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Charlie (cblaze) 💿🎥🎨🖌️❤️🕹️
@cblaze.bsky.social
I like to draw. I like music. I like some shows, movies and video games. Pretty much a modern Renaissance man… so there’s that.
2025 was a year of musical reawakening for me. I thought I heard everything that spoke to me musically, and I was in a rut listening to the same old stuff.

Turns out what spoke to me musically changed languages… Pop Italia & Pop en Espanol dominated my ears

#AppleMusicReplay #AppleMusic
January 3, 2026 at 5:13 PM
You say to not watch your back catalogue, yet here we are… 😅 @memoriamatters.bsky.social

@anyaustin.bsky.social YouTube did the math, margin of error: many trees.
December 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Visited a used CD shop, the teens shopping reminded me of me and my friends back in the day…

They had some mild takes though (probably what reminded me most 😂). They dogged STP for some reason, as I stood a foot away feeling attacked 😜

Happy holidays everyone! #sketchbook #drawing #musicsky
December 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
First time since I restarted my CD collection that I got one of these folder disc cases…

It’s neat, but no idea how to shelve it along with her discography. I don’t mind having to “display” it as it is fuoco! 😉

#CDSky #CDCollection #MusicSky #PopItalia #ItalianPop #Annalisa #MusicCollection
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Happy with my B2G1 haul from Disc Replay, along with Garbage and an Napa Valley CD shelf (not pictured) from the Antique Mall

Physical Media Forever!

#CDSky #CDCollecting #musicsky #CDs #CDCollector
September 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Still here, still drawing music artists at lunch time… also practicing and preparing for my first YouTube video 😬 details coming if anyone is interested…

#sketchbook #restingsketchface #musicsky #drawing #drawingmusicians
July 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Went to the antique mall yesterday and got 7 CD’s and something I’ve wanted since childhood for $26… Total!!

#PeeWeeHerman #vintage #CDSky #MusicSky #AntiqueMallHaul
May 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Finally!! Shipping and customs be damned!! On Cinco de Mayo too!

Love this album! Physical media forever!!

#CDSky #musicsky
May 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Missed taking a picture of yesterday’s progress, but here’s today. Probably as far as I go with this page.

I started a larger 10x10 sketchbook to redo every month. More page, less compression - better drawing? Maybe? 🤞🏻

Still learning, and happy with my progress!

#musicsky #drawing #sketchbook
April 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Showed my progress to my girlfriend and she said “trying to figure out if her head isn’t aligned with her shoulders” … Yeah, I’ve been trying to ignoring that... Haha!

Still learning, still happy with it! #musicsky #drawing #sketchbook
April 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Wasn’t expecting Autumn, but makes sense. She’s got lots of experience getting her life in order via Hallmark movies!

Step one, go back to your hometown and maybe run into that special someone from years past … cured!
April 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is how far I got today, really happy with how well I managed to do considering my poor mental state

I messed up Conan Gray, but he’s still fabulous no matter how poorly I draw! Despite that, I see growth in my work!

*I sketch during lunch break - this is 2-days

#drawing #musicsky #sketchbook
April 17, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I’ve been using my Top 5 most played to create a page in my sketchbook for the month.

January went okay, but I had a limited color palette and should have waited.

I like my February spread, but it’s kinda basic.

March gave me a crisis of confidence but the rough has me hopeful! #drawing #musicsky
April 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I honestly couldn’t find anything that I was too excited to buy, but wanted to kind of mark the occasion. The prices never really changed, not that my poor ass could afford to buy anything.

I found a George Harrison remaster, that sounded worthwhile.
April 1, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Latest Bull Moose order has arrived! Two new releases and a special order… Physical Media forever!

- My Morning Jacket ‘Is’
- Elsa Y Elmar ‘Ya No Somos Los Mismos’
- Japanese Breakfast ‘For Melancholy Brunettes’

#MusicSky #CDSky #CDCollection #PhysicalMedia
March 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Excited for some new releases in the mail, but in the meantime I picked up Aiello’s ‘Romantico’ and Japanese Breakfast ‘Jubilee’ to add to my collection

Physical media forever!

#CDSky #MusicSky #PhyscialMedia
March 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Friday I stopped by a local used record shop and came away happy with my finds!

It’s interesting how the selection has changed/has not changed since I used to shop for used CD’s with my friend(s) back 20-something years ago.

#MusicSky #CDSky #PhysicalMedia #CDMusic
March 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
My favorite album from last year is Giorni Felici by LRDL

I don’t speak Italian but I don’t care - every song is fun and I try to sing along anyway! Got a 90’s rock edge but it’s danceable!

I keep it in the plastic wrap it came in to “protect” it 😂

#cdsky #drawing #colorpencil #LRDL #sketchbook
March 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I spent a long weekend getting reacquainted with some old friends. I still have my CD collection and found my old Kenwood portable.

Don’t know if it still works, but the fancy new Denon I bought for my birthday does! Sounds heavenly too! Physical media forever! #sketchbook #drawing
February 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
January 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I drew more fish at lunch today. But I don’t want to post fish 2 days in a row. Tomorrow everyone will expect more fish! Before you know it, I’m the fish guy!

That’s too much pressure!

Here’s a drawing of a German Octopus and an American Frog - NOT FISH!
#sketchbook #inkdrawing #drawing #NotFish
January 23, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Today at lunch, fish! I am trying to learn how color works for me. Fish seem like a good enough subject for the colors I have with me and a fun simple design.

Markers first: outline and shapes. Fineliners last: details over the color looks best. Keep practicing. #sketchbook #drawing #inkdrawing
January 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I try to stay away from my phone and devices as much as I can over the weekends, with varying degrees of success…

I have this guy in a pocket sketchbook, it’s one of my favorite books to flip through and I did them at lunch… I did some good work in it! #sketchbook #drawing #inkdrawing
January 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Had a good run in my early 2024 sketchbook. I used some pictures from my phone and a travel magazine to play with some new markers and framing compositions, to get more of a full picture instead of my usual thing on a blank page by itself…

#sketchbook #drawing #inkdrawing
January 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My coworker caught me at lunch sketching and asked to see and I’m thinking “but I know you!” Ha!

Here we go internet, another sketchbook page! It’s a monochromatic version of a Bing homepage… Yeah, it’s hard to find inspiration sometimes…
#sketchbook #drawing
January 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM