Hi. Not only is tomorrow Bandcamp Friday, but it also happens to be Gefälschtemusik Day, when Basal Metabolism's fake German disco album is set off into the world at large. Miss out or don't! basalmetabolism.bandcamp.com/album/gef-ls...

Today is the fourth anniversary of Music for People Who Hate Music. To celebrate, here are some of the original photos that were taken for the cover art. They are yours to do what you will with

FROM THE DESK OF BASAL METABOLISM: PROFUSE APOLOGIES TO ALL OF DEUTSCHLAND February 6th sees the release of GEFÄLSCHTEMUSIK, an exercise in synthesized Körpermusik recorded entirely in fake, really offensively bad German by a gaggle of dumb and terrified Americans with no sense of tact or shame.

There are some very very small things happening in the world of Basal Metabolism soon. Minuscule things. Check back next month.

Thinking about how disheartening it is that those rat bastards the Eagles got to writing a song called "The Disco Strangler" before some jerk like me (who actually likes disco) could do it and do it better

Getting my ass pummeled and the shit kicked out of me in the mosh pit at the Lemon Twigs concert

They say if you leave a South Park DVD and an Ayn Rand novel out on Christmas Eve the band Rush will appear in your house at Christmas and do Family Guy voices

Don't you know in high school I was voted Most Likely To Pull Adrian Belew Bullshit On Guitar Jungle Survival Fact™: You can make lots of jungle animal noises on guitar with enough practice.

Song apropos of nothing in particular youtu.be/myIKuePjI_c

WILL THIS YEAR EVER END??!!?!? Jungle Survival Fact™: I saw you do it.

I'm excited to announce that my Bluesky page is now sponsored by Metal Gear Solid 3! With every post, I will now be providing interesting Jungle Survival Facts. MGS3 Jungle Survival Fact™: You can eat plants and bugs off the ground.

I may think of other ones as I remember which albums came out this year but my 3 favorite albums of 2025 (in order of release) are MAD! by Sparks, Farewell My Lovely by Zhir Vengersky, and Playin' Dumb by Tchotchke

I'm making a fake German disco album and I'm not kidding. Expect it sometime early next year. I would like to reiterate that I am NOT JOKING

Harpy Chrysler!

Murray Crumble! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLtn...

Taking advantage of my restless leg syndrome to farm 3DS play coins

Here's the new video for a certain song of mine that I've reuploaded for better sound quality. Sorry for the inconvenience! www.youtube.com/watch?v=myIK...

The video just premiered and now it will be around (and yours) for ever and ever. Yaysville!

There's a part of me that feels like Monster by R.E.M. is kind of the quintessential bargain bin CD (saying nothing about the quality of the album itself, which I'm absolutely a fan of) but I'm also pretty sure the members of R.E.M. themselves would delight in that being the case

The video for my song "Resource War" will premiere on Friday, December 19, at 12 PM Pacific. Get your listens in before the US government inevitably does something really stupid and this song becomes even more directly relevant than it always is and always will be! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jim-...

So far I'm coming to the conclusion that a not-insignificant amount of the output of Was (Not Was) directly deals with the consequences of having a dad

On the first day of Christmas I got hit by a car and died. On the second day of Christmas I became a ghost who haunts people's cars. On the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelth days of Christmas I was still a ghost all that time. I'm still a ghost.

[Prefab Sprout - Nightingales voice] Tell me do something true and drop the Veggietales

It's been longer than half an hour and the video is now live. Have fun!

The new video for my song "The Way to the Heart Is Through Commerce" will premiere in around half an hour. Anyone who says they saw it premiere earlier because I initially set it to premiere at 12 AM instead of PM by accident is LYING www.youtube.com/watch?v=z90l...

The new Monsieur Herr album Everything's Great is out now! This is a recording. honsieurmerr.bandcamp.com/album/everyt...

I ditched Spotify earlier this year so I'm not posting about Wrapped, but here is an up-to-date no-particular-order list of 10 of my favorite albums for the Holiday Season™

Surprise! The new Monsieur Herr album EVERYTHING'S GREAT will be released tomorrow, December 5th. Cover art by @ceramicnightmares.bsky.social. Weeee! honsieurmerr.bandcamp.com

It's that time of year! youtu.be/UBgrsC6uHUk?...

I don't know enough about the J. Geils Band to know if they were any different before Love Stinks and Centerfold and stuff basically turned them into The Tubes or if they were always basically The Tubes. But I'm not sure I have the strength to find out

If Paddy McAloon knew about Pajama Sam in 1996 he would have written a musical adaptation of it because that's a very Paddy McAloon thing to do. We could have had the Prefab Sprout Pajama Sam record

Spoilers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J_L...

Yeah I know this video is probably AI but it reinforces my preconceived notions about the world so it's fine. I am 50 years old

ICYMI: Have YOU distracted yourself today? Distract yourself now with one easy trick. Doctors hate him

Video for I Distract Myself out NOW!!! It's also on all the usual places for those who prefer their audio without video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=95kr...

New thesis: Rattus Norvegicus is the misogynist Stranglers album, No More Heroes is the racist Stranglers album, and all the other Stranglers albums, but especially The Meninblack, are increasingly the funniest Stranglers albums (except for Aural Sculpture, the dumbest Stranglers album)

Good Molly, Miss Golly! There's going to be a new Monsieur Herr song and video tomorrow. This happens every now and again and we're still not used to it www.youtube.com/watch?v=95kr...

Don't U Know It

Yesterday (w/help from my friend Jon) I made a hilariously truncated edit of one of the songs on my upcoming album (4:54→1:33) partly as an experiment to get a FLAC under 10mb and partly to turn it into Elvis Costello's Welcome to the Working Week and I'm seriously considering putting it out as a 7"

I hope nothing but good things continue to happen for Zohran Mamdani

Just think that we were only a couple years, a key change, and an absence of gated reverb + CS80 away from living in a very very very different world youtu.be/9YNufvgPP20?...

As we know, the moral of the Steely Dan story is that true perfectionism is futile, but the pursuit of it is one of the most compellingly human things imaginable. Also, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were insufferable jazz dorks and massive nerds (endearingly). This is why everyone loves Steely Dan

Happy early Halloween! Here is a document of how I spent yesterday afternoon: honsieurmerr.bandcamp.com/album/acoust...

Upon consideration I think Futura Bold Oblique may quickly be joining the ranks alongside Microgramma and Helvetica as one of my favorite fonts

"It's Miller Time™!" - me about to listen to the work of Scott Miller of the bands Game Theory and the Loud Family (zero beers are involved)

well,

Designing a smart fridge that does everything except preserve food

Just here to say that the next Monsieur Herr album is basically done and it's either going to be the best thing I've ever put out or the worst thing I've ever put out. Make of this what you will