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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

DM me if you would like a <a href="http://bsky.app" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://bsky.app invite code.

Especially if you’re a library, @JasonIsbell, or @RobertSmith. 👋

Bluesky

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

“This world is beautiful, held within its stars.”

https://open.spotify.com/track/6tEFvxPkn2FRDmTPuu2GZV

Ghosteen

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Ghosteen · Song · 2019

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

I can’t bear the thought of possibly forgetting how painful it all is.

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

I feel like I have to listen to Ghosteen at least once a week or else I’m going to lose touch with something true and painful that I can’t let go of.

Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly, expecting change. Grief is doing the same thing repeatedly for fear of change.

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

This album is so beautiful. Thanks, @rolotomassiband.

Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

[closes office door]

[cranks speaker volume]

[hits play]

[does taxes]

https://open.spotify.com/track/3irkZrFRdtIgc9xmbb95In

Cloaked

Rolo Tomassi · Where Myth Becomes Memory · Song · 2022

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

Huh.

This account doesn’t feel a day over 14.5.

Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

https://x.com/joeymcallister/status/1148841294766071808

Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

“If you can’t tell your story to another human, find another way … go out into the woods and tell the trees. The wind won’t ask, ‘How are you, really?’ And the trees don’t care if you cry.”

~@refugeingrief, It’s OK That You’re Not OK

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

We don’t talk enough about how Daniel Day-Lewis took a three-year hiatus from acting to apprentice as a shoemaker in Italy, then returned to acting with Gangs of New York.

Like, maybe it’s ok to walk away from a career for a minute and try something else?

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

I’m getting served way too many ads about therapy and burnout.

And not nearly enough ads about more comfortable pillows.

Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

In real estate listings, “newer” means “less new.”

Just thinking about how weird that is.

Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 25

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

Laissez les bon temps rouler.

https://youtu.be/4SSAqXKPZns

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

existentially

Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

metaphysically

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

i am

so tired

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

Anyway, good to see ya. Hope you're well. Love music and each other.

Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

Also? Skip to 3:03 and listen to those stupidly huge drums pulling that Phil Collins gate trick.

BOOM. CRACK. BOOM. CRACK.

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NDjt4FzFWY

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

This whole song was written to be epic. Produced to be epic. It sounds like driving across the southwest US but there's a storm on the horizon and we have to reach the mesa because there's an angel gone bad who's gonna end the world if we...

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

The bass in this song is _sick_.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbydKAFfJAc

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

WHAT?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhxF9Qg5mOU

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

This is as poppy as anything has ever been. It has a damn saxophone doing the damn 80s saxophone thing (which I hated for the first ~30 years of my life).

But, oh boy. That prechorus? The piano chords leading into the chorus? THE CHORUS?...

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Joey McAllister [Archive] @joeymcallister.bsky.social · Nov 19

I grew up on arena-era Cure in a time when everyone I knew was into grunge.

Which is why it is wild that I am sitting here working to a playlist based off of Boy Meets Girl's "Waiting for a Star to Fall," which includes Mr. Mister's "Kyrie" and Level 42's "Something About You."

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