Xopher Besinger
@xopherbesinger.bsky.social
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Maybe I will reveal my secret tumblr
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I wrote a poetry chapbook & my plan was to self-publish a little run but the idea of any kind of self-promo/commerce fills me with despair. So I just made a pdf copy if you would a copy message me here or get a hold of me somehow
8 months ago
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Wait I was kidding!
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1 day ago
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Fortunately its poetry so no one will read it
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Pulpfiction Books
3 days ago
Farewell Tom Stoppard. I know I'm supposed to consider "Arcadia" your best work, but there's no improving on Brazil's taut first hour & the office dialogue in particular.
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Cecil Taylor Unit 78 box set when?
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Cecil Taylor Unit 6 (1978) - YouTube
The Cecil Taylor Unit 6: Cecil Taylor - piano Raphé Malik - trumpet Jimmy Lyons - alto sax Ramsey Ameen - violin Ronald Shannon Jackson or Kenny Tyler or Ste...
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcvGbVSdMNjbh8KbY5voh5GHp1YDWKJu&si=S5TGy8arozzFXa42
3 days ago
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This new trend were journals don't send rejection notices but just let you know by ignoring you is fucking annoying
3 days ago
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Butlerian Jihad let's fucking go!
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6 days ago
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DMV hack: go immediately after a snowstorm, no waiting!
6 days ago
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SUNDAY
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One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye (Live) - YouTube
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lnhuLLFucrerF5ermq1plgSE1Qy1T7m8s&si=0lmO3c8VFXvbccQP
9 days ago
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Alex Han
11 days ago
Trump filling out his NYC DSA membership card to vote on primarying Jeffries right now
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Tim Onion
11 days ago
Zohran cucked Trump in less than an hour, adjust what you think political strength looks like if you don’t think it looks like him
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THURSDAY not new or nuthin' but a fantastic document of the Raygun Suitcase/Pennsylvania-era by what is probably my favorite line-up
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Oh, Pennsylvania, I Do Remember Thee - 1998, by Pere Ubu
14 track album
https://pereubu.bandcamp.com/album/oh-pennsylvania-i-do-remember-thee-1998
12 days ago
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Matt Helgeson
14 days ago
Billy Woods, America's current greatest songwriter, at the 7th Street Entry.
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A few yrs back when things were esp bleak I watched this special once a week
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15 days ago
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FRIDAY I do not like being reminded this was 30 yrs ago...I also remember being completely bent out of shape over the .65 in taxes
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Fugazi Live at First Avenue Minneapolis MN USA 10/15/95_FLS0736, by Fugazi
28 track album
https://fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/fugazi-live-at-first-avenue-minneapolis-mn-usa-10-15-95-fls0736
18 days ago
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QueenCityJamz
19 days ago
Sorcerer (1977) dir. William Friedkin
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MONDAY all gas / no breaks
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Keep Hanging On
YouTube video by Husker Du - Topic
https://youtu.be/2m2TgKpM_Cc?si=wVnkHJJfn4SZygvF
21 days ago
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One thing about social media culture/our current world, we spend way too much time thinking & worrying about stuff that as my mom would say is "none of our beeswax"
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22 days ago
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I'd like to report a murder
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23 days ago
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Maggie Vail
23 days ago
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I very gently rewrote the announcement of the title change my boss wrote and she asked if I used AI to write it
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27 days ago
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Alison Fensterstock
27 days ago
CITY TO TRUMP: DROP DEAD
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Louisa
28 days ago
The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?
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For my fellow Iain Sinclair fanatics(?) an excellent 50th anniversary Lud Heat walk by John Rogers
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Secret History of London's East End (4K)
YouTube video by John Rogers
https://youtu.be/nvxEOwd7zC4?si=ZJMew218fsQDZ440
about 1 month ago
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I have worked at my current job for 18 yrs, as of (well technically Saturday) today I now have SENIOR in my title which has only taken 4 yrs to get
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byron coley
about 1 month ago
nice piece by nina corcoran about the steve albini's closet project
pitchfork.com/thepitch/dig...
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Digging Through Steve Albini’s Closet
Byron Coley, the former Forced Exposure journalist and longtime friend of Albini’s, talks about archiving his collection of belongings, unexpected finds he’s listing for sale, and what made the Shella...
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/digging-through-steve-albinis-closet/
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Not Richard
almost 2 years ago
BLURT IS NO SQUIRT! Meltzer and Ted Milton, Village Voice… been wanting to see this for quite some time.
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november blaine
about 1 month ago
are you telling me a Pabst blew this ribbon
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All day long I get requests from my brokers to clarify an import invoice, part numbers are wrong or the description doesn't make sense or the HTS code is incorrect, etc all day probably a dozen or so a day
about 1 month ago
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Luke O'Neil
about 1 month ago
The British spelling of diarrhoea is so much grosser than the already stupidly spelled American diarrhea. Get that "o" out of there man.
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Put Brosmer in
about 1 month ago
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New Natural Information Society LP out soon, more compact & explicitly dubby then recent albums but still very much the best band currently operating
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Perseverance Flow, by Natural Information Society
3 track album
https://eremiterecords.bandcamp.com/album/perseverance-flow
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bakoon
about 2 months ago
"It was like getting my pussy ate by stereo playing 'metal machine music'"
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Yr bog-standard 8-6-2 double play
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about 2 months ago
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Porn spam bots with the mentat mantra in the bio
about 2 months ago
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"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
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about 2 months ago
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Jenny Croft
about 2 months ago
I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and
@ottiliemulzet.bsky.social
, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!
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"Hey I haven't actually been doing my job for a few months is that going to be an issue? :)!"
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about 2 months ago
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Attempting to type a calm and measured response to an email when the actual correct answer is "are you fucking kidding me?"
about 2 months ago
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Arguing with pedants on reddit about Samuel Beckett is like the plot to a Samuel Beckett novel "Xopher Dies"
about 2 months ago
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Ed Burmila
2 months ago
Good morning! You feel like you’re going crazy because their attempts to bludgeon you into submission with weaponized unreality aren’t working on you. Keep it up. You’re doing great.
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John Wiswell
2 months ago
One Battle After Another is like if The Dude somehow became the main character of Sicario.
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My neighbors just capitulated in our brief, passive-aggressive outside stereo volume battle...dogs I am listening to Room to Live at noon on a Saturday you absolutely cannot fathom how annoying I can be
2 months ago
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The audible gasps of recognition three tom hits into "Don't Make Plans This Friday"...we are a bunch of psychos
2 months ago
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Jon Solomon
2 months ago
Ain’t you ever been alone in your life?
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2 months ago
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Love closing out a bar in Chicago talking about Arcwelder with locals
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Arcwelder - Pull - YouTube
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2 months ago
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I forgot that having a puppy is like inviting a maniac to live with you
2 months ago
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Nothing makes me work slower than the words "hot" and "escalation" in an email subject line
2 months ago
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Someone just like a hundred plus posts of mine on tumblr like basically my whole timeline back to February...they did not start following me
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Peter Hammill
3 months ago
Jim Christopulos' film documenting the VdGG show at the Beacon, NYC, '76 goes online tonight. This marries newly found footage with audio and together with stills, eyewitness testimony and reminiscence it paints a graphic picture of the event.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPT...
from 18.00 UK time.
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Van der Graaf Generator - NYC '76 (Live Footage!)
YouTube video by bucka001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gPTM2AwK3w
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