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Joel Humann 📎
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jazz bassist and bad academic | un canadien errant à Cambridge UK
new york mets | astrophysics | jazz | with a side order of power pop, opera, and blue jays

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#NowPlaying:
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Bafflingly chaotic Sturges screwball
#FilmSky
Theatrical release poster
November 29, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Now Playing:
Breathless / À Bout de souffle (1960)
Le ground zero esthétique de la Nouvelle Vague
🚬🎥💥
#Godard #FilmSky
The theatrical release poster is a bright, collage-style composition with an illustrated close-up of Jean Seberg’s face in vivid yellows and greens, while a sketch-like figure of Belmondo strides across the page, pistol in hand, all motion and swagger. The title is broken into colourful typographic blocks A, Bout, De, Souffle, each letter set in a different hue and box, giving the layout a playful, modernist rhythm.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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You've just died.
6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.

Legit
Album with a cowboy drawing a gun
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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23/1001: The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Time Out (1959)
#1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying
Nice little record. Very polite jazz. But, can all y'all stop asking the band, whoever they may be, to play 'Take Five'? It's the year 2025 and we're all sick to death of playing it.
Dave Brubeck album on a turntable next to a lava lamp.
November 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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22/1001: Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)
#1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying
It's having quite a revival on TikTok apparently. Kids, if you love your close-harmony cowboy camp on socials just wait until you hear it on vinyl!
🤠🎶👢
The cover is classic mid-century Western pop: a bright hot-pink background with Marty Robbins front and center, dressed head-to-toe in black cowboy gear — gun belt, boots, the works. He’s frozen mid-stride like he’s about to draw, the whole pose halfway between Hollywood gunslinger and Nashville showman. The typography is bold, blocky, and yellow, shouting GUNFIGHTER BALLADS AND TRAIL SONGS at you. The album is playing on a turntable, and what a fine album it is.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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#NowPlaying Le Trou (1960) A very French prison-break. Freedom is a philosophical problem.
#FilmSky #1001Movies
Le Trou film poster
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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#NowPlaying
Puccini, Tosca | EMI (1953)
Maria Callas · Giuseppe di Stefano · Tito Gobbi
Conductor: Victor d Sabata
EMI catches lightening in a bottle at La Scala in its full postwar renaissance.
#OperaSky
EMI CD with an image of Maria Callas Rear booklet cover
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A truly Dostoyevskian moment
A four-panel approval/rejection meme. Trump, MTG and Mamdani. The juxtaposition creates an ironic reversal characteristic of Dostoyevskian narrative structures, in which a foolish or narcissistic character inadvertently affirms the moral authority of a wiser, steadier figure.
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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#NowPlaying
Verdi, La traviata (EMI, 1982)
Muti · Scotto · Kraus · Bruson — Philharmonia / Ambrosian Chorus.
Recorded 5–15 July 1980, Kingsway Hall, London.
Prime Scotto and patrician Kraus in one of Muti’s sleek early Verdi sets before taking the reins at La Scala.
#OperaSky #Verdi
CD cover
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#PowerPop Friday
Today's selection: The Lemonheads, It's a Shame About Ray (1992)
#VinylSky #NowPlaying
Lemonheads album playing on a turntable next to a red lava lamp
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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#NowPlaying
Monteverdi, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Teldec / Das Alte Werk, 1971)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus Musicus Wien | Recorded in Vienna, 1971.
One of the first historically informed Monteverdi operas on record, and quietly revolutionary
#OperaSky #Monteverdi #Harnoncourt
CD cover: image is Odysseus and Calypso from a Greek vase painting c. 425 B.C.
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Friday = Power Pop Day!
Today's selection: Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (1972)
Amazing pop craftsmanship by the mad-scientist, home studio hermit, power pop godfather
#PowerPop #VinylSky #NowPlaying
Inner gatefold photo: Rundgren with his home studio gear in a dimly lit room Album cover and record on a turntable Side A Bearsville record label
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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21/1001: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (1959)
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My high altar. My sacred blue.
Miles Davis LP playing on a turntable next to a red lava lamp. The cover is displayed: a deep, enveloping blue-black field out of which Miles Davis’s face emerges in half-light. The typography is plain, understated: MILES DAVIS / KIND OF BLUE in white and sky blue sans serif at the top.
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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20/1001: Ray Charles, The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
#1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying
Side A: Quincy Jones big band arrangements = 🔥
Side B: Ralph Burns orchestral arrangements = 💔
Album cover is a classic Atlantic 1950s design: Ray Charles in profile at the piano mid-performance, wearing dark sunglasses and a suit. Record playing on a turntable. Classic Atlantic label.
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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#NowPlaying
Verdi, Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon, 1980)
Giulini & the Wiener Philharmoniker | Cappuccilli · Domingo · Cotrubas · Ghiaurov · Obraztsova | Recorded at Musikverein, Vienna, 1979.
#OperaSky #Verdi #Giulini
CD box and booklet cover is predominantly black. A central photograph shows Rigoletto kneeling on stage, spotlighted.
November 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Sliding into your DMs like
Ernie Clement sliding into home like a showgirl
November 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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My Game 6 sartorial juju magic tonight: double-Carter energy. Expos Gary Carter tee shirt under a Joe Carter replica Jays ’93 jersey. Montréal heart, Toronto hope. ⚜️⚾️🍁🇨🇦 #BlueJays
Expos tee and hat #8 Gary Carter #8 Jays '93 replica jersey Joe Carter #29
October 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Happy Halloween! 👻🎃
Mr. Met jack-o-lantern Witch and pumpkins Drunk jack-o-lantern
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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It's official: Every Friday is Power Pop Day!
Today's selection: Sugar, Copper Blue

Bob Mould's hooks = 💣...💥
#PowerPop #VinylSky #NowPlaying
Clear vinyl record on a turntable next to a lava lamp. Cover of album Sugar, Copper Blue is displayed
October 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The real deal is dealing tonight
Shortest Time Between Draft and & First MLB Start, Blue Jays Pitching Prospects Trey Yesavage drafted in 2024, Debut Sept 15, 2025 Dave Stieb drafted in 1978, Debut June 29, 1979
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Starting the day off right with the Original Gangsta:
Claudio Monteverdi, L'Orfeo
#OperaSky #nowplaying 🤘
John Eliot Gardiner & The Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Archiv Produktion, Cat#: 419 250-2 (Germany) Recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, December 1985. Released in 1987. The cover art: an Etruscan fresco from the Tomba dei Leopardi. The two dancers depicted evoke the mythic story of Orpheus and the pastoral world, perhaps in the moment of invocation or invocation of the Muse (La Musica). A stylised tree between them could symbolise the axis between worlds (life/death) or the path to the underworld that Orpheus must traverse. Coloured garments, red for the female-figure, blue for the male-figure, contrast and animate the scene. The background’s parchment look connects to the 1607 origin of the opera. The dancing figures hint at the masque-like, pastoral, ceremonial aspects of the work.
October 29, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Touch-em-all Joe!
Joe Carter with Hazel Mae
October 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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#Mets fan full disclosure time: this is the sort of house I live in. #HappyHalloween #BlueJays
Two carved pumpkins, one is Mr. Met the other is the Blue Jays logo. Two-team family.
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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"Wait it's all AI?" "Always has been"
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Repping this man (junior) tonight #Vladdy #BlueJays

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Guerrero Jr. Jersey #27
October 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM