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The one photo I remembered to shoot in RAW at the Toronto Zoo yesterday, so I could play with Aphera a little...

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Toronto was a blast. Such a fun city. Went out to dinner last night and wandered around the city for a few hours after. Then went to the zoo with the family today.

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🎢 Crucial Track for today: "2 C U" by Swapmeet β†’

What's your favorite song about friendship?

Maybe not my favorite all time, but my favorite today. This one off the new Swapmeet album, out today and it's pretty good! More coming to the blog soon.

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The main reason I started with RSS/feeds as one of the core features of Crucial Tracks is its beautiful simplicity and flexibility: it can act as a way to follow users, have a live firehose feed, connect to any other...

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Finally saw Dinosaur Jr.

Bucket list βœ…

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🎢 Crucial Track for today: "Hey Ya!" by Outkast β†’

Our village hosted a 90s (ish) cover band and DJ in the little park in front of city hall this evening. The band played a rock version of this Outkast song, so going with this track today.

Outkast was a big part of my college and 20s... I played ATLiens on my college radio show and Stankonia + Speakerboxxx/The Love Below were a big part of my time in Seattle. One of the best hip-hop duos of all time.

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🎢 Crucial Track for today: "Shine" by Doughboys β†’

What song would you dedicate to your younger self?

Spent a good chunk of yesterday trying to remember this band, which I've had a lot of conversations about the last couple years, but for whatever reason it was slipping my mind... anyway, it's a great song and some great lyrics for a teenage kid who's unsure of themself:

Not alone I'm not alone Feel like I'm buried and obscured beneath This non-impressionable I'm not alone I'm not alone I'm like I'm one out of a million faces Bound to your front door And then you call And then you call

Make me feel so bright Make me feel brilliant and so white It's like I shine It's like I shine

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🎢 Crucial Track for today: "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin β†’

What's a song that feels like magic every time you hear it?

I wrote about this album and this song five years ago during the pandemic start of this site:

My favorite Zeppelin song. Absolutely epic in every way. Apparently it was written after a long trip down a straight, seemingly never ending road in the desert of Morocco. We played this song many times on our two cross-country road trips, so it makes total sense. A perfect song for driving. A perfect song.

The entire Physical Graffiti album is magical, but this song is the centerpiece.