should I watch game of thrones

My little dog is so mean all the time. straight up misanthropic little guy

It was a wonderful chunky time

in 1999 I knew several kids named Cody. I wonder if they still have that name. Seems of its time

the Mr Encato episode of the x files lowkey the worst one

I made this point in my longform guide to the ring but the winners of the ring if there are any are still the twins. their world eventually comes to pass, they just don’t live to see it

During this country's brief Tudor Revival fascination, there was a *lot* of weird stone accent happening in Chicago.

I’m not done with the ring cycle btw I’m just done with the twins. I have unfinished business with Siegfried

I have listened to so much classical music that I have to mainline nothing but baroque flute repertoire to feel the thrill of something new (actually would like flute rep recs if u have them)

siegmund: where is my father's sword sieglinde: so there's this sword some guy who i may or may not know to be my father lodged in this tree right here siegmund: that has nothing to do with me. yuo are so beautiful

It’s crazy how one day my POTS went away and never came back

if you want working class music, it is currently on SoundCloud by some trans girl rapper named Spleen Recital who makes beats by sampling kitchen appliances.

(finished with a thing I’ve been working on for years voice) freedom is a prison

Did Sibelius know the cosmos would shift every time the trumpet gets to that that D

people lowkey get so mad when you believe in the project of human freedom. “Here’s all the reasons we’ll never be truly free” as if these aren’t just limits on your imagination

humiliating that sib 2 is probs my favorite symphony. it’s spiritually like saying that your favorite movie is Forrest Gump

The nice people at Playboy asked me to write something about the good parts about being married, and I was happy to. :)

still can't believe it lol

how to cure your phone addiction (sitting through the ring cycle)

Interesting bit here from Semper re the relation between stylistic development & the trades: the success of the Gothic-revival in the mid-19thc as a modern style depended on tradespeople working on the preservation of authentic medieval monuments and becoming proficient in craft-processes & forms

this movie would have been a months possibly years long hyperfixation for me if I saw it as a teenager

@bergwebern.bsky.social I know I poopooed the Donington book but it really is lowkey the best analysis of Siegfried of all time

Stephen has just informed me that there is a movie about Freud and Jung and they’re both hot in it

happy belated valentines day from the best pair of lovers in opera wehwalt.net/walsung5

who did I even do all that for

Chicago! thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events...

damn what will I do without them

We don't talk about it this way, but the US government's choice to pursue austerity in the 2010s was a truly monstrous crime -- yet another crime for which none of the guilty elites paid any penalty at all, not even reputational.

lol i can't believe im done

happy belated valentines day from the best pair of lovers in opera wehwalt.net/walsung5

i like how if i upgrade the operating system on my macbook it will Die

mfw I’ve finished my body of work

listening to sib 2 for the first time in a year too and it feels good because that's what i was listening to when i hit my gd head and i've been avoiding it ever since. i have triumphed over Damage

happy valentines day i hope ur ready for 6000 words about Love

sib 4 first movement blows my brain open each time

Nobody: The piccolo at the emotional climax of Siegfried Idyll for some reason: WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

u chicago not on the list lmao

i would post because it is a terrible urge i have but OTOH i rarely post about my work stuff anymore and i feel like that's a right i've earned

Rewatching the X files and just got to Emasculata, that one’s a hard watch.

No matter what your Thoughts on the Breunigs are, this is necessary and well-done www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I talk to my (much) older brother once a week because we are the only two people in my family who experience Complex Mental Suffering and every week I experience the thrill of informing him of things like “looksmaxxing” and “quad god”

i see two friends from high school whenever i'm home with my folks. it's nice

(At age 32) you have met me at a very 24 year old time of my life

I feel like the stuff I work on with the ring cycle is like part of some deeply personal process In my own psyche that I feel compelled to complete yet is inarticulate in nature

guys am I a crank

spared from this because architecture doesn't have fans

A really important cultural turn is going to be people realizing that “the fan” and “the fandom” of anything is the lowest life form and must not be catered to in any way. Artists or critics or anyone should never once consider what “the fans” think

maybe my hyperfixations are a little bit humiliating for me. pathological monomania for almost no gain. can't stop being that way tho so oh well

For @archpaper.com I helped gather recollections/reactions to actions by @vox.com that took @curbed.com archives off the site. Thoughts on media today, urban history & memory by @langealexandra.bsky.social @katewagner.wehwalt.net @latrace.bsky.social @dianabudds.bsky.social @awalkerinla.bsky.social