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djzenn
@djzenn.bsky.social
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married to Mary Mac. we bought a house in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua. huge music fan. interested in film, tech and politics too. lean strongly left. open to other well defended viewpoints. if your 1st interaction with me is a dm u are likely to be blocked
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 17h
A Song A Day #282 The Rolling Stones: Before They Make Me Run. had someone told me around the time of Keith Richards’ Canadian drug bust that he would still be alive in 2025 I would have thought them crazy…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #TheRollingStones #BeforeTheyMakeMeRun #KeithRichards
Before They Make Me Run (Remastered)
YouTube video by The Rolling Stones - Topic
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 1d
A Song A Day #281 Positive Force: We Got the Funk. the very definition of a funky party record. I was quite late to this. maybe sometime in the nineties. better late than never…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #PositiveForce #WeGotTheFunk #FunkyGrooves
We Got the Funk (12" Version)
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 2d
A Song A Day #280 Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi's Dead. I saw Bauhaus at The Ritz (NYC) in the early #80s. Peter Murphy strolled into the crowd at some point and stroked my face. given my shy, introverted nature this kinda freaked me out…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #Bauhaus #BelaLugosisDead
Bela Lugosi's Dead (Official Version)
YouTube video by Bauhaus - Topic
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 3d
A Song A Day #279 The Cure: A Forest. one of my favorite live YT clips. nothing against Robert Palmer, but I love the whole “Fuck Robert Palmer” vibe…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #TheCure #AForest
The Cure - "A Forest" @ Werchter Festival, july 1981
YouTube video by Herb79
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 4d
A Song A Day #278 Adriano Celentano: Prisencólinensináinciúsol. I doubt I could have predicted falling in love with an Italian pop song with gibberish lyrics, but here we are…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #AdrianoCelentano #Prisencólinensináinciúsol #Gibberish
Adriano Celentano canta "Prisencolinensinainciusol" da "Formula due" del 1973
YouTube video by Rai
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 5d
another good one, but for me Heroes > Tusk.
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 5d
excellent choice
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 5d
based on U.S. studio albums the answer is -->
the cover of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street (1972). a collage of B&W photos of circus performers and freaks.
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 5d
I did not discover this tune until I read @simonreynolds.bsky.social great book, Rip It Up and Start Again 20ish years ago… (2/2)

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#SimonReynolds #RipItUpAndStartAgain
Rip It Up and Start Again - Wikipedia
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 5d
A Song A Day #277 Orange Juice: Rip It Up. another #80s song that somehow didn’t make it into my musical world at the time. for certain I would have loved this funky post-punk pop gem… (1/2)

#ASongADay #MusicSky #OrangeJuice #RipItUp #PostPunk
Orange Juice - Rip It Up (The Old Grey Whistle Test, 08.10.1982)
YouTube video by Orange Juice
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 6d
A Song A Day #276 The Clash: Stay Free. my favorite Clash song with Mick Jones on lead vocals. I had a bootleg of this show that I bought in HS. “for the rest of ya…”

#ASongADay #MusicSky #TheClash #StayFree #MickJones #TheOnlyBandThatMatters
The Clash - Stay Free - Live at The Capitol Theater 1980
YouTube video by clashman14
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 7d
agree on all counts.
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 7d
it had been too long for me too.
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 7d
A Song A Day #275 Marianne Faithfull: Why'd Ya Do It? Punk meets Disco and Marianne Faithfull comes out on top. if there is as scornful a song as compelling as this I’m unfamiliar with it…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #MarianneFaithfull #WhydYaDoIt
Why'd Ya Do It? (12" Remix)
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull - Topic
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 8d
I was gonna say I didn’t realize it went that far back. I certainly didn’t hear it until sometime in the 2000s.
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 8d
A Song A Day #274 Patti Jo: Make Me Believe in You. Patti Jo’s sweet vocals make this Curtis Mayfield written and produced piece of Proto-Disco soul an absolute classic…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #PattiJo #MakeMeBelieveInYou #CurtisMayfield #ProtoDisco #Soul
Patti Jo - Make Me Believe In You
YouTube video by funkdigger91
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 9d
A Song A Day #273 The Beatles: I’ve Got A Feeling. I think they passed the audition…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #TheBeatles #IveGotAFeeling #LetItBe #ClassicRock
The Beatles - Ive got a feeling (Take 1) live Apple Corps rooftop, London 1969 (Remastered)
YouTube video by Martin Frecha
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 10d
I'm gonna have to dig into his newsletter to see what I've been missing. my condolences to anyone who had Kaleb in their lives and miss him dearly. (2/2)
Kaleb Horton
A Writer From Bakersfield
kalebhorton.ghost.io
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 10d
I had not encountered Kaleb Horton until I began discovering in my feeds an outpouring of memorial posts honoring him after his recent tragic death. I am quite certain that until now I have never read a FB post that immediately made me realize "wow! this is a great writer!" (1/2)
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 12d
And now I'm just spelunking around and here's this Facebook post by Kaleb Horton from September 2017. It was three months after MTV dumped its freelancers. I'm sure it would have been a piece there; instead he posted this on FB just to have it written out: Toys 'R' Us as societal microcosm.
Facebook post from Kaleb Horton, September 18, 2017: Toys R Us is probably going out of business this year. I'm fascinated by the collapse of retail, because what it really signifies is the collapse of the 20th century. The reason I pushed to profile guys like Harry Dean Stanton, Merle Haggard and Chuck Berry, was that writing about them is a way of writing about the 20th century, and how different it was from where we are now. How shockingly different, in retrospect. The migration out of the south, the descent of the Dust Bowl, which was a Biblical plague; the millions of people who were killed during World War Two. Monoculture, and the idea that a great episode of a television show would be seen by *half of all people.* The arrival of flight, and the end of horses. Homes without electricity. Coming of age without computers, without television. Listening to the radio for entertainment. The 20th century was a long time ago and it's a ghost now. It's a ghost you see in the places you wouldn't expect. It's seen in towns that were bypassed by the freeways, the dusty little towns out west that still have old diners and motels and payphones. It's seen in the places that we left, places where mines shut down, places where tourist attractions died off. It's seen in Bakersfield with Buck Owens' Crystal Palace and it's seen in Roswell, which stubbornly maintains the relics of the '90s UFO boom. Things like that won't be around forever. Someday owners will die and towns will burn and they won't be rebuilt. And it's difficult to suss out what those things are, because they're on roads, physical and metaphorical, that we no longer travel. The ghost sightings happen in stupid places, unexpected places, and uncool places. A few months ago, I went with Marie to the Toys R Us on Victory Blvd. in Burbank, which still looks exactly like it did in Back to the Future in 1985 somehow. It's not nostalgia that you see there, it's just a customer base and economic model that's aging and won't be around a lot longer, and it's *boring.* There's no reason for anyone to ever go to Lancer's, the little diner by that Toys R Us. Because it's not good. People go there out of tradition, and old habits. 80 and 90 year olds go there. We were lining up for a Nintendo, which is still a hard thing to keep stocked in stores. Toys R Us was actually the best place to obtain one, because it's no longer a place children beg their parents to take them to. When we went in, wham, there it was. The ghost of 1996. I was 8 years old, for a fraction of a second. The feeling wasn't nostalgia, it was a kind of temporal dislocation. A confusion. But it wasn't an immaculate 1996, it was a fading 1996. It was lonelier than I remember it. It's time for Toys R Us to go out of business. It was time ten years ago, fifteen. There are reasons to be nostalgic about the 20th century. We weren't plugged into so many wires, so many screens. We were a little bit closer to the process of manufacturing and agriculture than we are now. We made more things by hand, and our goals as people were uniquely audacious and driven by mad, desperate power that was temporary and had to end. But the 20th century was hopelessly cruel and soaked in blood. The 20th century gave us flight, but it also gave us bombs that can end the world and Richard Nixon and his evil sidekick Kissinger and it gave us new mutations of slavery and race and class subjugation and it gave us useless, disgusting monuments to Confederate slavers and traitors and cowards. It gave us President Trump, who wouldn't exist today without New York City's collective cocaine addiction in the 1980s. I want to find the ghosts, not because I miss the past -- the good old days can't return because they're imaginary and what you really miss is youth and if you're lucky a warm feeling of safety -- but because I don't even know what things we'll lose, or when we'll lose them, or how long we have to document them. I know ghosts when I see them. Toys R Us for the mundane side and the Salton Sea for the widescreen wasteland side. But I have absolutely no idea how many there are. I figure people go first, then places. Those are the things we have a limited time to physically document and historically examine and preserve on film. The ideas will go away much slower, and some of them may be eternal, like cold wars. But those are a lot less fun because you don't get to drive to them.
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 10d
A Song A Day #272 Herbie Hancock: Hang Up Your Hang Ups. Headhunters era Herbie Hancock. some of the funkiest jazz u will ever hear. I’m guessing I first encountered this as sampled by DJ Food on Hung Up…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #HerbieHancock #HangUpYourHangUps #headhunters #DJFood
Hang Up Your Hang Ups
YouTube video by Herbie Hancock - Topic
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 11d
jajajajajaja
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 11d
A Song A Day #27 1 Chromium: Time Traveler. new to me. an early Trevor Horn project. Trevor Horn + Disco makes a lot of sense…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #Chromium #TimeTraveler #TrevorHorn #Disco
Chromium - Time Traveler (1979)
YouTube video by Coolfunk Zézé 2
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 12d
A Song A Day #270 John Martyn: I'd Rather Be The Devil. never having heard it, I bought Solid Air strictly on reputation. this wicked cover of Skip James’ Devil Got My Woman was a revelation…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #JohnMartyn #IdRatherBeTheDevil #SolidAir
John Martyn - I'd Rather Be The Devil (1973) live at the bbc (excellent quality audio and video)
YouTube video by Tommy Roberts
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 13d
A Song A Day #269 Parliament: Presence of a Brain. a deep cut from the George Clinton / P-Funk oeuvre. not sure when I fell in love with this tune, but it’s one of those P-Funk songs I’m unlikely to hear out in the wild…

#ASongADay #MusicSky #Parliament #PresenceOfABrain #GeorgeClinton #PFunk
Presence Of A Brain
YouTube video by Parliament - Topic
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djzenn @djzenn.bsky.social · 14d
A Song A Day #268 Michael Jackson: Ain’t No Sunshine. I first heard MJ’s cover of the Bill Withers’ classic sometime in the early 2000s. I think my reaction was “wow! how have I not heard this before?!”

#ASongADay #MusicSky #MichaelJackson #AintNoSunshine #CoverVersion
Ain't No Sunshine
YouTube video by Michael Jackson - Topic
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