Greetings from the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. I'm attempting to look cool, but the reading glasses dangling from my t-shirt undermine the effort. Roll call: Where are you from? What are you reading/listening to? Dazzle me, Bluesky peeps. - ThreadSky

andy-french.bsky.social • 23 days ago

Greetings from the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. I'm attempting to look cool, but the reading glasses dangling from my t-shirt undermine the effort.

Roll call: Where are you from? What are you reading/listening to?

Dazzle me, Bluesky peeps.

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siouxsiestardust.bsky.social•4 days ago

Greetingz. I live in Canada. Currently re-reading one of Carrie Fisher's memoirs called "Wishful Drinking"(2008). Whilst listening to film soundtrack "Some Kind of Wonderful".

andy-french.bsky.social•4 days ago

I love the titles of Carrie Fisher's books!

siouxsiestardust.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes, as a Writer myself; currently working on 4. Can definitely admire such clever titles. She was a strong, resilient warrior in life.

mikeresists.bsky.social•21 days ago

New connection here. Greetings from NJ; just outside of NYC. My friend George lives in Silver Lake, however.

andy-french.bsky.social•21 days ago

Welcome, Ambassador to Brooklyn. We joke that Silver Lake is the Brooklyn of L.A. (or vice versa).

ladyjugs.bsky.social•21 days ago

Reading Mark Harris’s Mike Nichols biography and Snow by Orhan Pamuk

andy-french.bsky.social•21 days ago

There's an extensive page about Snow on Wikipedia -- I'd never heard of it. Are you enjoying the novel?

ladyjugs.bsky.social•20 days ago

I am really liking it. I’ve read one book of his previously, A Strangeness in My Mind, which I liked a lot, too. I will definitely be reading more of his work.

funsizedaddy.bsky.social•23 days ago

NoHo and I’m 3/4 through The Last Boyfriends Rules for Revenge. It’s cute. A gay high school version of First Wives Club. Or at least that’s the framing. It goes deep into how “Don’t Say Gay” laws affect kids in the school system.

andy-french.bsky.social•23 days ago

Hello, neighbor. That book looks like fun. I’ll check it out.

charlesthefabulist.com•23 days ago

Howdy from the Terra Linda neighborhood of San Rafael… I’m reading Model Home by Rivers Solomon and listening to Siip siie by Ekova…

andy-french.bsky.social•23 days ago

I will look up both of those. Great photo of you two!

vodem.bsky.social•23 days ago

I’m in San Francisco and listening to my latest mix of 2024 favorites! https://www.mixcloud.com/Vodem/visions-2024-transnational-rhythm-favorites/

andy-french.bsky.social•23 days ago

Listening now!

tabitha-salamander.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hi from..the country alot of us wanna bail out of! Yikes. I'm reading "Rebel Witch" by Kelly-Ann Maddox (but I am a lazy reader and a lazy witch and frankly also a lazy rebel!). Listening to Proof by BTS and grumpy that I have a bad cold! But hi! I'm going to follow back because you seem fun! 😁

elisevik.bsky.social•21 days ago

Northern Norway, 100 miles above the arctic circle. The Gulf Stream keeps it livable.

Books? Comfort food. Jane Austen's Persuasion, now.

Music? Rage! My on-a-loop setlist starts with Killing in the Name of & is open to add-on suggestions.

Otherwise? Trans rights! It's the hill to die on now.

andy-french.bsky.social•20 days ago

I shouldn't complain when the temperature drops to 5 degrees celsius in LA. I've always wanted to visit the arctic circle. Bucket list!

Jane Austin is excellent comfort food, and Rage Against the Machine gets the blood going.

Hear! Hear! Re: trans rights. Now more than ever.

kinodb17.bsky.social•22 days ago

Hi, Andy
I'm in Tokyo, Japan and listening to...
https://youtu.be/gaPIB09VwGo?si=ypX0A6DdBoahPTF6

andy-french.bsky.social•22 days ago

Thanks, Kino. I'm familiar with the name Heartworms, but I've never heard the band. I like the track! She has a great voice. I'll check out their tunes. Thanks for the tip.

italianjob.bsky.social•21 days ago

I am from Chicago originally, but now in LA for 30 years. Listening to Big Log, Robert Plant. Feels like I should be charging through the flat lands of the 120 degree desert, with the top down, and the sun beating down in me. It's warm enough today here in so cal. to get some of that...cheers!

gothicprinceaaron.bsky.social•23 days ago

I'm in SF currently reading My Dead Book by Nate Lippens and the last thing I listened to was the new Patric Wolf single "Dies Irae".

andy-french.bsky.social•23 days ago

I have only a vague awareness of Patric Wolf. Thanks for the tips -- I'll check them out.

gothicprinceaaron.bsky.social•23 days ago

He's good and he's gay. He's not goth/post-punk but kinda adjacent I guess. Baroque pop maybe? Def influenced by Kate Bush. If you like Kate and Anohni & The Johnsons you'll probably like Patrick Wolf

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CXMGl5GLJ-E&pp=ygUacGF0cmljayB3b2xmIGVudGVyIHRoZSBkYXk%3D

andy-french.bsky.social•22 days ago

It's a pretty tune -- checking out some of his other tracks now. The Kate Bush comparison is apt.

tindizzy.bsky.social•19 days ago

Livin’ the dystopian nightmare in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Too busy doomscrolling these days to do much reading and I ♥️ to listen to anything from before 1987 in my car at copious volumes – that said, I’ve been on a bit of a Fleetwood Mac thing for the last bit.

andy-french.bsky.social•19 days ago

Fleetwood Mac is a good antidote to the dystopian nightmare. At least it can't hurt. Rumours is my go-to.

tindizzy.bsky.social•19 days ago

Yeah. They sure are. Mine, too. Been playing Rhiannon and Monday Morning a lot, too.

loukitten.bsky.social•18 days ago

I'm replying based on your tshirt having a cat on it (and I am a cat). Tell me it's a cat and not a pointy ears dog!

Italian living in London, UK, reading a collection of yellow short stories (not my choice, xmas gift) and listening to Skunk Anansie and Nine Inch Nails in preparation for their gigs

andy-french.bsky.social•17 days ago

It's my death metal Taylor Swift shirt (a bootleg, obviously!)

loukitten.bsky.social•17 days ago

ahah great one!

benjiw.bsky.social•23 days ago

Birmingham UK. Currently reading Mr Penumbra’s 24 Hour Book Store by Robin Sloan.
Also working through I want that twink OBLITERATED!
Currently watching Severance, Foundation, Slow Horses.

andy-french.bsky.social•23 days ago

Color me intrigued. I will check out those books!

I enjoyed Slow Horses, and I’m gearing up to watch the second season of Severance. I’m also looking forward to the next installment of Foundation, but I’m not sure when it drops?

benjiw.bsky.social•23 days ago

Penumbra is for a bookclub I run for friends. They just let me keep choosing books that they say they unexpectedly enjoy. It’s a little like curating a literary mixtape.

andy-french.bsky.social•23 days ago

That’s a lot of responsibility! I miss my old book club. I should get motivated and start something another one.

todddowning.com•21 days ago

Hello from Port Orchard, WA. Currently reading an old Leigh Brackett scifi novel, a brand new Mark Burns western novel, and listening to Kai Tak, an awesome L.A. artist.

andy-french.bsky.social•21 days ago

Thanks for the tips. Listening to Kai Tak now. I was confused, because there also seems to be a Kaitak band, which is more metal.

todddowning.com•21 days ago

Ah, yes, the Kai Tak I mentioned is def not metal. I discovered them through Tamaryn, who co-wrote and sang on Flood the Harbour.

https://youtu.be/LnUOL3wKu48?si=xciPCtEgYsttn6XH

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