drinking a little for the first time in a while and blasting dbeat cursed fucking year

libs of bluesky please explain why "vote blue no matter who" is still an effective strategy, especially now with dems just accepting and conceding to the voting rights act repeal what are dems really offering at this point besides controlled opposition?

god damn, today is really pushing hard on my "fuck this job" button pro tip: aluminum dies are dogshit for forming

playing a gig in the bar side of a venue tonight and until this moment i had no idea Pentagram was playing the main stage

last minute show next Friday in Seattle

lukewarm take, but if you own an amp or effects pedal company and use SMD components you need to go straight to hell.

I just successfully replaced the filter capacitors (12 in total) in my favorite guitar amp and I am not at all qualified to do amp work. I also did a mod to another amp with almost no ability to read an electronics schematic. please clap. 🥹

what a shit ass week so far everything I do at work gets completely fucked up and the stress is overwhelming me doesn't help that I am horribly distracted with yesterday being the third anniversary of my mother's death my head hurts so much

me being dumb with my money now that I have a job that pays pretty well.

I am 100% not a tech, I just decided that I will work on my own guitars, amps and pedals one day and it really makes me giggle that my friends will come to me for advice or work even though they also know that i am just a dude going for it with a very limited amount of knowledge.

just had a moment of deja vu at my new job and have been reflecting on if this is a good or bad thing

yay, i'm employed again...

new beepin and boopin on bandcamp holzindustrial.bandcamp.com/album/demo-vi

had a show booked tonight only for the venue to end cancelling the show because they are in a lease dispute with their landlord and now they have been evicted scrambling like crazy to find a new venue to host the touring band at the very least fuck landlords so much

question for the music enthusiasts out there: when you hear/see the term "industrial" to describe an artist, do you think more electro/techno/goth adjacent or something else? I personally think of stuff like this> www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FWw...

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

just slapped this together (writing/recording) in the last hour abrahamwatsonseattle.bandcamp.com/track/imperi...

damn, I posted this just for funsies and now I am getting all misty looking at this what a fucking babe of a car

newsom on most topics: milquetoast liberal pearl clutching with no spine on anything newsom on israel: HAMAS IS EVIL DEMONS WHO ARE BARBARIAN MANIACS AND WE MUST SAAAAVE ISRAEL!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!11

a few shots of me from my most recent show on January 10 in Tacoma, WA full stack CRANKED fuck FOH

still pretty proud of the sounds I was able make on this release, especially considering I used a relatively small collection of $20-$40 chinese clone pedals and a cheap clone of a E-Bow and a cheap guitar. abrahamwatsonseattle.bandcamp.com/track/the-et...

thinking about this one again

shows like I played tonight are such a mixed bag for me it was absolutely stellar, lots of attendees and we made a good amount of money (mostly from merch) and got a lot of people stoked about us but I also know that this is also the exception and not the rule oh well, high highs and low lows

man, fresh linens on the bed on shower day is 10/10 cozy def recommend if day has been stressful

never forget, the dems do not want to get rid of ice, they love them. at best they are going to suggest more guardrails and guidelines for their conduct but they will NOT disband the organization, don't live on the belief that they will.

power violence/grindcore shows are funny. no one has any discernable riffs and everyone acts like they are god. it's like a shoegaze show but faster.

Saturday night in Tacoma, WA

my friends are 100% never ready for the amount of vigor I have to do random studio project stuff, especially if it is even remotely adjacent to dbeat I can almost guarantee that I will have at least 5-10 songs ready before they even reply with any ideas they have life? what's that?

hey, do you like dbeat? do you like rock n roll? here some new shit from my band Schmutzhund and our friends from PA, ZZ Slop schmutzhund.bandcamp.com/album/zz-slo...

Don't worry, everyone, I'm sure THIS is the time we invade another nation, kill their leaders, steal their resources, plunder their wealth, oppress their population, and war crime their people that will work out well for everybody. The thousandth time has got to be the charm, amirite?

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

one of my favorite details in an already wonderful film is that all the animals Theo comes across in Children of Men just adore him

best use of the reverse snare sound in history www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuzb...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

through some technical trickery I was finally able to update from windows 8.1 to 10 annnnnnnnndddddddd the only positive so far is I can play newer releases of OpenMW (Morrowind port) honestly, everything else is trash about 10, if you like the app setup you need to go to super duper therapy

tasty jams www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdkt...

those feet on the beach in WA can finally protect themselves

my sweetheart of a bass player @w4rb4d.bsky.social gave me this as an early xmas gift. the difference between this and the OG Proco Rat is subtle but the Turbo Rat is the KING

most cats i have owned or met are such wieners about loud discordant music, but not my baby boi, he's an old crusty disrocker too. we're vibing to this album currently www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRkx...

drive out the sadness? what about compounding it into a even bigger SUPER SADNESS?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1NQ...

jfc, I always forget how stressful booking a show can be until I do it again. bands, what is stopping you from responding to "can you play this date" in timely manner?

ofc my dumbass is thinking "now would be a good time to invest in that tape distro you want to start that no one will use" despite being unemployed and christmas lurking just around the bend. nvm that the cost of entry to just burn CDs would be so much less and easier to do

any Metroid movie will either, at best, be a on par with the worst of the MCU films or, at worst, be on par with the best DCEU films Metroid can only function as one type of movie: R rated horror and we already got that in 1979 with Alien.

if there is one thing I love outside the sound of my pedalboard, it's the disgusted look people give it because all the pedals are Boss. eat shit, nerds.

the argument "it's popular for a reason" concerning media is the not the intellectual power move you think it is

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

went to a show tonight and even had a few drinks and now it is time to see how much of my youthful zeal I have retained for the gig I am playing tomorrow if you are in or near tacoma, WA (usa), it's a benefit show and it's a matinee

one of my favorite bit of lyrics is this little gem from The Vandals song "I'm the Boss of Me" "Who died and made you suck? Boss man, you're out of luck This is a democracy, not aristocracy I mean it literally, not metaphorically You're not the boss of me" www.youtube.com/watch?v=qobO...

Most people know Dawn Crosby [RIP] from her first band Detente, who are certainly amazing, but I just love Fear of God so much, especially their first album This is easily the best live footage from that era that there is and I am so glad it found its way online www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbfX...