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Shelley

@shelleyr.bsky.social
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Tentatively here. Toronto by way of Montreal. Lapsed academic. Sound + vision, mainly. #MDANT Oh, and @shelley_rohar on that other site

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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Kraftwerk—or should I say Neu—in their short lived 1971 formation with Florian Schneider, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger just bashing away on those drums. Recorded in a studio in Cologne, hence the song title (Köln II), for the youth program"Okidoki."
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
A mural I snapped on Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, a few years ago. Notice the irony of the American flag intruding on the picture. #InternationalWomensDay
A mural on Lincoln Blvd, Santa Monica, of Barbara Eden in her pink "I Dream of Jeannie" garb against a blue background. The text reads "I Dream of Equal Rights." Parked cars are in the foreground and an American flag hangs in the upper left hand corner. Artist: Jules Muck, 2018
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Daniel Sturniolo @dansturn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We are all experiences — everything
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Scored!
Screenshot of Ticketmaster confirmation page stating "YOU GOT 'EM" and showing General Admission tickets for Angine de Poitrine in Toronto, with a photo of Khn and Klek in all their polka-dotted glory.
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QueenCityJamz @queencityjamz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Calling it rn - 2026 gonna be The Year of Angine de Poitrine. All of the cool kidz will be saying "Geese who?" by summer. Power Trio w/2 ppl that looks like The Residents if Simon Hanselmann designed em on DMT. youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...
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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
The Electrician | The Walker Brothers (1978) Dark, brooding, and beautiful. 🖤
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Scott Walker - The Electrician
lyrics:baby its slowwhen litesgo lowtheres no helpnobaby its slowwhen litesgo lowtheres no helpnohe'sdrilling thruthe SPIRITUS SANCTUStonightthruthe dark hip...
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Goodnight from young Kevin Millson, unable to face sleep after reading a heavily-illustrated book on spontaneous human combustion. Goodnight from Meon Hill, dreaming of opening its occulted green gates to allow all of its hollow wonders to spill out. Goodnight from Hookland.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Close-up of David Bowie, eyes drenched in molten silver shadow, cigarette in hand, white cup at his lips.
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Nat Clarke @natclarke.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Felt a little festive at the microscope this morning for #FluorescenceFriday 🎄 Here’s the nervous system of a juvenile sea star ⭐️ Green = acetylated tubulin, red = nuclei Happy holidays!
Confocal microscopy image of a juvenile sea star (Patiria miniata) viewed from the oral side. The animal has a five-armed, star-shaped body with a central nerve ring. The nervous system is labeled in green, forming radial nerve cords extending into each arm, and cell nuclei are labeled in red throughout the animal. The image appears against a black background and has a holiday-ornament-like appearance.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The only version of Jingle Bell Rock you'll ever need. MES sends his holiday greetings and wishes you all a happy #fallfriday !
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THE FALL - JINGLE BELL ROCK
YouTube video by Martin Wakes
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“Lotta Love” from Neil’s criminally slept-on Comes a Time album. Pure mellow gold (with backing vocals by Nicolette Larson). Courtney Barnett does a sweet cover; Dinosaur Jr's cover, well, let's just say it's quite, er...something (kills me!).
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Cindy Lee casting spells tonight at Massey Hall.
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James GHOULizio 👻 @theswweet.myatproto.social · 02/11/2025
WE ARE IN THE BASEBALL DIMENSION
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 01/11/2025
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
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emma dawn @emmadawn.com · 21/10/2025
Kathie from Kids in the Hall wearing a 90s Toronto Blue Jays sweater
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Can’t wait to not see them. #Autechre
Instructions for tonight’s Autechre concert…

PLEASE NOTE - Autechre will perform in darkness.
For their set, all lights in the venue will be off. Please plan on being in one place for the performance and do not move unnecessarily until it has finished when the lights will come back on again. Please do not shine any lights at the stage or around the room during the performance unless you require assistance. In case of emergency, lights will come on and staff will be there to assist you to leave the venue. If you need to leave for any reason during the show, please use your mobile phone to light your way. If you are in need of assistance, please turn on your phone's light and wave above your head. Security will come to you and help. If you are uncomfortable with the idea of spending around 80 minutes in the dark while Autechre play, please see venue staff before the performance starts. Venue security will be in place for your safety and monitoring the audience as at any normal show. Absolutely no recording or flash photography please.
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S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Happy 50th to INDISCREET! Sparks’ 5th studio album was released this month in 1975. Produced by Tony Visconti and released on Island Records, the album is nowadays considered an indisputable Sparks classic.
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Filipe Dimas @filipedimas.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
VLADDY JR IS THE FIRST PERSON IN A LEAFS JERSEY TO WIN A GAME SEVEN IN OVER 20 YEARS
Vladimir Guerrero Jr wearing a Leafs jersey before the Jays game
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
…Preservation Society.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A snippet of Swans from last night in Toronto. Volume 11.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Steven Wilson tonight in Toronto. That’s all I gots. Incredible show.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Orange is the new season. #Fall #bloomscrolling
Orange roses in sharp focus; house softly blurred in the background.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Sparks tonight in Toronto. 💥💥
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Good luck trying this at an Autechre gig.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
What’s that Vonnegut line again…”if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
Female monarch butterfly feeding from a lavender-hued bluemink flower. Female monarch butterfly feeding from a lavender-hued bluemink flower.
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ok its ‘feed it off an aux, speak, grunt no strength, the ladder start to clatter with fear fight down height, wire in a fire representing seven games, a government for hire and a combat site’.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Oh my. Morrissey’s official site just posted a photo of him crouched on the shoulder of a gravel road in Philipsburg, Quebec (read: the absolute middle of nowhere), with the caption screaming MORRISSEY ENTERING CANADA. 😂
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Hiss, wobble, heartbreak—still walking the cow. Six years gone. Miss you, Daniel. youtu.be/-qgXYvjVNvk?...
Daniel Johnston, "Fritos And Kool-Aid", ca. 2016
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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Didn’t know this video existed lol. It’s like a avant garde shreds video. Love the part where the museum docent politely asks him to stop.
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Glenn Branca crashes the Whitney Opening
YouTube video by Reg Bloor
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Can I interest you in a really cool bug in these trying times? This is the Picasso moth (Baorisa hieroglyphica), native to India & Southeast Asia.
A white moth with colorful markings on the wings that resemble modern art.  Dark lines and blushes of color like a red spot and yellow thick line.

"V & A moth (from the markings on the forewing costa), a species of the genus Baorisa, probably Baorisa hieroglyphica Moore, 1882 (Noctuidae). Paper describing several new species is Behounek, G, Speidel, W. & Thöny, H. 1996. Revision der Gattung Baorisa Moore, 1882 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (G. Behounek, W. Speidel & H. Thöny Esperiana 3. Ex coll. Felix Stumpe"
CREDIT:  Notafly, Wikimedia
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ᴀʟ ᴅᴏʀᴀᴅᴏ @aldorado.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Mail call
Spiritualized spoof bumper stickers: ladies and gentlemen we are sitting in traffic
Blue on white
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
A little sunshine for your Monday...🔆 Summer's closing credits, soundtracked by Big Star. #Happytails #DogsofBluesky
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columbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Gorgeous Jill MacDonald illustration from The Puffin Book of Magic
A black and white book illustration in a madcap psychedelic 70s style featuring a row of four wild eyed wizards in the foreground with a witch flying over their heads surrounded by cats and rabbits and playing cards underneath the words group magic inside an aura of jagged lines
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Ended the 3-night run in Toronto by dancing ourselves clean. #LCDSoundsystem
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Well, damn. Farewell to The Prince of Darkness. Truly sad to see him go. #Ozzy
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BLACK SABBATH - "Paranoid" (Official Video)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I think the weirdest stadium in Canadian history is the Autostade in Montreal, home of the Montreal Alouettes from 1968-1976. Built for Expo 67 as a brutalist starburst of 19 separate concrete grandstands. Never seen another football stadium with this layout.
The Autostade in Montreal in the 1970s. The football field is surrounded by 20 or so individual granstands that are all separate and pointed directly towards the centre of the field, I don't know how to describe it other than it looks like the grandstands just all broke apart
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That's Are Dings™ @itsdings.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
RIP to Brian Wilson, who gave us many perfect albums but also the perfect interview
Q. Have you seen any good movies lately?

A. Well, I've only seen one in the last couple of years. It's called Norbit by Eddie Murphy.

Q. How did you like it?

A. Fantastic movie. Very funny.

Q. What's your favorite movie?

A. Norbit.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
One of the greats has slipped into the surf. Rest in peace, Brian Wilson—I only ever picked up the sweetest, most golden vibrations from you. “My cousin Brian said his mom told him dogs pick up vibrations we can’t hear—that’s where the song’s ‘vibrations’ came from.” – Mike Love
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The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by TheBeachBoysVEVO
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Brian Wilson has died. I painted him as the moon once
Brian Wilson as the moon in an old oil painting
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
Prince at Sam Goody's (NY or LA?), signing LPs for fans during the Lovesexy tour, 1988. 💜
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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
We called them transmission temples, not transmission towers. They sent The Hum down the lines we followed. They transmitted the signal encoded in the electric ley of the land. They were our psychic infrastructure, our temporary altars. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Child of The Hum #VOH #Pylons
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RRose @dawphin.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Matchbox, 5 June
A cartoon tiger looking like he ate something unpleasant. Framed in a red oval on a pattern of pale green swastikas. One red Japanese character in each corner.
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
“Lotta Love” from Neil’s criminally slept-on Comes a Time album. Pure mellow gold (with backing vocals by Nicolette Larson). Courtney Barnett does a sweet cover; Dinosaur Jr's cover, well, let's just say it's quite, er...something (kills me!).
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Shelley @shelleyr.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Conjuring up some Chantal Akerman energy. 🙌
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The Wire Magazine @thewiremagazine.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
An urgent message from The Wire magazine Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
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An urgent message from The Wire magazine - The Wire
Running an independent music magazine is becoming increasingly difficult. We need your support
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