Sandy Barron
@sbhist.bsky.social
Historian of disability and Canadian politics. Researcher, PhD. Jazz, horror, and cli-fi guy.
Lumberjack without a cause
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Lumberjack without a cause
Kudos to the kid that signed “Bruce Springsteen” on the inside pane of this second-hand Born to Run lp. Even though I know it’s not real, you made me wonder. You win, kid from the past.
August 30, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Kudos to the kid that signed “Bruce Springsteen” on the inside pane of this second-hand Born to Run lp. Even though I know it’s not real, you made me wonder. You win, kid from the past.
Bronson and Gladstone, Ottawa.
July 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Bronson and Gladstone, Ottawa.
Finally - Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020). No record has made me furrow my brow more. And the playing is immaculate in a grimy way. Top-flight shit, a master who is now toying with us
July 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Finally - Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020). No record has made me furrow my brow more. And the playing is immaculate in a grimy way. Top-flight shit, a master who is now toying with us
Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We (2023). The mixing of this record is incredible- dynamism in the service of lyrical wit.
July 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Mitski - The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We (2023). The mixing of this record is incredible- dynamism in the service of lyrical wit.
Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign (2020). Group improvisation in jazz taken seriously. It’s amazing to hear great players listen to each other and converse. Something rare since the 1960s- a truly transformative jazz record.
July 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ron Miles - Rainbow Sign (2020). Group improvisation in jazz taken seriously. It’s amazing to hear great players listen to each other and converse. Something rare since the 1960s- a truly transformative jazz record.
Lambchop -The Bible. A culmination of Wagner’s descent into an honest musical discussion with production methods in hip hop. Tossed off musings on everyday life as art.
July 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Lambchop -The Bible. A culmination of Wagner’s descent into an honest musical discussion with production methods in hip hop. Tossed off musings on everyday life as art.
Cocker and Gonzales - Room 29 (2017). Satire that implicates its makers, which might make it more self-loathing than satire.
July 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Cocker and Gonzales - Room 29 (2017). Satire that implicates its makers, which might make it more self-loathing than satire.
Did the best of the twenty-first thing. I’m probably forgetting something. Also- I guess I’m not a cheery guy
June 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Did the best of the twenty-first thing. I’m probably forgetting something. Also- I guess I’m not a cheery guy
This guy needs therapy, sure, but what he really needs is some damn humanities classes. What does he think knowledge is?
June 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
This guy needs therapy, sure, but what he really needs is some damn humanities classes. What does he think knowledge is?
The untimely death of one of my 60 year old Webcore floor speakers has given birth to the ‘tridrophonic’ monster piece you see before you
May 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The untimely death of one of my 60 year old Webcore floor speakers has given birth to the ‘tridrophonic’ monster piece you see before you
As the parade of billionaires handing millions to the Trump inaugural continues, I think it’s time to reread Eric Vuillard’s The Order of the Day.
December 14, 2024 at 4:36 AM
As the parade of billionaires handing millions to the Trump inaugural continues, I think it’s time to reread Eric Vuillard’s The Order of the Day.
Most media outlets are doing a terrible job of this. It’s not really the job of climate scientists. Novelists, screenwriters, etc. - write on.
November 25, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Most media outlets are doing a terrible job of this. It’s not really the job of climate scientists. Novelists, screenwriters, etc. - write on.
RIP Roy Haynes. An amazing career- started drumming with Lester Young and Charlie Parker in 1945 and recorded well into the 2010s. Propulsive, weird, great listener. This Andrew Hill record from 1964 gives perhaps the best taste of all this.
November 13, 2024 at 1:56 AM
RIP Roy Haynes. An amazing career- started drumming with Lester Young and Charlie Parker in 1945 and recorded well into the 2010s. Propulsive, weird, great listener. This Andrew Hill record from 1964 gives perhaps the best taste of all this.
The crime and the culprit
November 11, 2024 at 5:47 PM
The crime and the culprit
We really need to get a handle on whatever the hell this is.
October 22, 2024 at 12:00 PM
We really need to get a handle on whatever the hell this is.