Visited my old home of St Pete, FL and left very sad. Completely unrecognizable from 10 years ago. The punks are gone, the magic completely empty. Whitewashed corpo condos and fast casual chains line Central Ave. An example in how NOT to grow as a city.

Asheville, where every possible food option in town closes at 8pm. If someone wants to open a late-night döner kebab place here you'll make millions.

Asheville, where all the good restaurants close because the rent's too high or they get natural disastered to death.

Reminder: if you're mixing a punk band, they are supposed to sound dangerous and angsty. Nothing ruins the vibe of a punk band more than cleanly sampled drum shells, neat cymbals, kemper guitar sounds, etc. Let it be fucked up, or you're just making imitation Blink 182.

Building some more wall absorbers. Cutting the sides out for more exposed absorption area and leaving a 1" air gap at the rear.

Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. - Anne Frank

If your business uses AI I'll never patronize it. If you use AI to create art I'll never support it. Stop acting like computers are actually thinking and speaking and creating things organically. They are not. What was once a fun little magic trick is becoming a nefarious end to human enslavement.

Riffin' #metalsky #blackmetalsky

Hey Democrats, let's see the same energy to bring home Mahmoud Khalil that you're putting on display for Kilmar Garcia. Neither of them committed any crime or immigration violation. Oh wait. One of those men spoke up for Palestine.

Please stop making yourself into an action figure. All AI is bad.

Helheim is the most underrated and underappreciated band in black metal. 30+ years of rolling out completely original heartfelt bangers, and their most recent album is one of their best in a catalog full of classics.

I'm thinking of hosting a small-group drum recording workshop at my studio in Asheville, and possibly other themed recording workshops in the future if there seems to be interest. Topics covered would include setup/tuning, mic technique, tracking workflow, artist interactions, and probably way more.

I'm going to say it again: The White Lotus is the worst show on TV and it's not even close.

Silo, Severance, and The Studio are the three best shows I've seen in years, and they're all on one network. I'm not going to defend Apple and their broad business practices, but at least they are bankrolling legitimate art for us to enjoy.

It's unseasonably hot and I can see and smell the wildfire smoke from my house. Unsettling and ominous.

Really struggling with the whole "my country is actively and proudly committing war crimes" thing today.

It's completely useless to judge a mic preamp against another when you omit the greater musical context. Just one reason of many why audio YouTubers are largely a complete joke.

So Democrats are fine with bombing Yemen but draw the line at texting the plans to an ex-IDF prison guard turned pro-war propagandist. Cool.

what the FUCK

Every day in America is a new carnival of horrors worse than the last, and this is by design. Authoritarians mean to overwhelm people with the news of their domestic and foreign atrocities, soothing public disgust daily with a fresh outrage. Don't forget what happened on any of these yesterdays.

Missing Colorado terribly. Take me back please.

America is ruled by religious zealots on both sides of the aisle. I'm sickened beyond words by the depravity of this supremacist logic. Fuck this.

Finally watched Nosferatu last night, and I can now say that I am fully in love with Robert Eggers' film craft.

My band Mo'ynoq just dropped a new single that I had a heavy hand in writing, and was responsible for recording and mixing. FFO blast beats, frostbite, tremolo riffs, and shreddy solos. #metalsky #blackmetalsky

I'm having a really hard time getting excited for baseball season amid the rapid acceleration into outright and open fascism.

I'm seeing a lot of "actually empathy is bad" takes from people with large followings and being published in legacy media. If you see shit like this, SHUT IT DOWN. Empathy is the antidote to social division. It is the main artery to solidarity between all people and things.

Playing this insane show in a coupla weeks

American capitalism has led us to a place where we can no longer simply "vote out" the rot. Our political power has been systematically eroded by the assimilation of the two American ruling parties, such that there is no real opposition to domestic fascism, regime change involvement, and genocide.

Last few days in southwest Colorado

Finished editing this album and prepping the sessions mere minutes before the band arrives for a multi-day overdub session. Can I get a hell yeah

If you're a metal or rock drummer utilizing a double kick pedal, make sure you're drilling non-dominant foot independence. Can't tell you how difficult it is to make a drum sound crush when Left foot is always flamming against snares or always ahead of the Right.

New Poison The Well and Retromorphosis has me actually kinda stoked on fresh tunes for the first time in a while

Frankly I am elated that Silicon Valley is getting its comeuppance all at once. Americans are downloading and using Rednote and Deepseek in extreme volumes, simultaneously undoing decades of propaganda + proving that the world can innovate without financial bloat and government-sponsored secrecy.

Driving from NC to Colorado and back in a couple weeks. If anyone I know here wants to have a beer anywhere along the way, or shred some powder with me in CO, definitely say hey.

Mix glue. It's really hard to beat the TK Audio bus comp.

Finished Season 2 of Silo tonight, and holy shit I can't wait for more. Between Silo and Severance, Apple TV+ might be the best streaming service for original shows.

Cool guitar stuff from five days of rhythm tracking with Üga Büga

My desert island microphone: Beyerdynamic M201

We are months into the recovery and rebuilding effort from Helene in Western NC, and there are still large, right-leaning social media accounts who have no idea what FEMA actually does. It's a great example of intentionally misunderstanding something to reinforce an existing bias.

Sick with worry for my friends and family and LA.

I have been a French press coffee guy for about a decade, but I recently bought a Zojirushi coffee maker for a higher capacity brew and it has tangibly improved my life within a few weeks.

Leopards are going to have a historically good year for eating people's faces in 2025

It was a nice rare snowy day here

They are manufacturing consent for further military involvement in the Middle East, specifically against Iran and Yemen. Don't succumb to the propaganda and psyop messaging. Resist.

Special drink from last night that I had been saving since my last LA trip. Cellador Ales wild saison with plums, bottled in 2021.

My mom got me a die-cast meat tenderizer for Christmas. Who up tenderizing their meat this new year? (I will be.)

The Menu is the worst movie I've seen all year. Who greenlights this garbage? Terrible and pointless writing, unconvincing performances, confused and lackluster direction, and a total waste of my time. I could have shat a better movie with two hands tied around my dick.

I used to be a prolific poster on death metal band Nile's forum. There were probably about 50 other dedicated posters keeping multiple conversations going every day, spanning every possible subject matter. I semi-public discord channel can be like this but it will never be the same.

I wish niche interest forums still existed like in the earlier days of the internet. I am so sick of endless social media scrolling and algorithms and AI!