A Beloved Violin, Yacht Rock, Roy Haynes, etc.
In which I'll read the news, but not your opinions on said news.
🦋 I am made of blue sky and hard rock and I will live this way forever.
🙏 Rest in peace to Roy Haynes, a drumming monster. Here he is at 94. Never stop playing.
🎻 A stack of 100-year-old photos “led to the discovery of a family treasure hiding in plain sight.” Loved this.
📚 44 books Bob Dylan digs. “Sing in me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story.”
🚍 Jack White is going on tour. If you wanna see him in April, hit me up.
🎶 Would gladly take Miley’s Backyard Sessions on vinyl, but would settle for Spotify. For now, Youtube it is.
🛥️ HBO has released a trailer for The Ringer’s new doc on yacht rock, out just after Thanksgiving. Can’t wait to crank the heat, throw on my Captain’s hat and enjoy a few adult bevs while daydreaming of summer.
Also: I’ve read enough to know the rigid definition of the genre, but here is a Spotify playlist my buddy Arun’s Sonos spit out a few years ago at a party that we’ve been adding to ever since that (at least basically/mostly) fits the bill.
🎥 Buddyhead was one of the first sites I discovered on the Internet. New doc currently in the works by the site/label’s creators and Obey artist Shepard Fairey.
📺 PBS is set to offer local TV streams through Amazon’s Prime Video. I’ve got NBC on Peacock and CBS on Paramount+. If Hulu/Disney can start streaming Fox and ABC, we’ll finally be back to where we were twenty years ago.
📰 A journalist’s approach to reading the news: “I’ll read news, not other people’s reactions to news.” If I could mute all Internet comment sections, I most certainly would.
🧅 The Onion has purchased Infowars with the intention of making it a parody of itself.
🗽 David Copperfield making the Statue of Liberty disappear was a big part of my childhood. Here’s how he did it.
📉 The Pudding analyzes sixty years of pop music’s silly love songs.
🕊️ “Cosmic Birds” soar thru NYC subway stations in Fred Tomaselli’s new mosaics.
😈 Sarah Sherman on Norm McDonald: “He was a little troublemaker. I relate to him because he was never not himself.”
✌️ Later skaters. ‘Til next week, keep that Hoping Machine running.
Love,
Luke
