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ajklein.bsky.social
Lover of music; live, recorded, or both. Devotee/arm-chair critic of world cinema. Software engineer nostalgic for the web of the 90s.
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Saturday March 8, 3-6pm: we will be taking your requests LIVE on the air for a $100 pledge to the greatest radio station in the world! Do it in advance: pledge.wfmu.org/donate?progr... Pledge to the Todd-O-Phonic Todd show & put your request(s) in “comment for DJ” Listen live -no archive!

Hey North Bay, East Bay, and Sacramento Way….. Luke Schneider and his pedal steel have something to say. And I (Mike) hope to see you on one of these days? Okay?

can't wait to play civ 7 like i play all the other civ games: exclusively play vanilla because expansion packs seem weird, play exactly the same style with the same civ for 1000 hours over the next decade, mostly ignore entire key game mechanics, and consequently never actually get very good at it

A centaur of the Bay Area film community needs help. Yes there many in need at this moment, do what you can where you feel it’s best directed. gofund.me/dec54c1b

Wrote about my favorite performance of the past year, and why what Marianne Jean-Baptiste does in HARD TRUTHS really feels like it's in a league of its own www.vulture.com/article/give...

The Prestige has long been my favorite Nolan, in large part because the scope is limited, letting the structure of the piece (what I think he's best at as a filmmaker) come to the fore without shortchanging the subject matter. But also, of course, Bowie.

There's no better prank than having a child. Pulling a guy out of oblivion like congratulations these are all your problems now

back on @wfmu.bsky.social, beaming out hopeful frequencies & new music from now 'til midnight ET on the frow show. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Back in SF after far too long away and feeling compelled to post. But until I figure out what about, here's tonight's lovely sunset from Alamo Square (featuring the moon and Venus)

Always funny when someone criticises a film on here (or Twitter) and another person replies with, “Oh no, I was really looking forward to it!” Keep looking forward to it! Go see for yourself! Don’t be so in thrall to someone on the internet!

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 7. opening act: @sunrauniverse.bsky.social under the direction of marshall allen comedian: dave hill. mix CDR by alan sparhawk. post show DJ: todd-o-phonic todd. benefitting afrikana.org & artists-athletes-activists

Beyond stoked to be here for the last three shows

It's not too late to ruin Christmas

yo la tengo at bowery ballroom, hanukkah night 1. opening act: the sloppy heads. comedian: todd barry. mix CDR by bill frisell. post show DJ: joe belock (the people's champ). benefitting we act!

yule *what*??! 3 hours of pagan holiday jams on the frow show, from now 'til midnight ET on @wfmu.bsky.social. tune in: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

can we not do the "die hard is a Christmas movie" thing here please. "remember thing that wasn't entertaining or edifying on twitter but just a non-argument about which even the most bored person alive could not credibly be thought to actually care" can we not. for my Christmas present. please

It should be easier to predict when concerts will start and finish

Time for the best thing about Tuesdays!

thank you for the kind offer to “hang out”sorry it didn’t work out. it turned out there was a vast library of music available to all and an empty room in which to listen to it by myself for as long as I wanted without having to “catch up” or “have a conversation”

Post a picture you took to bring some Zen into the Zone

Post a banger that's not in English. youtu.be/LalPz4lIZYk?...

I feel like this site's demographics can be described as "still mad about the loss of Google Reader"

Ridiculously good, almost solo piano performance of "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" last night at the Royal Albert Hall. 💙https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1LwjxKNh_4

back in the safe harbor of @wfmu.bsky.social after a week in the outside world, enthusiastically beaming out 3 hours of new music & other freeform radio delights on the 666th (WFMU) episode of the frow show, from now 'til 12am ET. get tuned/be tuned: wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Twitter: evil rogues Mastodon: neutral wizards Bluesky: chaos bards Facebook: failed save against hypnotic pattern

Don’t forget, there’s only one poll that matters: the annual Cahiers du Cinéma top 10 list

If magic isn’t real how do you explain me paying $5,000 for magic beans

Oh fuck he’s RESIGNING????

I still hang out irl with people I met on LiveJournal. Bring back that model

OpenTormentNexus, with its forks FreeTormentNexus and LibreTorment

it’s not that livejournal was all that great, it’s just that LJ was the only network that clearly worked backward from actual social patterns field-tested in, like, the molten social hell of middle school, and designed software around that

If I could make a plea for BlueSky, it’s this: Please make a point of sharing links to articles, essays and more that you LOVE, that you enjoyed, that expanded you in some way. I’m always surprised by the dominance of hate-shares, complaint shares on here. And I think it has a riptide effect.

Technically 99% of movies are Star Trek prequels.

this is the coolest online has ever been

I, too, saw a bad person say a bad thing on another social media website. I chose not to screenshot it and share it here. This is an option available to you as well.

A cat is a little gentleman or lady who lives in your home and causes problems to remind you that you cannot control the universe