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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#Books Finished reading '20 Jazz Funk Greats' (Continuum, 2008), the excellent book by @drewdaniel.bsky.social on the excellent LP by @throbbing-gristle.bsky.social. Yes, THAT @drewdaniel.bsky.social (of Matmos & Johns Hopkins University fame). It was hist 1st book and a good one. #Reading

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In the House & On the (New) Deck: 'Renascent' by The Durutti Column (@roughtraderecords.bsky.social, 2026). It's magnificent--as is the new deck, btw. TEAC TN-55B w a blue Ortofon cartridge. My first new deck in 37 years, and only my 3rd as an adult. First two: Thorens TD-160 & Ariston Q.

New LP by The Durutti Column, Renascent. In split blue/green vinyl.

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Thomas Ligotti / Current 93 collab., 'I Have a Special Plan for This World' (Durtro, 2000), is genuinely disturbing. Just sayin' ...

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

#BOOKS Finished 'England's Hidden Reverse' by David Keenan < @reversediorama.bsky.social > (expanded ed., @strangeattractor.bsky.social, 2016). Excellent book about #Coil, #Current93, and #NurseWithWound. Chock full of good #Music info about England's "esoteric underground." #Reading

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

#Music #Mood: 'Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain' by Current 93 (CopticCat, 2009)

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I just listened again to 'Four Days' (@WitchCatRecords, 2024) by @TheLegendaryPinkDots before moving it from "In Current Rotation" to "Permanent Shelving" and I really like it! #Music #Records

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

#Music "... full-blooded, rousing, intense and often very beautiful." Indeed so! The new @doomedbird.bsky.social LP, 'Meteoric Heralds of Danger,' IS.SO.GOOD. Thank you, @markkluzek.bsky.social for releasing it in a physical format! narcmagazine.com/album-review...

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ALBUM REVIEW: The Doomed Bird Of Providence – Meteoric Heralds Of Danger

Lee Fisher discovers an intense and rousing release from Mark Kluzek’s Doomed Bird of Providence project

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Spent all morning tidying up the house after the painters and listening to 'I Am the Last of All the Field That Fell' by Current 93 (The Spheres, 2014). Tibet's incantatory powers are on full display on that particular release. #Incredible #Music

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@misterquartet.bsky.social Oh, and, Belated Happy Birthday -- and many more!!!

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

@misterquartet.bsky.social Thank you for Television's 'Marquee Moon' in Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2026 Vol 18, I needed that.

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

#BOOKS Finished the novella 'Killing Stella' (@NewDirections, 2025) by Marlen Haushofer. Described by its publisher as "a domestic horror story," this interior monologue by one member of a very dysfunctional family is muted and oblique, and, well, disturbing. #READING

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

#Books Finished 'Cities of the Plain' (@aaknopf.bsky.social, 1998), the final volume in the Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy. A brief line from this masterpiece: "The probability of the actual is absolute." God, the man could write. #Reading

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA by the numbers. In 15 days: drove 3,403 miles across 5 states; visited 1 Nat'l Monument, 1 Tribal Monument, 1 Tribal Park, & 4 Nat'l Parks in 3 states; & visited w 6 friends, 5 family members, & 1 almost-college-roommate in 2 states. #Awesome

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 11, Great Sand Dunes National Park CO

Collage of 6 photos from Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 7, Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park CO

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 6, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park AZ

West Mitten, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park AZ

East Mitten, Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park AZ

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

#2026 #RoadTrip #Southwest #USA Day 5, Phoenix AZ to Monument Valley National Tribal Park AZ

Sign declaiming uranium mining on Navajo land

Solitary monument outside the Park, with wispy clouds against a lovely blue sky

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

#Southwest #USA #RoadTrip Day 3, Tucson to Phoenix [Busman's Holiday I]

Bookman's River Entertainment Exchange, Tucson AZ

Picacho Peak, I-10 North between Tucson & Phoenix AZ [taken from a car moving @ 75mph]

Book Gallery, Phoenix AZ [upgraded my copy of De Quincey's 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater,' my 1st purchase thus far]

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Gearing up for my first solo road trip following the loss of my darling wife by listening to the 50th Anniversary boxset ed. of 'Bongo Fury' by @frankzappa.bsky.social, Captain Beefheart, and the Mothers. As one does. #Music

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

R.I.P. Sam Kieth, co-creator of The Sandman comic. Fantastic artist, taken too young (63). #Comics

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

#BOOKS Just finished 'Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group' (TangerinePress 2025) by Rebecca Gransden. Very literate horror novel, beautifully executed. Currently short-listed for the Queen Mary Small Press Fiction Prize, deservedly. #READING

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

So, I got a notice today addressed to my late wife from the SD Country Registrar of Voters telling her that her "registration record is scheduled to be cancelled ... due to ... [her] ineligibility to vote ... due to ... death ..." Yep, that'll do it.

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

#Music R.I.P. John Hammond, Jr. What a distinguished career and lineage.

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Well, this weekend I received my late wife's death certificate. I guess it hasn't all been just a bad dream. 💔

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

R.I.P. Eliane Radigue. Your influence on #Music, especially electronic #Music, is incalculable.

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#Books Finished #reading 'Whitefoot' (Counterpoint, 2009), a children's book (illustrated) I found on my late darling wife's night table while ridding our bedroom of the death juju. This from that: "That one lives at the center of the world is the world's profoundest thought."

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Wow. @misterquartet.bsky.social Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2026 Vol 04 was fabulous. And plus also too, Mr. Blue used the expression "jiggery pokery"!

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

@misterquartet.bsky.social Thanks for all the classical music on vol. 04. Very nice.

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Last evening, at 4:30pm Pacific, the light and love of my life passed from this plane. Next Saturday, Valentine's Day, we would have been married 41 years. I promised her that while I'd miss her every day and in every way, I'd be fine. And I shall, in time. #FuckCancer #IWillAlwaysLoveYouSherri

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Meanwhile, in local news, Marian Jasper Blue of Vista, Calif. is petitioning the Superior Court of San Diego to change her name to Marian Thelibrarian. I had not previously realized that Thelibrarian was one word (or, er, name).

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

When the going gets tough, the tough listen to Bach's Cello Suites.

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#Music Diary, 21 Jan 2026: Legendary Pink Dots 'A Scented Candle' (NoiseNoiseNoise, 2016) Suss 'Self-Titled' (Northern Spy, 2022)

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BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I say: "If you should chance to meet me as I wander to and fro ..." You say: ?

BecSceB @becsceb.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

#Music Diary, 18 Jan 2026: Beethoven/Emanuel Ax 'The 5 Piano Concertos; Choral Fantasy' (2003) Mike Johnson 'The Gardens of Loss' (2026)