Mark Doyle

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Historian of Britain, Ireland, empire, music, etc. Once wrote a book on the Kinks. Now working on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3 books, plus a thing on African-descended people in Irish history. Here because I want to spend more time with my phone.

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David Fortin

I haven't. Will search it out.

This record, y'all.

Day two of my news blackout (ie not obsessively cycling through the 3-4 news sites I always do) and sounds are sharper, colors are brighter, fruit is sweeter, and my children more obedient.

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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt

I've been on news blackout all day and feel like I've added several years to my life.

Oh, I just remembered that I'm going to see Terry Allen this weekend. Do you guys know Terry Allen? You should know Terry Allen.

Terry Allen / Artist / Songwriterwww.terryallenartmusic.com Terry Allen is an independent artist working since 1966 in a wide variety of media including musical and theatrical performances, sculpture, painting, drawing and video.

Both of my children (ages 12 and 9) were up late secretly listening to special NPR coverage of the RNC on their portable CD players that double as FM radios. You try to shield them, but it's hard. Needless to say we'll be moving to Antarctica.

I've decided not to look at the news today. Please nobody talk about the news here or elsewhere until the news starts behaving itself.

Me: Maybe I'll just pop over to a news site and check the headlines. The headlines:

The only Vance we need.

He spoke at my school back then. To be fair, I didn't go, maybe I really am the enemy.

I also want to point out that Vance's whole "professors are the enemy" schtick came after he profited enormously from universities. Nowhere was "Hillbilly Elegy" pushed more than on college campuses. He cashed in with six figure speaking fees to talk about Appalachian poverty.

Me: Maybe I'll just pop over to a news site and check the headlines. The headlines:

People complain about the internet but I've just used the Google Ngram viewer to determine that use of the term "blockhead" peaked not during the 1950-2000 run of the Peanuts cartoon but during the first half of the 18th century, so it ain't all bad.

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Mark Doyle

Now listening to a really transfixing new album, How Will I Live Without a Body?, by Loma, a band of American and UK musicians with a whispery post-punk, bedroom indie sound. It’s a good album to listen to in one sitting. The shifting tones and dynamics tell a whole story.

How Will I Live Without a Body?, by LOMAlomamusic.bandcamp.com 11 track album

#NowPlaying - Aux armes, citoyens.

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Jake

He almost makes you believe it.

Now is the perfect time to log off and listen to some Pharoah Sanders.

Also the movie is about the most 70s film imaginable, from the patio furniture to the outfits to the various trends Duvall's character embraces. Food trends, especially: penthouse chicken, canned cheese on crackers, pudding cups, pigs in a blanket. This is a great analysis.

Just watched 3 Women, which I had somehow never seen. Amazing film, and even more amazing when you realize Spacek and Duvall were almost exactly the same age, which may be why it's so convincing when their identities begin to blur into each other.

3 WOMEN: A MATTER OF TASTE AND TIME — famous for my dinner partieswww.famousformydinnerparties.com Examining the meaning of trend foods through the lense of Robert Altman’s 1977 notoriously strange cult classic 3 Women.

My kid got a spy kit for her birthday but we're not going to let her use it until she reads a curated selection of Le Carré novels that will prepare her for the moral murk into which she's about to descend.

I've just read some mediocre early works by a Nobel Prizewinner and I feel much better about my own work now.

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Milwaukee Zack

I see Goner's been mentioned, but Shangri La in Memphis is also worth a visit. Good collection of local artists.

Quarantining because of Covid - watching the world outside but feeling no responsibility for it - piles of half-finished writing projects scattered about that I couldn't complete even if I quarantined for 50 years - feeling very Emily Dickinsonish, if you know what I mean

Oh man, same.

I'm worried about the enthusiasm gap. People are very enthusiastic for Trump but nobody's enthusiastic for Biden. It's a gamble, but maybe if we had another chance to elect a woman (with considerably less baggage, in the public mind, than Clinton did), that might generate a little enthusiasm?

Good point. They could be misjudging. It's probably just that they know how to go after Biden - they know what works - and haven't quite figured it out for his possible replacements. But yeah, I'll vote for whoever it is, too.

Trump's people are reportedly hoping Biden stays in. I think that settles it.

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Mark Doyle

Yes I will absolutely preorder your compilation of Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia.

Synthesizing the Silk Roads: Uzbek Disco, Tajik Folktronica, Uyghur Rock & Crimean Tatar Jazz from 1980s Soviet Central Asia, by Various Artistsostinatorecords.bandcamp.com 16 track album

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Bill Zuka (Debuting This Week)

Some fine-looking records there.

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Gregory Crosby

We joked about doing this before we left. It's quickly becoming no joke.

Once again we are having to ship home the books we bought on vacation. It's not as though there are no bookstores back home, but there's the thrill of the hunt, you see.

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July 11, 1967: Readers of the Sunday Minneapolis Tribune see a small preview hint of "Abbey Road," two-plus years away.