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Mike R

Mike R

@thejavasea.bsky.social

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Dutch-Indonesian guy in Stockholm, Sweden. I moonlight at a local record store every third Saturday. Also COYG, of course. Aka @constantlistener on insta

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Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jul 25

Passing through Brussels now, on my way from Paris to Rotterdam. Haven’t been here since I lived here 2004-5. Unsurprisingly unrecognizable.

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jul 25

iykyk

m.youtube.com/watch?v=sXyR...

YouTube video by Have a Nice Life - Topic

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jul 25

I’m trying not to blame on my boots the faults of my feet. It’s hard though because my boots are shit.

Samuel Beckett’s grave in Paris

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jul 25

At the Louvre

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jul 25

Deathconsciousness

The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jun 7

If you haven’t already, give Maria Somerville’s Luster some of your attention. Gorgeous record.

youtu.be/2sJyviKcJ0s

Maria Somerville - Garden (Official Video)

YouTube video by Maria Somerville

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jun 1

Unrelated to this, I got ID’d at Sweden’s state monopoly alcohol store. I’m 44. My mom’s genes doing some serious legwork here.

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jun 1

Recent additions to the collection. #vinyl

Vinyl record. Band is called Nära Döden. Album is Villkorslöst. Swedish punk.

Vinyl record. Band is Cindy Lee. Album is diamond jubilee. Excellent noise pop from Canada.

Vinyl record. Band is Brown Horse. Album is All the Right weaknesses. Great Americana from the UK.

Vinyl record. Josh Tillman. Album is Singing Ax. Singer songwriter. Sad bastard music.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 15

the country is descending into a nightmare but at least IN/CASINO/OUT still slaps

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Orbinho @orbinho.bsky.social · Apr 8

I think Arsenal fans would disagree. Felt quite magical.

The Athletic | Football @theathleticfc.bsky.social · Apr 8

Real Madrid’s history is littered with magical nights on the European stage.

This was not one of them.

#ARSRMA | #AFC | #RMCF

📝 @jacklang.bsky.social

Arsenal 3 Real Madrid 0 – Breaking down Declan Rice’s two incredible free-kicks

Arsenal thrashed Madrid thanks to two moments of magic from Rice

www.nytimes.com

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Apr 1

Got some new old records #vinyl

Vinyl records by blonde redhead, Indian summer and title fight laid out on a desk

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Mar 25

Don’t know whose dog this is. I was waiting for my turn at the hairdresser. She came to me and lay there quietly. And farted. Her name is Alice.

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Mar 15

I need to go to more concerts. Lots of good stuff coming to Stockholm this year. Keen to go see Dehd tomorrow at Debaser…

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Mar 15

Having a nice life

Daughter holding up a vinyl record by Have A Nice Life titled deathconsciousness. She also flashes double peace signs.

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Mar 11

Actual Greek gods came by the record store recently.

LP album cover displaying the three cowboy-looking Greeks that play in the band known as Aphrodite’s Child. Rest in Peace Demis and Vangelis!

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Feb 26

Post-afterski, about to ski home. I’m not a good skier. I’m not a skier at all. But I made it back in one piece.

Skiers standing around on their skis just outside a slope-side bar. It’s cloudy, the sun is about to go down.

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Feb 14

Södermalms allé at dusk.

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Queen Gooner @sofire.bsky.social · Feb 10

I hear you Wrighty. We're ALL tired. Sigh!

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Feb 8

Pappa älskade Leonard Cohen (songs of samt new skin), Van Morrison (astral weeks) och Black Uhuru (sinsemilla). Det sistnämnda var nåt han upptäckte på 90talet, när han var 50+ och jag kanske 13-14. Lärde mig då att man är ”never too old” att hitta ny musik att lyssna på.

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jan 20

Shoutout to Thomas Hedlund, Sweden’s greatest drummer of the past 20 years.

Such Great Heights @suchgreatheights.bsky.social · Jan 19

Phoenix perform "1901" on Letterman (2009)

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jan 7

Just bawl-your-eyes-out good…

Dolores O'Riordan - When You're Gone

YouTube video by Cranaddict

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Jan 3

One of my favorite records of 2024… perhaps my actual favorite even…

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Dec 24

”You’ll be visited by three spirits.”

The three spirits:

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Dec 23

Vacation mode

Mike R @thejavasea.bsky.social · Dec 23