Getting a lot of “it’s never too late to start your career in classical music” posts on IG and… do they… know who I am?

Call me old-fashioned but if your podcast is a TV show then it isn’t really a podcast.

Just realized that the names of my two favorite types of sandwiches rhyme. 🧐

This has definitely been one of the most out-of-control weeks of my life (and it’s only Thursday!).* The weather isn’t helping. Yesterday a waterspout near Seattle; today, my car is covered in snow. Can we plz just take a break!? *will expound next week

A tax day teaching story! Once upon a time I went into my 8:00 am Monday morning first-year theory class. It was April 15th. I handed back last week's graded assignments. "I need you to go over this today. I have something important that I forgot to do." I waved a 1040 form in front of them.

Substitute teaching has given this professor the opportunity to practice instructional and behavior-management strategies with real students in real schools. @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

This is Maya. She just graduated from obedience training. May have gotten a little carried away while celebrating. 12/10 (IG: mayalapitbull)

you should discover new music by accident. go to small shows where you haven't heard of most of the artists. dig in the crates of a record store and ask the person working there for a recommendation. ask your friends what's been in their ear recently.

Who?

“At least after spring break things will start slowing down for me and I can kinda coast until the end of the year…” I should have never opened my mouth… 😵‍💫

We need to stop with this fiction that going to the symphony/opera/theater is a Fancy High Class thing to do and make it clear that hanging out in a big space with great vibes and cool sounds is just its own kind of fun, because all these people seem Scared of Going and I’m very tired of it

I'm putting the very finishing touches on this book project and I'm still stumped by one argument I'm trying to make--I have the dots but just can't seem to connect them in the right way. Any help from the collected Blue Sky wisdom would be welcome. The book is titled Rap as Antiracist Pedagogy. 🧵

Related: as I finished the first edition of *Listening to Rap,* the allegations surrounding Bambaataa were just starting to surface--I remember someone suggesting an image of him for the cover and I quickly rejected it...

I'm putting the very finishing touches on this book project and I'm still stumped by one argument I'm trying to make--I have the dots but just can't seem to connect them in the right way. Any help from the collected Blue Sky wisdom would be welcome. The book is titled Rap as Antiracist Pedagogy. 🧵

5 large data centers are being proposed in Seattle. They would use 369 megawatts, which is 1/3 of the electricity Seattle currently uses Seattle City Light declines to identify the four companies. They should hold a public input meeting before making any final decisions.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

FYI, Seattle.

Going back through my time as a writer for Seattle Weekly and a few other local publications, thinking about what the local music scene used to be like around here. It doesn't feel quite the same to me anymore (maybe because it's older and I have a young kiddo).

Only 5 days left to submit an abstract for the first Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference! #AutRes #MusicResearch #PhD #AcademicSky

Kids today don't understand. We had this button on our boomboxes in the 90s. If we wanted your bass boosted, you hit the button and it would... well.. it wouldn't actually do anything but you'd convince yourself it sounded better. We hit the boost and never actually turned it off.

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

If I wanted to refer to a "physical" drum machine as opposed to software, is there a better way to do it than saying "an actual drum machine," "a physical drum machine," "a hardware drum machine..." ?

great news, great city

I'm sure there will be no long-term consequences to all of us veering between hypervigilance over potential nuclear war and trying to go to work because none of us can afford to pay our bills and may still be trying to recover from health consequences from the pandemic we're pretending didn't happen

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

For people intending this evening to publicly petition our government for a redress of grievances: AM I FREE TO LEAVE? and I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT. are the only things you say to police or law enforcement.

The Education Department said Monday it has terminated agreements with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding protections for transgender students, backing away from requirements negotiated by previous administrations that took a different interpretation of civil rights.

Leave it to my redneck-a** neighborhood to be shooting off fireworks on Easter…

Add a food to a movie title Reservoir Hot Dogs

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/

Close runner-up: I’d learn timpani for Saint-Saens’ Bacchanale

Here’s a question, inspired by a @minnesotaorchestra.org IG post: Is there an instrument other than your primary one that you would learn to play just for the chance to perform one piece? I’d learn the bassoon just to play the last two movements of Symphonie Fantastique.

Nighttime on Earth as seen from outer space:

It’s National Film Score Day. QTP with your favorite film score. youtu.be/-Dl2otkzbBE?...

It's National Film Score Day! QTP with your favorite film score. #FilmSky #Moviesky #musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Q-...

Here’s a question, inspired by a @minnesotaorchestra.org IG post: Is there an instrument other than your primary one that you would learn to play just for the chance to perform one piece? I’d learn the bassoon just to play the last two movements of Symphonie Fantastique.

Just 6.5 hours of junior high kiddos stands between me and spring break. Coffee power—activate!

The U. of Washington stripped its Director of Middle East Studies of his position for writing an email that said “Israeli actions tell us that they seek the destruction of the state, not just its ruling class” and that Iran had not been pursuing nuclear weapons. In other words, for stating facts.

UW fires its Director of Middle East Studies from his position as Director of Middle East Studies for... um... knowing basic facts about the Middle East.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign," in which a powerhouse group of music writers explore the legacies of David Bowie and Prince. buff.ly/1a0yQP3

Had our junior high large group contest today. Lots of pictures of the back of my head; further evidence that I'm getting more bald by the minute...

Just clicked "print" on my computer and my automatic litterbox activated. Not sure what that means for my worksheet or my cat...

Anyone have good sub plan ideas for elementary orchestra if you have a non-music-literate sub? Fun games/worksheets?

I love this for them.

Zane the frog

I think we should cleanse ourselves of using the rubric “Great American Songbook” when we just mean a certain narrow Tin Pan Alley-aligned popular composing. It erases most music written outside New York, not in English and ends up being racist in effect if not intention.

I don’t think MomTok is gonna survive this…

The bluesky address is @attie.ai and it really needs to be in the top five accounts blocked on this platform. This is honestly some of the most tonedeaf shit I’ve seen from BS and thats saying something

Mid-century postmodern? Is that anything?