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I’m trying to think of costumes that work with a beard for Halloween. I was Hooper from Jaws last year even though I’m probably twice as big as dreyfus. I’ve had a beard for 20 years and I still don’t know what to wear for Halloween. my daughter is going as a K-pop demon

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Jon Amadeus Markley @xjamarkleyx.bsky.social · 2d

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 2d

Saw Greg Fox, Steve Gunn, and JR Bohannon play Cassette last night. Let’s hope they record an album together bc it was bonkers good.

Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 3d

Joe & John’s in Ridgewood is so damn good. Their upside slice is a must try. Ridgewood has incredible food

Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 3d

Easily one of the best albums of 2025. These guys really capture that crunchy guitar grooves with perfect percussion

Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 3d

This band rules gonggonggong.bandcamp.com/album/mongko...

Mongkok Duel 旺角龍虎鬥, by Gong Gong Gong 工工工 & Mong Tong

8 track album

gonggonggong.bandcamp.com

Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 3d

This band rules gonggonggong.bandcamp.com/album/mongko...

Mongkok Duel 旺角龍虎鬥, by Gong Gong Gong 工工工 & Mong Tong

8 track album

gonggonggong.bandcamp.com

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 4d

there Are plenty of critical favs who coast in the music world. Big star comes to mind.

Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 5d

One of the most underrated bands ever

Alfred Soto @sotoalfred.bsky.social · 5d

Happy birthday to David Hidalgo, who with Los Lobos wrote and performed some of the best written and most furiously played of the '80s and '90s. Theirs is an inexhaustible catalog. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/t...

A toast to love with paper cups: The best of Los Lobos 1984-1996

Dismissing them as a solid live band whose chops didn’t court me to evangelism, I’ve hesitated about posting a list. But in the last three weeks I’ve spent hours with their first …

humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 5d

not sure if anyone noticed this on here but it feels like there are way more Brit people than Americans on here. I’m learning so much about the political dynamics there and it’s like we have the same problems/issues. I knew this but hearing from people who live there is different than the guardian

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 7d

Do you read Sutter Kane?

Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 7d

TIL the sinister paperboy in IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS is baby Hayden Christensen.

A young Hayden Christensen as a paperboy in John Carpenter’s IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

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Trummors @trummors.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats to our good friend @zacharycale.bsky.social on the release of his latest LP, Love's Work. This record was actually my gateway to Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Can't think of higher praise than that!

Love's Work, by Zachary Cale

10 track album

zacharycale.bandcamp.com

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 8d

I dated an Irish girl who kind of looks like Mark E. Smith

Rob Fitzpatrick @robfitzp.bsky.social · 8d

New on States of Independence - Beggars Banquet this week is the brilliant Brix Smith with incredible stories of The Fall’s Imperial phase and what it was actually like to be married to Mark E Smith. Tuck in >>
Show is here: pod.link/1836129705

Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 10d

Are you in NYC? I need a hair stylist so badly.

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 10d

Does anyone know the age gap btwn Thurston Moore and his GF? he’s way older than me and she way younger than me

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 10d

It’s for them to come to attention. Whenever senior officials are around they have to do that. Also I do think they could have clapped but again it’s the top brass so usually people are clapping to them speaking.

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 10d

Do this. If youre in college, I will give you all my music for free. If you are struggling financially, I will help you with free downloads. Just ask.

Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 10d

Once again reminding folks that the ethical replacement to using Spotify isn’t another streaming platform; it’s buying music from artists when you’re in the financial position to do so and pirating them when you’re unable to do so. Or simply ask an artist for the files, like actually.

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 11d

I totally forgot that I saw that deer swimming in the east river lol. I remember seeing something moving along with the current, like wtf. So bizarre

Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 11d

My mom just sent this from Iceland. She said it feels like such a foreign place, physically.

Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 11d

It can spoil shit a bit. But I love Chicago SF and NOLA the most besides here

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 11d

I think about how spending time in any city in the US feels like bizarro world and how much we have right outside our front door. Like my deli is insane with what it has, like impressive for NY standards. I also dislike saying nyc. its New York, then broken down by the city (mhtt) and the borough’s

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 12d

It’s actually what makes it better than all the train systems in the US combined.

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 12d

I’m like why cant you get your ass on the f ?

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Tim McManus @islandhouserecs.bsky.social · 12d

One thing I’ve noticed on dating apps in nyc is that some women make thei whole personality about their train lime. Like G train only for instance something I’ve seen several times

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