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All The City Lights

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Fan of music, cargo bikes, the #EastBay, and humor. Not a fan of the seemingly inexorable slide into fascism. #ShoupPilled. Follow me if you want to have far too many song-a-day #MusicChallenge posts sliding into your timeline.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to everyone who took part in the five-day mini challenge! It's not too early to start stocking up on some sweet, sweet covers for October. #5CoverSongsTreat

Announcement for #5CoverSongsTreat superimposed over a chocolate kiss. Instructions are to post a cover song each day 10/27 - 10/31. Early posting starts at 6 p.m. Eastern the night before. Each song should mention a sweet or otherwise mouth-watering treat (title, lyrics, artist, etc.). #NewMusicChallenge

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 3h

The Grail Knight from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade holds his hand aloft as the temple collapses around him, with the caption: “Way to go, assholes.”

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 7h

“This is just a momentary ripple in the stream” and “This is just a brief improvisation in the dance” are both such reassuring lyrics, even though I know they were empty promises for the song’s narrator.

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 8h

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/13

"Memphis Exorcism," Squirrel Nut Zippers

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 10h

Do I have a Mountain Goats T-shirt that reads "ALL HAIL THE MYSTERIOUS GAP" in large font that baffles nearly everyone but Mountain Goats superfans? You bet your ass I do.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 10h

This song—set in Alexandria in the 300s and describing life under an oppressive Christian regime—hit pretty hard in 2020, and if anything it's more relevant in 2025 :(

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 10h

#ArtistFave15 - The Mountain Goats
#MusicChallenge

13. "Until Olympius Returns" (2020) from SONGS FOR PIERRE CHUVIN

The pandemic prompted Darnielle record solo on boombox for the 1st time since ALL HAIL WEST TEXAS. The songs explore the Roman Empire's transformation from paganism to Christianity.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 16h

#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 12

39. “FaceTime”
Billy Woods & Kenny Segal feat. Samuel T. Herring
2023
USA
ISC: Y
NKC: Y

Yeah, hip-hop is sorely underrepresented on my list. Sorry. But (as with other genres) I’m drawn to storytelling, and Woods paints the best portrait of life on tour since “Turn the Page.”

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 1d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/12

"Graveyard Girlfriend," Groovie Ghoulies

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 1d

#ArtistFave15 - The Mountain Goats
#MusicChallenge

12. "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" (2017)

Back when Twitter was the sort of place an indie singer could make a joke about the new Star Wars movie's title & the director would respond, "PLEASE WRITE THIS."

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 1d

#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 11

40. "You First" [Remi Wolf remix]
Paramore
2023
USA
ISC: Y
NKC: Y

Calling this a remix is an understatement. Wolf completely reimagines the tune, jettisoning the original's minor-key post-punk trappings in favor of a slick pop rave-up. Does that fit the lyrics? Eh, who cares!

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

a man with a beard is smiling with his mouth open

ALT: a man with a beard is smiling with his mouth open

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

True post-punk heads obviously know this, but I only learned via this song that The Batcave was a legendary weekly event held at a SoHo club that is pretty much universally acknowledged as the birthplace of the goth subculture…which is of course the subject of this concept album.

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

Well that’s what I get for actually turning the game back on.

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not “Kid Rock” Big or “Tron” Big, but SB 79 becoming law is still pretty Big.

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

Now at bat, J. Baez.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/11

“The Cult Song,” Shannon and the Clams

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

Well done 👏👏👏

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

#ArtistFave15 - The Mountain Goats
#MusicChallenge

11. “Rain in SoHo” from GOTHS (2017)

What makes this is the choral textures added by members of the Nashville Symphony Chorus. If you’ve ever sung with an elite-adjacent group (🙋‍♂️), you can really appreciate the level of musicianship on display.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

I guess Obama agrees with me that this is the best track from the album AND one of the jams of 2020.

Barack Obama’s 2020 summer playlist with “Neon Skyline” highlighted.

All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

#TheTwen2ie5 - Day 10

41. “Neon Skyline”
Andy Shauf
2020
Canada
ISC: Y
NKC: N

Picking one song from THE NEON SKYLINE is like choosing the best chapter from a favorite novellas. The title track is a pleasant, folky introduction to the characters & setting, but the narrative payoff comes later.

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 2d

#readandplay (495)
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky

“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”

Read 📚 & Play🎶

Quote attributed to poet Robert Frost: “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office."

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All The City Lights @atcl.bsky.social · 3d

#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes
10/10

“Who Sees You,” My Bloody Valentine

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