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Jonathan Lee
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in another life, we were arsonists
Current conditions.
December 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
‘Tis the season…
December 15, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If I would have acted a little quicker I would have gone home with this sunburst edition limited to NC indie stores. Unfortunately, I was late to the game.
December 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Accidental Photo of the Day. Depending upon how they come out, I like to hang on to these every so often.
#Photography
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
It doesn’t get much better than this on a chilly autumn night
December 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This isn’t to say I never heard, “Turn that shit down!” I did but there was no banning of music. My Dad loved country but said Waylon & Willie were “punk country,” not said in a mean spirited way. This calendar hung on my bedroom door for years without a word ever being said. They were cool.
December 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
December 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I heard the news today, oh boy…
45 years ago I was 18, attending my first year of college. I heard the initial report on WQDR before drifting off to sleep. The next morning I woke up to my Dad standing in the doorway of my bedroom confirming the news. The rest of the day remains a blur.
#MusicSky
December 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Since I was able to read Cameron Crowe’s The Uncool in two weeks I believe my level of reading might be back up to where it once was so I grabbed these previously unread books out of storage.
#BookSky
December 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
“The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters
But no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl…”

Everything’s ok. This song just came to mind while waiting for a loved one to have a standard procedure done.
December 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
December 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
This year’s @oxfordamerican.bsky.social Southern Music Issue arrived today along w/ their sampler on vinyl. I’ve only missed 1 issue since ‘98, the 1st not to include a CD but playlists instead. The ‘98 issue, which included an alternate take of a new R.E.M. track is how I 1st heard of the magazine.
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Just finished Cameron Crowe’s most excellent memoir, The Uncool and have just started @katejewell.bsky.social’s Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio.
#BookSky
#MusicSky
#WritingCommunity
November 29, 2025 at 3:29 PM
An EP/single.
November 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How I spent my Thanksgiving vacation.
#EmeraldIsle
#Photography
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Mixtape I made around 1987. A few years ago someone tracked down all the songs they could find & posted it on Spotify.

open.spotify.com/playlist/5Z1...
November 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I’ve seen my name spelled many different ways. This was a new one on me.
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Songwriters that loom large in my world, 5 of them gone within the past 5 years.
#MusicSky

#GuyClark
11/6/41 - 5/17/16

#JohnPrine
10/10/46 - 4/7/20

#JerryJeffWalker
3/16/42 - 10/23/20

#BillyJoeShaver
8/16/39 - 10/28/20

#JimmyBuffett
12/25/46 - 9/1/23

#ToddSnider
10/11/66 - 11/14/25
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Digging right into the live mostly acoustic show that’s part of this new expanded edition of Decoration Day.
#FirstListen
#MusicSky
#DriveByTruckers
November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Getting close to wrapping up Stephen Deusner’s book on Drive-By Truckers, Where the Devil Don’t Stay and am preparing to dive headlong into Cameron Crowe’s memoir, The Uncool. I requested it from my local library roughly a week ago. Much to my surprise, it arrived on Monday.
#BookSky
#MusicSky
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM