Joy Division to New Order has to be the greatest pivot of all time.

Feels weird to be rehearsing for my improvisational set.

Purely anecdotal, but I think today some kind of collective exhaustion hit everyone at once.

tat songs Spring Midwest Tour 4/28 Lafayette IN at Spot Tavern 4/30 St Louis at CBGB 5/7 Chicago at Comfort Station 5/10 Milwaukee at MKE Ultra 5/13 Chicago at Empty Bottle tatsongs.bandcamp.com

tat songs Spring Midwest Tour 4/28 Lafayette IN at Spot Tavern 4/30 St Louis at CBGB 5/7 Chicago at Comfort Station 5/10 Milwaukee at MKE Ultra 5/13 Chicago at Empty Bottle tatsongs.bandcamp.com

I can resist a lot of temptation, but BOGO 1.5oz Laffy Taffy in the checkout aisle is a bridge too far.

I love the Dirty Three, especially live, but $67 is too rich for my blood. 😕

I used to cook at a Thai restaurant in Missouri co-owned by an Iranian guy named Farshid. He smoked insane amounts of weed, built Porsches in his spare time, and fixed my unfixable Saab 900. One time I convinced him I'd never heard of The Beatles. Anyway, solidarity with Iran.

My favorite genre of music is good.

Grouper is playing Sound & Gravity this year. In the words of Joel Berk, see ya in the pit.

If you really think about it, Elliott Smith’s Between the Bars is a quintuple entendre.

My weirdest conspiracy theory is that pollen causes anxiety.

Alexithymia is a beautiful name for a baby girl.

REED COLLEGE, OR (2026): The Reed College Zine Festival blakenelson.substack.com/p/reed-colle... @andrearosales.bsky.social @darrylayo.bsky.social @erinbiba.bsky.social @pdxzines.bsky.social @zinelib.bsky.social @proxi.dog @tatsongs.bsky.social @listentosassy.com @johnporcellino.bsky.social

The Shure SM57 is the duct tape of microphones.

Juggalos to gather in Missouri this summer.

Speak no evil, a chiller’s creed.

True Faith Bad Religion 🤝 True Religion

People don’t bust up chifferobes anymore.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The DJ on @chirpradio.org put on For Want Of by Rites of Spring. Well played.

Call me a library book because I am checked out.

Flames, Shards, Goo by ML Buch

Stop reading books you don't enjoy. Just stop. If you're 50 pages in and you hate it, stop reading. There are so many other books. Give that one away, find another one.

He is rizzin’

Paul Simonon and Steve Jones on this track and still not as punk

Tracks that received plays so far today iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/ye-god... - @maiovvi.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/tat-so... - @tatsongs.bsky.social iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/ironic... - @ironichill.bsky.social

When one of your peers falls off it’s time to get nervous.

Aja is my Aja www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYZw...

The Plugz Tell A Really Great Story Of Many Months Before Out Of The Blue Being Invited To Bobs House To Get Together And Play, At One Point The Cops Show Up& Bob Hides Of Course The Story Gets Much Stranger In Dylan Fashion , There Is Really Bad Recording’s Of It , But They Would Form A Life Bond

This is the punkest I've ever seen Dylan www.youtube.com/watch?v=944J...

As a musician my most essential piece of gear is a Trader Joe’s tote bag full of tangled cables

one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea

Last year's sampler featuring @atraeger.bsky.social @nicholasburgess.bsky.social @tatsongs.bsky.social @ironichill.bsky.social @vardamanens.bsky.social @airstrip101.bsky.social @thisshipargo.bsky.social and many more! iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/album/2025-s...

𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧: And then Kim Gordon goes "Have you heard the new Updog record?" and I go "What's Updog?" 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞: Unbelievable. 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧: I thought Updog was one of those hipster Matador bands. 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞: Wait weren't they on K Records? 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲: Thurston also called me Moby by mistake.

I was in the same room as Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary last night @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social

I don’t always vomit on the floor but when I do, I do it right where I’m certain you’ll step in it.

Steely Dan taught me pop songs can be made with the most obscure chords.

Make Bobby Conn the Antichrist Again

If Earth is flat, so is the moon. I don't make the rules.

The beginning of the fool’s journey is off to a rocky start.

My addition to the Angine De Poitrine discourse is if they get someone to start a band or listen to microtonal music, they rule.

You have to climb that mountain of cringe before you can get to the valley of nonchalance.

Carbs are the opiate of the office.

Drinking whiskey with the homies, call that a circle of fifths.

A condo all the way up in Toronto sounds nicer and nicer every day.

If you see this, post a concert photo you took.

The amount of Big Ears posts in my feed means I’m following the right people.

All I want is a cottage in the Scottish Highlands, a raging thunderstorm, an Agatha Christie novel, a crackling fire, a kettle on the stove, an owl keeping watch, and a basket of emotional support scones.

Today an old friend texted me to say I'm published in the new Cometbus.