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Copperdomebodhi
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Just some guy. He/him. Politics, psychology, movies, jazz, but mostly album cover art and the Grateful Dead
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Here's hi-res album cover artwork for Miles Davis' E.S.P. (1965) [2368x2368]. Check next skeet for a helpful link.

That's Davis' then-wife, Frances Taylor Davis posing with him. Back when ugly people could get recording contracts, beautiful women helped sell jazz records. This was one of the ...
Album cover art for Miles Davis' E.S.P. Davis sits with his back to a tree, as if in his back yard. He's wearing a white shirt and has one finger to his lip as he gazes up at his then-wife, Frances Taylor Davis. He has a puzzled look on his face. Ms. Taylor-Davis looks directly at the viewer, as if in disbelief her husband could be confused by their relationship issues .
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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"War's good business, so give your son / but I'd rather have my country die for me," she sings.

A fierce denunciation of the Vietnam war, right? Right - but the second line comes from the "Circe" chapter of Ulysses.
Text from the "Circe" chapter of Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce. It reads: PRIVATE CARR (to Stephen) Say it again. STEPHEN (nervous, friendly, pulls himself up) I understand your point of view though I have no king myself for the moment. This is the age of patent medicines. A discussion is difficult down here. But this is the point. You die for your country. Suppose. (he places his arm on Private Carr's sleeve) Not that I wish it for you. But I say: Let my country die for me. Up to the present it has done so. I didn't want it to die. Damn death. Long live life! The words "Let my country die for me," are underlined, as Grace Slick used them in her 1967 song, "Rejoyce". The picture is taken from page 482 of Hans Gabler's corrected text, 1986 edition. (U., 482, XV, 4466-74)
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Here's the cover for the mono release. BlueSky compresses large images. You can find uncompressed 3502x3502 .jpgs for the stereo cover here: drive.google.com/file/d/1M54J... and the mono cover here: drive.google.com/file/d/1M54J...
Album cover art for Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's" (1967). The cover has broad blue, white and red stripes. There's a row of five stars along the top blue swathe, evoking the American flag. In the broad white area in the middle, we see the Jefferson Airplane - not the band but one of the Haight Ashbury's Victorian homes converted into a triplane, flying over an American landscape of junkyards and billboards. Marijuana plants grow through one of the airplane's windows. The illustration was drawn by Ron Cobb, editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Free Press. He went on to do design work for movies like, "Star Wars," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and "Back to the Future." This is the cover for the mono release, distinguishable by the taller red bar and shorter blue bar.
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Here's high-res album cover art for Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's." Recorded during the Summer of Love, it caught the giddy vibe of young San Franciscans watching a rainbow-colored balloon swell to bursting.

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Album cover art for Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's" (1967). The cover has broad blue, white and red stripes. There's a row of five stars along the top blue swathe, evoking the American flag. In the broad white area in the middle, we see the Jefferson Airplane - not the band but one of the Haight Ashbury's Victorian homes converted into a triplane, flying over an American landscape of junkyards and billboards. Marijuana plants grow through one of the airplane's windows. The illustration was drawn by Ron Cobb, editorial cartoonist for the Los Angeles Free Press. He went on to do design work for movies like, "Star Wars," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," and "Back to the Future." This is the cover for the stereo release, distinguishable by the shorter red bar and taller blue bar.
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The new Dave's Picks, Vol. 56 from the Grateful Dead sounds damn good. Fat bass, clear vocals. Brent takes many actual solos, as opposed to adding color the way he would mostly do later.

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Album cover art for the Grateful Dead's "Dave's Picks, Vol. 56: Rainbow Theater, London, England ۰ 3/20/81 & 3/21/81." A blue dragon with red wings breathes a looping rainbow trail behind her as she flies through a valley of clouds. In the distance are two additional dragons, as well as the upper stories of one of London Bridge's towers peeking through the clouds. Flight time from Cardiff, Wales to London, England is 46 minutes - well-worth it for a band that wouldn't play the UK again until 1990.
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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A true story:
A meme with four images of Disney's Winnie-The-Pooh, titled, "What middle-age is like." Next to an image of Pooh looking curious, a caption reads, "You hear a great 1980s song at the grocery store." Next to an image of Pooh thinking intently, a caption reads, "Was this by Berlin? Flock of Seagull" Next to an image of Pooh looking happy, a caption reads, "Actually, it's a new song by The Weeknd." Next to an image of the "dumb Pooh" meme, which depicts him with buck-teeth and a moronic expression, a caption reads, "Actually, it came out in 2020."
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Screenshot of two texts from "Galactic Snackin' Lena", screenname for Xitter user @z0mbievalentine. The first reads, "Björk and Beck are opposite ends of a spectrum, but I don't know what the spectrum is and I'm scared to find out." The second reads, "Björk was created by ancient deities to beguile mortals and sow chaos, and Beck was spawned fully formed behind a Taco Bell and God can't figure out how to kill him."
October 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Here's hi-res album cover art for 90125. Check next skeet for a useful link.

It's weird that Yes' commercial-sellout album was also one of their best. And it's weird to hear how much prog remains under the MTV sheen. Most songs are under six minutes and started as Trevor Rabin compositions...
Cover art for 90125, an album by Yes. An oval is divided into three colored areas, like a pie chart. A incomplete darker-gray circle with a stem surrounds it. Both suggest the Y in Yes.
September 25, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Watching Arrival (2016).

Wondering why the race with the advanced technology didn't work as hard at learning our language as we worked at learning theirs. #filmsky #moviesky 📽
A meme depicting a scene from Arrival (2016), in which Amy Adams tries to communicate with aliens. A photo of Adams in a hazmat suit holding a sign that reads "human," has been photoshopped to show Samuel L. Jackson holding a sign that reads, "English, mother*ucker do you speak it?"
September 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Duolingo speaking my language. #filmsky #moviesky 📽
Screenshot from the Duolingo app. "Speak this sentence." "Veux-tu aller au cinema ce week-end?" "Nicely done." "Meaning: 'Do you want to go to the cinema this weekend?'"
September 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Hi-res album cover art for Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" (1997). As close as he came to equaling "Blood on the Tracks," & just as much of a divorce album.

Reddit and imgur compress images, which hurts picture quality. There's an uncompressed 2830x2830 .jpg here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ohzJ...
Album cover art for Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" (1997). From a high angle, we have a blurry, sepia-toned view of a scowling Dylan. He holds an acoustic guitar in a dimly-lit recording studio.
September 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Did the Predator find worthy prey? It looks as though the Predator found worthy prey.
A blurb for a news story in "The Guardian," reads, "How Towering Dominance of Bolivia's Socialist Party Came Tumbling Down." In smaller text, it continues, "In strongholds such as El Alto, support for the Mas party that once made Evo Morales Bolivia’s first Indigenous president has ebbed away – leaving it on the brink of extinction" A thumbnail picture shows artist Ramiro Sirpa's statue of science-fiction's The Predator.
August 20, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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If there were quadruple features, "Fitzcarraldo" and "Burden of Dreams" would go with "Apocalypse Now," and "Hearts of Darkness." Filmmakers, jungle rivers, cost overruns, threats from financiers, etc. Coppola said "Hearts of Darkness" should have been called, "Watch Francis Suffer".

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Movie poster for Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" (1979). Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando's faces loom ominously alongside a blood-red sun, over a Vietnam-war river battle. Movie poster for "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" (1991). We see Francis Ford Coppola hovering over Huey helicopters. The advertising line reads, "The Magic and Madness of Making 'Apocalypse Now'."
August 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Slightly diminish a band:

Neurosis
Album cover for Madness's "7"(1981). It shows the seven band members crouching together, pointing their arms outward. Elongated gray text reads "Madness 7" behind them
August 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Re-reading Jaws. 1st time since I was way too young. For a beach read, there's a surprising amount about tensions between the snooty "summer people," and the blue-collar locals who resent their dependence on them. No wonder Castro praised the book's class-consciousness.
Book cover for the fiftieth anniversary edition of Jaws (1974) by Peter Benchley. The artwork shows - oh, come on, we've all seen it so many times! Are you blind? Ohmigod, I'm so sorry - if you're reading this you might be. A blonde woman swims nude across the surface of the water. Below her, a great white shark, mouth bristling with teeth, rises up to attack her. BTW, please don't hate, fear, or hunt great whites. They're just another fish, and they actually run from humans if they understand that's who's in the water.
August 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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My Favorite Doctor and Companion.
Tilda Swinton and John Hurt in a still from "Only Lovers Left Alive" (2013).
August 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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In theory, I'm opposed to horny-shaming. In practice ...
August 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Skeeted about the Grateful Dead's "Steal Your Face" months ago. Didn't include a link to unsquashed album art. There's an uncompressed 3722x3722 .jpg to download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1PEl0...
Hi-res album covert art for the Grateful Dead's "Steal Your Face" (1976). This was a live album with selections from their October, 1974 shows at Winterland, San Francisco, CA. Rick Griffin's cover art shows their iconic skull-and-lightning bolt logo.
July 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Went to see "Twister" for the popcorn. "Who's that playing the hipster doofus?" I wondered. "He's stealing the movie."

Didn't stay for the credits, so I didn't find out until PSH died.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman as Dusty Davies in "Twister" (1996).
July 24, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Alice goes down the rabbit hole because she wants to know why the rabbit has a waistcoat and a pocket watch. She never finds out. She only gets more questions, confusion, insults and accusations.

If anti-intellectuals stopped to think about things, they'd love that.
John Tenniel's illustration of the White Rabbit checking his pocket watch, from, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
July 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature?

What About Bob (1991)
Beau is Afraid (2023)
📽️ #Filmsky
Movie poster for Frank Oz's "What About Bob?" (1991). It shows stars Bill Murray shaking Richard Dreyfuss' hand. In the background, you can see Dreyfuss' shadow choking Murray's shadow. Movie poster for Ari Aster's "Beau is Afraid" (2023). It shows main character Beau four times, at four different stages of his life and the movie.
July 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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... from 3-29-1990 was devoutly wished-for blessing. We couldn't know they'd release the entire show someday.

Seven months later, the band released a full show on CD for the first time. "Without a Net" suddenly seemed a lot less relevant.
A cassette cover for the Grateful Dead's live album, "One From the Vault," which documented their performance at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA on August 13, 1975.
July 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Even if only one song was new since the last live release, it still had sparkling versions of each song. Branford Marsalis sit-in on Eyes of the World...

(BlueSky compresses large images, which hurts picture quality. There's an uncompressed 2818x2818 .jpg here: drive.google.com/file/d/1OElT... )
A publicity photo of the Grateful Dead, taken by Ken Friedman on July 22, 1990. From left: Brent Mydland, Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir. There aren't many photos of Mydland where he looks as happy and relaxed as he does here.
July 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Here's hi-res album cover art for the Grateful Dead's "Without a Net." When this came out in 1990, it felt like a big deal. It was their first live album in nine years - they'd released seven from 1969 to 1981. Two full CDs of the band we young 'uns knew.

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Album cover art for the Grateful Dead's "Without a Net" (1990), a live album with selections from their fall 1989 and spring 1990 tours. Rick Griffin's cover painting is in the style of a circus poster. Skeletons dance along a high wire and fly from trapezes in the background. In the mid-ground, a pair of skeletons dressed as native Americans ride a lion and a tiger through the circus ring to the left, while an fire-eating equestrienne rides a plunging horse on one foot to the right. At the bottom, a clown sticks out his tongue and waggles his fingers from his ears.
July 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Me and the boys heard you was talking shit.
Production still from BBC's "The Young Ones" (1982). From left, Rik Mayall, Christopher Ryan, Nigel Planer and Adrian Edmondson.
July 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM