Cecil Taylor Piano at Ornette Coleman Memorial youtu.be/bF9ZbULKOXQ 'New York, June 27, 2015----Cecil Taylor's sublime musical tribute to Ornette Coleman (1930-2015) at the Riverside Church in West Harlem today. Filmed by Liza Bear.'

Gilda Radner, June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989. Shelley Duvall, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner by Lynn Goldsmith.

Today's the day I post this okay. deadword.com/site1/habit/...

BREAKING NEWS: well, fuck.

“Ask your Supreme Court Justice which medical procedure is right for you.”

A recently discovered temporary balm for all the madness Imagine if Brian Wilson was more into La Monte Young instead of Gershwin) www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnZ...

Love seeing Finster in the new issue of Maggot Brain snagged from @dustygroove.com cheers @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social

Also a nice shout-out to @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social and Chemical Imbalance, also a crucial read.

Got my new issue of Maggot Brain Magazine from @thirdmanrecords.bsky.social. It includes my long sad tale of sadness and a sad portrait of me that is my homage to Dorothea Lange and taken by my kid, Cyrus Seward. It's a great issue edited by the amazing @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social !

Happy to be back in the latest Maggot Brain with a new Extinctophonics piece—this one involves fire, water, a bottle of Montrachet, an RKO Radio Pictures montage, and a nice guy as minor celebrities go. Deep gratitude to @mikemcgonigal.bsky.social & Mairead Case for letting me join the hootenanny.

"Precious and Grace"

I got the whole series of Yeti, there's a mix with each one. When I got the last one I tried to listen to them all in order - the last one was like a marathon as each track got longer.

See also Joe Rogan.

“To search for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture bound an assumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant.” Terence Mckenna

McClellan High School Choral Music Department - In The Midnight Hour [USA, Soul, School] (1974): A slowed down and spectral version of this soul classic. The album as a whole is super lo-fi, even by school record standards, b https://redd.it/uj3wux https://youtu.be/mWlI_9H9CwE

Must read.

This is Bella and Hank. They have a commensal relationship in which Bella benefits and Hank neither benefits nor is harmed. 13/10 for both

Come to the United States, where you’ll be kidnapped in broad daylight because you wrote an op-ed.

Sun Ra French TV 1969 #SunRa #Jazz #MusicSky This is a fascinating look at Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra, shot at Sun Ra's house in Philadelphia, and aired on French TV. It features a young June Tyson on vocals. archive.org/details/sun-...

(Literally every treaty, by the way. If there is one country in the history of the world you simply can't trust, that country is the United States of America.)

There is a quasi-religion in Silicon Valley that views AI as godlike. This faith has always been parallel to Evangelical Christianity: salvation (transhumanism), the rapture (the technological singularity), and demons (Roko's Basilisk) Lately the AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism.

John Roberts could have sent a message to Trump by not giving him fucking immunity when he was charged with a bunch of crimes.

A midwife has been arrested on felony abortion charges in Texas. She faces up to 20 years in prison. jessica.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

So so good.

"There Is No Happy Nonsense: Mark Dery reviews _From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey_." My latest, live at LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS: lareviewofbooks.org/article/ther...

Record party in the Stiff office, 1977.

trump: "democrats are weak, they're pathetic, they are like sick dogs to me. not people! they are not people!!!" democrats: *silently holding a tiny sign that says "not true" like daffy duck*

Saturday March 8, 3-6pm: we will be taking your requests LIVE on the air for a $100 pledge to the greatest radio station in the world! Do it in advance: pledge.wfmu.org/donate?progr... Pledge to the Todd-O-Phonic Todd show & put your request(s) in “comment for DJ” Listen live -no archive!

Some people wake up feeling refreshed and ready to conquer the day. I wake up like a Victorian child recovering from a mysterious illness. #MorningStruggles #SendTea #BarelyFunctioning

The Supreme Court's first and only opinion today is San Francisco v. EPA. The majority substantially weakens the Clean Water Act's limitations on raw sewage discharge. It is 5–4 in relevant part, with Barrett, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissenting. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

All federal employees must respond to an email from a Nigerian prince with their bank account number or risk being terminated.

Quoting my own damn self from one Internet to another.

Hard relate.

Happening now: in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, students at Sullivan High School are walking out this afternoon in protest of ICE and Trump's deportation regime.