All musicals should end like Annie does: FDR makes a deus ex machina appearance.

I haven’t listened to that album yet. No spoilers, please!!!!

If you’re an acronym, I hate you!

Dang. Just found out about music. This stuff rocks!

I think every time you win a game of chess in under ten seconds, you should be legally required to send an earnest, inspirational, well-wishing message to the person you beat.

Been thinking a lot about how there’s such a massive difference between challenging students (cool!), making something unnecessarily difficult for them (often an honest mistake), and being actively antagonistic to them (v bad! what!) and how often people don’t recognize the difference and I’m just 😵‍💫

Wow! So impressed! Just spoke at a career day, and, instead of caring about music, all the 8th graders wanted to talk about was writing syllabi and curriculum development! There is hope for this generation!!! 🙌🙌🙌

Legally changing my name to Cullyn “I have a meeting at that time.” Murphy.

If this post gets 1,000,000,000,000 likes, I’ll teach my Introduction to Recording & Editing Techniques class exclusively through Mario Paint Composer.

A thing that has genuinely helped me write more music recently is developing a quicker willingness to work on a section of something for a long time and realize it actually sucks and I should just start that bit over from the beginning.

No one ever tells you how having a baby will make you consider eating lunch at 9AM.

After every Squid Game scene, I imagine the writer turning to the audience and saying, “….wasn’t that craAaAaAaAazyy?? 🤪🤪”

A good idea: a revival of Billy Elliot in which the titular role is played by Missy Elliott.

Grocery stores are passionate about playing bad music (Christmas music) and making it worse (Christmas music covers you’ve never heard before that are significantly worse).

Doc Rivers is like what if a guy had a shiny bald head but also had hair

Had to delete my work email off my phone because there was an error with the password, but… now I’m thinking work email is just going to not live on my phone until the start of next semester. 🙃😌 #MerryXmas2Me

If I never see another movie that tries to visually represent text messaging in their own funky fun way it’ll be too soon.

Pro tip: if you’re tall, put your height on your CV. You’re an asset when it comes to hooding at graduations.

My new speed run hobby is trying to get an actual human from Xfinity to talk to me. Shooting for a sub 3min time for the world record.

With iron resolve, the 4-year-old grimly crunches down the candy cane. It is peppermint, the most disgusting of flavors. But this is candy—it’s right there in the name—and he is no fool.

Happy last day of finals! This semester was whacky, BUT I think my students and I accomplished more than we ever have including…

What would be the worst candy to have a savory alternative version? IS it Skittles?

Watching a baby learn to eat is cool because it’s just like eating except the food touches every single inch of their high chair and they never eat it!

This one because of the self-applied duct tape, increasingly incomprehensible signs, medically necessary gloves, group harp bowing, oboe reconstruction, and snare drum hug!

BREAKING: Just found out that I still can’t really care about football!

Microwaved my coffee three times this morning before I realized I was using the timer instead of… the microwave.

Today I rewatched an old piece of mine that I remembered as being what critics would refer to as “fine,” and actually ended up enjoying it much more than I expected. So, here’s a thread where I’ll periodically post old pieces when I feel like doing so!

I used to enjoy making things like this for the internet.

The lyrics to the Cupid Shuffle were originally just “to the left, to the left, to the left” for five minutes, but they couldn’t find a room big enough for the song.

I think it’s cool that we watched the Beyblades show and thought, “Yeah, that’ll work if I buy those in real life.”

I think one thing that is really fun about babies is how they’ll be like, “Hey man, I’m really tired.” and you’ll be like, “Awesome, I have just the thing for that.” and they’ll be like, “Yeah, absolutely not that. I’m so mad now. :)”

Having a baby has made me really good and bad at Jeopardy. Good because I’m watching lots of Jeopardy at random hours of the night. Bad because I’m trying to answer trivia questions on very little sleep at random hours of the night.

I host a radio show called “Student Hours” on www.wbcr903.com every Wednesday from 12-1 PM CST where each week I invite a new Beloit College student or alum co-host! We feature a song they’ve written and collaborate on a playlist theme of their choice! You should listen!

I just found out about “rest!” Seems very cool. I would like to do one some day!

I have decided to become very popular on this app, but like, in a cool way that doesn’t at all make me nervous about the fact that we can’t make our profiles private and my students could find me and my Thoughts™️.

I wrote this speaking solo double bass piece for the superstar that is Will Yager. Working on this since 2019 has been an incredibly special experience for me. You can hear it and see the score here, and I think it would be pretty cool if you did!

Hi BlueSky, I made a video for a song. I think it would be neat if you watched it. Horace Whisper & the Empty Hand’s debut EP “COWBOY 100” comes out tomorrow and you will love it. Or you won’t. I don’t know you!

Excited to announce that I’m an Executive Producer on the new zombie television show starring Mandy Moore: This Is the Last of Us.

Wishing Twitterless Andy aka @illthinkofit.bsky.social a Happy New Years and only him (and Claire, but only them).

I’m struggling to finalize the order of my “Top 10 Books of the Year” list from the 7 books I read this year.

Thinking about assigning Cars 2 as the final movie of the semester in my Sound & Film class next week.

Had to sign a waiver to eat food I chose to order tonight!!!

The only reason I watch the Bachelor/Bachelorette is because I still think there’s a chance that one day the main person will slowly eat the last rose to avoid picking someone.

This thread (shred?) is dedicated to the descriptions of music I read in movie subtitles.

I like that some football rules are like, “Can’t do that because someone could get hurt.” and other things are like “That way of getting hurt is fine.”

Just ran into @illthinkofit.bsky.social IRL. Social media celebrity sightings hit different!!! 🔥🔥🔥

“I’m not a system player. I’m a system.” I whisper to myself as I dominate a YMCA pickup basketball game in a Chicago suburb.

I’m adding my basketball highlight reel to all future applications.