I am aware of the sincere aesthetic differences we have as well as the convergences, but given the sound and the instrumental specificity of one big musical breakthrough I had this year... I can't help but think to myself "I am Derek UkuBailey"

I admit, YouTube is going to be terribly difficult for me to give up. It's been the main source I use to listen to music. With neither that nor Spotify upholding their moral obligations, I have to try and tough it out, but goodness will it be difficult...

YouTube is running ICE ads now. Immediately closed the page. Absolutely the fuck not

God, it's astounding how proto-Nietzschean Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great is. And that's probably why I am recoiling at it with such disgust. The whole thing only functions through a fantasy of invulnerability as ridiculous as Ayn Rand's.

Ellas Otha Bates later Ellas Bates McDaniel AKA Bo Diddley. Born OTD in 1928, McComb, MS. Died 2/6/2008, Archer, FL www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeZH...

Signing off with some live footage of the Mummies covering Devo (the audio was put onto a bootleg 7" that made the rounds in the '90s). IIRC, this was recorded at the Shamrock on Hollywood Blvd. in the summer of '91. #1001CoverSongs Song # 83: youtu.be/NiLe7D1qWSc?...

Norman Rockwell has been most abused by those who proclaim themselves his greatest admirers.

With all the grammatical errors and mangled plurals I keep posting tonight, I am feeling like a world-class idiot who will be completely incapable of bringing any worthy art into being. I think that's my sign to log off for the night.

U.S. poster for FAUST (1926) Directed by F.W. Murnau - BOTD in 1888

modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here

Not to be all Anthony Bourdain popping a valium and contemplating Applejack's struggles with sexual identity, but... I still find it somewhat strange that popular children's cartoon rocker Luna Loud idolizes legally distinct Mick Jagger, purveyor of Brown Sugar, Under My Thumb, Midnight Rambler...

”and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people," Bing Crosby refused to play at a venue unless Louis Armstrong was given equal billing. The Beatles refused to play segregated venues.

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For all that the world has been in a contemptible state of violent reaction, right now I am feeling it was a very important and good year for my creativity. Made some jug band records. Finished my manifesto on the opera and a major libretto. Discovered exciting avenues of research in...

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

The Gospel Classics Of Detroit - She Don't Call My Name Anymore [US, Black Gospel Deep Soul] (1973) https://redd.it/idxtyk https://youtu.be/2VtVW-Bv_OA

FUCK Berg's Violin Concerto is so FUCKING good. You couldn't have a better demonstration of the Second Viennese School's continuity with Romanticism if you had it made to order.

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I think this may be the greatest thing I have created to date. If you have any interest in the work I've been doing, please listen to this; my hope is many more flowers may bloom from this fertile artistic soil. vimeo.com/1149724023?f...

This is such an interesting question. Thread incoming:

Shot in the dark, but does anyone know if there are readily accessible recordings of any of the operas of Winfried Zillig? I'd particularly like to hear his Troilus and Cressida, but any of the operas will do as an introduction

Now spinning, some Friday night day after Christmas blues Excello style. Pick this one up if you happen to find one living on a store shelf out in the wild and listen to it lots. It's a double so twice the excellence.

"unfolds" - a verb with vibes in this book review! A Presence in an Empty Room by Velda Johnson. 1980, cover artist not attributed. #booksky

Just received my order from @kithbooks.bsky.social today and have had a very profitable first read-through of icarus rising by dre levant and Punchline Remains the Same (or Ash/Dust) by Atlas St. Cloud (@drdissociation.bsky.social)!

What a Christmas treat to have found something so fascinating! agamemnon-opera.bandcamp.com/album/agamem...

Chicago blues singer/guitarist Hound Dog Taylor was born on this day in 1915. Taylor with his band The HouseRockers performing live at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1973. Length: 31:25. #Blues #BluesMusic m.youtube.com/watch?v=18JZ...

I got serious earlier this season with Night Gallery's "The Messiah on Mott Street." So now I have total license to enjoy my trash horror Christmas Eve one-two punch of "And All Through the House" and "Seasons of Belief." XD

Silent night Holy night #art #sketchbook #abstract #landscape #snow

Got 5 minutes? Fire up your rageful typing fingers and write a comment on the government's efforts to ban trans healthcare for kids. Tell them you're taking time out of your Christmas to write it because it's that important.

On some level it seems fair to consider the visual work I am doing as Art Brut, since I have basically no formal training in artistic craft. But on another it seems like a usurpation of the term since I have at least an undergraduate degree in Art History and feel I understand how what I am...

Jocasta's Suicide Discovered

Muddy Waters Blues Band Featuring Dizzy Gillespie - So Long (Newport Jazz Festival, 1965) Muddy Waters : Vocals, Guitar Otis Spann : Piano James Cotton : Harmonica S.P. Leary : Drums Dizzy Gillespie : Trumpet youtube.com/watch?v=XQpD...

The Pretty Things & Yarbird Blues Band - Diddley Daddy (1991) Phil May : Vocals Dick Taylor : Guitar Studebaker John : Guitar, Harmonica Richard "Canbed Heat" Hite : Bass Jim McCarty : Drums youtube.com/watch?v=Yc8R...

and i loved this bit: "Beauty is in the first instance the immediate manifestation of the never-to-be-mastered excess… contained in everything."

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The notion that only "genius" writers can write books worthy of canonization is one of the primary ways that hierarchies of domination reproduce themselves in publishing.

Crucifix VI

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Peetie Wheatstraw - Santa Claus Blues youtu.be/4QPaxxBwqzY?... Recorded 1935 for Decca records

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Tendentious conviction this morning: just as the photograph transformed people's artistic relationship with the image in a way that opened space for the lionization of less naturalistic forms in painting, so will generative AI open space for the reevaluation and recontextualization of...

Blue Comets - Blue Chateau [Japan, Group Sounds] (1968) -- Japanese Beatles inspired pop rock - [2:56] https://redd.it/347sjp https://youtu.be/7JwpL3xhwPQ