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StrangerInKY
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Former developer, current pen turner.
October 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Day 5: Motive

"This Letter" / Belle and Sebastian

Words will never hurt you if the motive's clear
All I want for you is joy and peaceful love
Who you get it from is not my main concern

www.youtube.com/watch?v=weOQ...
July 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Day 28

Have drawn a blank all month thinking about the final three prompts for this challenge, so I'll end early.

Did make me think of this, though:
June 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Day 25: Indie

"Apple Cider" / Beabadoobee

Released on British indie label Dirty Hit, Ltd. The first verse in this song is one of my newest favorites. The delivery is perfectly believable.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=laDn...
June 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Thanks to Sita and Pops!

Day 31: Untitled by Kusama Yayoi

An infinity room installation was here recently and I somehow managed not to go (buff.ly/bcTq9y1 ). Inexcusable, really.

Reading her bio led me here: "Lithium Flower" / Kanno Yoko

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May 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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May 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Day 30: Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (Whistler's Mother) / James McNeil Whistler

Upon review, it turns out I really only like two songs that contain whistling: "The Stranger," and this one.

"5 Years Time" / Noah and the Whale

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May 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Day 29: Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)/de Lempicka

Car is actually right-hand drive. I like to think it's flipped, like a 1929 selfie.

"Believer"/Supergrass

Drive through town in a left-hand drive
Cross the streets to the other side
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May 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Day 28: The Sleeping Gypsy / Henri Rousseau

In 1996, this painting had special visitors at MoMA, who apparently did not notice The Starry Night hanging next to it.

"Theme from Sesame Street" covered by Sendii

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May 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Day 27: The Swing/Fragonard

It has been said the entirety of the French Revolution was predicted by this painting.

"Troublemaker Doppelgänger"/Lucy Dacus

She grew up as the pretty young thing
Let them look up her skirt on the backyard swing

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May 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Day 26: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte / Seurat

The woman in the foreground is walking a monkey. 1880s Paris must have been an interesting place.

"Point of Collapse" / Wire

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUSq...
May 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Day 25: The Night Watch / Rembrandt

"Amsterdam" appears 14 times on the Wikipedia page for this painting.

I posted Guster's "Amsterdam" recently for #MusicPlaces, so today how about a night song by a band from Amsterdam..

"Goodnight" / Nits

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May 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Day 24: The Kiss/Klimt

I have a print of Lady with a Fan, Klimt's last painting, hanging in my dining room, but I have never liked this one.

"Perfect Kiss (Substance Edit)"/NO

Now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXMw...
May 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Day 23: Two Brothers and a Sister of the Artist / Sofonisba Anguissola

This one was tricky. Went for the obvious.

"River Deep, Mountain High" / Erasure

When you were a young boy
Did you have a puppy
That always followed you around?

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May 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Day 22: Girl with a Pearl Earring/Jan Vermeer

Considered this song for The Starry Night, and it has been stuck in my head.

"Vincent Van Gogh"/Jonathan Richman

And in the museum, what have we here?
The most soulful painter since Jan Vermeer

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May 21, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Day 21: The Scream / Edvard Munch

One possible inspiration for the sky here is nacreous clouds, which are pearlescent and common in Munch's home of Norway ( buff.ly/BPiOzMv ).

"Pearl" / Chapterhouse
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Difficulty: Can't use this song tomorrow.
May 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Day 20: Impression, Sunrise / Claude Monet

This painting was stolen from the Musée Marmottan Monet the same year that New Order's Low Life was released.

"Sunrise" / New Order

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VAn...
May 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Day 19: American Gothic / Grant Wood

“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa,” [Wood] famously said. ( buff.ly/k8hwmtp )

"Iowa Chill" from the soundtrack to Country, by Windham Hill artists

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May 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Day 18: Princezna Hyacinta / Alphonse Mucha

"A convincing case could be made that Alphonse Mucha is the greatest artist to be represented on original picture postcards." ( buff.ly/8rhWdxH )

"Postcard from Texas" / Disappear Fear

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May 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Day 17: The Mona Lisa / Da Vinci

The Ken Burns documentary series about Leonardo is, of course, excellent.

"Uncertain Smile" / The The

Jools Holland's improvised one take piano outro here is one of my favorite things.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bEr...
May 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Day 16: In the Garden at Maurecourt/Berthe Morisot

Subjects are likely Morisot's daughter and one of her sister's daughters.

"Two Kinds of Happinness"/The Strokes

One has nothing to do with the other
And the world is all cousins not brothers

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May 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Day 15: The Persistence of Memory / Salvador Dali

When I saw this painting in person I was surprised how tiny it is.

"Time's Up" / Saga

I spend half of each day just eyeing the clock
And dream of all the things I'd like to do

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTmA...
May 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Day 14: The Birth of Venus / Botticelli

"Love is Colder than Death" / Erasure

Go and dance with the moon tonight
The starlight to serenade you
Venus, the goddess of love
Love for all, love for all
All eternity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgoN...
May 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Day 13: Abstract Climates / Helen Frankenthaler

"Colour Fields" / Elbow

Gathered in by a waiting troop of the openhearted
Where colour field meets canvas
And the picture breathes you in
Where all the stories meant for you have already started
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May 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Day 12 Guernica / Pablo Picasso

"Spanish Bombs" / The Clash

Trenches full of poets...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul0u...
May 11, 2025 at 9:14 PM