Lena Friesen
@agincourtgirl.bsky.social
Music, food, books and Mennonite common sense. Archive and library worker, sometime writer about music and native of Los Angeles living in that there South London. #MDANT
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Remembering Donald Byrd on his birthday 🎂
📷 William Claxton, 1959
"Byrd's legacy is his contribution to music education in a culture that spawned jazz but then neglected it, from the unique vantage point of having been a leading player in the idiom."
- John Fordham
📷 William Claxton, 1959
"Byrd's legacy is his contribution to music education in a culture that spawned jazz but then neglected it, from the unique vantage point of having been a leading player in the idiom."
- John Fordham
December 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Remembering Donald Byrd on his birthday 🎂
📷 William Claxton, 1959
"Byrd's legacy is his contribution to music education in a culture that spawned jazz but then neglected it, from the unique vantage point of having been a leading player in the idiom."
- John Fordham
📷 William Claxton, 1959
"Byrd's legacy is his contribution to music education in a culture that spawned jazz but then neglected it, from the unique vantage point of having been a leading player in the idiom."
- John Fordham
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I witnessed a miracle on my way to work this morning
December 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I witnessed a miracle on my way to work this morning
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December 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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December 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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For Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, maturity means an alertness to the world: an empathy for their neighbors inseparable from a ruthless honesty about themselves. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/04/27/i...
Interrogating pleasure: Everything But The Girl
Everything But The Girl – Fuse Beholden to meretricious notions about income, marital status, and “stability,” maturity as defined by capitalism in the last seventy years honors i…
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December 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
For Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, maturity means an alertness to the world: an empathy for their neighbors inseparable from a ruthless honesty about themselves. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2023/04/27/i...
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one of the remixes of the year, in a year not that memorable in that "category"(I'm being kind it was dreadful when compared with 2024) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2H...
Robyn - Dopamine (Jamie xx Remix)
YouTube video by Robyn
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December 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
one of the remixes of the year, in a year not that memorable in that "category"(I'm being kind it was dreadful when compared with 2024) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2H...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Artist: S-Crimmy https://b3ta.com/board/11423341
From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling
From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling
December 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Artist: S-Crimmy https://b3ta.com/board/11423341
From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling
From the 'Movie Poster Recycling' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/movieposterrecycling/popular/ #MoviePosterRecycling
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"Magic fly" and "Oxygene 4" - life changing singles for eight year old me. I knew this synth stuff was MY music.
The Young Punctum blog returns, and reaches August 1977, but it isn't just about that man:
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AUGUST 1977
After all I’d experienced and felt that year, I was still back at school this month with my alleged peers making sneery, bad jokes about E...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Magic fly" and "Oxygene 4" - life changing singles for eight year old me. I knew this synth stuff was MY music.
What I remember is drought and heat and gas rationing and skateboards; what I didn't know was roots, rebellions, nonchalance, the restoration of weirdness/otherness.... #viveleroi #revolutionarytemper #thinkingofyou
The Young Punctum blog returns, and reaches August 1977, but it isn't just about that man:
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/12/augu...
funthirty.blogspot.com/2025/12/augu...
AUGUST 1977
After all I’d experienced and felt that year, I was still back at school this month with my alleged peers making sneery, bad jokes about E...
funthirty.blogspot.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
What I remember is drought and heat and gas rationing and skateboards; what I didn't know was roots, rebellions, nonchalance, the restoration of weirdness/otherness.... #viveleroi #revolutionarytemper #thinkingofyou
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December 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Sit Down, Sitwell (should be the name of a running Mitchell & Webb sketch, that)! The Hitchins grumble reminded me of what the late A.A. Gill - an actual dyslexic - had to say about the condition, with so much more actual erudition:
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December 4, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sit Down, Sitwell (should be the name of a running Mitchell & Webb sketch, that)! The Hitchins grumble reminded me of what the late A.A. Gill - an actual dyslexic - had to say about the condition, with so much more actual erudition:
samedifference1.com/2010/03/22/a...
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This arrangement is extraordinary. If it were Bob Graettinger scoring for Kenton you'd long have been all over it:
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'S Wonderful - Ray Conniff (1956)
YouTube video by Ken Newell
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December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
This arrangement is extraordinary. If it were Bob Graettinger scoring for Kenton you'd long have been all over it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=80A5...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Really interesting post about Hammersmith Bridge, which has been closed since 2019, a presumed “loss” of 25,000 daily car trips. “The local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.” [nickmaini.substack.com]
Hammersmith Bridge
Where did 25,000 vehicles go?
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December 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Really interesting post about Hammersmith Bridge, which has been closed since 2019, a presumed “loss” of 25,000 daily car trips. “The local economy has adapted, air quality has improved, and overall traffic congestion has lessened.” [nickmaini.substack.com]
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my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Mark Sinker | Glitchcore Bosch
Above Côte Brasserie in Kingston upon Thames, overlooking its Riverside Walk, there was for a week in mid-November a...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
my LRB blog-post on the weird kingston mural: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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I review De La Soul's wonderful CABIN IN THE SKY, as vibrant, buoyant, and thoughtful as any they've released. A lovely year-end surprise. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/p...
People go through pain and still don’t gain: De La Soul’s ‘Cabin in the Sky’
De La Soul have the undimmed ebullience of guys who send invitations to join a flourishing club. They assume we’ll know the in-jokes, lingo, hand signals; they assume the in-jokes, lingo, and…
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December 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I review De La Soul's wonderful CABIN IN THE SKY, as vibrant, buoyant, and thoughtful as any they've released. A lovely year-end surprise. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/p...
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This one from March, which I do not think has been paralleled or even attempted anywhere else in music writing:
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December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This one from March, which I do not think has been paralleled or even attempted anywhere else in music writing:
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He was central to so much, but I'll remember him as a breathtaking part of one of the most stunning instrumental group performances ever recorded. RIP Steve Cropper.
Melting Pot
YouTube video by Booker T. & the M.G.’s - Topic
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December 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
He was central to so much, but I'll remember him as a breathtaking part of one of the most stunning instrumental group performances ever recorded. RIP Steve Cropper.
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RIP Steve Cropper
December 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
RIP Steve Cropper
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I forgot to post for #HolidayRobin yesterday so here's a set of newly fledged Robins to keep you going until the next set in about 8hrs time.
Captured @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social #naturephotography #ukbirding #BirdLife #Robins
Captured @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social #naturephotography #ukbirding #BirdLife #Robins
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I forgot to post for #HolidayRobin yesterday so here's a set of newly fledged Robins to keep you going until the next set in about 8hrs time.
Captured @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social #naturephotography #ukbirding #BirdLife #Robins
Captured @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social.
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social #naturephotography #ukbirding #BirdLife #Robins
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JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
December 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
JOURNALIST REQUEST: I'm writing a story about how organizing/joining resistance movements can build community and fight loneliness, particularly in the US.
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
If you or someone you know has had this experience, I'd love to hear from you! whitney dot bauck @ gmail.
Signal boosts appreciated!
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Get it through your head.
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Get it through your head.