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I think about this post a lot

“corporate rave owned by genocide-supporting investment bankers celebrates launch of new tv show about investment bankers” you can’t make this up

If you strip all the accreted centuries of obfuscatory political rhetoric away, what you have is simply an ideology of petty egoism versus an ideology of sociality, of community. The "right" should be instantly recognised as fundamentally & inherently just plain antisocial. Damned by definition.

the grace, politeness, forgiveness, and understanding of liberals (who think all violence is the same violence) has allowed for the survival and retrenchment of dangerous & antiquated ideologies with no place in civil society. it didn't have to be this way, but they chose for us.

okay hear me out

They are fucking murderers

Abolish the Electoral College, Abolish ICE, restrain the Supreme Court, neutering/abolishing the Senate. These all are extremely variable in terms of possibility or immediacy of enactment but they're all vital to discuss seriously and with earnestness. How do we prevent things like today happening?

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

it took social security one year and four days to agree with me that long COVID was last straw it's taken me over a decade to accept what disability means for my own music, my capacity to support the scenes that i helped cultivate reimagining the accessible alternative i need thru brain fog is...

very funny that the one reliable way to make money with music is have a bunch of gen-z’ers recognize it from tiktok memes

nice when other ppl are playing the piano at the clinic. my hands weren't rly up for it today anyway

using bump combat to replace remaining intrusive thoughts with Ys soundtrack

"there is a massive industry telling you every day that your talent isn't good enough, that you need this, that, or the other: that great-sounding music is not only insufficient, but impossible to achieve... you'd think that good music didn't exist until 50 years ago." yep

sunday afternoon mood

L_2NITE - prime cuts 7/x the seventh page of a scrapbook-style retrospective of my favorite tunes from earlier iterations i built a legacy on the belief that i would be discovered and celebrated only after i died young, in obscurity, preventable i didnt die alexisicon.bandcamp.com/album/prime-...

timeless youtu.be/T1spDjPYpGg

L_2NITE - prime cuts 7/x the seventh page of a scrapbook-style retrospective of my favorite tunes from earlier iterations i built a legacy on the belief that i would be discovered and celebrated only after i died young, in obscurity, preventable i didnt die alexisicon.bandcamp.com/album/prime-...

Tonight the venue is your office and you should try to maintain a non-toxic work environment. Artists get a little bit of clout and suddenly think they’re the regional manager of this office and not a fellow worker.

Get hard copies. Especially of queer art, books, music, films. We’ve got to be archivists whether we want to be or not. I’m not going to see more things I love burn.

at the time, i was in survival mode second wind flow state. i practiced, performed and produced music prolifically because i knew in my bones that i might not see tomorrow. i burned bright to spite the doctors who said i would not make it, to remember the lovers peers and friends who didn't make it.

Don't confuse the sample points for the signal. That is just the encoding mechanism. Not the signal itself. Alistair

follow the money

I set up a GoFundMe for former @pghcitypaper.com staff. This will be used to help us submit last year's stories for awards, defray loss of income and insurance, and support laid-off single moms with childcare. Chip in if you'd like:

I mean, ORACLE is a great club name!

dialect is evolving outside of this house or so im told youtu.be/y5DHxOlcXT8

prime cuts 7 is mostly done. there's so much ground to cover and having a monthly target is helping me keep pace. there's also a significant backlog of live PA improv 2014-19 that is ripe for edit, remix, resample and release... a secret catalog running in parallel to my album releases... damn dude

L_2NITE is no more a legacy product than any other IP. l reserve the right to remaster and rerelease my own original works as many times as l want. these arent special editions, these are pieces of myself that have weathered and survived in spite of everything. why repress what l can re-press?

"there is a massive industry telling you every day that your talent isn't good enough, that you need this, that, or the other: that great-sounding music is not only insufficient, but impossible to achieve... you'd think that good music didn't exist until 50 years ago." yep

Every performance should be treated as an open rehearsal and every rehearsal should be a demo recording session to capture improvised materials. Every gig is a scrimmage in preparation for the next gig.

Don't confuse the sample points for the signal. That is just the encoding mechanism. Not the signal itself. Alistair

L_2NITE is no more a legacy product than any other IP. l reserve the right to remaster and rerelease my own original works as many times as l want. these arent special editions, these are pieces of myself that have weathered and survived in spite of everything. why repress what l can re-press?

i am obsolete too, but carry the potential to enable beautiful things my limitations are real and my incompatibility with a lot of the trappings of modernity is a quirk that has shielded me from a lot of the BS that came along for the ride... i am old fashioned, but good sound is never out of style!

I wrote a new piece for @pghcitypaper.com about loving analog media in a digital world. If you’re someone who’s into vinyl, film photography, print media, and invaluable local businesses, you should check it out! I also coin the phrase “techno-bummerism” lol

What I start today will, by tomorrow,already be something I started yesterday. In three months it may be a habit,in a year part of my daily life,and one day a quiet support for someone else. So I keep enjoying the music in front of me today and hope it will also make the person I am tomorrow happy.

the sixth page of a scrapbook-style retrospective of my favorite tunes from earlier iterations... ...i became confident enough in my live PA electronic jams to start including snips of some of them in my albums largely unedited... alexisicon.bandcamp.com/album/prime-...

the sixth page of a scrapbook-style retrospective of my favorite tunes from earlier iterations... ...i became confident enough in my live PA electronic jams to start including snips of some of them in my albums largely unedited... alexisicon.bandcamp.com/album/prime-...

Seeming: The World our 4th LP This record was hard to make. It wriggled, bit, shapeshifted, ran away from home, yelped from bad dreams, scared off friends and family, and refused to play nice. But kicking and screaming, it is born today. Welcome to the World. seeming.bandcamp.com/album/the-wo...

bandcamp friday, spend yr $ to support the artists, sounds & scenes that matter to you! i know i did. most excited to get to know the new @seeming.bsky.social album after 5 years. strong feeling that this is the album we need rn! also pulled together the next prime cuts to be ready to drop Monday:

i come up for air once in a while

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

the fifth page of a scrapbook-style retrospective of my favorite tunes from earlier iterations ...things were not always beautiful, euphoric, transcendent...things were meaningfully and reliably getting harder, scarier, more desperate and survival-focused... alexisicon.bandcamp.com/album/prime-...

On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning.

in a box in my basement, there's a creamware pulsar pci card w/the adat rack... i remember how nice the DSP mixing was even a decade after new (when i got it for a pittance off a guy who upgraded to Firewire) perfectly good but somehow obsolete i feel like this www.soundonsound.com/reviews/crea...

Not to express my Judith Butler brain disease, but a tremendous disconnect in American society is created by the conflation of sex, sexuality, and gender and the view they are a product of traits that are simultaneously essential and pure social performance which must be constantly upheld.

simple lines intertwining

To recap: •Universal healthcare would save 68,000 lives & $450B annually •Every $1 spent on SNAP results in $1.80 boost to local economies & small businesses •The child tax credit decreased child poverty to a historic low of 5.2%, abolishing it increased it by 45% 1/2

Not enough characters in a tweet to explain my thoughts on how improvisation isn’t actually “free” and in fact has more deliberate vision and strategizing ahead of time than a lot of straight forward songwriting has but I use the analogy of having a conversation with someone you know regarding this

really miss (recording &) mixing bands, (producing &) mixing records, the vibrant queer nightlife i helped grow there were a few good years there before injury, disability & marginalization caught up to me i sacrificed a LOT for lack of support i want an accessible version that doesn't burn us up