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Al Shipley
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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music out August 19, 2025 on Repeater Books / [email protected] http://westernblot.bandcamp.com
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · Sep 4
the 500th issue of The Wire magazine includes @derekwalmsley.bsky.social's insightful review of Tough Breaks: Story of Baltimore Club Music!
www.thewire.co.uk/shop/
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 15h
i love the idea that someone decided a megadeth video should have foxy babes doing synchronized choreography
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KVj...
Megadeth - Moto Psycho - Official Music Video - HD
YouTube video by Sam Hodby
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 16h
I wrote about "Daffodil Lament" by the Cranberries for Spin's Deep Cut Friday column this week:
www.spin.com/2025/10/deep...
Deep Cut Friday: ‘Daffodil Lament’ by the Cranberries
Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series.The Cranberries’ 1994 album
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 17h
the two melodies my youngest son is most likely to idly hum or sing are "all i want for christmas is you" and the main theme from jurassic park, both of which predate his birth by 20 years but were just absorbed by sheer ubiquity
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 18h
the drumming on this song is so sick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXYS...
The 1975 - Girls
YouTube video by The 1975
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 18h
ah, wasn't aware of the trope, my bad
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 18h
i did not intend for it to sound dismissive, i apologize
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 18h
using the phrase "on the spectrum" to distinguish one group of people from another is kinda funny. we are all on the spectrum, that's why it's a spectrum. you can't be so far to one end that you just fall off the spectrum.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
you're the vice president, do something about it!
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
please note that when there's a new movie based on a book that's been made into other movies before, it's an adaptation and not a "remake" (unless it's explicitly based on one of the other movies and not the book)
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
whenever i eat at Sweet 27 i think about Krist Novoselic's first post-Nirvana band
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sej9...
Sweet 75 - Fetch
YouTube video by GrungePlungeTV
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
"break stuff" hits the same even if you're having a really good day
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
i wasn't circumcised, i was edited for clarity
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
Bruno Mars is now.40 and he maintained total pop culture ubiquity in his thirties with one solo album and one group album.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
i am going to wear a halloween costume this year for the first time in well over a decade but i have no idea what, suggestions welcome
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
they're called 'streamers' because people piss all their time away watching nobodies do nothing
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 1d
i thought Superman (2025) was going to feel like the 2nd movie in a franchise already underway but it really feels like the 100th episode in a series
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
i'm more annoyed when i can't remember a word than when i can't remember something that happened. i don't need every memory of my own life, but i need access to the whole language.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
zevon flow/ thoughts arrive like werewolf guys
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
violent euphemisms for sex like "smashing" and "cracking" are problematic. i prefer "hunching," sensual and evocative of two family pets grunting in a corner.
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
freeway: tinker tailor soldier spy

jay-z with his hand on freeway's shoulder: keep goin'

freeway: uhhhhh librarian taxi driver factory worker dog walker
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
i've started to really resent the whole 'AITA' phenomenon -- life is full of conflicts and seldom is there a clear cut guilty party and innocent party, but let me take it to the court of public opinion to soothe my ego and get a bunch of uninvolved strangers on my side
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
working an outdoor commercial shoot in virginia, there's some light rain and we're just working and hoping it never becomes heavy rain
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 2d
went to type an ampersand and hit the Y key...accidental espanol
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 3d
naming your band Patriarchy is funny to begin with but "special guest: Patriarchy" really has quite a ring to it
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Al Shipley @alshipley.bsky.social · 3d
i can see why teenagers can't stand their parents because of course it's annoying that we can't let go of the time you said 'chillocket' instead of 'chocolate' 14 years ago
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