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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 3h
Apply this excellent logic broadly.
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❝ That bots might outnumber human beings on the internet is not a new or particularly radical theory. The immolation of Digg, however, suggests bots may outnumber us by a much greater magnitude than anyone expected. →
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The Internet Is Over: How bots destroyed a new platform in just 60 days
The dead internet theory has new evidence to back the idea that the internet has been over and done with for awhile, but nobody bothered to tell us.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 16h
“I am Damo Suzuki”
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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 29/09/2026
good morning from the lakeside #Sunrise #GoodMorning #NewDayRising
Sunset over a still lake. Streaks of orange, coral and gold cloud spread across a gray-blue sky, brightest near the horizon on the right. A low line of dark trees crosses the middle of the frame, and the calm water below mirrors the glowing clouds in rippled copper and rose. Reeds stand in silhouette at the right edge. In the foreground, a muddy, weedy shoreline strewn with lily pads fades into near-black.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 15/06/2026
Headline: The Weeknd has sold 3m tickets and grossed $40m in 2026 so far along with a photo of him, arms outstretch, a flame behind his head, which reminds me of something …The scarecrow with its head on fire album cover for Sonic Youth's Bad Moon Rising
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 27/09/2026
this week's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter has been thrown like a frisbee and is headed to an email inbox near you curated curiosities + rizzy recommendations abound + I reminisce about a flyer I 'designed' for Thin White Rope, and learn about what they're up to now (it involves a singing dog)
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Heirloom Tomatoes
This week: Jennifer Herrema, the Residents, Bob Ezrin, Elanor Moss, Ginny Winn, Ayman Fanous, and Mark Isham. Plus, Stoo Odom and Roger Kunkel of Thin White Rope explain the singing dog.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 27/09/2026
if you've never heard hamburger lady you live in a bubble and should be aware of that
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 27/09/2026
Sunday AM music ✨
believers.bandcamp.com
What Hands, by Believers
from the album Piecemeal
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 27/09/2026
❝ In her view, optimism is passive and expects events to resolve themselves. Confidence comes from understanding that the future is not fixed and that present choices have consequences. Imagination matters … people who cannot picture an alternative to the present have trouble working towards one. →
sentiers.media
In defence of the unfinished future ⊗ Penchants of the polymaths
No.418 — Beyond the Gaia-Borg dichotomy ⊗ Anthropic has set up a bio research lab ⊗ Germany is building an ark for US climate data ⊗ Human brain is two separate organs
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 27/09/2026
❝ Despite these shows’ very different premises … all four contained clear warnings about where the country was headed, and their warnings have come true. →
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall (Gift Article)
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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ForeignCoverVersions @foreigncovers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Chinese version of Musical Youth's 1982 chart-topper was apparently re-written to be about traditional Buddhist principles. Or something.
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顏秋霞 Mimi Gan - 喃嘸喃嘸 Nan Fu Nan Fu (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Life Records Chinese
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 26/09/2026
kittens love disco balls #caturday
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 25/09/2026
I sure do dig this album and it's possible you will too ✨
fonterossa.bandcamp.com
Timing Birds, by Silvia Bolognesi, Dudù Kouate, Griffin Rodriguez
9 track album
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 25/09/2026
if she responds with NO YOU DID then I may have to join the swifty army or whatever it's called
Screenshot of a Pitchfork article header on a dark background. The headline reads “Todd Rundgren: Taylor Swift Ruined Music,” by Alex Suskind, dated September 25, 2026, at 12:32 PM. Below are two side-by-side photos. On the left, Todd Rundgren stands on a dark stage in a black shirt flecked with white, wearing tinted glasses, pointing upward behind a microphone. On the right, Taylor Swift, with long hair and bangs, looks toward the camera outdoors against blurred trees, one hand raised near her face.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 24/09/2026
that NYTimes list is bullshit
NYTimes erroneously rates Deadwood as the 24th best show of the past 26 years when everyone knows it's number 1. What a bunch of hoopleheads.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 21/09/2026
The best way to fight back against the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger is to support independent artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers, musicians and everyone else who has been walking a very hard path to putting things out into the world.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 21/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Steven Garnett speaks with Black Bananas leader (and ex-Royal Trux'er) Jennifer Herrema about why, to her, the dense new album 'Bad Bunch' sounds light and airy, what heirloom tomatoes have to do with AI, and the story behind a bloody T-shirt from her thirty-five-year archive →
thetonearm.com
Black Bananas’ Jennifer Herrema Keeps the Seams Showing
The Royal Trux cofounder discusses 'Bad Bunch,' the first Black Bananas album in twelve years, along with her new email newsletter, heirloom tomatoes, what's so special about a bloody T-shirt, and her thirty-five-year clothing archive bound for a Tokyo installation.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 21/09/2026
breaking: Caroline is now listening to Dr. Octagonecologyst for the first time ever 💀
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 18/09/2026
yesterday on the way home from the beach we decided to check out the motherfuckin' shell museum … a few photos:
A curved gallery at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum. A long, S-shaped glass case winds through the room in the foreground, lit from within, holding a row of conch and whelk shells that shrink from large to small. Beside it is a black bench with round blue cushions. Behind them are backlit wall cases full of hundreds of shells, under signs reading "Beauty & Diversity," "Time & Evolution," and "Sculptures & Colors." One visitor stands looking at a case.A three-bladed boat propeller stands on a post, its hub and the inner halves of its blades covered in dense clusters of small striped zebra mussels. The outer edges are still bare bronze with green patina. Behind it hangs a photo mural of a marina with docked boats and white pilings.A museum wall panel with a black-and-white photograph of a boy and a man in a park. Both wear Pearly King suits and caps covered with thousands of white pearl buttons sewn into grids, flowers, and diamonds, and the man wears a row of medals on his chest. The caption beside it reads: "LEFT: East End Pearly Kings. Photograph by Steve Lewis, ca. 1965. The 'Pearly Kings and Queens of London' represent a charitable tradition dating back to the 19th-century Victorian era, when an orphan named Henry Croft sewed himself a suit covered with pearl buttons to collect money for charity. Families of 'pearlies' continue the fundraising and good deeds to this day. Photo: Getty Images." A label below it is cut off at "BELOW: Freshwater Mussels and Mother-of-Pearl."A framed vintage newspaper clipping headlined "What The Teen-Agers Are Doing," with the subhead "Youth Has Hobby Of Collecting Sea Shells, Rocks." A grainy photo shows a young boy in a "Green Special" sweatshirt standing beside shelves of specimens. The article reads: "A veteran collector is Bill Hodge who has devoted a quarter of his life to collecting rocks. Bill, eight and one-half years old, started his rock collection at six and at seven began accumulating sea shells. He began his rock collection as most youngsters do, walking along the driveway and discovering pretty stones and pebbles, but he did not lose interest as is usually the case. He now has more than 300 stones. The collection of rocks and shells are arranged in orange crates made into stands and on small tables. His grandmother and aunt in Ashland, O., were responsible for his collection of sea shells. Last summer when he was visiting his grandmother and aunt in Ashland, his aunt gave him some shells to start a collection. She has been collecting shells for some time…"
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 17/09/2026
cemetery on the beach
HISTORIC
CAPTIVA CEMETERY

The Captiva Cemetery is closely associated with the history of Captiva Island. It served as a pioneer cemetery and contains the graves of many of the island's earliest settlers. The site originally formed part of a homestead established by William Binder in 1888. The first interment was the unnamed stillborn daughter of Herbert and Hattie Brainerd who, according to local tradition, was buried here in 1899. In 1900, Binder sold the parcel where the interments were buried to the Brainerds' ten year old daughter, Ann. In exchange for a gold ring, she received an annual birthday gift from her grandfather until her death one year later in 1901 at the age of 11 months. She was interred here with her sister. Other pioneers buried here, including the original homesteader William Binder, died in 1931. Also interred here are five members of the Ellsworth family, as well as veterans, including Washington Carter and Henry P. Knowles. One also here, Hattie Brainerd Bigham, maintained the site after the death of the Methodist Church in 1963. The church deeded the cemetery to Captiva Civic Association-the body which maintains it to the present day. The cemetery was listed on the National Registry of Historic Places in 2013.

SPONSORED BY CAPTIVA CHAPEL-BY-THE-SEA, THE CAPTIVA ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE
F-863

A FLORIDA HERITAGE SITE
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 16/09/2026
sickos: yes … ha ha ha …
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Gaijin Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cuban poster for the classic French prison break film LE TROU (1960) Directed and co-written by Jacques Becker - BOTD in 1906. Sadly, Becker died from lung cancer shortly after LE TROU was released.
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current status
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 14/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: @davesegal.bsky.social speaks with composer + modular synthesist Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe about turning political fatigue into what he calls a 'multiphonic landscape of horror,' what Jodorowsky did to his first record, and why the most exciting music happens in between the notes →
thetonearm.com
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's Inner-Ear Illusions
Recorded with Randall Dunn, 'Manifestations in the Shadow of an Uncertain Land' turns several years of political fatigue into what Lowe calls a "multiphonic landscape of horror," and the conversation runs from Jodorowsky to low-pass gates by way of his nine years in Om.
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has this ever been documented or is it apocryphal? I feel like it's the latter because the C&T song was only a modest hit in the UK rather than in the US where it was ubiquitous asking for my aunt via → lithub.com/behind-one-t...
Punk and post-punk had an almost reflexive distrust of the pop love song. Joy Division's first chart hit, however, wasn't born out of belligerence, but heartbreak. Yes, the song's title is a bit of a piss take: squeaky-clean husband-and-wife team the Captain and Tennille had a #1 hit in 1975 with "Love Will Keep Us Together," and while that song, or at least the optimism it channeled, did keep its performers together for nearly four decades, Curtis seems to have had little time for its saccharine "just say no" prescription for the seven-year itch.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 12/09/2026
not much frightened me as a small child except for this planter my parents hung just outside my bedroom window that had a lion’s face on each of its four sides I once had a dream it was talking to me and from then on I was terrified but too embarrassed to ask my parents to take it down
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.: night music :.
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Run Run
Provided to YouTube by EPM MusicRun Run · BanduluPresence℗ 2005 Ground PublishingReleased on: 1994-03-01Auto-generated by YouTube.
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also on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Bill Kopp speaks with German jazz drummer Peter Gall about two weeks on the couch with 25 new records and a lot of Aphex Twin, reverb as a hook, and how his label's request for a drum album turned into a rabbit hole →
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Peter Gall's Long Way Around the Drum Kit
The German drummer, a member of Web Web and Subtone, discusses 'Drum Seeds,' an album of drums, vintage synthesizers, and spring reverb made alone after his label asked him for drums and nothing else.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 10/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Lawrence Peryer talks with Brad Gowland + Richard Murphy of Michigan kosmische band Fling ii about how the band could include your gran on bongos, the appeal of putting a motorik beat under an Earth song, and how their sessions are building an elaborate boutique sample library →
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Fling ii's Kosmische, Out of a Michigan Basement
The two founders of the Ann Arbor band talk through the making of '3,' from a weekend of continuous takes with players scattered across Michigan, New York, and New Orleans, to the months Gowland then spends alone deciding which minutes survive.
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.: night music :.
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Long Sentence
Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesLong Sentence · Lee Perry & The UpsettersScratch Walking℗ 2006 One Media PublishingReleased on: 2006-12-12Auto-...
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 09/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Chaz Underriner speaks with composer, accordionist, and Ghost Ensemble founder Ben Richter about what the cold does to church organs, why pitch should mimic the curls, curves, and whirls of the natural world, and how, for him, composition is like gardening →
thetonearm.com
Ben Richter, Gardening at the Edge of the Score
Richter wants "a little garden where things can grow" without being overdetermined, and 'Mymerian' — organ, accordion, contrabass, and cello, recorded live in one cold room — is that garden at its most exposed.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 09/09/2026
starting a weekly ambient/chill out/wind down event called Desperately Seeking Soothin'
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 09/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗬𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆: Chaim O'Brien-Blumenthal leafs through the photos of legendary art director and photographer Don Schlitten, collected in the Fantagraphics book 'Love and Understanding,' and contemplates an image's role in documenting and setting the historical tone for a musical art form →
thetonearm.com
Don Schlitten's Quarter Century in Jazz Photography
Producer, art director, and label owner, Don Schlitten photographed jazz from a 1957 Monk set at the Five Spot through the Newport festivals of the sixties, and 'Love and Understanding' brings out the photographs that stayed inside jazz circles for decades.
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night music
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Tiny Trendies – The Sky Is Not Crying (Solid Goldstone Club Mix)
https://www.discogs.com/Tiny-Trendies-The-Sky-Is-Not-Crying/release/160345
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 08/09/2026
Existential Scram Noodle Film & Screenplay Festival and 1 other followed you
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 08/09/2026
jeez more like One Hundred Years of Subtitles amirite
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 07/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: @tangentuniverses.bsky.social speaks with Michigan drone lifers Windy & Carl + Optigan Conservatory about why it took them 30 years to finally get around to it, capturing the melancholy of the Midwest, and how their new album contains sounds that no one can really account for →
thetonearm.com
A Patient Art Form — Windy & Carl and Optigan Conservatory
Nobody rehearsed, nobody planned, and nobody can say with any confidence where half the sounds on 'Windy & Carl Meet Optigan Conservatory' came from.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 07/09/2026
great home office work music for getting deep 'in the zone' har har har har
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TARKOVSKY 5CD BOXSET 2026 - PROMO VIDEO
VA 'Tarkovsky' 5CD Boxset, Cold Spring, 2026.This boxset collects the original soundtracks to the five core works of Andrei Tarkovsky, the master of Soviet c...
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 06/09/2026
as if thrown by the might of a shot put champion, this week's Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter is gaining air + about to forcefully plop in your email inbox curious curations + recommendations + pianist Christian Li on getting lost in the sauce of his new album Broken Neon Sign become a subscriber:
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These Were Never Opposites to Begin With
This week: Lusine, Yuka Honda, Ira Robbins, Laura Veirs, Martin Bisi, and Fling ii. Plus, Brooklyn pianist Christian Li got lost in the sauce.
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George Grella @gtra1n.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m George Grella, I make music and criticism. On Ella’s 40th birthday concert in Rome, the way a cappella modulates mood and timbre between the first and second syllables of “disappear” on “Angel Eyes” has been sending chills down my spine for decades.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 05/09/2026
hi, I’m MDonaldson … I am the editor of The Tonearm and once led a strange life as a musician-for-hire in the Feelies’ “Slow Down” Brenda Sauter plays a single note on bass for the majority of the song and then suddenly near the end she changes it for a single bar and it gives me chills every time
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yes
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Begotten – 4K Restoration – Official Teaser
New 4K restoration in theaters October 1.God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herse...
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 05/09/2026
there's a rainbow suspended in the sky
A partial rainbow and towering gold-lit thunderheads over a calm lake at sunset, the water mirroring the orange sky; lily pads and marsh grass in the foreground beside a weathered post.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 05/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Tony D'Onghia speaks with Seattle producer Jeff McIlwain, aka Lusine, about why MIDI still confuses the hell out of him, how 'Melting Days' came out as borderline ambient, scoring the indie film 'Giant Void,' and how repeating one section of a song is the best way to listen →
thetonearm.com
Borderline Ambient — Two Decades of Lusine
Jeff McIlwain's tenth Lusine album, 'Melting Days,' makes the case that rhythm and atmosphere were never opposites to begin with.
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 04/09/2026
yet another example of the Times's negligence — not once does the word "Thunderstruck" appear in this article
Screenshot of a New York Times article page on a black background. The headline reads: "Toronto Stadium Is Severely Damaged by Thunderstorm Ahead of AC/DC Concert." The standfirst below it reads: "The music venue, which opened in 2025, was built specifically for large concerts. The fate of its next show, featuring AC/DC, is unclear." Beneath that is a play button labeled "Listen · 2:17 min," alongside "Share full article," share, and bookmark icons. The top edge of the article photo is visible at the bottom: an overcast gray sky above a dark structure with blue stadium seats and floodlights on poles.
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night music
peterknight.bandcamp.com
Impression I, by Peter Knight & TL;DR
from the album Phosphenes
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 03/09/2026
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: @lawrenceperyer.com speaks with legendary recording engineer Martin Bisi about getting away with 'sonic murder,' why hardcore and hip hop count as underclass music, the cranky DJ he becomes on 'Dancing On The Power Lines,' and the uniforms genres wear →
thetonearm.com
Martin Bisi, Recording Engineer Without a Uniform
Forty-five years into BC Studio, Bisi talks through hardcore and hip hop as underclass music, the trouble with the post-genre label, the taboo of anger, and the collaborators who shaped 'Dancing On The Power Lines.'
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 03/09/2026
if you showed me this without context and told me Wim Wenders finally made an A24 horror film I might have believed you for a minute
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FROM INSIDE OUT - A FILM BY WIM WENDERS (2026) Official First Look Clip - HanWay Films
Check out the official first look clip of Wim Wenders' latest 3D documentary, FROM INSIDE OUT, about the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor. The ...
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MDonaldson → @8sided.blog · 03/09/2026
I dreamed that Dr. Dre was set on moving to Gainesville, Florida, and it was my job to convince him this was not a good idea
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