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Brian W.
@pyynk.bsky.social
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Tiki Bars, Cocktails, and Funny Books are my forte. Occasionally obsessed with the minutiae of MP3 metadata.

*Not raised by wolves*
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pyynk.bsky.social
#5DaysOfPowerPop
#MusicChallenge

Sliding in just under the wire here’s the Old 97’s - a band very much a distillation of their influences from old country to surf to power pop. Satellite Rides and the bonus track Singular Girl is probably their most power pop.

youtu.be/vCTgUqvcFQs?...
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
pyynk.bsky.social
#5DaysOfPowerPop
#MusicChallenge

Succinct isn’t really my thing, but lemme give it a whirl. I love Big Star, but most of what I love about the band is because of Chris Bell.

youtu.be/dW_gOAUJhHA?...
December 6, 2025 at 2:20 AM
pyynk.bsky.social
It’s the last #BandcampFriday of the year, when Bandcamp waives their revenue share and pass the money on to the bands who made the music! So what am I getting today? 1/4?
A screenshot informing you that, yes, as of 3:54 PM on December 5, 2025 it IS Bandcamp Friday
December 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
pyynk.bsky.social
The problem with a hammer is that all your problems start to look like nails. The problem with a caulk gun? All the people running behind you saying "Caulk! Caulk! Caulk!"
December 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM
pyynk.bsky.social
#5DaysOfPowerPop
#MusicChallenge

Tom Petty isn’t an artist you automatically think of as “power pop”. But he was absolutely inspired by the Beatles, the Byrds, and Parsons and if you listen to the Heartbreaker’s debut album he's wearing those influences with pride.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy_j...
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
pyynk.bsky.social
#5DaysOfPowerPop
#MusicChallenge

Before streaming services and before you could burn your own CDs one of the ways I found to try out a band were mix CDs and on one of those mix CDs was named “Buy Product”. Ton of great songs on it including this by Teenage Fanclub.

youtu.be/OIILeG0ZFqk?...
December 4, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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themodernfolk.bandcamp.com
RIP Steve Cropper. A guitar player for the ages. One of his lesser-known credits is a bit of guitar on Big Star’s Third/Sister Lovers. Apparently Alex Chilton’s weird druggy depressive vibes scared him and he stood outside the room to record his licks
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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wecdsend.bsky.social
Short but undoubtedly sweet, this runs for five days starting on Monday 1st December. Power pop enthusiasts, please spread the word and join in! Non-power pop enthusiasts - please spread the word and join in and become power pop enthusiasts!

#5DaysOfPowerPop
powerpop.bsky.social Melanie @powerpop.bsky.social · 12d
#5DaysOfPowerPop
#MusicChallenge
UPDATE/CHANGE:
This challenge is now being hosted by
@lee-coursey.bsky.social!
Thank you, Lee! 🎸
Power Pop Cartoon Logo
November 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
pyynk.bsky.social
#5DaysOfPowerPop
#MusicChallenge

Only 5 days? Guess that means someone (me) has to pick those darlings carefully. First up is one of the two artists who introduced me to alternative in general and power pop in particular. #MatthewSweet #PowerPop

youtu.be/n12OBlcHx9E?...
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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ajeffschiller.bsky.social
3 hours left to make MAGIC POWDER #7 a reality!
6201/6666
December 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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priscillapage.bsky.social
imho James Garner really is the guy that everyone thinks Steve McQueen is. Garner's fit was so powerful that McQueen threw a tantrum about it and insisted they swap costumes.
jesawyer.bsky.social Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 5d
Rewatched Great Escape on my last flight and I think we don’t talk enough about James Garner’s unreal drip
James Garner in a navy blue uniform and white turtleneck in The Great Escape
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 AM
pyynk.bsky.social
How disorganized is my current work environment? I'm taking privacy training that may apply to a prior company I worked for OR apply to the current one. Who knows!
November 30, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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davallone.bsky.social
Hey, friends and colleagues: I’m hearing that comics Kickstarters are a steep climb right now.

If you’ve got one running right now, drop a link here and tell us a little bit about it! I want to help you get the word out… and show people a better place to spend money than any Black Friday sale!
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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today-maybe.bsky.social
A digital approximation of a child’s crayon drawing. Am outline traced around a hand has been transformed into a turkey in profile, filled in roughly with brown, and with the fingers becoming green, red, orange, and yellow feathers and a bird’s eye, beak and wattle added to make the thumb into a head facing to the right. A pilgrim hat with buckle has been put on the turkey’s head and its stick feet are standing on green crayon grass. To the left, either in the distance or much smaller is a stick figure pilgrim with similarly buckled hat holding a hatchet. The turkey has a very roughly drawn speech bubble containing the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’.
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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mikelark.bsky.social
It “Rides on Gilded Splinters” and was voted “Mos Scocious” float…
melstefaniuk.bsky.social Mel Stefaniuk @melstefaniuk.bsky.social · 7d
And here comes the Dr. John float to remind kids to have a little gris-gris with their Christmas
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
pyynk.bsky.social
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:

- Page/Plant “Walking into Clarksdale Tour” (1998)
- Pixies “Doolittle Anniversary Tour” (2010).
- Oasis “Live 2025 Tour” (2025)
- Bauhaus (2005)
- Big Star’s Third “Don’t Lie to Me!” Big Star’s Number One Record Anniversary Tour (2022)
travelswithbrindle.bsky.social Travels With Brindle has returned to hibernation @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 8d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:

- Neutral Milk Hotel (July 1998)
- Bon Iver opening for Elvis Perkins in 2007 (pre-For Emma)
- Lorde, 2014
- Grant Hart, 2014
- Throwing Muses, Gut Pageant (when Tanya joined them for a few songs at the end)
keithpille.bsky.social K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 8d
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve been to:

-Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives
-The Flaming Lips
-Public Enemy
-R. E. M.
-HAIM
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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nedraggett.bsky.social
Hell with it, I'm just going to post the whole thing here via screencap and alt text. It's Kaleb Horton, man, his writing always deserves the second read, especially since it could have just easily been lost forever like so much else. Read it, share it.
A look at forgotten Hollywood landmarks By Kaleb Horton Let's say you come in from down south, and you're looking for an unsung movie landmark. So you fly in to LAX, rent a car, blow right past Hollywood, leave Los Angeles county heading north, go over the Grapevine, gape at the monumental hills and, wow, there really is a Smokey Bear Road, then you turn off the air conditioner when the sign tells you. Once you come down the grade too fast and see the world's loneliest Denny's, you're well on your way to what you're looking for – the middle of nowhere. You're going to Kern County to find the spot where Alfred Hitchcock filmed one of the greatest scenes in movie history, the crop duster sequence from "North by Northwest." It takes place in Indiana, of course, but the Indiana road sign and the imported corn field can't deceive this Bakersfield native. The parched and desolate heat of the scene feels too much like Kern County. The scene people know off-hand — Cary Grant running from an airplane — isn't why "North by Northwest" is a classic. The film's greatness, as was often the case for Hitchcock, lies in its build-up, its suspense, its mood. The plane moment is almost anticlimax. It is those five minutes before Grant's desperate escape that constitute a mathematically perfect suspense scene. So expert is Hitchcock's hand that he creates suspense, a slow burning dread, with no camera tricks and no music in broad daylight. Grant's character is a prototypical James Bond. His perfect suit, fast wit, high-alcohol tolerance and effortless charisma have got him out of every predicament so far. In the city, among people, he has powers. Take him away from people, put him nowhere, and he's just like us — totally helpless. He has no powers: His suit is no good out here; his million-dollar tailoring and perfect haircut is just vanity now. No amount of pretending can provide escape. Here, is the one place where he can die, and he gets by on the grace of God. All he can do is wait for what's coming. So when you seek the lost landmark of this scene, you're looking for an idea as much as a place. You're on Highway 99 now, going 30 miles north of Bakersfield, looking for an unassuming patch of dirt that carries spiritual weight. The scene was filmed neart Garces Highway to the west of Delano. You'll think there's a handy exit for it. There's not. You'll probably get lost in Delano, counting on a connection. You're at once a million miles from Hollywood and a hundred miles away. It's lonely. The horizon sprawls forever like there's nothing past it. There are broken down trucks on the side of the road, plumes of smoke from faraway fires. You'll find Garces eventually. You'll pass a bar called Rosy's Place, abandoned houses, an oil field, a prison, a cemetery, a sign that says "we clean headstones," and a whole lot of gold-on-brown punctuated by an occasional trailer or car going faster than you. You're looking for where Garces meets Corcoran Road. That's where this "North by Northwest" scene was filmed. You'll get a vague idea where it is but you'll never be exactly sure, since there's little impetus for clear signage 10 miles from a prison. Maybe Corcoran Road is unlabeled. Besides, that Indiana sign and the prop cornfield haven't been there in 56 years. If you're anything like me, you'll lose the light and call it a day, unsatisfied with the route you took. You return to I-5 northbound. From the 5, you'll meet Route 46, and go through a place called Lost Hills, then back in to the location from Corcoran Road instead. That's how Hitchcock probably did it. More intuitive. Still in the middle of nowhere, but on your way to Corcoran Road, you're right next to another Hollywood landmark: Blackwells Corner, James Dean's last stop. It's a glorified Texaco, and gas is 50 cents a gallon more than it should be. They sell Jelly Bellys and '50s kitsch artifacts — plates with Marilyn Monroe's face on them, and so forth. They really figured out how to cash in on death. You don't want to stop here. But I stopped. I asked the kid at the Blackwells Corner counter how to get to Corcoran Road. He gave me a look that said "there's no reason to go there," and then wearily told me where to go anyway. I was about 8 miles from the destination. Going there is a meditative experience. You're not just going to the middle of nowhere. You're going to the perfect nowhere. Going alone, in the hypnotic heat of the Central Calfiornia Valley, you might even forget what year it is. There is no reason to believe the road would be so well preserved for half a century, intimately tied to the career of an actor born in Bristol 111 years ago, but it has been. There's an abandoned house. A barn with a cross on it. But almost nothing has changed in 56 years. At some point new lines were added on the road. There's overgrowth where there didn't used to be overgrowth. A couple discarded Budweiser cans from who knows when, but mostly it's identical. This is the same sleepy loneliness that Alfred Hitchcock used to make great art in 1959. And that may sound dull, but tranquility is the point. You stand on that dirt and there's no distraction from what's in your soul. It's an inner destination, not an outer one. I told my grandma about it when I got back to Bakersfield. She told me her Uncle Harold thought it was the prettiest road in America. And she showed me a picture of a Corcoran grade school class posing in the dirt with Grant and Hitchcock. It's just a field trip picture. The kids are fidgeting, many with arms folded, some shielding their eyes from the sun, all with obedient smiles. They'd all be in their sixties now, but they'd remember where this road is. It emphasized the ugliness of James Dean's last stop becoming a place to sell T-shirts. It's about what we preserve, and what we don't, and what we remember, and what we don't. It's easy to find shrines to morbidity and hard to find meaningful places. For those, you have to go looking.
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
pyynk.bsky.social
post a famous bathroom scene
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Swedish poster for the movie revolver Gene and American release it was battling Jane starring Dorothy Gish and featuring a beautiful stylized illustration of Gish in a red jacket holding a baby in one hand and revolver in the other
November 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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wonderella.bsky.social
Unwashed masses: "Mariah starts the Christmas season"

The cultured few:
Still frame of Gigli, with J-Lo licking her lips
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
pyynk.bsky.social
I Want You to Hit Me As Hard As You Can, Charlie Brown.
kurtbusiek.bsky.social Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 12d
Sell Crazy Someplace Else, We're All Stocked Up Here, Charlie Brown
kurtbusiek.bsky.social Kurt Busiek @kurtbusiek.bsky.social · 12d
I Want You To Hold It Between Your Knees, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:03 AM
pyynk.bsky.social
a movie that takes place where you’re from
Ewan McGregor as Edward Bloom standing in a field of daffodils in Big Fish. Ewan is wearing a blue three button suit and it pops against the yellow of the daffodils.
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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ajeffschiller.bsky.social
Fuck Harry Potter, read MAGIC POWDER instead!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/jpl...
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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dosnostalgic.bsky.social
January 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
pyynk.bsky.social
Yup. We hand wash the china, the barware, and the good knives and that’s about it.
kendrawrites.com Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 24d
Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load.

So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.
November 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM