I think the next phase of me learning Polish is all the fun I’m gonna have exploring Polish bands on Bandcamp.

Is the CD era back? I think I missed it. Like I mean I have a nostalgia for it.

So true

The Beatles invented Melt-Banana.

I legit lolled upon seeing this. @weezer.bsky.social

It’s Bandcamp Friday. Time to support my peeps. You can get my music here, including CDs of my first record: iancat.bandcamp.com

Ah fuckin’ shit. May he rest in peace, ascending into the hole in the sky. Vol. 4 forever.

Just a random reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.

Every time I see “USMNT” my brain automatically thinks “US Mutant Ninja Turtles.” Every time. Every single time.

Rest easy, sailor.

One of the greatest and most fascinating figures in 20th century music, a total visionary with a unique vision. Even when that vision cratered by the end of the 60s, his body of work is a singular one. A true great. One of my all-time favorites.

Long live Wikipedia. This is a great rabbit hole.

Okay I fixed it

One of the absolute best records.

I don’t know who listens to Lungfish but sometimes I really wonder what the Lungfish stans of the world are like.

Sometimes I forget how much I love Tom Waits. But not today!

Jeez the hellscape is really helling lately.

Am I going to become a Dropkick Murphys fan? 😂

Mahmoud Khalil should be at home with his pregnant wife. Instead, he's been illegally abducted & had his constitutional right to free speech & due process stripped. We're demanding his immediate release and we cannot allow this abuse of power to go unchecked. #FreeMahmoudKhalil

Free Mahmoud Khalil

As a fan and owner of those old goofy Kustom amps with the padding made famous by Creedence Clearwater Revival, I gotta get one of these…

Relevant soundtrack for today’s boycott: folkways.si.edu/barbara-dane...

Am I participating in the boycott today? Yes. Is it giving Bush era Myspace bulletin about not buying gas this Friday? Also yes.

In its fight against fascism, Israeli academia remains blind to a basic truth: The government’s assault on democratic norms can’t be separated from its oppression of Palestinians.

Oh dear. My Dylan age is Slow Train Coming. 😂

Ffs bring back the New Deal already

In recent decades, social programs in the United States have been structured in ways that stymie and suppress solidarity, obscuring the fact of our fundamental interdependence by promoting individualism and competition instead of cooperation and reciprocity. @astra.bsky.social @lhh.bsky.social

Blasting this in my car and in my headphones lately and the thing that keeps jumping out at me is the line “Everyday people like you and me.” youtu.be/4KXdU3cZbNQ?...

In The Satellite Up In The Sky

Sometimes my son grabs records off the shelf that are within his reach. He usually goes for the N’s, taking out The Nation of Ulysses, The National, and the Neutral Milk Hotel box. I’m like “ohh buddy you are not ready…”

The CD era was fun, but we’re all glad that the whole hidden track thing with 30 minutes of silence is behind us, right?

Happy birthday to my pal @themattsdemello.bsky.social. Have a cosmically dope day, my man!

David Lynch has always been one of my favorites. I will miss knowing that he was out there somewhere working on something great and weird and unique. Pour one out for this legend.

There’s some debate among Stones aficionados about whether the UK or US version of Between the Buttons is superior. Thanks to my toddler son rekindling my love of the 60s albums, I can confidently tell you that I prefer the UK version.

It really do be feeling like Gilded Age 2.0.

In their 1955 sci-fi novel Preferred Risk, Frederik Pohl and Lester del Rey depict a dystopian insurance era ruled by “The Company,” a massive insurance firm that achieves total global domination, displacing state governments.

Happy #bandcampfriday to all those who celebrate! My music’s all “pay what you want” so have at it. Thanks for listening! iancat.bandcamp.com #music #musiciansky

I’m well aware that streaming services pay basically nothing per stream. But it’s still funny that my song got sucked into the algorithm by accident lol.

On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI

Looove seeing these lists floating around. My favorite Dead: Dark Star Cassidy China Cat Sunflower Box of Rain Morning Dew Loser Truckin’ West LA Fadeaway Slipknot > Franklin’s Tower Sugar Magnolia

I didn’t even realize it happened, but this month I got my first royalty statement from BMI. A teensy amount for Q2 2024, but still a very cool feeling. I guess I gotta get back out there and put out a new record…

The top 10 are mostly indisputable for me here, everything else is in no particular order.

Earlier this year my song “Magic Johnson” that I composed for my buddy’s Magic: The Gathering tournament on Twitch was mistakenly searched countless times and confused with Dallas rapper ian’s song of the same name. Thanks to that, I’m in a weird part of the streaming algorithms lol. #musiciansky

I was never good at Twitter, so I’m kinda happy to be here.

The end is the beginning is the end