Love this song.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

This highly influential White House advisor now states openly: use paramilitary forces to intervene directly in our elections. This is what the conspiracy theories have been for. This moment. Conservative and Liberal Americans reject fascism. We know it won't help any 'side'. It is time to act.

Pausing the doom for a second to commemorate the great Eliane Stritch's 100th birthday. I'm not a big Sondheim or B'way person in general, but there are days when I think Pennebaker's doc about the making of Company is the greatest film ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsG...

It's 2019. No one has heard of covid yet. "Old Town Road" is at the top of the charts. A whistleblower represented by Andrew Bakaj files a classified complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General about wrongdoing at the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Alfredo Jaar, He Ram, 1991 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137779

between this and the "ethical basketball" comment, my respect for Wemby is increasing rapidly.

"Watching Trump shimmy to ‘Y.M.C.A.’ at Mar-a-Lago, something curdled and died inside me. I didn’t feel that I could stomach making dance music in the face of this..." Edith’s Diary: Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism buff.ly/Wad6QAt

love it

Murdered by the state for trying to protect a woman who was being accosted by masked, armed men for exercising her First Amendment rights.

Yeah I listened to an extended chunk due to extra slow commute and the only takeaway is: we are cooked.

Hard to find the words. Something must be done.

I chopped up and painted over the 1965 world book encyclopedia. this is "whitewashing" - paper collage and acrylic on canvas, 36x48in.

There is nothing complex or subtle or hard to understand about what is happening here.

So basically the government’s policy is “look what you made me do.”

“Due process” what a joke.

Yep

The most unsubtle, heavy-handed claims made by pomo academic types have turned out to all be true. Gender is a relation of domination that requires constant, affirming witness. Capitalism will require extractive colonial relations. There’s no subtlety. Every day is like a 101 seminar at Oberlin.

I shared an Abercrombie/Scofield show from this channel last week but honestly the whole channel is gold. Live jazz from NYC clubs '84-'95. Scofield, Metheny, Sonny Sharrock, Zorn, Frisell, Paul Motian, Sunny Murray, Mike Stern...wealth beyond imagining www.youtube.com/@StephenBuck...

new painting by me... currently untitled. 78 rpm record, gesso and paper collage on panel. 9x12" I haven't been sharing art on here lately but it seems to fit the mood today.

Jenny Holzer, "Private Property Created Crime" from the Truisms series, at least one version of which can be found in the Museum of Modern Art collection www.moma.org/collection/w...

just learned that Maggie Nelson released a book about Taylor Swift last month and none of you said a word about it...

just noticed that the owner's manual to this German-made oven seems a little uncomfortable with certain religious practices.

People don’t become musicians in hopes of automating all the creative parts of the process. We take joy in writing, in building real scenes with real people — in the magic, human, intangible parts of music. No one wants empty AI music. No one wants endless, meaningless slop.

Rewatched the best film of the 90's last night... Ghost Dog- it's about eras ending and somehow defines the end of an era at the same time. And no film understood a musical ethos better than GD understands Wu-Tang. Jarmusch and RZA could feel what was coming.

yep here we are again. pretty incredible how quickly they dropped the drug war bs and went straight for open imperialism.

I used to host some pretty legendary hanukah parties in a too small bklyn apartment. At the time, I was playing accordion and organ in a Cuban-Jewish fusion band with stellar violinist Meg Okura. She included a mention of our parties in this substack. megokura.substack.com/p/eight-misc...

I'm so tired of talking and thinking about AI but since it seems like we're going to be stuck doing this for a while (maybe until we can exercise some of the real world agency suggested here), you might as well read some excellent talking and thinking about AI.

I'm just a rube but isn't OpenAI supposed to be paying Disney for their IP not the other way around? I get that the imagineers at Disney think they're going to 10x this $ so maybe the traditional idea of licensing is over but this seems like more evidence of circular grift bubble, right?

Getting emotional on the commuter train listening to the new De La Soul record wtf.

lol. this is the definition of a lose-lose scenario.

I certainly did. On a related note, somewhere there's a photo of me at around this age in a W.C. Fields Halloween costume. Not going to post it, sorry.

I wrote a piece based on this photo for my Tzadik record... probably my favorite thing on there.

Yesterday the @krakowwitkin.bsky.social included this piece, “Study for Coriolanus” in their annual AIDS benefit. I was stunned to be invited - they show work by some of my all time favorite artists. Many thanks to the KW team. This is the first time that my artwork has changed hands in a gallery.

My parents were there.

Feldman on vinyl is a little perverse but it's true this is a very beautiful record. One of the best Feldman recordings imo.

In my first week of college Anthony Braxton told me the future of the universe depended on my playing the accordion in his ensemble. (true story!)

Quite a crystallization of the bizarre moment we're living in, especially when they get into how AI transforms their fair use argument into a tool of corporate oppression. Recommended to all - not just people (like me) doing sample-based art work.

Oh God no.

I don't have an opinion about the music but the artwork is going straight into someone's Phd thesis.

This is what is going on in my world this week…

4 types of guys online.

Del Toro was a highlight of this film but this needle drop is The Worst and I say that as a fan of both PTA and The Dan. Loved it in American Hustle tho.

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer www.thenation.com/article/soci...

experimental music/audio tech people- check out this Epstein email (to self?) that _almost_ reads like a very rough draft of an Oliveros-ian text piece. I'll never look at a Fast Fourier Transform the same way again.

The brutal clarity of Zadie Smith... on target as usual. Confession: I am reading White Teeth for the first time right now and I deeply regret waiting this long.

yep

Same. And we have serious work to do in our community to undo the sickening propaganda around this campaign (and everything else tbh). Hearing my own family members echo this stuff has been appalling.

the scroll on here is particularly Parallax View indoctrination video-like today.