My friend Regina was on the most recent episode of Law & Order SVU. She plays a doctor named Paige. I discovered this by accident last night and it felt like I was hallucinating.

I will not. No one can make me.

The John Oliver show is one of the few things that makes me feel sane. They are going to kill it. Everything is so dumb.

The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.

I mean, just insane levels of fun at the Sunday Session today. We play whatever we want, and that’s good. Really, bonkers to get to play with people on this level. L-R Myself Adam Ross Johan Tengholm Mattias Lindberg

Death to ICE

Yes. Huge topic and I respect the wide spectrum of beliefs here. Speaking only for myself, I am interested in engagement/communion with a listener. Self-expression is the default. I am interested in spell casting.

I’ve been helping Devin with his solo album — it surprised me he asked me to produce — but he is absolutely not in a hurry to release it. Devin is unmotivated about the audience. Probably one of our key differences? I see art as communication. Not reaching an audience = failure to me. Devin dgaf.

My bandmate Devin (drums in Beauty Pill, but primarily known as guitarist) has a low key solo career, alongside the newly reactivated Faraquet, the legendary band he founded in the late 90s. Devin knows any Faraquet show will sell out, so I imagine it’s tempting to put all his energy into that.

A friend of mine killed himself a month ago and I keep wondering if I could have stopped him. I want my brain to stop looping about this.

I should be clear I am not speaking for Marcus. In fact, I bet I am probably more bitter than he is about the whole thing. That being said, I feel like (a) it wouldn’t have happened if Dave was alive and (b) it put an ugly mark on the legacy of their work for me. It was unnecessarily painful.

De La Soul used to be on my Mt Rushmore, along with the Beatles and Fugazi. Just the best shit on earth. But I’m finding I can’t get over the way they treated Marcus Moore. Foul and ugly and mean. I wanted to get over it, but I think about it every time I hear a De La song. I might be over them.

It's #BandcampFriday and one of my favorite composers/producers gets 100% of my download purchase The Hall of Time- Remix, by Kallie Marie @doomgolly.bsky.social kalliemarie.bandcamp.com/track/the-ha...

Short answer re: overwhelmed: yes. I'm not alone in that, though. I've been in and out of the hospital a lot recently. Complications from transplant meds. My health is a constant challenge. So that's a factor in this new album, alongside societal collapse... not to put too fine a point on it.

I’m about to download the new IOS, simply on the premise that I don’t think it can get worse.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

I’m going to work on a posthumous album for my friend Tim. Tim, I love you and I would do anything for you. This was the case in life and it is the case in death. ❤️

Directions and full list of speakers for Seattle's event - including @repkimschrier.bsky.social @justin-gill.bsky.social @daveupthegrovecpl.bsky.social and others - here:

Hey Seattle! Come join me to #StandUpForScience this Saturday. I'll be speaking about the administration's attacks on climate science and services and what we can do about it. Seattle Center, Mural Amphitheater, 12-3PM Saturday. @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsseattle.bsky.social

interview from (check notes...) 20 years ago with Hirshhorn's Milena Kalinovska discussing the (then) upcoming performance of Specification.Fifteen w/@taylordeupree.bsky.social for Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibit LISTEN hirshhorn.si.edu/explore/hirs... PERFORMANCE lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/specif...

Artists: When negotiating for money, don't be shy. Know your value. You don't have to be motivated by money to get paid. Get paid.

Check in on your friend who stopped responding to the group chat.

Well butter my ass and call me a biscuit—an album I put out got a well-written, thoughtful review in @pitchfork.com today. #susanalcornforever

We had a band meeting tonight via zoom, discussing future plans. My bandmate Drew is rocking a mustache. I think this is a recent development. (Or if it isn't, I don't think I've ever noticed before.) I think it works. I'm into it.

Bob Power.

"They were going to attack us after we attacked them so we had to attack them. We are very smart."

Been slowly making a photo collage of white dudes who have called me nigger online in the last year. Mostly doing this for my own amusement. They're just mediocre red state dudes with Oakley sunglasses etc. The picture you have in your mind is correct. If I published it, I'd get death threats.

Arto Lindsay & I worked at Mario Caldato Jr's (who produced this record) studio a few months ago He told us about it, but I didn't get a chance to hear the record. I'm looking forward to it.

Songwriting usually begins while driving.

At the gym, Blonde Redhead’s “In Particular” comes on at random. Reminds me that my bandmate Rachel and I used to do a satirical version of this song in the tour van. (The satire was affectionate.) Blonde Redhead are completely brilliant, but certainly fair targets of an SNL sketch.

Here’s the problem: My dog is CUTE when he’s stubborn.

Just said yes to an unusual, unexpected collaborative project. Excited. A foray into another form entirely. I like making art. (Sorry for the obnoxious vagueness, but I can't talk about it yet.)

Just another week and a half to release! You can preorder at your local indie bookstore, or from the link below! read.macmillan.com/lp/the-fall-...

a good tune is malleable.

crackmagazine.net/article/prof... In this interview, they point out that the band could easily have turned into jazz fusion [shudder] if they had brought in a more egotistical, less interesting guitarist than Jeff Parker. It’s a good thing to remember.

I am convinced that my dog blames me for the weather. I open the door and he looks out at the snow and then he looks back at me like “Really?”

I’m at the gym for the first time in weeks. It’s hard. Will try to report gym playlist on breaks: LL Cool J “Saturday Night Special” Vijay Iyer “One For Blount” Cocteau Twins “Fifty Fifty Clown”

When Bill Maher tells a joke, he has to pause and screw his face up into one of his four smug expressions and invite the audience to laugh obligingly. People only ever OBLIGE him with laughter. He’s the archetype of the over-confident, mediocre white man. My contempt could not be stronger.

Here’s my thing: Bill Maher is conspicuously untalented. He’s not an artist at all. You know that involuntary, satisfying laugh you get when a great comedian surprises you with a smart punchline? Maher’s never had access to that terrain. He’s a painful hack. Laying his loathsome politics aside.

Bill Maher can choke on my dick.

Just remembered that Debbie Reynolds died the day after her daughter Carrie Fisher. And the thought of that made me sad.

I’m making popcorn. Everything’s gonna be alright, bae.

My respect for Arto Lindsay is immense. I can’t even believe we are friends. An incredible privilege for me. It is extremely difficult not to turn into a Chris Farley sketch when I talk to him. Love that dude so much.

Teachings of Jesus, my black ass. This Nazi piece of shit declared “empathy is a weakness.” This man is why guillotines were invented.

Meanwhile, in Germany, the public weighs in on what they think of the Epstein Administration. #BrutalButAccurate

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Imagine the world without Jesse Jackson. Bleak, dark. RIP.

This Friday at @GreedyReads in Remington: I'll be in conversation with the amazing Eli Erlick about her book BEFORE GENDER, which studies trans stories around the world between 1850 and 1950. Don't miss it, if only to help you talk to your weird relatives who think trans people are a new thing!

Thinking about the word "affluenza." Feel like it's a key word of the moment. (Not being facetious.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affluenza