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Joel Humann 📎
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jazz bassist and bad academic | un canadien errant à Cambridge UK
new york mets | astrophysics | jazz | with a side order of power pop, opera, and blue jays

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22/1001: Marty Robbins, Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs (1959)
#1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying
It's having quite a revival on TikTok apparently. Kids, if you love your close-harmony cowboy camp on socials just wait until you hear it on vinyl!
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The cover is classic mid-century Western pop: a bright hot-pink background with Marty Robbins front and center, dressed head-to-toe in black cowboy gear — gun belt, boots, the works. He’s frozen mid-stride like he’s about to draw, the whole pose halfway between Hollywood gunslinger and Nashville showman. The typography is bold, blocky, and yellow, shouting GUNFIGHTER BALLADS AND TRAIL SONGS at you. The album is playing on a turntable, and what a fine album it is.
November 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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If anyone knows plantar fasciitis, it’s Texans and their cowboy boots with poor arch support. Nimmo’s in good hands.
November 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Buxton. Yes. Do that thing Stearns #LGM
November 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Also, McNeil needs to go. Bye bye squirrel #LGM
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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I'm reserving judgement on the Nimmo-Semien trade until I see what the outfield will actually look like. #mets #MetSky
November 23, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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A little snapshot of our gig at the festival last week. Sam on fire
#GigLife #Cambridge 🔥
Sam Miles on Instagram: "Soloing over an original of mine called ‘wonky wally’ from a recent gig at the Cambridge Jazz festival - Tim Boniface, @joelhumann, Nathan Hayward and Joe Taylor. #sax #jazz #...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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#NowPlaying Le Trou (1960) A very French prison-break. Freedom is a philosophical problem.
#FilmSky #1001Movies
Le Trou film poster
November 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Callas and Gobbi
Oh 🔥 My 🔥 God 🔥
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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#NowPlaying
Puccini, Tosca | EMI (1953)
Maria Callas · Giuseppe di Stefano · Tito Gobbi
Conductor: Victor d Sabata
EMI catches lightening in a bottle at La Scala in its full postwar renaissance.
#OperaSky
EMI CD with an image of Maria Callas Rear booklet cover
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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A truly Dostoyevskian moment
A four-panel approval/rejection meme. Trump, MTG and Mamdani. The juxtaposition creates an ironic reversal characteristic of Dostoyevskian narrative structures, in which a foolish or narcissistic character inadvertently affirms the moral authority of a wiser, steadier figure.
November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Apparently the politically correct way to say "bribery" and "corruption" now is "leader-to-leader networking" and "personalist foreign policy". Update your lexicons everyone.
November 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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#NowPlaying
Verdi, La traviata (EMI, 1982)
Muti · Scotto · Kraus · Bruson — Philharmonia / Ambrosian Chorus.
Recorded 5–15 July 1980, Kingsway Hall, London.
Prime Scotto and patrician Kraus in one of Muti’s sleek early Verdi sets before taking the reins at La Scala.
#OperaSky #Verdi
CD cover
November 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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#PowerPop Friday
Today's selection: The Lemonheads, It's a Shame About Ray (1992)
#VinylSky #NowPlaying
Lemonheads album playing on a turntable next to a red lava lamp
November 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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#NowPlaying
Monteverdi, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Teldec / Das Alte Werk, 1971)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt & Concentus Musicus Wien | Recorded in Vienna, 1971.
One of the first historically informed Monteverdi operas on record, and quietly revolutionary
#OperaSky #Monteverdi #Harnoncourt
CD cover: image is Odysseus and Calypso from a Greek vase painting c. 425 B.C.
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Friday = Power Pop Day!
Today's selection: Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything? (1972)
Amazing pop craftsmanship by the mad-scientist, home studio hermit, power pop godfather
#PowerPop #VinylSky #NowPlaying
Inner gatefold photo: Rundgren with his home studio gear in a dimly lit room Album cover and record on a turntable Side A Bearsville record label
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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TIL it was the Eye of Agamotto that the jewel thief was after
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Never forget that the Louvre heist reset the timeline.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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21/1001: Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (1959)
#1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying
My high altar. My sacred blue.
Miles Davis LP playing on a turntable next to a red lava lamp. The cover is displayed: a deep, enveloping blue-black field out of which Miles Davis’s face emerges in half-light. The typography is plain, understated: MILES DAVIS / KIND OF BLUE in white and sky blue sans serif at the top.
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Soviet republic of New York takes first key step towards total communism by publicly owning Andrew Cuomo
November 5, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Watching Tatsuya Imai videos on YouTube for "no particular reason". Also, he's also unfortunately represented by Scott Boras
November 3, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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20/1001: Ray Charles, The Genius of Ray Charles (1959)
#1001Albums #VinylSky #NowPlaying
Side A: Quincy Jones big band arrangements = 🔥
Side B: Ralph Burns orchestral arrangements = 💔
Album cover is a classic Atlantic 1950s design: Ray Charles in profile at the piano mid-performance, wearing dark sunglasses and a suit. Record playing on a turntable. Classic Atlantic label.
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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#NowPlaying
Verdi, Rigoletto (Deutsche Grammophon, 1980)
Giulini & the Wiener Philharmoniker | Cappuccilli · Domingo · Cotrubas · Ghiaurov · Obraztsova | Recorded at Musikverein, Vienna, 1979.
#OperaSky #Verdi #Giulini
CD box and booklet cover is predominantly black. A central photograph shows Rigoletto kneeling on stage, spotlighted.
November 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I love for everyone that this is now the baseball app
November 2, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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a woodcut of a bird above the text "I am sad from sports"
October 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Oh my god it's f*cking hotstove with Stearns season now. Dammit. Why did this game have to end? #MetsSky
November 2, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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dog drinking coffee house on fire this is fine etc.
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM