1960 collection of country / acoustic #blues featuring Robert Johnson, Furry Lewis, Blind Willie McTell, Bukka White, and more of the usual legendary subjects. Compiled by Sanuel Charters for RBF. Sunday listening. @vinylrecords
I hereby declare Sir Hans von Hake the patron anti-saint of effective trolling. Hear me out:
So it's the Holy Roman Empire days before the Reformation and the Catholic Church is at its most corrupt. Pope Whatever the 95th stomps the gas on selling indulgences in order to fund building the big ass Saint Peters building in Rome, and also enrich his cronies. One of the lead cronies is this putz named Tetzel, a corrupt priest who comes up into the HRE selling indulgences
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In honor of Steve Albini I will listen to nothing but Steely Dan and the #GratefulDead today. There's nothing more #punk than not giving a fuck about some famous asshole's opinions.
My only thought/take re: meta/threads and federation that's worth sharing at all is that I don't see any benefit in raising awareness of Masto/Fedi via that federation or anything else. I disagree with the premise that ramping up growth is good & suspect it may be quite destructive if it outstrips the rate that moderation and at least a bit of cultural assimilation can scale. I don't care about killing Xitter or any other external goal. I just want this place to succeed as itself & remain itself
Masterful opening panel from Asterix and the Goths. Written by René Goscinny and illustrated by Albert Uderzo, 1963
Perspective, character design, linework, coloring, composition, detail, visual humor - every aspect of this drawing blows me away #comics#MastoArt#illustration
Well, I finally have to capitulate and get hearing aids, because A. my hearing is really bad, and B.) my insurance will cover them. I probably won't use them much, but I'm really excited to learn that they're bluetooth compatible now, so I'll basically be getting really expensive ear buds! 💖😁🎶🥳
#NowPlaying - one of the first shows by the classic new riders lineup with buddy cage, a #bootleg (by the white label folks aka berkeley records) from the december 5th, 1971 #radio broadcast from the felt forum in #nyc, opening for the #GratefulDead. good stoner country fun, even if they edited out "dirty business." love the cover caricatures & henry truck in the background. @vinylrecords@Corry342
Fuck I love a heavy #Oregon winter rain. The land was built over geological and evolutionary time to be soaked this time of year; it's a huge green sponge. The big conifers are in their element. For a day everything feels harmonious, as if the cycles of heat and cold, wet and dry haven't been pushed off their axes. We're wobbling, yes. But on a day like today it feels like the center still holds, if in a tense and tenuous way. The sound is the most beautiful thing of all
Look even if that dilbert dipshit was right, which he definitely isn't, you bet your ass that if I had to choose I'm rolling with "the woman party," and it's not to get laid, I'm all set, thanks. I've seen how men run this shit. We suck at it. Zero chance it's not better to flip the script. In fact just go ahead and sign me the fuck up