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Colin Rafferty

@colinrafferty.bsky.social
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Eagle Scout, altar boy, student council president, all leading up to this.

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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh, no, a long line to pick up a prescription at the drive-thru and I can’t go in because I brought the dogs with me. Whatever will I do? Good thing I just ripped the shrink wrap off this noise (and have a car old enough to have a CD player).
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Today’s NYT Crossword, 5 letters, “Rock musician Bob.” Me, confidently Gen X: ah! Clearly “Mould” goes here. Me, 5 minutes later: okay, so that’s “Seger,” then.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
23 years living in the South, and every summer reminds me that, genetically, I should be digging peat under an overcast Irish sky.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Just damned sorry Julius Eastman isn’t here so we can all tell him how fucking good his music is.
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 22/04/2026
every free jazz show got these six guys at it
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Seventeen years married to the daughter, and it still takes me two drawers to find anything at my in-laws’ house.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
This is my favorite version of the AI push — we don’t have any real ideas for how you should use it, but it’s not going anywhere, so you had better figure out a use for it and then start using it quick! Uh, no. I don’t think I will.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It is, in fact, good.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Heard a version of “My Favorite Things” while walking through the airport, and it’s wild that it’s both the best and worst jazz tune.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Saw a service dog at MoMA today and barely held back the urge to run up and ask who their favorite artist was: Jean Arf? Claude Bonet? Jean-Michel Barksquiat?
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Live shot of my getting my Tzadik CDs from the basement after Zorn pulled them from Spotify.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Never have I understood the importance of wearing layers than in flying from Winnipeg to Atlanta in November.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
(Jerry Lewis voice)
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Ah, Halloween, the only night I can play Merzbow on my porch without the neighbors saying anything.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Listened to Glenn Gould play the Goldberg Variations for the 1,000th time today, and there’s still mystery and wonder and beauty and absolute magic in a seven-decade-old recording.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Today: Ligeti string quartets, Shalamov’s “Kolyma Stories,” afternoon walk with dogs, late night showing of the original “Suspiria” at my town’s movie palace. (I’m also grading and doing laundry, but this is still a good day)
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Join me for something I like to call “Pancake Thursday,” in which I make pancakes for breakfast and then sleep from 10 am to 2 pm.
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-𝚖𝚘𝚡 @moxiest.art · 15/09/2025
plan//execution
a simple flowchart from "new project" to "ideas" to "final concept" to "product"the previous flowchart with everything below "ideas" typed over dozens of times with words indicating a new idea has come to mind, making a large pile of text
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
The best thing about Radiohead naming themselves for a Talking Heads song is that “Radio Head” is easily the closest Talking Heads ever got to a Jimmy Buffet song.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Springsteen’s error with Tunnel of Love was releasing an album that was really good after a string of Desert Island Discs.
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Will Salmon @evilrobotbill.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Hey, all of Jandek on Corwood is on Youtube if you want to watch a good documentary about one of the most enduring figures in eerie outsider art www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8e...
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Jandek on Corwood
YouTube video by epyon
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This Didn’t Use to Be This Spicy: A Memoir of My Late 40s
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Among my other reading, I try to read six long (750+ pages) books a year, pacing them over two month stretches, around 20 pages a day. There’s always an odd feeling when I approach the end of one of these books, half victory lap and half impending sense of loss.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
They’ve installed those listening posts that hear gunshots in our neighborhood. Seems like a hard job, so I try to swing by and play Built to Spill’s “Perfect from Now On” for them occasionally.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
This is finally going to kick off the long-awaited and deeply deserved Coctails revival.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I know there are problems with streaming, but it’s still amazing, I say as someone whose mom videotaped and mailed him the entirety of season four of The Sopranos.
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UNSATISFACTORY HANDJOB WEREWOLF @joehunter.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
At the risk of going full Old Man Yells At Cloud, there’s an awful lot of people who seem to be utterly incapable of engaging with art or culture unless there’s something to buy and take a selfie with and it’s fucking weird
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Josh Crews @joshcrewsreally.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Iconic photo of pioneer punk women taken by Michael Putland 45 years ago. #music From left to right, top to bottom: - Debbie Harry (Blondie) - Viv Albertine (The Slits) - Siouxsie Soux (SATB) - Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) - Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex) - Pauline Black (The Selecter)
Black and white photo of six iconic women of punk/rock music as mentioned in post.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Reread Notes from Underground for the first time since I was in Mrs. Wareham’s sophomore English class 33 years ago, and do I ever respect the trust she put in us to engage with that book.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Been this summer for nine years now.
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Raysident Evil @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 04/12/2024
Grape Nuts (holding me back): Whoa whoa whoa, hey man, just let it go! This asshole isn't worth it!
Vintage grape nuts cereal ad. An anthropomorphic box of G-nuts with thick sexy legs holds a man in a suit from behind.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Happy 83rd birthday to the first person I realized was left-handed, just like me, and thereby made me feel cool about the whole scissors thing in first grade.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I’m not saying that a Sundays reunion would fix this sad world, but it’d make it a good sight better.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Yeah, I had a podcast in college, but we just called it “a three-hour slot on the campus radio station” back then.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
I am happy to inform you that if you’ve ever assumed that Theodore Roosevelt’s house would be full of amazing/horrifying things, you are absolutely right.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I drove from Durham to Long Island yesterday, twelve hours bookended by two distinct kinds of smug self-satisfaction.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Might have hit the adulthood high point when I was happy I didn’t get called for jury duty today because that meant I didn’t have to cancel my dentist appointment.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Three days post-Big Ears, and I’m settling into the notion that I’m not likely to see even one mind-blowing musical project today, much less six or seven.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Took me four minutes before i realized this wasn’t about running.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The crowd for Water Damage at 12:30 AM. Never let it be said that Big Ears doesn’t know how to rally.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Ahmed played an absolutely blistering set at Big Ears tonight. Walking out, I saw Billy Collins and Geoff Dyer, who’d read that morning. “Better than AWP, right?” I asked. They agreed.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The Philip Glass Ensemble is performing Music in 12 Parts at Big Ears, and it’s like watching the moon: beautiful but also unmoving, until you realize that it’s crossed half the sky while you were looking right at it.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
About to see Yo La Tengo play for the second time in my life. The first time was 30 years ago. Not sure I’ve got—or could pull off—a longer gap between first and second concerts.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Pranking my neighborhood by reversing all the Ireland flags they put up for St. Patrick’s. Now we celebrate Côte D’Ivoire!
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m in a coffee shop, writing while Norah Jones plays on the in-store sound system and only this device in my hand makes this any different from my 2003 writing process.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
About to board a flight and do my favorite thing: pick a random stranger in first class, and as I pass them, stage whisper “I loved your last book!”
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ceej @ceej.online · 11/02/2025
she's doing a noise set
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
I am hoping this this year's Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl halftime show starts a trend of Pulitzer Prize winners getting that gig, and next year's halftime show has Robert Caro debuting the first chapter of the final volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography which would then hit stores the following day.
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Colin Rafferty @colinrafferty.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
UbuWeb is back! Actively archiving and saving what risks being lost in the chaos! Ubu.com
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