if the bassist looks like this you're gonna die in that pit

Beethoven wrote a symphonic movement that was a portrayal of his own belches and farts

I finally came up with the perfect meme to summarize the members of @discordpod.bsky.social overall:

I just watched the Schitt's Creek episode where Moira fakes her death for compliments, and it struck me as vaguely reminiscent of real life events for a reason I can't quite put my finger on.

shoutout to one of the greatest tweets of all time

Congratulations to Baron for making money on yet another longshot bet

I've been playing chess regularly against an app for about a month now, and so far my play level has settled at a point where I win about 1/3 of the time, I get my ass kicked about 1/3 of the time, and I get a stalemate about 1/3 of the time because my endgame play is ass. Hopefully I improve.

Holy shit, I didn't want to yell at a single one of these clinical recommendations

This is shaping up as the biggest victory for Yes since Going For the One am I right am I right? *crickets* *gives self a high five*

A behind the scenes look at what happens when Ben Marlin gets reminded that @discordpod.bsky.social is a pro-prog podcast and he's part of it

I could totally imagine my mom buying that Trump as Jesus picture and hanging it on a wall

It took nearly a year, but this morning, I completed a full(ish) chronological(ish) listen to all of the Frank Zappa in my collection. The full list is as follows:

I double majored in Finance and Mathematics. By far the classes that have had the most impact on me were The Hebrew Bible in English, Symbolic Logic, and a basic Music Theory class

Taking my kids to the movies today for the first time in a couple of months, and my take on movie concessions prices now is basically "LOL I guess we're all gonna die someday so I guess it doesn't really matter"

I saw that Yes is putting out a new album called "Aurora" and this immediately popped into my mind

One of my longshot predictions for a couple of years has been the eventual establishment of The Church of America, with Donald Trump as its first leader. Its membership would be exactly who you expect it would be.

Just arrived! Vinyl copy of “Octopus” by Gentle Giant. Top drawer prog from ‘72. And that Roger Dean cover! Thanks to @burningshed.com for great service and prompt delivery. Thanks to @discordpod.bsky.social for their great podcast on this album for reminding me of how good these guys were.

Civilization Phaze III by Frank Zappa remains the absolute strangest album I've ever heard in my life

At the CSO. I just heard an Accordion Concerto from an Estonian composer who played in a prog rock band in the 1980s and cites Yes, Genesis, and King Crimson as influences

WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES

George C. Scott at the Doctor Strangelove premiere, realizing Kubrick only used the goofy takes.

Weird to realize the one area of life where I actually have gotten more conservative as I’ve gotten older is “Opening Day should involve the Cincinnati Reds on regular TV for an afternoon game”

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Thank you Robert Mueller for inspiring one of the funniest tweets ever

combining these two and feeling overwhelmed with happiness & goodwill towards my fellow man

Haven't seen enough of this clip on the feed youtu.be/K2_SvX4PEbU?...

I've been fascinated and horrified by the internet discourse on the shot of Peter Parker's eye in the Spiderman trailer. I feel like people crapping on that shot are people who like comic book movies but don't actually like *movies*.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

the dumbest form of politics is yelling at voters after you lose. if you lose it is *always* your fault. every confounding factor in the universe is your job to overcome. if you take a position that is unpopular and don't adjust to learning that, you are bad at running for office.

The first half of the new Pixar movie "Hoppers" is kinda boring, and I couldn’t tell what they wanted to do with it. The second half is *completely unhinged* and some of the most fun I've had with a Pixar film in a long time.

youtu.be/K9LZMrpOa5Y?... This is a song I kinda liked when I first heard it, and nowadays I absolutely adore it. It's a non-album single by Justin Hayward, with John Lodge on bass and backed by 10cc (!!). Almost nobody who's not a Moody Blues fan knows this song, and everybody should.

About half of Van Halen's debut is radio staples, but the other half has some real gems as well, so come listen to us talk about a great album from what was, for a few years, an absolutely great band. #MusicSky discordpod.com/listen/171-v...

The background music in my head in the last two weeks has been something like 90% passages from Tales From Topographic Oceans.

I can accept any and all criticisms leveled at Sting and the Police except for the music itself. I know why you want it to be bad, but it's just not.

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

It seems really cool that the minimum acceptable level of output from me in all of my life responsibilities sums up to me inevitably having a fatal heart attack in the next five years

Sorry everyone I tried getting it out with some pliers and instead I just shoved it in even deeper.

Now have this bouncing around my head: 🎵 "Well who the hell can he be / if he's never had VD / and he doesn't even snort off toilet seats?" 🎵

All ready to record the @discordpod.bsky.social episode tomorrow on the first Van Halen album. Related, a picture of Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth, circa 1983

"You there! What week is it?" "Why, it's migraine week it is!" "Migraine week! I haven't missed it"

I guess I need to confess at this point that the needle I jabbed into a Voodoo doll I made of my former employer is stuck and I don't know how to get it out.

Every year, on Super Bowl Sunday, I see that futures markets are in action with indices going up and down, and every time I think, "Stop trading, you nerds, the Super Bowl is on"

"Begin the Begin" or "Perfect Circle" Maybe "Man on the Moon" every other Tuesday

Powering up youtu.be/_ul7X5js1vE?...

Stevie was 26 when he finished Songs in the Key of Life, and it was his eighteenth studio record

Finally getting my thoughts written for the upcoming @discordpod.bsky.social episode on the first Van Halen album. Get ready for comparison points that no sane person would ever make, including a prominent mention of Jim Rice and Catfish Hunter (the baseball players).

The Clippers actually made a damned good trade, it's kinda shocking.