100 gigs in 2025 ✅ first two in 2026: 1/6 - Dot Iso (Vivek Menon, Dylan DelGiudice, and I's long running collaborative trio) - Downtown Music Gallery 1/22 - orchiddBB (with Jen Sapiro, Vivek Menon, Hans Young Binter & Mario Fontes; playing new "blood letting" adjacent songs) - DADA

musicians view your labor as labor regardless of pay challenge

tonight. tried a little harder than i usually do (which is already so high effort that it's a little embarassing; you might even call me a try-hard)

if you go to shows sick, i dont like you or your selfish ways. stay home. there will be another gig. jfc.

final performance of the year. celebrating 10 years of 2016.

"im gonna take the kids to the harry potter trans hate boutique, then lean on the subway polls in a cluster. im also staying 10 feet away from any person i think might be houseless, so no i cant push in"

unfiltered 2026. im gonna tell you i hated your set to your face instead of talking shit about you to my friends after the fact. it's more productive!

i finally found a name for my least favorite genre of music: "college jazz"

btw if you misgender me at laundromat, i will remember it, i will hold it against you, and i will not book you, your friends, or your brother again 😘

it should not need to be repeated BUT DONT BLOW UP THE SPOT

the real game of the year is skate story and it's not even close

need an improvised music band that is unreasonably drippy. like head to toe in ric owens all the time. they frame every performance like a rare chance to see celebrity up close. they smell amazing. they play the sphere.

per my last post: new orchiddBB music (no, not a mix of new and old, all new) + ellie shannon + storytime at DADA. im doing basically nothing in january to prepare for this.

very focused on a small handful of things for 2026. i will be playing a lot less, so when i decide to perform, the work will be far more considered. tired of moving too fast. tired of productivity as a virtue. build slow, with intent. no more spaghetti sets.

the "im a freak" shtick is overdone among musicians, find another hobby

even the most "i am art" ass people are likely to pay more attention to cleanly produced branding exercises (to the point of sterility), over thoughtful, transgressive, and maybe even messy work

"wooooo!!! it's the cats!!!" going to start carrying yellow and red cards around for the jazz cosplay language

friends all decided to drop around the same time. i wonder why????

"im BUCKING the TRENDS, the albums that MOVED me the most this year: my band's album, my buddy jay's album, the mario kart world soundtrack, geese - getting killed, my other band's album, something i just found on bandcamp 5 minutes ago with no purchases cause im so underground like that"

where's my VLC wrapped 2025??!?!?!?

will open source distributed network social media ever happen? or is the whole thing just cooked? im cool with the whole thing being cooked, can people just message me 100 times a day directly with their events so i can go to them? thanks.

i cant even get on my high horse, we are absolutely inundated with products.

"no ethical consumption under capitalism" is not a very good excuse for consuming gratuitous products from exceptionally terrible businesses.

i love listening to SOCIALIST PODCASTS on SP*TIFY. guys im like so DOWN WITH THE CAUSE. i live in the MATERIAL WORLD and i love to CONSUME CONTENT.

have to censor cause the data scrapers got me instantly on the last one: take your sp*tify wrapped and shove it up your ass!

the creeps are clustering together, who would have thought?!?

i dont want to do one-offs anymore. i want more bands. even if its a one-off we should rehearse for it, or at minimum talk about our values/share a meal. just cause the music is improvised, doesnt mean apathy is cool. let things take time. bands used to drop an album once every 3-5 years.

everyone ready for giving tuesday? in my weird corner of reality (npic and music) i get more emails on GT than black friday or cyber monday. time to miss everything important wading through spam, but this year many are absolutely going to use LLMs to write their campaigns. bracing for dreck impact.

speaking of purgatory (the venue), im playing drums in kissy noises there tomorrow (12/2). ellie & jamie write great songs and jem is an awesome bassist; these are some of the only people who can convince me to "rock out."

c*llen l*rde pharmacy is purgatory-adjacent (not the venue, the biblical place)

the only thing worse than namm-core is plugin-core

at the vegan potluck the day after i started eating meat again. good job orchid, good job.

practicing is very important, but i really don't like music that feels like "proof that they practiced" (this is not an indictment of technically demanding music, but of music where technical demand is the only draw).

I LOVE TO BUY SHIT!!!!!! BUYING SHIT ROCKS!!!!!

CLEANSING your timeline with MY NEW SINGLE, check it out on platform a, platform b, and platform c (no platform d)! music is LIFE and JOY.

has anyone considered that the people they "respect" only for their musical/artistic ability, may in fact have absolutely dog shit ethics, social opinions, and politics? seeing a lot of conflation between the two. its like 16 year old obsessed with dudes in bands behavior frankly.

⚠️ LAUNDROMAT RENT PARTY TONIGHT ⚠️ SUPPORT DIY SPACES BEYOND "WOW I'D REALLY LIKE A GIG HERE, CAN I GET YOUR INSTAGRAM?" ⚠️ I PLAY 3RD WITH NATHAN CHAMBERLAIN & SELENDIS SEBASTIAN ALEXANDER JOHNSON ⚠️ MUSIC STARTS PROMPTLY AT 7PM ⚠️

everybody ready for the wave of giving tuesday emails likely using an LLM to say shit like "your support is foundational to our mission"

stop complaining about no one coming to your shows if you dont put any work in to get people to come out. end rant.

i complain too much, i even complain that i complain. shameful.

the short term holiday sublets are so out of hand. what do you mean "im out of town for a week, sublet my room for 6 days"?? the era of letting friends crash has passed i guess.

bro its satire, i swear im nuanced, its satire bro, i super duper swear/pinky promise, im so joking around right now.

i do not fuck with non-consensual street photography at all.

REHEARSE.

we're in the era of people taking the side of instagram infographics over their own friends and peers. even worse: the friend or peer says something, they are dismissed, then their opinion is repeated by an IG infographic made in canva, and only then is it accepted and acted upon.

consider the labor of everything

rly hoping gta vi is incredibly woke. very much a two wolves thing, cause i also dont want TakeTwo to succeed at all. maybe i'll get both of my wishes and the net result will still be negative. $2 billion. crazy.

me me me me me me me me me me i gotta know me me me me im the superhero me me me me me

who wants to hear your expensive, amorphous sample packs when i can listen to thick steel chains rattling across wood and wire? or the sound of water being sucked down a drain?

whole lot of vultures on the decaying corpse of the "music industry"