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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ONEIDA at the Us v Them show at Roulette last night.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I give today’s NYT Connections a 10.0

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just heard “Choosin Texas” for the first time ever sitting at the dentist

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is there anything better than a fall football Saturday

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The little gtr solo on the new War on Drugs single is quite sick.

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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.

The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”

Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.

“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Listening to Merl Saunders’s truly uplifting 1990 “environmental earth music” BLUES FROM THE RAINFOREST, made with, among others, percussionist Muruga and also Jerry Garcia. The back cover has one of my favorite Garcia photos, and the liner notes are a dream.

Back cover of Merl Saunders Blues from the Rainforest CD featuring song titles and a photo of Merl and Jerry Garcia.

CD booklet of Merl Saunders Blues from the Rainforest CD featuring song titles and a photo of Merl at a studio keyboard with a 1990 Apple Macintosh computer beside him.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Respect to my middle aged contemporary biking down Court St playing U2 In God’s Country on a bluetooth

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Late August Double AA ball: Portland vs the Reading Fightin Phils. Go Sea Dogs!

A paper ticket is held in front of a background of Hadlock Field baseball diamond.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Another Girl Another Planet just came on at the watering hole, always a cosmic blessing.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Please wait patiently during the silence.” - Toronto Dominion Bank via Douglas Coupland

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Little League uniforms have gotten pretty sweet

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Seen in a basement: Dad Rock and the latest @wfmu.bsky.social program guide.

Dad Rock trivia game and LCD magazine resting on a bar top.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Makaya McCraven and wondrous band was a joy at the Village Vanguard tonight; unifying core Junius Paul on bass a revelation. Great show! Great to be in that sacred room!

Tall and thin show poster for Makaya McCraven at the Village Vanguard.

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Scott Lapatine @scott.stereogum.com · 31/07/2026

ran into Conrad at the prog show and we are gonna chip in for the Neil Peart passport holder

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

At the Rush show and just saw a guy wearing a Le Studio Morin Heights shirt (and I would like to have it)

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Tonight’s listening: Elvis Costello at Sweetwater in Mill Valley 4/29/89 with a killer band and many guests, including Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, in bootleg CD form.

Front of a CD jewel case with photo of Jerry Garcia and Elvis Costello on cover.

Back of a CD jewel case with Jerry Garcia and Elvis Costello at the top and song info.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Landed in SF and guy next to me on BART rocking a Doobie Brothers shirt ⚡️

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Bob Dylan at Forest Hills was simply exquisite. I hung on every note and was never not being lifted. Storms held off. Crowd seemed to feel lucky to be there, bc of the weather and also you know Bob Dylan and his incredible band. If I see Saint Annie I’ll tell her thanks a lot.

Forest Hills Stadium stage as viewed from far back in the bowl.

Forest Hills Stadium scoreboard marquee.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Sitting on a beach in the Caribbean, speculating about Yo La Tengo Hanukkah openers.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Listening to the glory that is 7/16/90, one of the most fun days/nights of my life. The second set-opening Sugar Magnolia > Scarlet Begonias is summertime in musical form. What a gas for a teenager on summer break.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

A magical night of almost entirely instrumental music feat. guitars and effects and loops and delays on a hot but breezy evening at the wondrous Mama Tried last night with Seawind of Battery, Tacoma Park, and Animal, Surrender.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

New CD player today (!) and new Parts and Labor // @ejrc.bsky.social

CD digipak resting on a CD player with a Parts and Labor CD sitting on the open tray.

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Sean Carroll @seanedmund.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Alexis Petridis summing up everything that's magnificent about Total Eclipse of the Heart. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

Total Eclipse of the Heart went on for seven minutes, featured a pipe organ solo that sounded like it was being played by Count Dracula and was punctuated by explosions that were supposed to represent the sound of nuclear bombs being dropped: as was his wont, Steinman claimed it was heavily influenced by Wagner. It would have sounded completely ridiculous, were it not for the fact that Tyler’s vocal gave the impression she didn’t think it was ridiculous at all: she sang it as if her life depended on it. To use a modern term, she committed to the bit so completely that her voice emerged as the song’s star attraction, rather than being swallowed up by the absolute bedlam going on around it. Fast forward the song to about three and half minutes in: Count Dracula has just finished doing his stuff, a massed chorale of backing vocalists keep urging bright eyes to turn around, there are faux nuclear explosions going off left, right and centre, but when Tyler’s vocal reappears – “EVERY NOW AND THEN I FALL APART!” – you forget about everything other than her.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Three different kids in the slice shop, three Knicks shirts.

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Jason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Happy birthday to me, we are in a pal’s basement and listening to Jesse-spun Jonathan Richman

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

First ever Mermaid Avenue show with Wilco and Billy Bragg did not disappoint. (Whoever posted this forgot to add Nora Guthrie on cowbell)

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Neighborhood report: school just got out for summer. Parking spots already opening up. Court Pastry Shop and 16 Handles both mobbed. Saw a kid straight up drop his cone on the sidewalk.

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The Southern Gothic Ghost Bunne : woooooooooo @daemonaac.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What a lovely, wonderful thread 🧵

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Sinatra Drive Breakdown at Forest Hills

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Always a good day when you’re seeing Yo La Tengo.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

There’s a whole lotta orange and blue on the uptown F train and it is glorious.

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Vulture @vulture.com · 17/06/2026

Aimee Mann wasn’t sure if Rush fans would boo her. The singer-songwriter discusses how she was convinced to appear as a special guest at the band’s recent shows: ‘I knew they would make it really easy for me, because they’re decent people.’

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Aimee Mann Wasn’t Sure If Rush Fans Would Boo Her

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Is this the SINGLE WORST presidential response in history? I know he holds the top 100, but this feels like the gold to me.

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Boarding music includes a Muzak version of Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz

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Conrad Doucette @conraddoucette.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Harden my Heart by Quarterflash now playing at the airport bar

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