Strange dream last night where Mr Beast was sending me through some sort of augmented reality escape room puzzle to win a million dollars. I flubbed it almost instantly and then immediately woke up.

easily my favorite part of writing music is designing albums. the songwriting itself feels arduous by comparison. but organizing 8 to 10 songs into a larger work of art is absolutely alchemical

What me being

something that's always been interesting to me is how people with proximity to cultural power but no particular ability nor expectation to exercise it (admin assistants at museums, adjunct professors, etc) develop detailed opinions unconstrained from disciplinary orthodoxy

Isaac Chotiner if he was Lacanian: hello. that's all the time we have for today. please leave the check on your way out

the naptime chotiner: "so I just want to clarify - is this quiet time or naptime? because a minute ago you said, im quoting here, 'you need to put away your toys because its almost quiet time.' I did so, and am making no noise. yet you seem frustrated that im not sleeping. Can you expand on that?"

actually fully preserved from despair today by my interactions with a sweet, good-humored woman from Columbus

I've got a constant medley of Threepenny Opera melodies keeping me going at work

our plans are measured not in cloves, but in bulbs

Following Yuval Abraham's reporting, Microsoft cuts its ties with Israeli intelligence. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

this is what a lot of deleuze reads like to me

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

as recorded music sheds its physicality and albums themselves become little more than discrete webpages in enormous digital libraries, the album cover has less and less to communicate. the untitled photograph predominates, valued less for visual interest than for the suggestion of individuality

'rodents prevail in rat race' — a line worthy of brecht

ELMER FUDD: da cweavo gold... da fine cuwumbian... uh huh huh... make tonight a bwutiful thing

Fascinating to me how this article retains relevance to so many different topics. As Kosovo to Serbian politics, so Palestine remains the overriding obsession of Israeli politics, despite no-one actually disagreeing with the nationalist consensus, just accusing each other of being fake nationalists.

yea man we're all getting fucked up after this where the grapes of wrath are stored

got insanely frustrated practicing guitar, took a break, cooked pasta, watched a film, returned to play a little more before bed — suddenly it all felt right. one of the most important skills for a musician is just to chill

burnt the garlic so bad it doesn't even feel like eating food. Italians weren't capping about the subtlety of their cuisine

I’ll eat this whale in one mouthful.

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

we need less of "dudes rock" and more of "lovers rock"

yea it was crazy man he totally spoke truth to power, which continued to shape society unabated, since it's power

i didn't know who 'Isaac Chotiner' was before I started using this website, where people talk about him like he's Chuck Norris or Epic Bacon

me: i think with most things, if you look at it on a case-by-case basis, you'll find that especially these days it ends up being this whole issue where you have to sort of look at it through a lens of, hey, you know when it comes to this thing by its very nature isaac chotiner: i completely agree

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

Remembering John Coltrane on his birthday 🎂 📷 Lee Friedlander, 1960 "John was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality." - Albert Ayler

Dziga Vertov's 'The Angry Video Game Nerd'

im always amazed by the euphemisms they come up with because people are hip to the "you are fat and need to lose weight" ruse. now we all have to Fix Our Cortisol, Heal Our Guts, Balance Our Hormones etc and coincidentally all the symptoms of these "problems" are being fat and/or ugly

trying to make the most implicitly communist book display i can get away with at work

I may not like everything the president does but I'm still allowed to watch 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' and that's how I know the crazy, brilliant experiment of American democracy is still going strong

feels like I'm afflicted by pathological nostalgia rn

The US is imposing 1000% tariffs on ma, the concept of emptiness or negative space in Japanese cinema. From now on if a character quietly admires a river or sips a cup of tea, theaters will be taxed millions

dudes rock

Anna Karina & Jean-Luc Godard by Raymond Cauchetier "'His film isn’t out yet but it’s called Breathless, with Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo; they all say it’s fantastic. You should go & see it.' And I asked them, is he the guy with dark glasses? Because he’s a very strange guy." - AK

"Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike...long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome." apnews.com/article/ital...

affected.. and affectionate

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gm. let's groove youtu.be/qZTv8rE7WVM?...