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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Honestly shocked no one has reached out for me for comment on the Todd/Taylor feud (such a non-story lol) as I’m probably the only person on earth who went straight from Todd Rundgren’s birthday party in Kauai to a Taylor Swift concert in Cincinnati

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

An all-male Bangles cover band called The Dangles

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Luv 2 roll up 2 a red light next to the beat-up Honda Civic that was trying to drag race me down the road just BLASTING Mary Lattimore’s “Wawa By The Ocean” from my station wagon.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Still making this face 😍 over the Tori Amos show last night in Louisville. Winter/Silent All These Years/Waitress/Precious Things/Pretty Good Year… HUGE thanks to @anniezaleski.bsky.social for reminding me life is too short.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I can’t stop thinking about Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know. I had forgotten how great McEwan is at writing the internal lives of characters, with intricate plot to boot. It’s had the secondary effect of driving me straight back into the arms of Iris Murdoch, an obvious influence.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Everybody is getting into mycology while I’m out here tripping on musicology

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I keep waiting for Blueboy’s Unisex (1994) to get rediscovered—how has “Also Ran” never been used in a Greta Gerwig movie? One of the sweetest and most underrated albums I’ve ever loved. Whence the Sarah Records revival?

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

In all sincerity, seeing Todd Rundgren playing in a cave might have been the most fitting environment I’ve ever seen him play in (Plato’s cave allegory, the dawn of man, “dragging my knuckles along the ground…”)

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Todd Rundgren is NOT my mom but I may see him more times in a calendar year than I see her

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Happy Birthday to Todd Rundgren (and my mom)

Todd Rundgren wearing a black long sleeved shirt with Japanese text that means “Fall seven times, stand up eight” with “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” print on it playing a green guitar and signing at a microphone

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Even if this isn’t true I am disseminating it because I want it so much to be true

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I’d like to postulate that, in most if not all situations, science & physics > self-help

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I definitely think about this at least once every few months

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I always love it when my bookstore playlist gets a compliment, but I especially love it when it goes Cate Le Bon —> Steve Hackett —> Otis Redding

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yesterday at the bookstore I learned from a youth that Sartre’s Nausea is “trending” and Faulkner is cool again

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Twitter: Walt Whitman Instagram: Mary Oliver TikTok: william carlos williams Bluesky: Frank O’Hara YouTube: Charles Bukowski Facebook: Robert Frost

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’m in love with being in love and listening to Schoenberg & Gesualdo, it would be a recipe for a breakdown if the sun weren’t out

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today I am in love with being in love

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Whoa—reading about Carlo Gesualdo, and the music is gorgeous but the Renaissance was a wacky time!

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Times are so dire I’ve started reading mostly men again: Richard Hell, Faulkner, Luis Sagasti (but also, like, a ton of Nancy Lemann)

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I feel like the only way to get through life right now is by building a tower of books around me about physics and neo-Kantian philosophy and renaissance music and late 19th century shifting concepts of time to read tiny sips from daily

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

"These are books for the misanthropes, the anti-socialites, those with negative self-regard. (You know who you are.)" New York Times heralds the return of Nancy Lemann, and her entrance into the canon of New Orleans writers.

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A New Orleans Heroine Who’s Uneasy in the Big Easy

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Nancy Lemann, The Oyster Diaries—impressively ominous on this ominous day

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

That is the whole point of everything—to notice things more. —Nancy Lemann, The Oyster Diaries

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

At one point I wanted to write on the evolution of interiors in Sue Grafton’s alphabet series, which started in the 80s and so described true-to-time interiors, but over the years became a fetishized, distanced view of the 80s, making the interiors feel more like memories or phantoms than rooms

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I’ve figured out that to be any kind of musician you either have to have complete conviction or a broken soul. Working harder on the conviction.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

TEACH YOUR DAUGHTERS POWER CHORDS

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Every once in a while I go through phases of learning a song on the guitar and being absolutely LIVID that when I was younger I thought the guitar was some wildly difficult instrument closed off to me but, as it turns out, every GBV song is the same 4 power chords

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I’ve been spending time learning this Carpenters song on the piano and it feels like I’ll never be happier than when I’m playing introspective minor 7th arpeggios youtu.be/39gcStKgR8o?...

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Aurora

YouTube video by The Carpenters - Topic

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Might I be so bold as to recommend taking a trip to Japan to see your favorite artist perform? It might be one of the most emotional weeks of your life, in the best way possible. youtu.be/3wv_gOQp78E?...

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Todd Rundgren I Don't Want to Tie You Down Mar.25.2026 at Zepp Namba,Osaka,Japan

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Josh Fireland @fireland.com · 27/03/2026

“josh, anything to add?” [performs entirety of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush] “uh i think you’re on mute” “oh whoops how about now” “we hear you now” [performs entirety of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush]

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I don’t think I had really lived until I listened to Shepherd Moons in lossless

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I’m slowly morphing into a Jazz Girl. Lately: Cal Tjader and Sonny Rollins (and Mongo Santamaría & Miles by extension). Where should I go next?

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Did you know that cardinals can live to 22? These cardinals might remember snacking on a Gray’s Papaya bun

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Reading a book of facts and keep shouting things like “did you know that a raven can live to 69?” “did you know that a group of cats is called a clowder?” “did you know that Jethro Tull was a real person who invented a seed drill?” (I live alone)

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Oooohh I like this one. 5 authors I’ve read 5 books by: Iris Murdoch Toni Morrison Joan Didion Nancy Lemann Laurie Colwin

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I am sincerely sad about the death of Billy Steinberg. He was my first awareness of the songwriter over the artist, and wrote so many of my favorite childhood songs. (Alone, Eternal Flame, Like A Virgin, True Colors…) variety.com/2026/music/o...

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Billy Steinberg, Songwriter Who Co-Wrote Smashes Including ‘Like a Virgin,’ ‘True Colors,’ ‘Eternal Flame’ and ‘So Emotional,’ Dies at 74

Billy Steinberg, part of one of the most successful songwriting teams of the '80s and '90s, from 'Eternal Flame' to 'I Touch Myself,' has died.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Lolllll as soon as we got in the car Kauai Community Radio was having “goth hour” and it was all The Mission and The Cure 🖤🖤🖤

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I have yet to see a goth in Kauai

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I never got to meet Dan but thanks to the similarity of our names we had some really delightful interactions online. I really enjoyed his writing too; this is so sad for the world and especially for those who knew him.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I was recording a video for a friend about some cover band instrument division that got interrupted by coyotes in our yard and it’s a great illustration of what life in 2026 feels like

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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This is why it annoys me when people try to make it seem as if this is how things have always been. There was a time when greater literacy and reading as a part of everyday life for people of every class was a national mission. Then it changed drastically and now we’re here.

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Also looming large in my reading this year: @seanmcarroll.bsky.social’s Something Deeply Hidden. I feel absolutely transformed by what I learned in this book. Who needs self-help when you have the Many Worlds theory?

Book on wood table: Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime by Sean Carroll

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Two books I read this year that I loved more than any others, I think. David Toop and Ian Penman aren’t just writing about music or Dr. John or Satie or the piano… they’re writing about EVERYTHING THAT CONNECTS THROUGH TIME & EXPERIENCE. Beautiful works.

Two books on a wood table: Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman, and Two-Headed Doctor by David Toop

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I have bags under my eyes from staying up too late listening to the Rosalía album. 😍🫩

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Am I the only weirdo who likes it when the clocks go back because it’s lighter earlier in the morning?

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Honestly the best thing about late October is randomly hearing Warren Zevon in public

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Zan McQuade @zanmcquade.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I love how in spite of trying to make baseball shorter (why) they succeeded in having a World Series game that lasted so long and everyone is complaining about so much that I can’t even tell who won based on the posts about it.

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