John Hughes
@mediazure.bsky.social
TechnoEmeritus | Audiophile Nut | Hi-Rez Music | AI Wanderer | PRO: Startups-Series B | AGAINST: Social Media Grift, Alpha Grind Culture | https://linktr.ee/johnhs
Thanksgiving terpitude! This is one reason past Thanksgivings were so fraught with conflict. Kids don't mix THC and Triptophan!
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Thanksgiving terpitude! This is one reason past Thanksgivings were so fraught with conflict. Kids don't mix THC and Triptophan!
Santana Abraxas? YES PLEASE! The best digital release by far is the 2020 Japanese Sony Quadraphonic SACD release. Recreates the energy, scale, sheer power and vibrancy of the original vinyl! I have stereo DSD rips and its my go to when I set my stereo to 11 to be overtaken by a wall of sound.
October 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Santana Abraxas? YES PLEASE! The best digital release by far is the 2020 Japanese Sony Quadraphonic SACD release. Recreates the energy, scale, sheer power and vibrancy of the original vinyl! I have stereo DSD rips and its my go to when I set my stereo to 11 to be overtaken by a wall of sound.
Here's an article I jibe with completely. I love dressing in strong colors and patterns. When I dress without color for a few days, I get noticeably depressed. This has always been a balancing act professionally.
open.substack.com/pub/serenity...
open.substack.com/pub/serenity...
Dressing as Practice
On Authenticity and Presence in Professional Life
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Here's an article I jibe with completely. I love dressing in strong colors and patterns. When I dress without color for a few days, I get noticeably depressed. This has always been a balancing act professionally.
open.substack.com/pub/serenity...
open.substack.com/pub/serenity...
Just a reminder, Beverly Sutphin advises - No White Shoes After Labor Day! Or Else... Patty Hearst learned her lesson. Will You?
September 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Just a reminder, Beverly Sutphin advises - No White Shoes After Labor Day! Or Else... Patty Hearst learned her lesson. Will You?
@bennjordan.bsky.social aka The Flashbulb has released a new album - Papillon! Wow this work really tickles my brain like champagne. Sliding around different grooves with a consistent micro rhythm all over. He feels like neurodivergent kindred. Really warm, smooth and deep sound quality too.
August 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
@bennjordan.bsky.social aka The Flashbulb has released a new album - Papillon! Wow this work really tickles my brain like champagne. Sliding around different grooves with a consistent micro rhythm all over. He feels like neurodivergent kindred. Really warm, smooth and deep sound quality too.
This just screams Me Toooooo, like getting your best friend's brother's mohawk in August when summers almost over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/me...
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/me...
Elon Musk launches Macrohard, an AI‑only software company to rival Microsoft
Tesla's CEO wants to build an AI software company to take on Microsoft.
www.windowscentral.com
August 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
This just screams Me Toooooo, like getting your best friend's brother's mohawk in August when summers almost over.
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/me...
www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/me...
Are you Headphone Curious? Tomorrow we host a Zoom event at 6pm PST that investigates all the ways to do the headphone thing! Event is free, but registration is required before start time.
audiophilefoundation.org/content.aspx...
audiophilefoundation.org/content.aspx...
August 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Are you Headphone Curious? Tomorrow we host a Zoom event at 6pm PST that investigates all the ways to do the headphone thing! Event is free, but registration is required before start time.
audiophilefoundation.org/content.aspx...
audiophilefoundation.org/content.aspx...
How have I not heard Radio Paradise before?? Its an independent online radio station with many channels of beautifully curated music that you can stream in lossless Flac format. You get it through Roon and other streaming platforms too. I'm donating to support today.
radioparadise.com/home
radioparadise.com/home
An eclectic musical adventure...
Radio Paradise streams highly curated, eclectic mixes of music -- chosen by real humans -- with unparalleled audio quality.
radioparadise.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
How have I not heard Radio Paradise before?? Its an independent online radio station with many channels of beautifully curated music that you can stream in lossless Flac format. You get it through Roon and other streaming platforms too. I'm donating to support today.
radioparadise.com/home
radioparadise.com/home
Reposted by John Hughes
From a more gullible and sillier time.
August 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
From a more gullible and sillier time.
My Saturday morning cuppa + some Mexican Bolero. Transports me to a different time and place!
July 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
My Saturday morning cuppa + some Mexican Bolero. Transports me to a different time and place!
Frans Hals captures perfectly how I feel about the Big Beautiful Bill
July 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Frans Hals captures perfectly how I feel about the Big Beautiful Bill
A topic I am passionate about: replacing materials that drain the earth of resources, and cause pollution with MUSHROOMS!! Fanatical Fungal Friend here!!
Why Mushrooms are Starting to Replace Everything
YouTube video by Undecided with Matt Ferrell
youtu.be
June 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
A topic I am passionate about: replacing materials that drain the earth of resources, and cause pollution with MUSHROOMS!! Fanatical Fungal Friend here!!
And I've found my first real example of AI Slop - Dead Internet Theory in motion, in my Facebook Feed. The AI unintentionally makes a joke about itself, it has layers...
May 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
And I've found my first real example of AI Slop - Dead Internet Theory in motion, in my Facebook Feed. The AI unintentionally makes a joke about itself, it has layers...
Deepest thought for the day...
May 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Deepest thought for the day...
Just discovered a silly fun surf album from 1964. The Tornadoes: Bustin' Surfboards. Up your serotonin! One song was part of the Pulp Fiction Soundtrack. Listen on Qobuz:
open.qobuz.com/album/ydn4a4...
open.qobuz.com/album/ydn4a4...
Bustin' Surfboards
YouTube video by The Tornadoes - Topic
www.youtube.com
May 2, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Just discovered a silly fun surf album from 1964. The Tornadoes: Bustin' Surfboards. Up your serotonin! One song was part of the Pulp Fiction Soundtrack. Listen on Qobuz:
open.qobuz.com/album/ydn4a4...
open.qobuz.com/album/ydn4a4...
If you like your artists to be mostly without artifice, carefree, and brimming with heart, @dadimakesmusic.bsky.social is your Icelandic avatar. Loving latest: I Don't Wanna Talk. Moulting his chrysalis of ten years of hair growth, I can't wait for his new album to drop!
youtu.be/tKolNVrRKfs?...
youtu.be/tKolNVrRKfs?...
Daði Freyr - I Don't Wanna Talk
YouTube video by Daði Freyr
youtu.be
April 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
If you like your artists to be mostly without artifice, carefree, and brimming with heart, @dadimakesmusic.bsky.social is your Icelandic avatar. Loving latest: I Don't Wanna Talk. Moulting his chrysalis of ten years of hair growth, I can't wait for his new album to drop!
youtu.be/tKolNVrRKfs?...
youtu.be/tKolNVrRKfs?...
Discovered a new Pianist, Ran Jia, playing some wonderful Mozart pieces. Amazingly technical and artistic, fulsome and fluid, with a strong left hand presence. More Rudolf Serkin than Alfred Brendel. The Fantasia is my favorite piece. The recording is superb with weighty depths and airy ambiance.
Mozart: Piano Sonatas K. 281, K. 284, K. 310 & Fantasia K. 475, Ran Jia - Qobuz
Listen to unlimited or download Mozart: Piano Sonatas K. 281, K. 284, K. 310 & Fantasia K. 475 by Ran Jia in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscription from £10.83/month.
www.qobuz.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Discovered a new Pianist, Ran Jia, playing some wonderful Mozart pieces. Amazingly technical and artistic, fulsome and fluid, with a strong left hand presence. More Rudolf Serkin than Alfred Brendel. The Fantasia is my favorite piece. The recording is superb with weighty depths and airy ambiance.
Another Beautific cover from Avie Sheck and his mother. This time Coldplay's Yellow.
Mom & I Cover Yellow - Coldplay (she's a Classical Indian Singer 🕉️) #yellow #coldplay #spring
YouTube video by Avie Sheck
youtu.be
April 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Another Beautific cover from Avie Sheck and his mother. This time Coldplay's Yellow.
It's a fun day, this April Fools. Here's an archive of all the best pranks throughout history!
April Fool Archive
The history and folklore of April Fools Day
hoaxes.org
April 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
It's a fun day, this April Fools. Here's an archive of all the best pranks throughout history!
Dear Substack. I do not want to read long form articles on my phone, it is harder to fully digest them in that format, and harder on my eyes. More and more you are forcing me to use your "app" to read articles. I suspect you just want to mine my identity for more information to sell to Big Data.
March 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Dear Substack. I do not want to read long form articles on my phone, it is harder to fully digest them in that format, and harder on my eyes. More and more you are forcing me to use your "app" to read articles. I suspect you just want to mine my identity for more information to sell to Big Data.
REST IN POWER Roberta Flack. She has been the one of the most influential musicians in my life. From her First Take she was a Quiet Fire that fanned revolution and resistance. The melancholy romance and trials of love in her music got me through some very hard times. Music in replies.
February 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
REST IN POWER Roberta Flack. She has been the one of the most influential musicians in my life. From her First Take she was a Quiet Fire that fanned revolution and resistance. The melancholy romance and trials of love in her music got me through some very hard times. Music in replies.
These days, Cher a very limited, monochromatic ghost of a meme. I watched this old show today and remembered being a child watching her on TV. I didn't understand anything that was going on, but loved the sparkly colorful costumes, headdresses, sets, and good times.
The Very First Episode of the Cher Show Featuring Elton John, Bette Midler, and More (02/12/1975)
YouTube video by Cher
youtu.be
February 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
These days, Cher a very limited, monochromatic ghost of a meme. I watched this old show today and remembered being a child watching her on TV. I didn't understand anything that was going on, but loved the sparkly colorful costumes, headdresses, sets, and good times.