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not me breaking out the topsters for this

lol not necessarily my all time faves or in order, but all are always in the mix for me… Talking Heads - Remain In Light (Deluxe Version) Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell Radiohead - In Rainbows My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Alex G - God Save the Animals Björk - Debut Wednesday - Rat Saw God Joni Mitchell - Blue Judee Sill - Judee Sill Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas Elliott Smith - XO The B-52's - Wild Planet Grace Ives - Janky Star Mulatu Astatke - New York - Addis - London: The Story Of Ethio Jazz 1965-1975 Can - Ege Bamyasi (Remastered) Water From Your Eyes - Everyone's Crushed Toro y Moi - Outer Peace Grimes - Art Angels ScHoolboy Q - Blank Face LP Portishead - Dummy Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand Grouper - A I A: Alien Observer feeble little horse - Girl With Fish

@cl0e

Feb 20, 2025

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Some Essential albums

Elephant - The White Stripes Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road Madison - Sloppy Jane I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One - Yo La Tengo Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith Almost all of these have tracks that get me into a crying mood. All are more meaningful to me than I’d like to admit. I’ll let you guess at the gory details there. Enjoy the tunes, friends.

@bugbitesquared

Dec 1, 2024

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A few best-sequenced LP's from my seat in the peanut gallery:

* The Strokes "Is This It" * Bowie/Spiders "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" * Interpol, "Turn On the Bright Lights" * Neutral Milk Hotel, "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" * Amy Winehouse, "Back to Black" * The Clash, "London Calling" * Liz Phair, "Exile In Guyville" * Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" * XTC, "Skylarking" (US edition with "Dear God") * Todd Rundgren, "Something/Anything" * Love, "Forever Changes" * Radiohead, "Kid A" * Neko Case, "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" * Dusty Springfield, "Dusty In Memphis" * Jane's Addiction, "Ritual de lo Habitual" * Beatles, "Abbey Road" * Most of the Spoon catalog but esp "Kill the Moonlight" * Wlco, "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" I could go on, ha

@coreydubrowa

Mar 16, 2024

Top Recs from @zenlikeme

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BEING KIND TO KIDS

I’m not a parent and do not plan to be. Kids can wear me out fast with their high energy and noise level; it leaves me very over-stimulated. But it’s pretty extreme when people say they ”hate kids” and I often feel it’s a reflection of their childhood and beliefs around how kids “should be.” That they were expected to be quiet, obedient, and out of the way by their parents when they were little. It’s fucking hard to be a kid. You’re dealing with a rapidly-changing body and underdeveloped brain, managed by flawed adults who are enforcing boundaries that you do not understand. It’s confusing and hard to manage your feelings and honestly just a lot. People are impatient with kids when they‘re brand new to the world and figuring it all out, and this is a time kids need a friend the most. Children can also be teachers to adults with how they are less habituated to the world. They teach us how to be free and open-hearted and silly and imaginative. A good practice is to be kinder and gentler with kids. If that feels difficult, start with gentleness toward your inner child. Maybe that’s the child in your life that needs your attention and kindness most.

@zenlikeme

Apr 16, 2025

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Flower report 03.22.25

I meant to post this yesterday. Absolutely beautiful morning for walk. This morning is also beautiful but in a spring rain kind of way.

@zenlikeme

Mar 23, 2025

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Deconstructing Gender

Prescriptive gender is a prison. Rather than gender being a form of self-expression, gender is treated as a pass/fail test for how well you can conform to cultural expectations. Since I was young, I remember feeling a great deal of pressure to conform to these expectations around what “men” are meant to be. You like sports, cars, womanizing, aggression, and not having feelings. I felt so distant from this ideal. I was sensitive and shy, and I preferred spending my time being creative in some way For a long time, I felt like I was failing at “being a man.” In many ways I was! Because I didn’t need to bea man. All I needed to be was myself. It’s taken me a long time to separate myself from prescriptive gender, sharpening in on which aspects of masculine energy I identify with and which I don’t. I’m not done yet. Maybe I will never fully be. The self continues to evolve over time, and I suspect aspects of my gender will too.

@zenlikeme

Mar 15, 2025