murray jason

saucer@mastodon.social

Team lead for a small, creative tech-writing experiment. Music fan. You can see stuff I like or am curious about at <a href="https://bandcamp.com/saucer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://bandcamp.com/saucer</a> (even though I now use Qobuz or Apple Music most of the time because their streaming players sound much better and they’re not anti worker, as far as I know)Pretty serious about meditation and pretty crap at it.Profile pic: a Tibetan Terrier puppy who was named Linnie.Header pic: green area at work before the sun comes up

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Post #1542261
gather children, it’s a storytime vortex at Listening Club this week so get your cocoa, snuggle up… …and lose yourself in a magical swirl of storyarcs …Sunday, 8 pm BST, here on the hashtag, mix posted on the blog before… https://thelisteningclub.blogspot.com but no! said vortex can never come to pass without the foretold harvest of musical picks that, each in its own way, tells a tale and lo, the upload link https://saucer.app.box.com/f/f7020c6958f447418bd967d99e759033 click no later t...
Post #1079434
That last song, like a bunch of that lot, is incredible in terms of synesthestic beauty #listeningClub
Post #1079433
they might not be here this evening so let’s thank @JimMcCauley for that perfectly apt pair of tracks from Julian Cope and Bill Drummond #listeningClub #nameDroppersVortex
Post #1079432
this is P aka Gibby Haynes and friends (including Johnny Dep) with Michael Stipe #nameDroppersVortex #listeningClub
Post #1079431
by the way i must thank @ogili for one of the very best vortex themes (as evidenced by the effing amazing selections contributed) in my time with #listeningClub
Post #1079430
classic Modern Lovers from their first album, with their tribute to the nonasshole Pablo Picssso #nameDroppersVortex #listeningClub
Post #1079429
god bless Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell for continuing rational analysis of the trump cataclysm but rational analysis has no purchase on psychotic process to the many of us who learned this as children, I expect the current conversation is violently nostalgic
Post #1079428
howdy ho #listeningClub
Post #1079427
not yet hearing any cow, country, or punk, so the labeling from the day seems rather curious #listeningClub
Post #769340
this (the previous?) track’s electronic musicality is (was?) extremely tasty #listeningClub
Post #769339
when someone into (what many consider) all manner of nonpop recommends some pop, i pay attention. hello there #listeningClub
Post #769337
coming up in a week, the March 2026 vortex with a so far undefined theme #listeningClub
Post #769336
vortex candidates so far for March (changes welcome and I&#39;ll edit this) Covers Songs that refer to other songs or artists (or self references?) Spring et al Anniversary/eternal return/cycle completion #listeningClub
Post #769335
feedback seems enthusiastic about @ogili&#39;s idea for a references vortex #listeningClub
Post #769333
The upload folder for the Listening Club March 2026 Name Drops Vortex is ready: https://saucer.app.box.com/f/6b55a111e7a048198891a2effaad00a7 Submissions accepted until 8 pm BST on Saturday the 28th, for playback starting same time on the 29th Impress me #listeningClub
Post #769332
Ai Weiwei on the Leading podcast for 22 March 2026: Unfortunately, we have happiness and we have sadnesses, both human emotions. I&#39;m living in a period of time, and in a location, [where] I see those tragic sadnesses, relating to individuals, very often being not to talk about. So as an artist, or not an artist, as a human being, I will think I have to protect my integrity. [1,
Post #606478
what do we have here #listeningClub
Post #606476
with the apparent obscurity of this, curious if there&#39;s a Messthetics something or other with this band https://www.discogs.com/label/507785-Messthetics #listeningClub
Post #606475
food’s not so good in sf bay? rude #listeningClub
Post #606474
this chaos is a sign of trump’s psychosis. state department says americans must evacuate the persian gulf countries, and all the airspace is closed.
Post #606473
Kash Patel and the rest of the fucking Trump clown car are an embarrassment to evolution
Post #606472
Holy Christ someone buy this Karoline Leavitt pinhead a dictionary
Post #606470
hello! #listeningClub
Post #606468
didn&#39;t say much today but have really enjoyed this album. the retroactive pseudogenre that comes to mind for me is post 2000s hip-hop Canterbury prog #listeningClub