this is at least Kash Patel's second day at the mythological rodeo

There's a strong chance it'll make it a lot harder for the next yo-yo ma to succeed, and that it'll reduce the opportunities for all musicians at an even now accelerated pace then we've been seeing

Told an upper management person at my school that generative ai will only hurt students and has no place in learning music so on to the next school I guess 😂 "well that's one view" they said. "It's the correct one" I said. I don't think I'll ever learn

the familiar pull of unreality, when you find yourself unmoored in the present

Social media should break more often tbh

Jaws.

I got hit by a car once but I was totally fine. I must be autoimmune

as long as he stays away from Ghost Quartet we're cool.

Regret to inform everyone that Peter Magyar beat the world’s smartest illiberal populist in large measure by working incredibly hard for 2 straight years, meaning the rest of us are just going to have to get off our asses and do shit rather than just complaining.

composers don't just put a harmon mute on the trombone in a chamber piece to "balance" it - it will not work the way u think it does. 99% of the time from the loadbang call for scores chamber pieces that I hear it just makes the trombone inaudible compared to everything else.

a weird belief that is held across basically all sectors of American life is that boy dollars and boy votes are better than girl dollars and girl votes and so if you have a lot of the latter you need to be constantly trying to exchange them for the former

dear democrat leaders @schumer.senate.gov et al. what is the point of affordability if we're in an evil country being led by evil people?

orchestras sounded better when the players were worse

Making some silly sounds

microsoft outlook huh? they didn't need a copilot, they needed Clippy

thinking pulisic shouldn't actually be on the world cup team

i played for Lydia Tár, who is definitely real, a few times in nyc back in the day. solid conductor, gave the trombones a solo bow once

next month, emperor palpatine!

"average person rolls 3 SUVs a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person rolls 0 SUVs per year. Tigers Woods, who lives in cave & rolls over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

drafted an absolutely cracked deck after listening to @sierkovitz.bsky.social

the libidinal urge behind banning trans women from womens sports is the full resegregation of them. it’s about the delicate flower of chaste white womanhood being protected, creating separate sporting categories for Unclean women this rule will be killed as soon as it fails to advance that agenda

Editing for the album - very cool piece by Ben Zervignon!

Trying to confuse the birds

Practice

Dune: Tokyo Drift

No kids in cages.

at some point do we have to wonder if internal power struggles are killing orchestras and not lack of vision

Anything to get through the day, kid.

Since everyone cares about opera so much now, maybe you want to read my review of the new production of Tristan und Isolde at the Met newyorkclassicalreview.com/2026/03/doub...

I heard Timothy Chalamet got Andris Nelsons fired

Adorno? More like Adore? No!

in my own country we tolerate school shootings and kids in cages every single day. nothing will change until we change our own hearts, and remove any obstacles that are in the way.

the pentagon papers would be gleefully suppressed by today's editorial boards just for the chance to have one quote from a facist regime pawn. the newspapers are complicit. it was obvious this war has been coming for a long time, and any paper could have said as much, but choose not to.

it's hard not to read the world as a place where people amass enough power to rape and pillage anyone and anyplace they see fit, and when they are called out on it in even the slightest way (metoo, epstein files, gaza) they decide to destroy everything in a childlike temper tantrum

Every single person I've met from Iran has been kind and amazing. Our governments and the billionaires pulling their strings need to go. We as a worldwide collective of people are better than the structure we are forced to live inside.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Kids in cages, like at Dilly, isn't a matter of politics. It is morality. I'm not being political when I say it needs to be torn down. It's evil, and should be destroyed.

We need to destroy this facility and the means that led us here.

i bet this felt so good for the road

norman lebretch is spiritually in the epstein files

RIP Éliane Radigue I don't think I've ever been as moved by an orchestral recording as this specific one. There's another recording but something about not seeing the performers and having to guess at what you're hearing is really transporting youtu.be/ewUOtKA0JYk?...

seriously, if you're still on X, get off it. there's no reason to lurk, no amount of funniness/promotion/networking is worth any amount of CSAM not to mention all the other bad things it supports.

you'll find more (and better!) philosophers from talking to plumbers than you will from talking to people with philosophy degrees we simply don't listen objectively in our society. always looking for markers rather than listening to what's actually in front of us.

5 authors, 5 books Maggie Nelson Sjon Michael Davis Casey Plett (On Community is wonderful) Lewis Hyde 1 author 15 books Vonnegut

in other news, water wet

why the hell are we letting secret masked police run down and detain children and then send them to a concentration camp in texas.

huge thanks to @hollyanderson.bsky.social for the beautiful bouquet pictures all day. if you like sports and absurdly good writing @channel6.bsky.social is like fresh daylight in this modern internet ecosphere

mario kart world feels too much like subway surfers. there i've said it.

Honestly, I believe without disenfranchisement and gerrymandering Texas was not really a red state in the first place.