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Enda Guinan

@endaguinan.com

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Does digital things in the third sector. Host of Let There Be Music. Expect plenty of #NowListening. ‘Joy is an act of resistance’ -Toi Derricotte, The Undertaker’s Daughter (2011) he/him Galwegian in London. linktr.ee/endaguinan

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

My elderly neighbour here in Chicago lives alone and has been trying to downsize. She used to call her records her “treasures”, but lately they’ve become a bother. Vendors (not as ethical as @brighterdayvinyl.bsky.social) cherry-picked the best, and she’s down to about 150 classical LPs.

A tidy stack of about thirty classical vinyl records leaning upright on a carpet beside a wooden cabinet. The spines show well-kept sleeves from labels like Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch and Philips, with composers including Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky visible.

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 10h

a woman is smiling and saying i 'm unsure .

Alt: a woman is smiling and saying i 'm unsure .

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 1d

@theoatmeal.bsky.social on AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

Illustration on a dark background showing a paintbrush splashing colourful paint towards a laptop. The paint flows into the screen, blending traditional art with digital. Above, white text reads “A cartoonist’s review of,” and the words “AI art” are highlighted in red and blue.

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Irish Number Ones @irishnumberones.bsky.social · 2d

'I Don't Know How To Love Him' in December 1971 was our first of many number ones from Andrew Lloyd Webber. This from 1980 is sung by a Webb and written by a Webber, which implies the existence of a Webbest: irishnumberones.com/2022/01/02/m...

Marti Webb – ‘Take That Look Off Your Face’

27 March 1980 Our first power ballad, a genre that really took off in the ’80s and, like the poor or venereal disease, is still with us. This one, of the West End musical variant, is sung by …

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 2d

Ramsey Lewis, Chicago legend. His Mother Nature’s Son album (Beatles covers) has eluded me, but I found this 1970 Best Of which opens with that stunning, cosmic cover of Julia. And what a beautiful sleeve. #Vinyl #Jazz

A hand holds the 1970 LP The Best of Ramsey Lewis against a night-time Chicago backdrop. The sepia-toned cover shows Ramsey Lewis seated in a high-backed chair, surrounded by women and children dressed in late-1960s clothing, posed like a formal family portrait.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg “I'm not scared of Israel. I’m scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity.”

Stand with Greta, stand with humanity.

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Mailman Kel (Taylor's version) @lekdrol.bsky.social · 2d

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Just listen to a little #Irish #history.
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#Ireland #SouthAfrica #Protest

Fruit for thought. Never judge a book by its cover. #comedy #histoty #storytelling #standup

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 2d

Joshua Idehen announced his debut album with the jubilant “It Always Was”

Joshua Idehen Announces Debut Album: Hear “It Always Was”

Mondays can be rough. But today might feel a little lighter if you give the new single “It Always Was” by British-born, Stockholm-based Nigerian artist Joshua Idehen a listen. Over a jubilant soul sam...

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 2d

a cartoon drawing of a chipmunk with his tongue hanging out and hearts around him

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

Just back up your claims, dammit. 😛

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

Holy shit. She’s talking about a different country.

Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

I reckon I could find all sorts of similar delights here! I’ve only catalogued about 20 so far (and what you see here is maybe a fifth of the collection).

Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

You might be right! What you see here is maybe a fifth of them. Financial value is negligible but the pleasure of having and listening to them would be lovely!

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

Part of me wants to buy the lot myself, even though I live in London and only get to Chicago a couple of times a year. Daft, maybe - but it feels wrong to let these ‘treasures’ disappear.
#vinyl #nowspinning #classicalmusic #nonesuch #discogs

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

I’ve been grading them on Discogs - mostly ’60s/’70s pressings, not worth much - and right now I’m playing a 1964 mono Vivaldi on Nonesuch that sounds absolutely heavenly.

A person holds up a vintage Nonesuch LP of Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos in front of a large window overlooking Lincoln Park and the Chicago skyline. The record cover shows an illustrated baroque figure playing a flute against a dark green background with ornate chandeliers.

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

I offered to catalogue them - because vinyl+spreadsheets=relaxation for me. Her Sony turntable “wasn’t working”… until I noticed the phono switch wasn’t on. She probably hasn’t heard her vinyl in years, which makes me oddly sad.

A hand holds a small Columbia Masterworks bonus record titled “How a Great Symphony Was Written.” In the background is a black-and-white LP cover showing Leonard Bernstein’s face on an album of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic.

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 3d

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Richard Shaw @richards7370.bsky.social · 3d

Hi folks, thanks to everyone who took part in the inaugural debut albums poll #5debutalbums0004 the votes have been counted and verified and results are in. Congratulations to The Strokes who take the win, please see the top 100 chart to follow with the top 30 guaranteed a place in the semi final…

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Zoom out 🙏 🤩 #wonder

Cartoon strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards

Script:

An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang

Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes

mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past

and assembled from all over the world

Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution

to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen

in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light

[Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:]

WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!

whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity

which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen

who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth

[Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps]

with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around

[Guy has a thought]:
“Mmm…"

in this endless, silent void.

[Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it]

"… I want a pasty.”

[ends]

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 4d

She writes from a white American *billionaire* woman’s point of view and, yeah, it’s not necessarily aimed at me, but at the same time people are being a little too precious about critiquing the music. She struggles with hooks and indulges too much in peevishness in her lyrics. *ducks from Swifties*

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Enda Guinan @endaguinan.com · 4d

Yaaas indeed. It’s in my iTunes somehow! She also did the vocals on their questionable version of Je t’aime…

(And then she married a rather young Aaron Taylor-Johnson, as you do.)