Colin Rafferty
@colinrafferty.bsky.social
Eagle Scout, altar boy, student council president, all leading up to this.
Live shot of my getting my Tzadik CDs from the basement after Zorn pulled them from Spotify.
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Live shot of my getting my Tzadik CDs from the basement after Zorn pulled them from Spotify.
Never have I understood the importance of wearing layers than in flying from Winnipeg to Atlanta in November.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Never have I understood the importance of wearing layers than in flying from Winnipeg to Atlanta in November.
(Jerry Lewis voice)
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
(Jerry Lewis voice)
Ah, Halloween, the only night I can play Merzbow on my porch without the neighbors saying anything.
October 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Ah, Halloween, the only night I can play Merzbow on my porch without the neighbors saying anything.
Listened to Glenn Gould play the Goldberg Variations for the 1,000th time today, and there’s still mystery and wonder and beauty and absolute magic in a seven-decade-old recording.
October 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Listened to Glenn Gould play the Goldberg Variations for the 1,000th time today, and there’s still mystery and wonder and beauty and absolute magic in a seven-decade-old recording.
Today: Ligeti string quartets, Shalamov’s “Kolyma Stories,” afternoon walk with dogs, late night showing of the original “Suspiria” at my town’s movie palace.
(I’m also grading and doing laundry, but this is still a good day)
(I’m also grading and doing laundry, but this is still a good day)
October 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Today: Ligeti string quartets, Shalamov’s “Kolyma Stories,” afternoon walk with dogs, late night showing of the original “Suspiria” at my town’s movie palace.
(I’m also grading and doing laundry, but this is still a good day)
(I’m also grading and doing laundry, but this is still a good day)
Join me for something I like to call “Pancake Thursday,” in which I make pancakes for breakfast and then sleep from 10 am to 2 pm.
October 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Join me for something I like to call “Pancake Thursday,” in which I make pancakes for breakfast and then sleep from 10 am to 2 pm.
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The best thing about Radiohead naming themselves for a Talking Heads song is that “Radio Head” is easily the closest Talking Heads ever got to a Jimmy Buffet song.
August 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The best thing about Radiohead naming themselves for a Talking Heads song is that “Radio Head” is easily the closest Talking Heads ever got to a Jimmy Buffet song.
Springsteen’s error with Tunnel of Love was releasing an album that was really good after a string of Desert Island Discs.
August 30, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Springsteen’s error with Tunnel of Love was releasing an album that was really good after a string of Desert Island Discs.
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Hey, all of Jandek on Corwood is on Youtube if you want to watch a good documentary about one of the most enduring figures in eerie outsider art
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8e...
Jandek on Corwood
YouTube video by epyon
www.youtube.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hey, all of Jandek on Corwood is on Youtube if you want to watch a good documentary about one of the most enduring figures in eerie outsider art
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8e...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo8e...
This Didn’t Use to Be This Spicy: A Memoir of My Late 40s
August 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This Didn’t Use to Be This Spicy: A Memoir of My Late 40s
Among my other reading, I try to read six long (750+ pages) books a year, pacing them over two month stretches, around 20 pages a day. There’s always an odd feeling when I approach the end of one of these books, half victory lap and half impending sense of loss.
August 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Among my other reading, I try to read six long (750+ pages) books a year, pacing them over two month stretches, around 20 pages a day. There’s always an odd feeling when I approach the end of one of these books, half victory lap and half impending sense of loss.
They’ve installed those listening posts that hear gunshots in our neighborhood. Seems like a hard job, so I try to swing by and play Built to Spill’s “Perfect from Now On” for them occasionally.
August 23, 2025 at 11:09 AM
They’ve installed those listening posts that hear gunshots in our neighborhood. Seems like a hard job, so I try to swing by and play Built to Spill’s “Perfect from Now On” for them occasionally.
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age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
August 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
This is finally going to kick off the long-awaited and deeply deserved Coctails revival.
Gang, there’s finally going to be a Lounge Ax movie, with footage mostly shot over the last 2-3 nights, and I can’t wait!!!
www.instagram.com/reel/DNlGd_6...
www.instagram.com/reel/DNlGd_6...
August 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
This is finally going to kick off the long-awaited and deeply deserved Coctails revival.
I know there are problems with streaming, but it’s still amazing, I say as someone whose mom videotaped and mailed him the entirety of season four of The Sopranos.
August 20, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I know there are problems with streaming, but it’s still amazing, I say as someone whose mom videotaped and mailed him the entirety of season four of The Sopranos.
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At the risk of going full Old Man Yells At Cloud, there’s an awful lot of people who seem to be utterly incapable of engaging with art or culture unless there’s something to buy and take a selfie with and it’s fucking weird
August 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
At the risk of going full Old Man Yells At Cloud, there’s an awful lot of people who seem to be utterly incapable of engaging with art or culture unless there’s something to buy and take a selfie with and it’s fucking weird
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Iconic photo of pioneer punk women taken by Michael Putland 45 years ago. #music
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Viv Albertine (The Slits)
- Siouxsie Soux (SATB)
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
- Pauline Black (The Selecter)
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Viv Albertine (The Slits)
- Siouxsie Soux (SATB)
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
- Pauline Black (The Selecter)
August 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Iconic photo of pioneer punk women taken by Michael Putland 45 years ago. #music
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Viv Albertine (The Slits)
- Siouxsie Soux (SATB)
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
- Pauline Black (The Selecter)
From left to right, top to bottom:
- Debbie Harry (Blondie)
- Viv Albertine (The Slits)
- Siouxsie Soux (SATB)
- Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders)
- Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex)
- Pauline Black (The Selecter)
Reread Notes from Underground for the first time since I was in Mrs. Wareham’s sophomore English class 33 years ago, and do I ever respect the trust she put in us to engage with that book.
August 18, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Reread Notes from Underground for the first time since I was in Mrs. Wareham’s sophomore English class 33 years ago, and do I ever respect the trust she put in us to engage with that book.
Been this summer for nine years now.
If you're not writing your long book what are you even doing. It's the summer of writing your long book, not the summer of experiencing happiness
I'm going to tell you exactly how to write a book. Do you see that impenetrable brick wall ahead of you? You're going to ram your head into it until long book is long.
July 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Been this summer for nine years now.
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Grape Nuts (holding me back): Whoa whoa whoa, hey man, just let it go! This asshole isn't worth it!
December 4, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Grape Nuts (holding me back): Whoa whoa whoa, hey man, just let it go! This asshole isn't worth it!
Happy 83rd birthday to the first person I realized was left-handed, just like me, and thereby made me feel cool about the whole scissors thing in first grade.
June 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Happy 83rd birthday to the first person I realized was left-handed, just like me, and thereby made me feel cool about the whole scissors thing in first grade.
I’m not saying that a Sundays reunion would fix this sad world, but it’d make it a good sight better.
June 10, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I’m not saying that a Sundays reunion would fix this sad world, but it’d make it a good sight better.
Yeah, I had a podcast in college, but we just called it “a three-hour slot on the campus radio station” back then.
June 5, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Yeah, I had a podcast in college, but we just called it “a three-hour slot on the campus radio station” back then.