Grannan exhibit titled Mad River, portraits from Humboldt. Small (it’s not the main show), but great.

Where the Amish (and Mennonite) go on holiday https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08p2rws/where-the-amish-go-on-holiday

Happy birthday. We love you.

RIP Robert Redford https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/movies/robert-redford-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU8.U8U2.n5tnEXrpAu5P&smid=url-share (gift article)