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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 20h

The night stand is right where it's always been. Somehow I seem to have forgotten this fact. Ow, my elbow. I know that's not a valid haiku form but you try to compose poetry when it feels like your arm just got run over by a freight train.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 03/10/2026

Why teach your horse to look in a cow's mouth when you can get the milk for the price of all the tea in China?

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 03/10/2026

Breton was played by Stephen Fry. Anyone who puts me in mind of Stephen Fry did a good. Yay!

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 02/10/2026

This reminds me of an Andre Breton gag in a film about Salvador Dali I watched a while back. Breton: Drink this. Dali: What is it? B: (looks at it) It's green. (they drink) B: Mmm. Perhaps our greenest yet!

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 29/09/2026

Wait, wut? A hill? On The Embarcadero? Are you sure you weren't jogging up Lyon between Green & Broadway or Duboce between Castro & Buena Vista Terrace? If you were on The Embarcadero you jogged past this guy three times at three consecutive stop lights.

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Russ Somers @rsomers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New song based on what @vanessavivante.com said to me a couple months back.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 29/09/2026

Thank you! I feel so honored by this and glad you are recovering well. Lots in your song both to cry and laugh about.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 28/09/2026

Viewed one way they look like eyeballs, while the other way they look like speaker cones.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 27/09/2026

Singing along with an instrumental song doing odd harmonies and countermelodies as loudly and obnoxiously as I can because I live in a tourist town and that's what locals do in tourist towns. Or not.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 26/09/2026

If someone offers to take you to a Laurie Anderson with Sexmob concert go. Do. Yes. Holyfuckyes. The end.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 25/09/2026

Interesting. Yoda in the Presidio doesn't have Grogu but looks pretty much the same otherwise.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 25/09/2026

I have loved Ensoniq gear for many years, starting with a theatre soundtrack on a borrowed ESQ in the early nineties. Later I bought my bandmate's EPS, then a new ASR-10 and 88 which have featured prominently in almost everything I've done since then. I also had a DP4 and DP4+. Good times!

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 22/09/2026

First day of fall, it hasn't even snowed anywhere yet, but last night I saw a Christmas tree lit up in someone's apartment window.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 21/09/2026

I do not know the answer to your question but this morning when I woke up the song Feliz Navidad was stuck in my head.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 20/09/2026

Be very careful in choosing your enemies. Making friends is easy but enemies require due diligence because they require a far bigger investment.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 20/09/2026

Today was actually a good day. No real pain or new flares to complain about. Went out and did actual stuff. Hardly remembered what that was like. I want more of that.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 20/09/2026

BLA HAH GAH WHOO WHEE YAH YAAH BLEDDLE WEDDLE GOO MA HAARGLE CLANKEE YABBLE!!!! *bangs on stair rails with drum sticks* There. Feel better now?

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 18/09/2026

North By Northwest tonight. Completely satisfied. Bed.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 17/09/2026

Bette Midler: You're on fire, girl! Unwoman: Aaaaaaieeeeee!!! Vanessa Vivante: I'll cover you!

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 16/09/2026

Have fun! It looks like I was too late to get tickets but you can meet my friend Scott. He got one. Maybe I'll venture as far as Green Apple or Toy Boat just to be nearer my Negativland to thee.

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White Rose Motor Oil @whiterosemotoroil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Some info about our NEW song “Nothing’s Easy From Denver”, available everywhere NOW! #DenverMusic #MusicSky youtu.be/iuTskooDRZ0

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 12/09/2026

Silence is the loudest noise there is.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 12/09/2026

I watch people carry their emotional baggage onto Muni, unpack it and smear it over the seats every single time I ride. That's strange enough.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 12/09/2026

Seeeeee???!!! It's not just me.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 11/09/2026

We took an impossible to please relative to Squat & Gobble. When we arrived she refused to order. She saw the salads that came with our crepes and decided to try a salad. Then another, and another. Three salads! The next time she planned to visit us she asked, "Can we go to that salad place again?"

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 08/09/2026

The one in my home. It's steep and made out of metal and concrete so I'll probably die on some day.

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Peter Gabriel @itspetergabriel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"If you can find what in today, in now, is making you happy and what you're grateful for, I think it's a better starting point. And as I get older, I try to do a little more of that" - pg Watch the full video on YouTube. youtu.be/dv-dp_XKZI0

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 06/09/2026

I'm glad you clarified by telling the whole story. My mind interpreted your use of the word presence to mean you literally float around above their beds moaning "hoooo...wooo!!!" while they're trying to get to sleep at night.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 06/09/2026

This is perfectly reasonable. Halloween is mostly for the civilians anyway.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 06/09/2026

I'm one of those weirdos who can simultaneously strongly disagree with you but still like you and get along well with you. It's a superpower I must have picked up from some long extinct, more reasonable time in this planet's history.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 06/09/2026

Waitaminute, are you and The Bold Italic the same person? (I know the answer is no but this totally looked Theish Boldican Italicly and I laughed and had to share it.)

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 05/09/2026

The sign by the trash area said Private Dumpster and immediately I heard Tina Turner in my head.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 05/09/2026

Had to refresh my memory about the difference between a baritone guitar and a bassVI. Got it now. Thank you for your patience in this matter.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 01/09/2026

Tell them that your music is ELM. When they ask what that is you say, "It's a fucking tree!"

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 30/08/2026

I have been corrected. It was Mistaken For Strangers he did with The National. (although he did Vanderlyle in his own set) The horns from The National did Heavy Heart with him. We all can put singing with The National on our resumes now though as you see here. m.youtube.com/watch?v=lDyT...

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Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks, The National w/ Bartees Strange@Dillon Amphitheater 8/10/22

YouTube video by GeeDuB

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 30/08/2026

I love Bartees Strange! His band opened for The National at Dillon Amphitheater and then later came onstage to do a couple songs with them, Bloodbuzz and Vanderlyle, if I remember correctly.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 29/08/2026

It does get better. ...then worse... ...then better... ...then kinda numb for a while. And then you see a muddy deer walking around in a pond and everything is wonderful, if only for the ten minutes you spend giggling about the muddy deer.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 29/08/2026

Records? Don't they skip a lot while you're driving? My vote at the moment* would be Les Chants Magnétiques by Jean Michel Jarre since you're in a New Age mood. * You'd get a different answer every time you ask me this kind of question.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 29/08/2026

For the first six or so minutes I want to hear Andy Bell singing something, but then I hear Dave Gahan come in with the minor melody . By ten minutes in it becomes a duet as the music builds. They might seem out of budget for your project but offer them pizza and I bet they'll do it.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 29/08/2026

The plot thickens! I love vicariously reading about your nightlife as I eat pancakes on the other side of the planet.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 28/08/2026

For paper cups I learned the rule to always make sure the paper seam on the top of the cup is on the opposite side from the lid's drinking hole. Saved a lot of shirts with that advice.

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 26/08/2026

Nice! Really puts me in the same headspace as Jouissance, a project of Michael Sefton's back in the nineties. Too bad there are very few opportunities to listen on the internet. There seems to be one song on YT. I think I have three albums on vinyl or CD at home. The web doesn't have everything!

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 26/08/2026

If you know this song, you know why I put it here today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8nIfM9FXe8

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Walk the Dog

YouTube video by Laurie Anderson - Topic

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 25/08/2026

You should write a book for them called "You're Not Going To Like It...And You're Gonna Like It!"

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 25/08/2026

When I first saw Heima it made me lowkey jealous that Sigur Rós gets to play in such beautiful surroundings. Then I started playing concerts in and around Alma, Colorado in the summer and I realized: This is my Heima! I mean, Alma!

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Vanessa Vivante @vanessavivante.com · 22/08/2026

How could you not? I mean, aren't you the ingenious writer who invented the portmanteau, complesult?

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