chicago reader forever !!!

we take life seriously. we laugh in the face of death.

DA DAMN CARDIAC BEARS

remembering time in 2014 when i told my coworkers i was going to see the bands Diarrhea Planet, Yuck and Superchunk that week and they looked at me with horrified disgust. my boss on monday said “so how was the Super Barf show or whatever you were doing ?”

dreamt last night that i was chilling in Iggy Pop’s basement, and he had this archaic mixing console from the early 60’s all wired up, and we were smoking joints and just picking from a huge stack of CD’s and listening to tunes.

i’ve been freelancing for the onion and designing the fake print ads. getting to skewer adobe and spotify is a great joy in my life

new algernon cadwallader is a blessing

“… I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.”

i'm rarely telling y'all to stop doing x or y bc of corporate entanglements but you cannot be using spotify in 2025 considering every stream is going toward a future full of AI-powered drone strikes

my new record ‘Take A Beat’ is out everywhere now. ‘taking a beat’ with this project is something i let myself do intentionally, letting this music gestate and form while i lived with it. i’m so happy it’s ready to be listened to today! linktr.ee/wrong_____nu... to listen / purchase 🧡🎹🧡🎹🧡

the pod is modded 🫡 new click wheel and new 512gb flash drive ✅ tried to install a 3000mah battery but it was defective! 😡 perhap ill do another mod round with new battery, faceplate and backplate 👍

new Wrong Numbers tune out everywhere today - it’s about a guy named Tony who can’t stop winning the lottery and then losing it all over and over again. stoked to announce vinyl will be available via subscription to Storm Chasers LTD! sign up for vinyl and other extras linktr.ee/wrong_____nu...

downloading .flac files off of soulseek, running foobar2000, and loading up a soon to be flash-modded 5.5 gen ipod with rockbox like its 2006 / 2839

BIG SYMMETRY is out everywhere today 💙💜💙💜 we love yall with our BIG ol hearts. listen to the record LOUD on your medium of choice. tour starts next week. see you out there! ffm.to/bigsymmetry

ONE MORE BIG TUNE BEFORE THE RECORD IS OUT ON FRIDAY. THIS ONE’S CALLED BIG WISH. I REALLY GOT MY WISH WITH YOU. TOUR STARTS SOON SO BUY A TICKET. WWW.PETSYMMETRY.ROCKS. NAMASTE

her: come over me: but u live across the ocean her: my parents aren’t home ;) me:

this whips

Wrong Numbers is the music i assemble. i create in nooks and crannies with odd equipment, following melodies and words that come to mind. i try to make my own head bop along with it, at least. new song ‘How The West Was Won’ out now linktr.ee/wrong_____nu...

crunching carrots in polyrhythms to luau by drive like jehu

every time i open spotify i experience an emotional response that’s like the severence data refiners seeing scary numbers on their screen

who are we going to see on our BIG TOUR ⁉️⁉️⁉️ grab some tickets at the link in our bio or at petsymmetry.rocks! 🎟️🎟️🎟️

i’ve been using Qobuz as a streaming service, and the sound quality difference vs Spotify is kind of mind bending. i’ve been feeling much stronger emotional responses to music when i listen on that platform. Spotify really does normalize and compress everything down into a boring paste, doesn’t it ?

THIS IS BIG ‼️‼️‼️ Our new album Big Symmetry is out May 2 on Storm Chasers LTD / Asian Man Records! Pre-orders are live at the link in our bio. New single ‘Big Mileage’ is out everywhere now! And don’t forget to pick up tickets for our tour starting ‼️‼️‼️ hit petsymmetry.rocks for all the goods

these donkey chips taste like ass: perhaps a realization i should have had at the grocery store

Whoever you are, if you think the fascists won’t turn on you, too, you are a hopeless rube. Fascists are for crushing, not debating.

Let me ask you something. How does a person live? That's not rhetorical. Not an evil person. I don't mean them. I will never know how they live. But people like you and me? How does one do it? www.welcometohellworld.com/content-with...

one thing i love to do is buy a water bottle for $32.99 and then just leave it somewhere

minus the bear vs sharks keep moving mountains for clouds taste metallica

hammond song by the roches made me burst into tears today while driving through the rain how are you

i have so many 25 minute tasks to complete it’s insane

Hanif always knows what to say

folks, there’s good news for a change. that anti-trans executive order sports ban won’t be a law this week; they didn’t get closer to defining trans people out of legal existence or trans women as men under the law. this matters. no democrats broke ranks. thank you to everyone who called. 💜🏳️‍⚧️

for me it’s been yrs 15-20: End Hits, 20-25: The Argument, 25-30: In On The Kill Taker, 30-35: Red Medicine

pet sym isn’t on here yet, but BIG ol tour announce and new song up today! www.petsymmetryband.com

this was such a joy !!

ok, i feel a little better so tomorrow at IHTOV, we'll have a Q&A with drummer @noochiez.bsky.social from rat boys and pet symmetry and on sunday i'll have an interview with john darnielle. light weekend, no big deal

Vintage Japanese Kelloggs. Frosties (1963), Fruit Pon (1965), Honey Pon (1967), Broncos (1975) (the source was frostiesandcoco.jp but now extinct)

imagine a world where he didn't miss

We’re at 363 individual donations to my contribution to the Save the Reader fundraiser. Can we reach 370 by the end of the day? Any dollar amount helps! donorbox.org/save-the-chi...

@ratboysband.bsky.social is touring with kim deal in march ‼️⁉️

bill

I can’t think of a worse place to get deloused than in a comatorium

friday baby

my dad tried to get me into Red Kross forever ago but today…. it hit. ‘Annie’s Gone’ is a bonafide chune . anything else going on today? feeling like 1989’s ‘Third Eye’ is the place to start

david lynch and bob uecker absolutely cutting it up in the waiting room rn

been thinking a lot about something this guy steve said to me once - “sometimes you just gotta walk around your backyard barefoot at 2am listening to moby”

2024 listening

Doing my annual check in on the state of the new years glasses industry and things are looking rough out there