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Former icon (Crop of TM Network — Rainbow Rainbow)

New icon time. (Using an album cover crop/trace on my website these last few years had been killing me)

throwing John Crowley's Great Work of Time in the ring, the description of the endpoint of all the time adjusting really stuck with me. very jealous you got to interview him btw

2026 Q1 reads:

P.G. Wodehouse — Right Ho, Jeeves
M. John Harrison — Viriconium
Raymond Chandler — The Big Sleep
Homer — Iliad (Lattimore)
Lawrence M. Principe — The Secrets of Alchemy
Gregory Mcdonald — Fletch
Patrick O’Brian — Master & Commander
John Crowley — The Deep

Custom license plate reading "JONIMTCH" (Joni Mitchell)

so this is who stole my vanity plate idea

Artwork for Akiko Yano's 1977 baseball-themed single "行け柳田"

love the callback

矢野顕子 - LIFETIME BASEBALL [Official Audio] YouTube video by 矢野顕子

new Akiko Yano single and album this summer 🔥⚾🧢

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc-n...

Paul McCartney in an outtake from the ‘Red Rose Speedway’ album cover photoshoot.

Metro Farce — Gaia - Lost Horizon and Velvet Dream (1989) YouTube video by Simulacreage

I love this folky, artsy transition album in particular. It’s also got Moonriders’ guitarist Ryomei Shirai and Kidorikko singer Ten Chiyumi.

Metro Farce — Gaia - Lost Horizon and Velvet Dream (1989)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElE1...

I’m surprised how unsung Metro Farce still is among JP new wave circles, considering they share members with Karkador-era P-Model, Yapoos, and After Dinner.

RIP Yotaro Ito (伊藤ヨタロウ)

Unforgettable voice. I love Metro Farce and their full development from new wave to Eastern European folk (klezmer!) across their discography, and being inventive and fun in every step of it.

Review of Banco de Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa reading “This is the sound of the techno-tribe, banging a drum with one hand and a mouse with the other. Toby Marks, aka Banco de Gaia, wants to bang on the drum all day, and he thankfully makes a pretty joyous noise”

love when Plex pulls an obviously contemporary review for a 90s album

[1984] Kaoru Hirose (広瀬かおる) – わたしのピカソ (Synthpop/New Wave/Fusion) [Full EP] YouTube video by yaoiboi92

addicting chorus on the first track here, damn

(Kaoru Hirose - わたしのピカソ)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyKt...

having one of those weeks I need to put You Make Loving Fun on daily

first calendar year concert log

very self-published series of books titled "American Kitsune" by Brandon Varnell

Part VIII - A Fox's Rescue

Part II - A Fox's Tail

should I have copped?

full aisle of sci-fi/fantasy

full shelf of Edgar Rice Burroughs hardcovers

classic 60s science fiction/fantasy anthologies

an alarming cover for Madouc by Jack Vance

if a NYC bookstore tries to stock more than 10ft of used sci-fi/fantasy the building gets condemned

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars, Thuvia Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars

back covers

better view of these Burroughs collections

Table full of books, including: Tanith Lee - Red as Blood, The Secret Books of Paradys I & II, Tales from the Flat Earth - Night’s Daughter Ursula K. Le Guin - The Unreal and the Real Edgar Rice Burroughs - Llana of Gathol and John Carter of Mars, Thuvia Maid of Mars and The Chessmen of Mars Lois McMaster Bujold - The Curse of Chalion Emma Bull - War for the Oaks Rachel Pollack - Temporary Agency Ezxliabeth Knox - The Absolute Book Evan S. Connell - The Alchymist’s Journal, A Long Desire, The White Lantern Tom Drury - The End of Vandalism Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman

Goblin

full book haul from a 5-day Phoenix trip

+ Goblin the bookstore cat

my 2025 music listening (per last fm)

Charles Portis - True Grit
Robertson Davies - The Manticore
China Miéville - Embassytown
Kenneth Fearing - The Big Clock

Dan Simmons - Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
William Beckford - Vathek
Banana Yoshimoto - NP
Agatha Christie - The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

(cont.)

2025 Q4 reads:

John Higgs - William Blake vs the World
Sebastian Barry - Days Without End
Frank Herbert - Heretics of Dune
Jack Vance - Eyes of the Overworld
Thomas Pynchon - Shadow Ticket
Ursula K. Le Guin - Buffalo Gals, Book of Cats [both one-sitting reads]

(cont.)

電波組曲 YouTube video by Yoichi Aoyama - Topic

yes! yes!!

(Yoichi Aoyama — 電波組曲)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6mm...

Bad Melody Bad YouTube video by Yoichi Aoyama - Topic

Bugcity is already one of my favorite albums since first hearing a few years ago. This was stuck in my head for a year.

(Yoichi Aoyama — Bad Melody Bad)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IZe...

Strong recommendation for fans of Carnation (which shares a member with Grandfathers) and Moonriders (Hirobumi and Keiichi Suzuki produced his first albums). "4D Raven" off Bugcity also has a duet from Yasuyuki Horigome from Kirinji

Four albums from Yoichi Aoyama: So Far So Close, EQ, Bugcity, and Jaw

Four excellent Yoichi Aoyama albums have hit streaming. I love this guy: very catchy, bluesy, and with soulful vocals. You might've heard him on the Hosono or (Jim O'Rourke produced) Burt Bacharach tribute albums, but his solo output and albums with Grandfathers are all must-listens.

Bottom-lit Santa statue

getting this giant poster home in 40mph winds was awesome

Marty Supreme poster with branded ping pong ball

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