I was spoiled by my previous car (which now belongs to my beautiful spouse), which has had zero real problems in 4 years, minus my getting into an accident. The van I got to move two weeks has been thousands of dollars and constant hassle from the jump, and I deeply regret buying it. Fuck cars.

Portland, OR friends: I will be out there for good(ish) starting on Memorial Day, and am looking for a summer sublet! ~May 25-August 30, give or take. Please DM if you have any leads! Looking at more permanent spots, too, but planning to be gone throughout September so it's not my preference.

Happy May Day and Happy #BandcampFriday! Re: the latter, this record is 4 yrs old, and though I'm proud of the extensive recording I've done since, I think this is the best record I've made. It's also the only one with tapes and CDs still available. goldenfeelings.bandcamp.com/album/golden...

For your Bandcamp Friday consideration goldenbrown.bandcamp.com/album/amethy...

I know the American education system will never have an internet literacy class bc it’s not in the state’s interest but this would be the kind of stuff people should learn before they’re allowed to vote

Back out in Colorado next month (5/22) playing at the incredible Little Horse Vintage! This time, I'm joining forces for a collab with all-time champ @goldenbrownmusic.bsky.social. Been training on an all-hardware setup, so anyone disappointed with my iPad pivot the last few years is in for a treat!

There are a lot of great reasons to hate AI, but you'd think more people would be sympathetic to the observation that it works really shitty

Taking a break from film fest and moving prep to think about how this soundtrack (especially the main title theme) should be nothing less than holy for anyone who likes anything Lopatin has written for the screen, but I never find anyone who'll talk about it youtu.be/pPjQNEsZrzU?...

Dustin loves being quoted, part 2: Micah and I talked to @concentratemedia.bsky.social about Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti (iFFY) Season 7, coming up next week! It's going to be a great fest this year. concentratemedia.com/independent-...

I was quoted in this @zeteo.com article by @minnahfarshad.bsky.social about @abdulelsayed.bsky.social and Hasan Piker. If you, like me, love seeing my name in the press again since I "retired" from arts journalism in 2023, now's as good a time as any to subscribe to this essential news source. 😉

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My cool wife made this cool trailer for this cool film festival with which we are both heavily involved. Coming up in less than a month. Cool! youtu.be/0gQbHi4Ch7Y

This is a dream come true in a time of nightmares

Found a candid shot of Homan confronting a money launder -- ah, you know, money smuggler

Killer NYC visit coming to a close. Didn't take many photos that weren't just me and friends to send to other friends, but here's one the great bassist James Ilgenfritz took of me playing a Golden Feelings set at P.I.T. in Williamsburg. I'll make it less than a decade before coming back, I promise.

RIP Sam Kieth, one of my favorites to ever do it. The Maxx was as important to my teenage love of comics as Clowes, Bagge, Pekar, Newgarden, Feazell, et al; without that initial dose of weirdness in an ostensibly mainstream book, I doubt I'd have gone as deep as I ultimately did.

TONIGHT! Like, really this early evening, like I should start getting ready to go soon

A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.

These white crested ducks look like they were traumatized after being possessed by a great post-atomic evil which caused them to assault and kill their own daughters

If we can somehow become the biggest cinema in the world on Bluesky, then we'll do something stupid like give every Bluesky user who comes to a screening a free popcorn* or some shit. *Terms and conditions apply.

Less than a week away!

Brooklyn/NYC pals: coming in to play a very cool gig on 3/20 at The P.I.T. (411 South 5th St in Williamsburg). Great lineup of which I'm honored to be part. Also my first NY gig in just shy of a decade?!

Modern tech support experience goes AI chatbot > preteen in developing world using Google Translate > transfer to ESL student > 20 min wait > dream about b*mb*ng data centers > no resolution. Thanks, corporate overlords, the only thing I disliked about 'Brazil' is that before, I wasn't living in it

It's been my privilege to collaborate with my old pal Legs McNeil on his forthcoming memoir, RESIDENT PUNK: How I Smoked, Drank, and Stumbled My Way Through the '70s Punk Scene (and Beyond). It's everything you hope it'll be and so much more. Much more soon, but preorder now from the usual suspects

I know there are broad systemic reasons to say this that are more important, but for personal cathartic reasons: fuck Google, fuck AI, fuck data centers, fuck the internet.

*walks briskly into ocean*

Listening to a talk show interview and just heard the phrase "well, it's a pleasure to have you" as "well, a fudge and a half to you". I think I'm going to start using it.

Going to a movie theater and completely immersing yourself in the experience with others is important because it creates space for art to evoke empathy. It also selfishly provides a temporary relief from the cold realization that this entire stack of cards could come crumbling down at any moment. 🥰

Out today on Cardinal Fuzz and Feeding Tube Records!

Very excited about this double feature I planned a week from Sunday as a prelude to Season 7 of Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti (iFFY)! Two great, lo-tech classics from 1990s weirdo San Francisco. I'm moving away after the fest in April, so I'm hoping this season serves as my "grand exit".

Forgot this was on YouTube. Even though it was only a few years ago and it's still a real danger, something about revisiting home streaming from the (tail end of the) COVID era seems distant, voyeuristic, unseemly. Also, though, watching this is making me want to revisit parts of my approach here.

Going to the record store (or better yet, working at one) and talking to staff and other heads in person will always be a better way to learn about recorded music than being in front of a screen.

"Antifa" is a designated terrorist group btw

Thrilled to see Eddie Harris in the feed lately. If you’re gettin up to speed or just missed it the first time around, enjoy this megamix of his freakiest cuts I put together for AD last summer.

*sniff* Hey, what's going on, did Democracy Die in Darkness in here?

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Massive ratio (by this site's standards, anyway 😉) on this one. Abolish, you equivocating numb nut.

I no longer run a label, but someone else should do this so I can listen 🎧🎶

Shouting this from the rooftops!

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

"Abolish ICE" is the only correct position but "make ICE pay for medical treatment at the children's concentration camp" might be a more effective compromise than "QR codes for kidnappers" considering 1 in 12 Americans are pissed off and depressed about their own crushing medical debt.

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

Public officials and news media: please stop calling them "law enforcement". They are bloodthirsty, supremacist, terrorist thugs operated by a criminal organization, and do not deserve even the modicum of dignity legitimately afforded to real LFOs.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

Know this is old news, but relevant to my day today: "abundance" libs are just Romney Republicans who are relatively polite to LGBTQIA+ people. Truly toxic ideology, very popular in Ann Arbor!

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

Thanks for the many, many good times, Bobby. They were more fun than a frog in a glass of milk. 💀🥀

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing