jesse jarnow
bourgwick.bsky.social
jesse jarnow
@bourgwick.bsky.social
good ol' grateful deadcast co-host / @wfmu.bsky.social DJ / author of "wasn't that a time" (hachette, 2018), "heads" (hachette, 2016), "big day coming" (gotham, 2012) / jessejarnow.com / heads.social/@bourgwick
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“Private collectors have thus taken on greater responsibility as custodians of history, often at great expense. And a handful of prominent ones … have emerged as both preservationists and exhibitors in this landscape.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/n...
That Old Classic Film in the Theater? It Might Be From This Man’s House.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
a ghost parade for departed nyc venues. evgrieve.com/2025/12/a-gh...
December 28, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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"A [28-minute] mashup of the free improv sections from 'Up On the Sun,' as performed live on tour, May 2022"

meatpuppets.bandcamp.com/track/up-on-...
Up On The Sun 2022 MegaMix, by Meat Puppets
track by Meat Puppets
meatpuppets.bandcamp.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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i've come around to the utility of the livenation-owned setlist.fm, but i still way prefer a loving fan-made setlist/chronology page. i wrote a bit about why & made a list of a few dozen favorites that i return to often (or just thought were swell). what did i miss? jessejarnow.com/2025/12/a-pe...
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I should have been soliciting contributions! in an imaginary future where I get to write #othernetworks part deux, what would you add?
spent quality snow-eve time with @loriemerson.net's brilliant & inspiring "other networks," an asynchronous history of non-internet communications. like many readers, i imagine, it made me think of others that might belong & my contribution is... jukeboxes! shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Daniel Carter was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania on this day in 1945. He turns 80 today.

📸 Jeff Caltabiano, NYC, 10.27.19
December 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
another annoying side effect of the rent being too damn high: out of business storefronts (& their absentee landlords) don't shovel the snow/ice off their sidewalks. lotta dangerous patches out there!
December 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
late night weekend television.
December 28, 2025 at 4:50 AM
so thomas pynchon just writes novels as elaborate delivery vehicles for all the character names, right? (complimentary)
December 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
i own phil schaap's copy of the first dead album.
December 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
i've come around to the utility of the livenation-owned setlist.fm, but i still way prefer a loving fan-made setlist/chronology page. i wrote a bit about why & made a list of a few dozen favorites that i return to often (or just thought were swell). what did i miss? jessejarnow.com/2025/12/a-pe...
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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"No girl would dream of calling me an asshole in my Modern Lovers shirt"
(Sardine Productions t-shirt ad in PUNK no. 6, 1976)
December 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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If that isn't startling enough, try this one. This one shows a cat crossing a dirt track, with a dry-stone dike behind it. Above the dike, trees of a small spruce plantation can be seen.

The picture was taken in about 1966. I think by me with a box brownie -- […]

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December 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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OK, this is genuinely scary. It's a picture of me, aged 5. It was taken in 1960. It was scanned and uploaded to Google Photos in 2002. No one has told Google where it was taken. But the map, bottom right, is correct.

Obviously, in 1960, my father's pre-war […]

[Original post on mastodon.scot]
December 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
spent quality snow-eve time with @loriemerson.net's brilliant & inspiring "other networks," an asynchronous history of non-internet communications. like many readers, i imagine, it made me think of others that might belong & my contribution is... jukeboxes! shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...
December 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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i got a bit obsessed with the modern lovers this year & attempted to assemble a complete-as-possible 1970-1974 live chronology. it's far from complete, but found lots of fun stuff, including a setlist for what might be the 1st gig & ads for their shows in bermuda. jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-...
December 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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December 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
i got a bit obsessed with the modern lovers this year & attempted to assemble a complete-as-possible 1970-1974 live chronology. it's far from complete, but found lots of fun stuff, including a setlist for what might be the 1st gig & ads for their shows in bermuda. jessejarnow.com/2025/12/the-...
December 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
housekeeping: i migrated my last dozen lists of year-end favorites to my site. less ranked best-ofs, more extended listening etc. journals so i don't forget. now tagged as "ginchy shit": jessejarnow.com/category/gin...
December 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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so what you're telling me is that a member of hawkwind beat the dead to the pyramids by 9 months?
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
so what you're telling me is that a member of hawkwind beat the dead to the pyramids by 9 months?
December 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
comfort food LP of the year: glorious gray area compilation of global/left-field beatles covers, from the space lady to mexican street bands. proud to say that at least 3 of these have been frow show faves over the years. ask your local record dealer! www.dustygroove.com/item/223483/...
December 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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true story: partly because of when it came out, but mostly because of the dreamy backdrops from old LPs & the gorgeous foreground guitar melodies, @billorcutt.bsky.social's "how to rescue things" was/is an instant modern holiday classic for wintery nights. billorcutt.bandcamp.com/album/how-to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
nearing the conclusion of an epic mass market sci-fi paperback & my nose is tragically just slightly too stuffed to smell it.
December 25, 2025 at 3:58 AM