All The City Lights

And by the way, this song would qualify for next month's 5 Cover Songs theme: #5CoverSongsTrick. The trick is to post a cover that significantly reinterprets the original. The treat, as always, will be sampling and reveling in all the wide-ranging music that you all share over five days!

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 27 - “ ‘I am the Bahum Bug,’ it declared.” - from The Haunted Tea Cosy "The Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now," The Flaming Lips youtu.be/wM23ynZhDic?... (Of course, you really ought to play the 4 constituent tracks simultaneously from 4 separate speakers.)

Did someone request black cat photos for some sort of (U.K.?) #BlackCatDay? Here you go: the Sweetheart and the Asshole, presented for you appreciation. 🐈‍⬛

Why is my AC Transit bus always cancelled? -- by @bryanculbertson.com www.seamlessbayarea.org/blog/2026/10...

#readandplay (838) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶 Fran Lebowitz, American essayist/satirist/cultural critic, #botd in 1950.

And here's a song about this very town and cold-blooded murder that goes on my Halloween playlist every year.

#5CoverSongsTrick #MusicChallenge Day 1 "Creep," Scala & Kolacny Brothers (covering Radiohead) You probably remember watching THE SOCIAL NETWORK trailer and saying to yourself, "Huh, that sounds like a Belgian women's choir reinterpreting an alt-rock anthem as a gorgeous choral anthem."

In just a matter of hours #5CoverSongsTrick will be unleashed upon this here cyber neighborhood! Come join us in passing our aural shenanigans, that’ll learn these meddling kids #MusicChallenge #MusicSky

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 26 - “Passing Letters”- from Mystery! for PBS "Letter Read," Rachael Yamagata youtu.be/EApIwXGtlNM?... Or ... letter red? I'm trying here. Haven't listened to this song in ages. Nice to be reminded of it.

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 25 - “At twilight objects often start to make odd sounds and fall apart.” - from Verse Advice "Civil Twilight," The Weakerthans youtu.be/7QshZzktPv0?... "...but this part of the day bewilders me."

I say this with some affection for an aging venue & the good souls who live there, but if McMorran Arena in Port Huron is the best that Trump can do, then his rally game really has tanked. This is where B-list country stars performed 20 years ago, plus it's deep-red, safe, inconsequential territory.

#CountryRockSunday "Mama Tried," The Everly Brothers (1968) Ah, those wonderful close harmonies applied to some Haggard. My extensive research (30 sec. on Wikipedia) informs me that upon its release Rolling Stone declared ROOTS a prime example of "the so-called country revival now sweeping rock."

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 24 - The Disrespectful Summons "Up Jumped the Devil," Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds youtu.be/T5YYqkCEhJA?...

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 23 - “At times it would tear out whole chapters from books. Or put roomfuls of pictures askew on their hooks.” - from The Doubtful Guest "Go Away," Weezer youtu.be/kKgvXOGTKMQ?...

#readandplay (834) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶 (Today is the day I realized the singular of graffiti is technically graffito.)

I wrote a bike story aimed at drivers — on why I think more bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure can be a win-win. Gift link 🎁 for anyone still on the fence about Sunset Dunes www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Once again, complaining to the writers that this metaphor is a little too on the nose.

It’s time for a midweek mood check! Use a vid, pic, or GIF to share how you’re feeling today 🖤

Love this GOP midterm strategy of laundering a claim about the Dem candidate lying about some personal happenstance from 30-40 years ago, not bothering to figure out whether there is relatively easily obtainable evidence showing your claim is false, and telling voters not to trust liars.

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 21 - “Print or Perish” - for Print Magazine A reference to the saying about academic research, right? Struggled, then remembered Tom. "Lobachevsky," Tom Lehrer tomlehrersongs.com/lobachevsky/ "Plagiarize! Only be sure always to call it please 'research.'"

Still hoping to add several more. I have a lot of additional tunes from 1988 that I love, but I won't nominate an album unless I've listened to the full thing at least once in my life. Tune in the Powerpoint Party to hear me explain why Beetlejuice, The Bears & ДДТ deserve your consideration.

Perhaps this mutual aid could be funded by federal taxes and there could even be some sort of federal agency to manage its distribution, led by civil servants with expertise in emergency management?

#readandplay (832) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MudicChallenge Day 19 - “On Fridays Emblus played the flute; The bird now joined him on a lute.” - from The Osbick Bird “Join Together,” The Who youtu.be/_HDMCCLlGl4?... And I’m now imagining Roger Daltry addressing this to a long-legged, lute-playing bird. Big improvement!

Yeah, absolutely I denounce the Groovy Brother Hoodie.

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 18 - “They lived in a house covered with roses on the edge of a marsh.” - from The Deranged Cousins "Rugged Roses," The Gourds youtu.be/RmwCQSQSa1E?...

I fell off the #CountryRockSunday boat for a few weeks, but I’m back! In a chronological playlist, there’s gonna be a lot of Gram Parsons at the top. Within 5 months(!) of International Submarine Band’s debut, he’d taken The Byrds from jangle to twang. “You Ain’t Going Nowhere,” The Byrds (1968)

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 17 - Antiquarian Cat Reading, from The Edward Gorey House Trust "The Book," Sheryl Crow youtu.be/DWpkwheLPso?... Now I'm imagining this song being sung by that cat. I can't believe the author would betray that poor, goofy cat like that!

#readandplay (830) #MusicChallenge #MusicSky “No rules. The only limit is our imagination.” Read 📚 & Play🎶

I dunno man, roving government death squads doesn’t sound very safe to me!

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 16 - Gathering the Suspects, from The Awdrey-Gore Legacy "Everybody's Here," Brad Paisley youtu.be/i6yw8MoFxlo?...

#EdwardGoreyMusic #MusicChallenge Day 15 - “You are not able to catch me.” - from The Grand Passion & Amphigorey II "Coquet Coquette," of Montreal youtu.be/V8fh9g_40eA?...

We’ve all grown numb and cynical but Trump’s corruption is completely unprecedented in American history. Also this would have ended any other administration and it barely makes the news cycle now.