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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 20h

oh without a doubt, they were massive Roxy fans (if the album art wasn’t the giveaway)

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 21h

You will love it.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 22h

confirmation that the “time-time” in “Just What I Needed” is a “Sister Ray” reference

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 22h

buying mine tomorrow

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 23h

Oh wow, they were recording their debut at AIR Studios at the same time Kate Bush was there recording hers. 😮

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 23h

The Janovitz Cars book really raises the bar on music bios. This is how you do a meat & potatoes, context-rich, loving but nonhagiographic deep dive into a band’s history. Funny, idiosyncratic, w a strong sense that it was written/researched by a *musician* while also accessible to a gen audience.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

Someone who has been SPAMMING me for weeks just began another spam email with “sorry to bother you.” Somehow I doubt that.

JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

Director should have called it a day after “Let’s Drive Jessica To Akron.”

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

Whistle along to Book of Love’s cover too. youtu.be/xDbQcB9qA48?...

Die Matrosen

YouTube video by Book Of Love - Topic

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

“you hold the big picture so well / can’t you see that we’re going to hell”

JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

Moon pic.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Ken Jacobs, whose docu-essay “Star Spangled to Death” (2004) is the later-career opus of an ungovernable, recalcitrant old head reflecting on America’s ugliness, sorrow, squalor, and outrage across the generations. We have lost an important underground nutcase.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 4d

is InStyle having a stroke

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 4d

I initially read this as CTI and was like “aww why be mean to Creed Taylor?”

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 5d

[crosses fingers] please make this album’s hype cycle easy to ignore

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 5d

This is a solid joke but being a fan of experimental music I took it at face value for a second — I was flashing back to a show I saw at Roulette of Alvin Curran performing compositions for the shofar. Which were not atonal. But still!

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 6d

This is the “brown M&Ms” test of the big tech era.

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Conrad Flynn @conradflynn.bsky.social · 6d

Wrote about my friend and former comedy-writing partner Kaleb Horton.

Remembering Kaleb Horton

So so sad to hear that my old best buddy and comedy writing partner Kaleb Horton died.

substack.com

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 7d

is he dead yet

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 7d

Goddamn killer. youtu.be/2NdJbXO6OkQ?...

Stacey Q – We Connect (1986)

YouTube video by Milan076

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 7d

All these decades, Stacey Q has left money on the table when she could easily have had a stellar career as an American Kylie Minogue. (“We Connect” is so goddamn killer.)

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 8d

We are in the “let’s turn Asian New Yorkers against the Indian candidate” part of election season.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 9d

I mean I had my own bi awakening in the eighties with Jo from “The Facts of Life,” but “Xena” did not hurt.

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 9d

Also I think these men just being non-entities made more room for young women viewers of the era to have their sapphic awakenings via Lucy Lawless, Gillian Anderson, etc. So — thanks, genre TV showrunners!

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JBL @jodygraphs.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t stand that word but it makes sense for a character who’s been deep in a pothead fog since the “South Park” era.

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