Few of you follow me for this area of take, but: Craig Breslow is a weasel of a man.

Steve Winwood's "Higher Love" has inane lyrics - the kind I'd assume were written by a junior high kid who thinks they're deep and no one gets them. And yet I've never seen it in a list of bad lyrics. That's especially surprising for it being a #1 hit. I guess I have a new soapbox now!

My album with poetry rapper extraordinaire Declaime, called 10 Umbrellas for Your Soul, is out today! And this hip-hop focused site has already added it to their best-of list for the year: hiphopgoldenage.com/list/the-bes...

New single and video! It's your classic breathing meditation poem into some vaporwave-adjacent IDM where half the song rotates around the other half. youtu.be/l_KXB1VQENI?...

I've just confirmed that my new single is getting play at a club in Berlin. This was a fun sentence to type.

STREET CRED: I made this hip-hop track with a Grammy-nominated rapper. Album drops January 30. NERD CRED: I made the lyric video in PowerPoint. youtu.be/rVbFEK5ijw0

@gabyduboisjoli.bsky.social You might want to look at my just-finished best-of-2025 3-hour playlist that comes from checking out roughly 500 albums this year and is put in chronological order. Like, maybe at the end of the list or something. :-) restlessmosaic.com/2025list/

Advent calendars mark the season when society obeys instructions to eat chocolate by mysterious brands they've never heard of. Naturally, this season follows a month after really caring what types of candy strangers give out.

On January 30, the album I made for Grammy-nominated hip-hop legend Declaime finally comes out (singles January 2 and 16)! I've been sitting on the masters since Groundhog Day, and it's relief as much as excitement to share this with you.

If you're creating a joke by writing your own lyrics to something, always make sure to match the meter. That's what gets the joke to land. Source: I make up lyrics for jokes a stupidly high amount of the time.

Producing one of my favorite vocalists of all time, and it feels like I'm bathing my brain in honey.

Tonight, I had the classic song production conundrum: Is this song meant to be sparing with its layers, or am I just lazy?

Today, I sent one of my favorite singers one of my favorite instrumentals. Today, she agreed to write lyrics for, and sing on, it. And another one of mine too.

@baseball-reference.com Hi! Is there an easy way to get Standings for Any Date (and the teams' schedule page records) to match the actual standings on those dates? Suspended games being counted to the day they started, instead of the day they completed, means historical research isn't reliable.

High-pain gobs Penison benefits Apple at this lunk

I bought 94 individual Clif bars today.

@highheatstats.bsky.social I made a list you will LOVE. It's all 66 instances of a PR batting later that inning, then not taking the field. Highlights: Eric Davis/Peanuts Lowrey 2x Cobb, Mungo, Stargell, & Mike Hampton The 23-22 game Lefty Atkinson's only MLB game stathead.com/tiny/Guxlg

Don't cry over spilled milk. Mourn fallen creamrades.

By my tally, if the 2025 Rockies got a win for every game they took the lead, they'd still only be 44-50. @highheatstats.bsky.social

Also about music: My song "7000 Sparks" is in @mmemaledicta.bsky.social's Pride 2025 mix, the corpus of which I'm now listening to. The song's about navigating how parental relationships change over time. And my autism diagnosis reception got a similar frosty disbelief that many who come out get.

If you lived through 90s CCM movement in American Christianity - and I did - this one from @restlessmosaic.bsky.social is going be an uncomfortable read. Read it anyway ordinary-times.com/2025/07/01/w...

I wrote a piece for @ordinarytimes.bsky.social about the Michael Tait scandal & assumptions of the '90s music moral panic that helped get us to here. "For every demonization, there is an equal and opposite lionization." Big thanks to @four4thefire.bsky.social ! ordinary-times.com/2025/07/01/w...

The Red Sox quotes about players who do everything "night in and night out" to help the team win smack a lot of: "Kids these days have no respect for their elders!" without elaborating on what the elders have been doing.

When you say some more stuff Like there was not enough That's furthermoré

Hannah Kate of North Manchester FM interviewed me this past week as a follow-up to an amazing interview two years ago. It starts around 1 hr 2 min of her weekly show: www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...

The other half of my work team left too quickly. She was great. She paints nutcrackers on the side. This is music-video me + (on the hat) day-job me in nutcracker form.

A wild read from @restlessmosaic.bsky.social "I wondered what lawyer would have been bold enough to argue all this to a higher court. Was it the sighing, obliging grandkid of someone from church who they were told was a “sweet young man with adorable cheeks who I hope settles down soon”?"

Over at @ordinarytimes.bsky.social today, I wrote my first article in five years. It's about a man who made a very high-strung, literal hymnal, his tax law problems decades later, and either a surprising or unsurprising connection with modern politics.

I'm in this issue when it drops! If you're near a Barnes and Noble at the end of the month, you should be able to buy one.

I'm label-released now! someothaship.bandcamp.com/album/qualit...

If Mother's Day is a touchy subject for you, I've touched on that subject for you: restlessmosaic.com/7000-sparks/

Today's album review calls "Nearest Pool of Chaos" - my collaboration with @rosealaimomusic.bsky.social - "the album's finest moment." SO glad they recognized it! Day-to-day, it very often is my favorite too. ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/r...

Baseball stat detour! Teams in my lifetime with a stretch as bad as this year's Rockies starting 6-31: 87 Orioles 88 Orioles 94 A's 96 Tigers (5-32) 97 Phillies (5-32) 02 Orioles (5-32) 04 Diamondbacks (5-32) 12 Astros (4-33) 18 Royals 19 Tigers (5-32) 21 Diamondbacks (3-34) 24 White Sox (4-33)

@ordinarytimes.bsky.social I uploaded an article six months ago and it hasn't been reviewed. Was I supposed to take a step I forgot about, or that's new since my last article in 2020? (Some date references might need to change now that it's not just after the election; I don't remember.)

@syneryder.bsky.social Thanks for buying my album on Friday! The song with @rosealaimomusic.bsky.social is one of my favorites on there for how much we got away with.

My cousin has a pretty decent following on Instagram. We don't follow each other, and occasionally the algorithm puts her in my feed and then I get surprised.

@jonathanmangum.bsky.social Watching the Jess McKenna episode right now. I'm a non-litigator lawyer. Was invited to do a musical at college & declined. One of my college friends in the theater program - now a litigator and LOVES it. The theater-litigator pipeline is real.

"When did electronic music become so clever?" is a phrase that got applied to my album's lyrics today. That makes me very happy. (via @bigtakeover.com) bigtakeover.com/recordings/r...

The Padres-Astros matchup tonight pits starting pitchers Hart v. Gusto. I'm hoping Vim, Vigor, and Moxie all show up at some point.

If I leave the Corrs breathless, how will they do the rest of the song?

Proclaimers Mad Lib I made my morning rounds In the _____ (SCOTTISH TOWN) grounds Then I saw your wondrous face And it put me in my place Now your beauty's got me thinkin' That I'll wrap up all my drinkin' By _____ (1 TO 12) o'clock every night 'Coz the feeling with you is right

The White Sox are T7/15 in the AL in run differential. The White Sox are tied for the worst record in baseball. That is weird.

"Fear stalks Lynchian alleys of doom" is the kind of phrase one wants to read in an album review. Thanks much, @simonovitch.bsky.social!

Really glad you like this one! I strongly considered making this a single - ran out of time to do a video for it. It's one of my most personal songs, if you can believe it through the genre choice.

I know where the party, but not the camera, is at.

This new review of my song "Circling the Canopies" echoes three very different, unpublished sentiments of three people in my life that this reviewer doesn't know. Freakily dead-on. www.realgonerocks.com/2025/03/the-... (@realgonerocks.bsky.social)

When your collaborators like the *whole* album, not just the bit they're on. (That means a lot.)

My first album in 3 years comes with a Grammy nominee on one song, and another song that a Billboard-topping artist called the best she's ever heard. Also, you get a moody picture of my face. restlessmosaic.bandcamp.com/album/qualit...

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#RestlessMosaic's "Lost Within This Time" is a horror story where you are the target. Can you escape? Maybe this week's #ShamelessTuesdays will help. #music #playlist #indiemusic #electronica @restlessmosaic.bsky.social @shamelesspromotion.bsky.social www.bostonbastardbrigade.com/2025/02/sham...