Got my first new video store membership in (almost) 20 years today: Video Wave in Noe Valley. Not too convenient to visit, but I’ll figure it out somehow. #HomeVideo #NoeValley #PhysicalMedia #SanFrancisco #VideoWave
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mastodon 4.7.3Old things. Haunted lunch counters, unread pocket paperbacks, abandoned cups of coffee, sailboats run aground on the shores of Clinton Cove in the Oakland Estuary. Was a punk rocker earlier in life, which explains all the noisy-sounding records with black-and-white covers lying around in heaps. Fan of Poverty Row film, detective fiction, and all those who keep hand-written datebooks and draw in the margins. Give the future a break! #NewWave #OldMovies #PunkRock #VintageLife #WeirdAngle
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#NowPlaying Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark "Architecture & Morality," an extremely munched copy that I bought on impulse for four or five bucks last weekend. Plays like it should, though. #Records #SynthPop #Vinyl
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@TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social I got absorbed into an ongoing Gofundme situation dedicated to securing physical therapy, then assisted living, and ultimately palliative care for James Chance (driven by his brother-in-law and some other family members). I figured I owed the guy a little bit of scratch and some interest and empathy after all the hours of toe-tapping entertainment he provided. I gotta add that “Off-White” and “Sax Maniac” are also top-notch for me, though they ratchet manic cocaine dissonance several notches higher than health and safety would allow.
Just started reading a paperback I’ve owned for (probably) 20 years. I’ve seen the Val Lewton movie adaptation (THE LEOPARD MAN), so I’m beyond my typical fear of spoilers. #Books #CornellWoolrich #Mystery #Noir
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@TheVinylApe It really doesn’t get any better than that LP. Define “it” in the way that best suits your priorities.
Vodka Baby. Jack London Square Marina, Oakland.
@REEL@ravenation.club I sidestep this moral quandary by only supporting objectively shitty bands.
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Bay Area Street Style has attained an all-time level of unflattering + blah + depression. To my eyes.
Cabaret Voltaire last night. No Richard H. Kirk (for obvious reasons) and no Chris Watson (for less-obvious ones), but I'll take it. Mallinder seems a gentleman. #CabaretVoltaire #NagNagNag
I'm making a very deliberate self-assessment this morning!
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@DavidGallagher@sfba.social I didn’t know Biafra was still shedding his clothes on stage in ‘82. Something inspired him that night!
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@DavidGallagher@sfba.social You can’t expect all those martini-fueled executives to drive back to Alamo after a long day of hiring and firing - or can you?
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@DavidGallagher@sfba.social Tangential, but I used to work at the old Bethlehem Steel building at 100 California (long after they bailed out of it), which went a long way to explain the monumental girders bracing everything and the remains of a lavish penthouse apartment (sitting disused). In short: BART was good to them.
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@maximumrocknroll@counterforce.social I hope you have something special in mind for installment 1977.
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@maximumrocknroll@counterforce.social The cover art is intriguing, at the very least, and that’s often my entry point. Speaking as a onetime Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll reviewer.