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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was five, we had to leave the movie theater screening 1977’s “Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure” mid way through due to my big sobbing tears of terror. Not sure if that, or hiding behind the couch during Wizard of Oz witch castle sequence was my first. (Big sheltered softy, clearly!)

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hadn’t clocked there was an ‘88 Hermans… Apple Music had it listed as a different year for some mysterious reason. They were my favorite discovery from the ‘89 competition!

AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Final two shows today for my currently running project "A Chorus Line" at the 5th Avenue in Seattle... Fantastic work across the board from all collaborators. If you are in town, there is still a matinee and evening opportunity to see our revisitation of this classic before it goes poof!

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

1) The novelization was better than the movie. And 2) TIE fighters were probably named after the bow-ties which they vaguely resemble

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sorry to miss! Keep thinking I will come, but thwarted by scheduling. (Dropping off kid at college this time… will just be singing to myself on the car ride home.)

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m impressed by “ALL RESEARCH…” and the fact that theirs is the only prediction in the final 20 not picking YHF for the winner.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Mmm. And I DO like Brackets… (this is a very good, smart and funny, article)

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

JD is wondering if the dog is allowed on the sofa?

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Make a band edible: Beet Happening. (Really trying to avoid just saying “Cake.”

MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Love Cheerbleederz in general and this song in particular!

MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you see this, post a not quite Star Trek

https://slate.com/culture/2016/01/ole-marius-joergensens-space-travels-through-norway-is-a-modern-day-road-trip-in-a-spacesuit.html

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Maybe they reinstated it based on yesterday’s win?

Screenshot of my iphone screen featuring Time the parenthetical revelator as an Apple Music essential album pick, taken this morning

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If you see this, you're legally obligated to quote with your favorite Star Wars character.

Lisanne Norman’s book Dark Nadir, on the cover of which a muscular feline in scrubs stares into a glass pod holding a sleeping blonde woman

Parolee engages in an overly complicated plan to get back together with his ex.

MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Voting and rooting for Spoon here. Really like both artists but Revelator always just bounces off me in a way my Welch faves Revival or Hell among the Yearlings simply don’t. Always puzzled me why this is held up as the essential LP of hers? Any Spoon always satisfies and this is a good ‘un.

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Losses like these always bring me right back to KEXP's human curated stream. Going to soak in it for a while. RIP Dolly.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

And who also claims she is originally from Gotham? Baffling. Maybe the Gunniverse reboot geographically puts the Bat's hometown in the upper rural midwest.

MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“The kids’ll think you’re foxy if you chugalug your moxie and never show the pain” - difficult soda and red hot dogs are the prescribed diet when the family heads to ME to visit the in-laws. Initially gross but now all we desire. Moxie forever!

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The fictional abandoned AI creating Joseph Cornell-esque boxes in Gibson’s “Count Zero” was genuinely thrilling as that book’s macguffin. Art-making impulses without any LLM style prompt or directive and using self discovered materials & inspirations could be a new Turing test.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I’ll confess my .5 remark wasn’t fully serious BUT my hot take is that three rawer song versions on “The Modern Age” EP > their “Is This It” re-recordings of the same, and maybe they should have just stopped there as a brilliant flash in the pan

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

And maybe the .5 is their first three song EP?

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Seattle area re-share: ICE in Ridgecrest neighborhood. Seen at Shoreline Library at 7:55 on Wednesday 7/29. 8 agents in 3 SUV’s. Blue and black vehicles.

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Marc Auerbach @pugetopia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So many baby faces in that movie, except somehow Glenn who has looked exactly 70 for the past 45 years

MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Thanks. It is coming up on 14 years now, so not a recent wound, of course. Music is a great way to remember and celebrate though, and in many ways is more celebratory and less sad as time marches on

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

When my sister got married back in the year of this tourney, CDs were gifted to those helping out, personally curated by the groom. I was given Yo La Tengo, as befits my sensibilities still, while my late wife got Lucinda. Sister is now divorced but ESSENCE lives on, and I can’t help but vote for it

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Amy LaZerte @amylazerte.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

NORTH SEATTLE PEEPS: Multiple ICE abductions this morning on or near highway 99. Shoreline, Lynwood, and Edmonds Community College (again). Please keep your eyes peeled while out and about, and put WAISN’s number in your phone!!!!! 1-844-724-3737.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My alt-country/no-depression phase was def in the back half of 90s, but I also picked Son Volt in the Uncle Tupelo divorce. Wilco never felt alt-country to me aside from AM. They seemed to be trying for something else. YHF is when it clicked for the me and got me to reevaluate their earlier work

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Score looks like it was posted in binary

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just means that whatever name you give them, they inevitably spell it “jesus” on the cup.

MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

“It’s Beginning To and Back Again” was Wire’s 89 Tournament entry, but that album does feature a few reworked and reimagined ABIACUIIS songs, which could be the confusion. (“Bell” was also my Wire gateway drug, so Kent’s newsletter description resonates. A definite nom!)

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Somehow these are also the catagoryes of ye olde rock musick

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Name a TV show you’re positive no one remembers but you

The year is 1957. The cast and crew of the Lester Guy Show are extremely apprehensive about their upcoming live television broadcast on the Zoblotnick Broadcasting Co. network. Lester Guy despises fellow cast member Betty Hudson for unknowingly becoming more popular than him and schemes to destroy her career. Two of the seven episodes were written by David Lynch.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

For the list: Vast of Night, Asteroid City, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Mars Attacks

MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Only mad north-northwest I hear. So a grunge fan?

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It’s telling that nothing from Get Ready is included in Apple Music’s “New Order Essentials” playlist. (Crystal is the lone rep on there, but it’s the mix from Total.) Hate to vote against a fave band, but it’s not the 80’s here anymore so it’s a no today for NO against a better album from Keys.

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

“Game” as distinct from “Toy” is what I was thinking too. Is chess a toy? Is monopoly? Is the chess queen I have given a personality to in my barbie dream house (along with a few lego spacemen and a spork with googly eyes) a toy, but only in that context? Is Minecraft a toy but Pac Man a game?

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I tend to conflate Squarepusher with Lifter Puller (craig finn’s early band) when I see their names, even though they sound nothing alike, but really liked Go Plastic as today’s dog walk soundtrack. Still gotta vote White Blood Cells though… WS’s breakthrough LP still works for me 25 years later

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MatthewSmucker @msmucker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Ok. Just 10 live bands? Prompt needs way more constraints. How about just the LAST 10 seen? -Telehealth -Coral Grief -Buddy Wynkoop -The Wedding Present -Girl in a Coma -Skating Polly -Victor Viera-Branco Trio -Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy -Weakened Friends -Torch