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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oliver Wood with Ric Roberson at the Iron Horse. Good old fashioned meticulously crafted songs with enough virtuosity in the instrumentation to get the eyebrows moving but not so much as to make one say "okay, enough of that". I went with no knowledge on an offered extra ticket & had a great time.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sofia Sofia at Laughing Dog Bicycles Amherst was great. Fiddles, guitar and a harmonium played by foot, I think. Ought to learn more about this kind of music because it pleases my ears but tends to strike me as samey from song to song. Feels like there are distinctions I could learn to appreciate.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.liminalbingo.com Getting there. Actual effort starts now.
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Alana Kumbier @alanacutandpaste.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Flywheel Zine Fest this Saturday! At the Holyoke Senior Center! Free admission! Come say hi! Will I finish my zine in time? Probably not!
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Perennial @perennialtheband.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Western Massachusetts! The Perennial Sound returns next Friday for a live appearance at Holyoke Media!
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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
What’s everyone’s favorite dad movie
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Robin Marwick @electricland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
I think about this post a lot
Tumblr post by stimmyabby

Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority"

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person"

and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay.

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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This is my go-to work listen right now. No A&P recording is as good as the live experience but this is excellent. And it's about birdies. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com
Nocturnal Birding - Album by Author & Punisher
Listen to Nocturnal Birding by Author & Punisher on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
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Thomas Leeper @thosjleeper.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
The boggarts keep hiding our shit. I don't really believe in the boggarts. They're a metaphor for when the place is a mess and we can't find anything. But in another, also very true sense, I totally believe in the boggarts and those lil fuckers are pissing me off.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'll play. Top 10 all-time favorite vocalists Tori Amos Phoebe Bridgers Peter Murphey Cyndi Lauper Amanda Palmer Emma Ruth Rundle Janis Joplin Karen Carpenter Bonnie Raitt Nico I am not satisfied and some of the cuts I made hurt me badly.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The fact that we're still spelling "bass" (the musical term) like that is a damning indictment of the culture.
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🎃heeeeere's johnny🎃 @ozarkobscura.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
from someone who was in school for the beginning of the "war on terror," please. please please please. talk to teenagers in your life about not joining the us military. about not letting themselves be groomed by recruiters in schools. they're going to want soldiers, and they always start young.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
"Does this picture of a drug boat from years ago LOOK like a fishing boat!?" (repeat one hundred million times) -Facebook right now.
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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Since I'm home sick and X-Twitter may soon expect me to pay for access, I am going to recreate this here: 🎢 ⚛️ Pedro Pascal as classic physics textbooks: a thread
Pedro Pascal in a dark red suit and black turtleneckClassical Electrodynamics by JD Jackson, white print on red cover
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This show was a lot of fun. All bands new to me; all bands great. I mostly saw the right side of the stage because I was working the door a lot so I had to lurk in the entrance.
colorful rocks in a basket painted with these words:
Flywheel arts collective presents
Sun Urchins
Nanny
PMS
Powerpop + More 
doors -7
show - 8
Saturday 11/8
$10 NOTAFLOF
Holyoke Media 1 Court Plaza
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I feel like I say this every year but I really need people to hear it. Halloween is the best American holiday. Just kids outside welcomed into their world, marching around together, showing off their costumes to the elderly, parents meeting parents, neighbors catching up with neighbors.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Lady riding up front hugging and kissing and play fighting the driver whenever we're stopped. Driver tells the guy dancing and rapping to sit down while we're in motion. Then asks what song it is. Guy says he's freestyling to country music on his phone. Driver says he's fun. The bus at night rules.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We went to this. M & me were sitting between two friends, one a bit older and one a bit younger than us. I could explain to neither how hard The Crow hit if you were 14 in 1994.
Promotional image for Cinemastorm at the Shea featuring the posters for Robocop (1987) and The Crow (1994)
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
First Marigold show for me. Derailleurs were great like always, and Saliba were new to me but I dug them a lot. I didn't give Slant of Light the attention they deserved because I was so fuckin tired by that point but they impressed me enough to want to catch them again when I'm in a fit state.
Show flier with images of cassette tapes. Text Says:
SLANT OF LIGHT
LES DERAILLEURS
SALIBA
marigold theater | 84 cottage street | easthampton
saturday | october 4 | 2025 | $10 | 7:00pm doors
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Go listen to Wicca Phase Springs Eternal's new album Mossy Oak Shadow. He sounds like flannel shirts now and it's fuckin great. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com
Mossy Oak Shadow - Album by Wicca Phase Springs Eternal
Listen to Mossy Oak Shadow by Wicca Phase Springs Eternal on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The singing telegram girl from Clue never got enough flowers. * Gets manipulated into a heinous sexual relationship with her older politically connected psychiatrist. * Gets singing telegram job. * Assigned to terrifying house with guard dogs at night. * SELLS THE HELL OUT OF IT. * Shot.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Jonathan Coulton at City Winery in Boston last night. It's a somewhat awkward place to see music but JC was as charming as ever. (Mostly) alphabetical set list made for a little game of guess-what's-next with clues. Ambitious "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" cover was a highlight.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
These wonderful performances and a picnic by the CT river last night. Good times.
Show flier. Text over trees and sky. Text: 
"Saturday September 13th
Ada Lea
Norma Dream
Jenifer Gellineau
$15
6:30pm
Brick House Turners Falls"
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
LCD Soundsystem with Gustaf in New Haven last night. Both bands seem like they oughta be animated into Scooby-Doo episodes. I'm not sure what I mean, but I know it's a compliment. Anyway, it was terrific of course. LCD is LCD, Gustaf was a fun surprise.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This was a lot of fun. Forbes new outdoor performance set up is real nice. Never seen either band before but I'll definitely catch both again whenever I can.
Show flier for Ex-Temper and The Classicals on the Forbes Library Lawn September 4
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Poppy at the Palladium in Worcester last night. She's playing with heavy music performance tropes like toys and it's amazing.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We went to the Rilo Kiley show at the park on Tuesday. I didn't know they were this good. Like if your favorite band's favorite band in the 70's were also dreamy hipsters from the 00's.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Ani DiFranco at Treehouse Brewing last night. Excellent musicianship and a delightful environment as expected. Banter took some odd turns between songs, but it's Ani. Making it weird is part of the brand. Angel of Montgomery by John Prine cover in the encore was an unexpected highlight for me.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Are the things I have to burn energy actively not give a shit about coming faster and furiouser lately? It feels like they are.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
There's this subgenre of... I guess new age music that goes -drone note -ping pong... ping -human voice goes AEAOOOOOOOOOHOYYAEOOA -repeat with no changes forever. that I think is supposed to be relaxing. It makes me so angry I want to smash it with hammers.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I suppose I should be tapering my coffee consumption what with the present risk of price shocks. I will not be doing so.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Million dollar idea: a dispensary with a big banner out front that says "This one has signs that explain how to shop here and what's available and what it costs."
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Guster/The Mountain Goats double bill outdoors at Mass MoCA last night. I was delayed and missed The Mountain Goats. Guster was great. Told us to boo them off the stage instead of cheering for their encore, which we did. Guster's affable flower children and TMG's Prousty neurotics got along fine.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Weird Al Yankovic in Saratoga Springs yesterday. His stuff has a tendency to be very of its moment, and he doesn't do anything stupid like try to keep the material relevant. It winds up being an interesting journey through the preoccupations of the past 40 years. Lots of kids having fun.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"America doesn't deserve a birthday this year" -many Of fucking course it doesn't but fireworks and grilling are fun. Symbolic self denial is for boring people.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Can we come up with a new name for fruit and vegetables in the blender? I'm tired of starting my day ashamed. "Smoothie"? Who signed off on this?
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Taking 3 months off the sauce. Nobody die or get married.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Watching Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Sometimes it blows my mind that the past used to be the present.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
media.tenor.com
a person wearing white pants and black shoes is standing on a purple and blue background
ALT: a person wearing white pants and black shoes is standing on a purple and blue background
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Remember that despair doesn't help anything, so lie forever.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I haven't seen one car in LA from this many angles since the OJ trial.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
catching up on Blizzard of Ozz right now. Holy fucking shit.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Everybody's on their own trip out there, but when I say hello to some stranger and they look at me with the motionless face of an emperor listening to a plea for mercy that they have no intention of granting I judge those people.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Yesterday it rained so much and I was thoroughly drenched. Thanks to my habit of leaving my stuff all over the place there were dry shoes and socks and shirt waiting for me after I dropped off my trailer. There are better feelings than exchanging soaked socks for dry, but not too many.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Another Zine Fest on the books, It was a grand time as always. Here's this year's haul.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We saw Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory at Roadrunner last night. You need to check these people out and become a devotee. I'll carpool with you next time they come around, because I'm going to be there. youtu.be/uVyhon0Nw8Q?...
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Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - Idiot Box (Official Video)
YouTube video by SharonVanEttenVEVO
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Today: Inbox zero or death.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
I was working riding along the bike trail today. Some guy passed me on one of those one wheeled electric scooters shredding on an amped electric guitar. There's still good in the world.
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nealsshowdiary.bsky.social @nealsshowdiary.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
They say the French in France sounds fancier than the French in Canada. I don't understand how that's possible. I went to Montreal. It's nice there. They will give you fries that are so, so covered in goop. It's not even a secret. It's all over the menu.
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