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Ryley walker

@ryleywalker

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KATY THE KYNG SELFIES OF YOU 6.28 street date LP ON SALE NOW PRE-ORDER
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@ryleywalker
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I'm ryley and I'm a gnarly drug addict/alcoholic of the hopeless variety, and I'm celebrating 5 years clean and sober. Grateful to God, family, friends, and wonderful recovery community.
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MUCH better. You all knew I went buck so I owe it to say back on track. Closer than ever to higher power and the homies and have a lot of gratitude. And I have the American analog set boxset (best band) got it good. This acct will be just gig posts run by mgr man. I'm out! Peace!
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met trish when broadcast opened for atlas sound. was trying to be cool and said "can tell you're influenced by cluster" she said "no not really. i don't know why you would think that" then i tried to give bradford cox a mixtape and i dropped it on the ground and shattered it
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One of the top 5 albums of the 2000s, maybe of all time
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Guy wearing an in rainbows shirt doing one bump and cornering you in a strangers kitchen at 3am talking about the solo John Frusciante albums
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guitar center acoustic room should be cigs inside
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me and michael hurley. flaming lips playing behind us. before we took photo he said "what the fuck is this bullshit im seeing on stage?" about flaming lips. and he also looks dead in this photo. just a great memory.
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Franz Ferdinand "take me out" playing in the restaurant. part of the song where the intro slows down and fades into the main riff, friends eyes got wide and yelled "come on. for fucks sake"
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@ryleywalker
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Just got 2 play riddim gtr with Dino jr on "kracked" hehe I'm fucking tweaking man so sick
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@ryleywalker
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Years ago idk who somebody gave me Isaac Brock's phone number finally got the balls to text him
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Jeremih was in my poetry class at Columbia College and his final presentation was the lyrics to "Birthday Sex". It was a night class and he was wearing shades inside while reciting them I played him Aphex SAW 85-92 on my headphones and he took them off and shook his head no
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ethan !!!
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share a piece of lore about yourself
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Bands who took me out: Cloud Nothings Steve Gunn Amen Dunes Drive By Truckers Michael Chapman Black Mountain Kurt Vile Wrekmeister Harmonies Kevin Morby Calexico Strand Of Oaks Daniel Bachman Jessica Pratt Jose Gonzalez Dinosaur Jr Andrew Bird Destroyer Deer Tick Richard T
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Thank u for genuine concern and reaching out the world is a pretty nice place tbh and I feel more in touch than I have in a long time. Appreciate you and you and whoever else was like "damn man I gotta tell him it's gonna be okay" seriously appreciated. Peace for real.
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@ryleywalker
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You used to be able to use this site and fuck with David Crosby
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@ryleywalker
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If you ran student radio at a C list university in '95, got kicked out for withdrawing too many courses, then moved to a major city to start a band who got signed, but then were dropped because your label merged with a big 5, and now you bartend- I want to buy your CD collection.
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The one urban outfitters core 08 ass album I'll go to bat for. No skips. Insane album art. M83 "Saturdays = Youth"
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On my way to buy some CDs
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@ryleywalker
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I'm a corn dog but I still get giddy at 35 years old walking by physical graffiti building on the way to work every day. Not lost on me 😎 16 year old me would have thrown his surge in your face if you said "one day, you're gonna see the building every day" life good
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Done blasting cigs Cig blasting 2007-2024
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Dark horse best YLT I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
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premiere of my TV show produced by Duplass bros. Funny travels/interviews. pilot w my all time hero Bridget St. John. won't be there. I'm good on SXSW. don't wanna do bumps of stepped on coke w booking agent who lies about being friends w schoolboy q
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@ryleywalker
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final tour. I like having a regular job and seeing my friends. UK/Belgium/Netherlands/Germany/Italy/Portugal. No more van. No more load ins. No more "reverb is not possible" from european sound tech. No more gas station hotdogs. one more in me. Au revoir.
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In the hot seat w my boyfriend ⁦ @AdamFriedland
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This dude about to wake the whole DIY house w his loud ass motorized air mattress pump
FIRST TIMOTHÉE PIC AS YOUNG BOB DYLAN OMG
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Best thing I ever saw at pitchfork fest- Xzibit walking backstage to a car after watching a tribe called quest play SAIC hipster kid shouted "X gonna give it to ya!" Xzibit said "wrong X, dumbass. Go home"
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Keeping up with dad
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*me in a cabin, steeping a bag of tea* *knock on the door* the heads of beggars banquet/secretly canadian/PIAS/Domino sit down at my kitchen table "we need you to come out of indie rock retirement and assassinate the CEO of conde nast. We've got new signings who need BNM"
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I want a wife and kids. I'll prob be a dope dad one day. This will help me have a long life to provide for them and love them. And I'll stop coughing so damn much. whole fam going back generations had trouble kicking smokes imma break the cycle. Prayers up just for today no cigs
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Return to the 36 chambers except I can legally handle raw oysters in the state of New York and I keep all produce below 41 degrees Fahrenheit
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Me browsing Ween albums on streaming platform
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Canadian singer/songwriter Destroyer
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CD posting really helps me. I'm old and cringe but I have a new love for music that's been missing for years. thanks for following along
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You're never alone with a cigarette
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At academy records on 18th st. The most rocking place in NYC to buy CDs! My fav! Not to be confused with academy records on 12th. Or academy records in greenpoint. Both of which are fantastic Friday eve energy off the chain. Bald ponytails 3 deep in the jazz fusion 99c bin
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I'm banned from ultimate guitar for repeatedly submitting "0-0-2-4" as the correct weezer "hash pipe" bass tab
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This dude about to capo 9
FIRST TIMOTHÉE PIC AS YOUNG BOB DYLAN OMG
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I saw deerhunter play with no age and Dan deacon same bill! I wanna say it was like $15? Went with my then girlfriend now wife
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My first solo gig was in 2010 opening for Julie Byrne and weyes blood at house in chi town. Maybe 10 ppl came. Even then it was clear they were stars. I sucked an egg. Really sweet gig. Happy to see them both release era defining tunes this last year. Good memory. Music is sick
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Tour supporting Boygenius begins tonite! May 23- Janesville, WI @ Doc's May 24 - Delavan, WI @ skate park show May 25 - Marengo, IL @ shuttered outlet mall May 26 - St. Charles, IL @ corvette auto show May 27 - Orland Park, IL @ mojoe's coffee May 28 - Kankakee, IL @ pavilion
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Years ago- played big ears festival, Jim Jarmusch got me really fucked up on Long Island iced teas, and anytime I tried to say something to him, he would press a button on a battery powered speaker that went "AWOOGA!" It was my one brush W Hollywood
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Bonus free pile
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Cool memory CD source Rockford IL 14 yrs I get "piper at the gates of dawn" and clerk says "you should check out CAN" That clerk is dead and DAMO is gone RIP soldiers I love u both can changed me life
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At a #cool nyc party I fist bumped justin Timberlake and said "alpha dog mad under rated" and he just sighed and said "thanks, man" I didn't know he was sick and suffering .call me justin
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I'm glad the army is sponsoring SXSW. when i think first line of defense i think garage rock bassist blacked out on deep eddy vodka
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Happy 10 year anniversary to my debut LP all kinds of you. It's not good. I would even venture to say it's pretty bad. But had fun recording it and I'm grateful that I got work out of it. Daniel Bachman and josh Rosenthal helped me a lot. Cooper Crain too.
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getting jacked off to completion on the dance floor of a girl talk show
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Alex Moskowitz
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what was your indiest moment? mine was probably seeing andrew bird play that free show in prospect park in like 2011
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POV: you're about to be told the show didn't meet expenses and you gotta clear the green room by midnight. You can't stash gear overnight and there's no link on a crash pad
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Wilco - A Ghost Is Born Got this very copy at borders day it came out rockford IL. I love this record!
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Please Vice delete the interview where I shit on Leonard Cohen I still get a yearly death threat
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Literally stomped on a boss metal zone the exact moment NYC earthquake hit. I claim full responsibility
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Heatmiser- Mic City Sons
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Nice as hell out. #once again I suggest sam Prekop S/T sickest ever
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Where is my list of 50 essential freak folk albums does anyone have a screen shot I remember it was like perfect
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ryley walker - course in fable (2021) this record failed miserably in terms of what we call success in the indie rock business, but succeeded in that the jams and lyrics are sick. try it on. my secured discover credit card sure took a beating on this one
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I wrote about this in my Noah Kahan column, but I've grown tired of the predominant form of "personal" songwriting that's extremely literal and supposedly ripped from the writer's life. We need a renaissance of "poetic stream of consciousness nonlinear word salad" songwriting.
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Best part of touring Europe is when people ask me "do you know Steve Gunn?" And then they show me a photo on their phone of when he played the same club and it was way fuller
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Lift To Experience - The Texas - Jerusalem Crossroads
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The Fall ♾️
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10 years since amen dunes "love" came out. Dude was on one. One of my favorite records ever. I was lucky enough to open up the west coast leg of that tour. Nobody came to the gigs. Seeing them peel the paint of the walls of dingy shit holes to just me and the sound engineer. Best
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My copy of Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain signed by just Mark Ibold
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Been used CD shopping so hard and so long I see this in my dreams
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time between soundcheck and hitting the stage on tour is insane. i4-6 people full of anxiety narrowing down thai food options, but can't go until one band member hears back from their cousin about tagging along. eventually somebody is like "the venue has pizza" in an angry way
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Jacob Collier I am calling you out. It's simple. A music off. Whoever loses, leaves the industry forever. @jacobcollier
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Liars - they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top
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Hideous Bob boot found in the wild. I love tri state area CD shopping. boomer punishers have deranged Microsoft word skills. Jams are fantastic 10/10 gig.
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"Keep setting off firecrackers" Gastr Del Sol - Camofleur # One of my most favorite albums of all time
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used CD's rock
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My groovy textured copy of XTC English settlement. My favorite record of all time! My favorite SOUNDING record of all time. I know every word on it
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With my own eyes I seen Wendy Eisenberg/Mary Halvorson/Bill Frisell play a gtr trio!!!!!!!!
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cindy lee sounds so much like red krayola and mayo thompson i hear so much of his influence. rock the fuck on hats off on a great album. great time to plug mayo thompson "corky's debt to his father"
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This dude got an ovation plugged directly into a fender passport PA
TIMOTHÉE AS BOB DYLAN ERAAAA
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i saw the smile last week. saw thom after gig at a punisher roundup backstage full of managers and PR people and other posers. i said "thank you king" and he nodded and walked away. absolute master and sensing punisher behavior. he knew. he knew.
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Best one dollar CD Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year
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Gonna be on the bread line when AI learns to tune drop D
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Back into fahey after self imposed listening hiatus of many years. This, to me, is the best one. Loved it since first listen
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I'm in charge of the sign at work Shout out @dragcityrecords @steamroomlive Western Ave Chicago
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Sam Prekop - S/T I listen to this all of the time!!!!
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music will be studio focused and the occasional local NYC skronk. i can't lay my cd's out on a table anymore. speaking of which- venues get a fucking lamp that works to light up table. its always broken. im tired. life is too big and too chill back home. i want what i have
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This dude about to get $100 flat fee per gig on a tour of flyover country opening for a band that got a sync on grey's anatomy
TIMOTHÉE AS BOB DYLAN ERAAAA
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And finally, I'm sorry to Wayne coyne who said "what's your problem man?" After I stole all his beer. I am genuinely sorry dude. I have grown up a lot.
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@cheekfaceREAL Thank you cheekface for your pure moral stance. Hey the link for your discord exclusive branded shoes laces wasn't working. Can you get me in touch with your representative at wasserman entertainment to get some help? lol
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Younger bands and music fans don't realize that in the 90's, before poptimism, the hospitality rider deli meat was made out of the opening bands from the last tour. That's why this is problematic.
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cannot stop thinking about Pavement's hospitality rider
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Okay one more time/ need a touring gtr player? Just need one bottle of water for the stage and I’m good to go. I can sit 8 hours in van and not have a meltdown. I’m good at this. Looking for work
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Band of brothers type miniseries about heroes of record store day. David Schwimmer as guy in line who loudly says "Tweez is actually better than Spiderland" so everyone hears him
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Straight from the hip
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No cheating - your Quietus style Bakers Dozen. 13 albums (off the top of your head) to know you by. Not looking for a perfect list, looking for a list that you instantly regret posting because you then remember something else.
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Music for 5 slap basses. Glenn Branca style unit.
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Me and Michael Chapman on the way to a gig. Thinking bout this dude lots miss him
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My OG Jay Reatard shirt. Got at Chicago gig 06 right when blood visions came out. I'm too fat for it now. Bummer
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This dude about to be added last minute to your DIY house show in Ft. Smith Arkansas and make you split the money two ways
FIRST TIMOTHÉE PIC AS YOUNG BOB DYLAN OMG
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THE AMERICAN ANALOG SET, set.
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Listening to Coldplay "X&Y" aka the last CD
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for my money- the best BPB Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down In The Light the Emmett Kelly licks are too good
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RIP CROZ DADDAD KING!
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The zine fair on st marks is all rich kids paying $30 for a booklet on how to narcan someone through the lens of Raymond Pettibon
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Taylor swift should experience having 3 pre-sales in the quad cities and no crash pad
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David gray - white ladder. Cmon now…….
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Hey new JP. And I play a tiny bit of guitar on it. All jessica records are S tier but this one is breakthrough. Check it out
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Jessica Pratt
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The turning of the tide is upon us, friends. My new album, Here in the Pitch, is out May 3rd, 2024. Many seasons came and went while I built this thing through fear, tears and daydreams. Listen to first song, Life Is. Tour dates and album pre-save here:
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This dude got CD-R's wrapped in cloth at the merch table
FIRST TIMOTHÉE PIC AS YOUNG BOB DYLAN OMG
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if a used CD store has the poster of the Pink Floyd album art on those juicy asses you about to score 💿
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