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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 13h

You can only have this piece of cake once; you can't keep on munching away at it.
J.L. Carr
A Month in the Country

Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 19h

Remembering my friend Karen, who would have been 61 today

Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · Nov 16

One of my oldest friends died yesterday after a long struggle with cancer. Rest in peace, Karen (pictured with her former Tower Records co-worker).

Karen Lund with Dave Grohl, at a Library of Congress in 2010

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 1d

An update on my recent civic activities. Note that when our CM says, “I would have probably done even more advocacy with them,” she in fact did not advocate for us at all.

Streetcar Suburbs @streetcarsuburbs.bsky.social · 1d

County halts rezoning in new draft of West Hyattsville Sector Plan

Sept. 11, The Prince George’s County Planning Board endorsed a version of a plan for development in the West Hyattsville area that would no longer recommend re-zoning neighborhoods to allow townhomes. One of the communities most…

County halts rezoning in new draft of West Hyattsville Sector Plan

Sept. 11, The Prince George’s County Planning Board endorsed a version of a plan for development in the West Hyattsville area that would no longer recommend re-zoning neighborhoods to allow townhomes. One of the communities most affected by this change was the Avondale community, a historic neighborhood off of Chillum Road that opposed its abrupt inclusion in the plan’s third draft…

streetcarsuburbs.news

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight in later Sonny

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 4d

TIL there was a blu-ray set of LA FLOR exclusive to FNAC

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 5d

Been hitting a bad run of tapes so it’s nice to crack open some sealed deadstock

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 6d

I used to see Andrew White, who lived in Brookland, on the Metro, so I was sorry I didn’t buy his self-published autobiography while he was alive. So I was happy to find it on eBay for all of $11.27

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 6d

What if you were immersed in the fevered basement brains of two beer-swilling potheads you don’t have anything in common with, whose every aesthetic choice is terrible, but you find them utterly endearing? Incompetent and inarticulate, but strangely compelling.

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 7d

In 1989, this sounded like a banal and watered-down bar band vision. 36 years later, its smoothness is comforting.

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 10d

We now return to our regularly scheduled program of generally liking things as long as they’re not garbage but sometimes even then

Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 10d

Some of this would also be good for TALES OF THE DARKSIDE, a childhood favorite of Mrs. P’s that she recently introduced me to

Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 10d

In my maturity I find I hate CRAZY HEART more than I hate Chris O’Donnell, if perhaps not as much as I hate SCENT OF A WOMAN

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 10d

Honk if your mid-life dream is to make an 80s romantic thriller that drops “Don’t Disturb This Groove” over the end credits

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 10d

Surf music, the universal language

Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 10d

P.M. Pocket Music - Pama Rum Kwan [Thailand, Surf] (196?)
https://redd.it/1mjb1c
https://youtu.be/x3Ah8R0ChXg

P.M. Pocket Music - Pama Rum Kwan [Thailand, Surf] (196?)

youtu.be

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 10d

My favorite YouTube dog grooming channel is ONE BATH AFTER ANOTHER

Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 12d

Programmed by Cooper Graham, one of my favorite Pickford Theatre discoveries with Irina Kupchenko in an all-time favorite performance. You’ll need to auto-translate, but I think that quiet power comes through the language barrier youtu.be/8-EmHbRHxyA?...

Одинокая женщина желает познакомиться (1986 год) комедийная драма

YouTube video by Классика жанра

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 12d

That sweet tone Sonny Rollins leaned into in the 1990s is a sound of promise and prosperity that turned existential despair into the most joyful exuberance tidal.com/browse/track...

Sonny Rollins - Why Was I Born?

Listen to Why Was I Born? on your streaming service

tidal.com

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 12d

Me, ready to hand out a 5-star rating @letterboxd: How did I never see RED ROCK WEST before?
[sees that I already gave it 4 stars]
Me: How did I not remember that I saw RED ROCK WEST before?!

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 14d

I wish this Union Station ad push meant they were reopening the theaters

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 14d

I was thinking that right after I posted!

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 14d

perfect smokey-voiced jazz singer showcase

Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 14d

Did Petula Clark have a Dusty in Memphis in her?

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 14d

I have never loaned out records, but I remember a high school classmate (Dave Nolan, who I thought was a stoner) wanted to borrow Lou Reed’s Blue Mask and Legendary Hearts. I offered to tape them and he insisted it wouldn’t turn out right, but I refused.

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Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 14d

The dense arrangements make me think polka and dixieland (two things I ordinarily never choose) have something in common. I am unlikely to ever listen to this again, but there’s more there than I expected, and the cover has just enough charm to stay out of the discard pile. Maybe.

Eddie Skinger, From Me To You (BenDee Records, 1987)

Pat Padua @anamelessyeast.bsky.social · 15d

You know you’re dealing with a musical visionary when a veteran artist can take the worst of contemporary production excesses (in this case, bombastic late 80s synths) and make something completely idiosyncratic out of it.

Swamp Dogg, I Called for a Rope and they Threw Me a Rock (Ichiban Records, 1989)

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