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puffer

@puffer@esoteric.party

Musician, songwriter, sound production
Interested in cult & horror film, art, photography, nature
co-owner of esoteric.party
*avatar is Dave Foley in a Kids in the Hall sketch about a DJ after the apocalypse

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RickiTarr, to random
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If it was possible to live forever, would you want to?

puffer,
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@RickiTarr Nope. I want my consciousness to transcend the physical plane. As frightening as the unknown might be, all things die. Maybe I’ll be a tree on a beautiful lush planet; maybe my essence will evaporate into the cosmos. My only fear is I’ll be returned to this earth, this modern life. I’m tired of earthly concerns as it is, in 20 years I can only imagine, forget about 100, 200, 1000…

RickiTarr, to random
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Name a movie or TV series where none of the characters are actually good people. Explain why you think that.

puffer,
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@billyjoebowers @RickiTarr hear hear. So sick of shows about shitty people, especially shitty rich people. I don’t even need aspirational. Just people who are fundamentally kind and decent, like so many people actually are. There’s plenty of drama and comedy and horror to be had in ordinary lives.

puffer, to vinyl
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Album of the Day
David Bowie - Station to Station

I think it was @Robotron who was saying that the other day that this was their favorite Bowie album. I saw it was still in print so I ordered it as an early birthday present.

I can’t say I like it more than Low but not a bad cut on this.

puffer,
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@flockofnazguls @Robotron it’s top tier. I just really, really like Low.

puffer, to vinyl
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Buy my old Technics 1200 Mk2 turntable. I’m willing to ship it in North America but I’d want to pay to have it packed by UPS. The anti-skating control is not working but these are very serviceable machines. Otherwise fully working, in great condition with a very new Olofon Red needle.

https://vermont.craigslist.org/msg/d/springfield-technics-1200-mk2-fully/7686873961.html

puffer, to Blog
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Over on the digital lo-fi blog @Robotron has written up an excellent primer on French musical phenomenon Jacno. This is the kind of thing you won't really find in the music press, deep examinations of overlooked, niche performers. It's in 3 parts so I'm dropping the 2nd one here. This is so good.

https://digitallofi.com/blog/2023/11-november/the-jacno-mixtape-side-a

puffer, to random
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Back in 9th grade, 1980, I bought my first Runaways album from a cutout bin, Queens of Noise. I soon got the 2 other major label albums, the debut & Waiting for the Night. I didn’t love them like The Ramones, Hendrix but I spent a lot of time studying these records. In Toronto that summer found Live in Japan, sorta rare at the time. Sold them all about 6 years ago. I was done with The Runaways. However I’ve never seen this footage before. Looks like crap, but nostalgia.
https://youtu.be/UBodAEO-DEU

puffer, to vinyl
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Album of the Day

Betty Davis - Is It Love or Desire

Shout out to @gnitro for hipping me to a Betty Davis album I wasn’t aware of. Fascinating story behind this “lost” record. Absolutely perfect discography, Ms Davis has

puffer, to Halloween
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Scene report.

puffer, to mastodon
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Reupping: On the anniversary of moving to Mastodon full time I’ve written a long blog post about my thoughts and experiences, the good, the not great. With some thoughts about Bluesky as well.

This platform is one best things that’s happened to the web in the past 20 years. It’s not without its problems and it’s probably not for everyone but for me this janky platform has been pretty great.

https://digitallofi.com/blog/2023/11-november/across-the-fediverse

puffer, to Horror
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For the month of October I'm taking my swing at writing about some of my favorite, lesser known movies. The Introduction gives some idea of the what and why.

https://digitallofi.com/blog/2023/10-october/31-horror-movies-introduction

puffer, to random
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Scene report

puffer, to random
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So where are they getting this gasoline years into an apocalypse? Gas goes bad after like 2 weeks.

puffer, to vinyl
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So I wrote a bunch of words about Romeo Void, the VH1 show Bands Reunited, and how sometimes it's not the hit that gets remembered.

(Shoutout to @Robotron and @Defiance for helping me pick the records I listened to for this)

https://digitallofi.com/blog/2023/09-september/nvr-say-nvr-my-romeo-void-story

puffer, to random
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Be the backlash you want to see in the world.

puffer, to animals
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Got some baskets from Etsy.

puffer, to random
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One thing about Mastodon that I've come to find super delightful is seeing so many wannabe "big fish", clout-chasing accounts flame out.

puffer, to random
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What are we doing? I mean, as a culture, what have we become?

puffer, to random
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We watch one every Friday the 13th. Watching this one tonight.

puffer, to vinyl
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Sometimes you have to play the classics. The bass on this record is mind-blowing

puffer, to Blog
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New post on the blog. Some leftovers on my totally-not-popular post about my love of large bands.

https://digitallofi.com/blog/2023/07-august/in-praise-of-a-large-band-coda

puffer, to random
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This Pat Finnerty video has a joke that made me laugh as hard as I’ve ever laughed at a joke on YouTube.

“Brought to you by Bandcamp. Because your friends have to listen to half of one of your songs somewhere.”

https://youtu.be/--rBP8_QuwI

puffer, to vinyl
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Further a conversation with @Robotron had to listen to this banger

Robotron, to random

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    puffer,
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    @etherdiver @Robotron it was probably around 2003/4 when I saw them. A small club in Providence RI. With The Russian Futurists and Junior Senior, two other early lofi electronic acts. I really wish I remembered more about the music. I was drinking a lot around this time so… I had fun. The two drummers and samples thing was cool. Dude is a great drummer.

    efd, to random
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    … also punk, rock, dance, and more! It’s all part of today’s 2023 Bubbling Under show on @WFMU, featuring 40 or so terrific ‘23 tunes that just didn’t fit into my countdown show last week. Tune in at noon ET (9am Pacific / 5pm UK)! And a happy new year to all!

    puffer,
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    @efd @WFMU great show—managed to catch a lot today. Lot to check out.

    @Jyoti played your single “timeslip”

    https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/135521

    Good stuff. I dig it.

    rolle, to fediverse
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    As much as people wish for the Quote Posts feature here on Mastodon, I kinda like there is no endless loops of quote memes here.

    Like "Quote this post and drop the most iconic photo of you".

    They go on and on forever. It gets tiring on other places.

    On the other hand here I could just mute the word "iconic" for 48 hours.

    puffer,
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    @rolle If/when quote posts comes to Mastodon there needs to be a way to turn off people’s quote posts in the same way you can turn off seeing their boosts, but independent of that.

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