iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 19h

I recently finished my massive listen/audit of my entire music collection, and since then I've found that without this project guiding the parameters of my music listening, I just want to listen to TMBG all the time. Shocker.

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 23h

My son is 12 and in 7th grade. To this day my wife and i read to him before bed, each of us out of a different book. He gets half an hour each, give or take. She's been working through redwall series, and I read adaptations of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, and now that those ended, Mistborn

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When I was 4 or 5 years old my parents made the very wise decision of watching the arm wrestling scene from The Fly while I was in the living room

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I could have told you this whole time that the East Bay rules and SF drools

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Graham Sinclair @esgarchitect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nothing is inevitable. As Wendell Berry encouraged, we have no right to claim that, and do little/nothing.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

God damn it, I unwittingly joined a pileon over today's BlueSky main character. Welp, back I go to not posting for several weeks

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There has simply been no conduit for this song to enter my life, and this isn't something I wear as a badge of honor, it just is what it is.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finished the 5th Slow Horses season this evening and the 6th Slough House book last night, and am about to crack open the 7th, because I am committed to cultivating a dad content monoculture.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Was talking about this with @jennifer-carman.bsky.social, and it's honestly a strong candidate for #1. At least they ranked it (slightly) above Ted Lasso

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've definitely had the same thought. And there always being something new to discover is way better than being burned out and bored with it all.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It me, except music, but also books too

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026

DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not back on that old poptimism kick, Joe. Still on it.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"I Know You Got Soul" is Casablanca levels of one legendary line after another

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Even if the remixes aren't the "authentic" versions, XTC is a case where dodgy engineering decisions prevented a lot of their albums from being the best versions of themselves, and I'm glad they exist.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've heard Chris Ballew's voice a lot in my first few years as a parent because of his (rather charming) children's music side career under the name Caspar Babypants.

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Libby Cudmore (SHE/HER) @libbycudmore.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

TV wise, THE SHIELD documents the horrors of post-9/11 life, policing, bigotry and survellence in a way that simultaniously documents the bleakness of the culture and continues to resonate in the aftermath.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This is dangerous discourse I'm wading into, but the idea that Ralph Wiggum is using "Viking" as a complex idiom feels like such strange, unnecessary mental gymnastics to me compared with "Ralph dreams about being a Viking."

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Jokey answer: Started a podcast Real talk answer: Got sober and started raising a kid Jokey or no, all of these things have immeasurably changed my life for the better and frankly feel like a rebirth

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This passage from Questlove's genre survey + memoir Hip-Hop Is History is really hitting home as a music geek who's definitively entering middle age.

"A decade ago, I wrote a memoir called Mo' Meta Blues, though as this book goes on, it's condemned to be more of a metanarrative, too, because nearly every process concerned with art — how I find my way to new music, how I digest it, how I recommend it to others, how I draw lines around it that both protect it and protect me — has become more self-conscious as I have gotten older. As we have established, there will never again be a moment in which I arrive breathlessly at a record store on a Tuesday morning and walk away with a cassette or CD that's about to change my life. Some of that is due to market and technological shifts. Some of it is due to marked psychological shifts. But I remain a person who is obsessed with music and the miracles it can bring about when it works the right way, or the right kind of wrong way."

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Michelin stars are awarded for how well the napkins are folded and other things that The Bear insists that you should care about, anyway

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My low-key favorite Tim Curry role is in FernGully: The Last Rainforest, where he sings an absolutely fierce villain song as the pollution spirit Hexxus.

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Ferngully Toxic Love HQ

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

That was a strong contender for my list, and realistically I just didn't think of it fast enough

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New England, you're going back to OLD England!

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My one regret is that I completely left off Duke, even though he could fill at least five lists single-handedly

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

In lieu of Simpsons quotes, here are the top 5 lines from The Critic that circulate in my household: -Where do you want the ... sweet buns? -Eggs don't ripen. EGGS DON'T RIPEN! -You're gonna miss my hoo-ha! My tangoing! My blind driving! My hoo-ha! -Oh no! Pro-moo-theus! -Take that, GUERNICA!

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Most likely Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Which seems like a big warm hug on the surface, but realistically I would be dead within about five seconds.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Welcome to Mindhead. Welcome to Mindhead. Welcome to Mindhead. Welcome to Mindhead.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

When that show came out, I thought "This concept feels a bit contrived and convoluted," but now I think "Nevermind, they totally fucking called it."

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

That's great. I have the title pretty down pat, but among many other aspects of the performance, there is no way I could manage that gigantic rolled R.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Briefly had delusions of grandeur of busting out "Prisencolinensinainciusol" at a friend's DIY karaoke party, but then I relistened to it and LOL NOPE, not even if I practiced for a month straight

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Jessie Ware enforcing a restraining order between the two nerdiest albums in my collection

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Sarc-o'-Lantern @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Gonna say it now, early, as a lifelong CA resident who has voted before for Newsom: Newsom is not the guy. Don't let him be the guy. We will all regret it if he is the guy.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I am raising a hyperlexic 3-year-old, and I did not know it was humanly possible to love the alphabet this much

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

P.S. there are definitely exceptions on the acting front, especially Pattinson.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I'm impressed at how Nolan can film an Odyssey that has wooden acting and dialogue, mediocre action, and is a flimsy adaptation of the source material, but in practice these flaws barely matter because at the macro scale it kicks ass.

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's easy to think of the internet 20 years ago as this warm, cozy place, but Anoncon was a real bloodbath

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My "vegetables are good but lettuce is whack" personal philosophy appears to be paying off

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I was born in '83, so this is me with "Put Down the Duckie."

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

There are still a few out there, and I will stick doggedly to those models until it is literally impossible

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Rich Bunnell @richbunnell.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I was so far from this type of kid that I got cold feet and returned a Barenaked Ladies album to the store less than an hour after I bought it

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Kayleigh Donaldson @ceilidhann.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The Odyssey (dir. Christopher Nolan)

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