Gilliam's "Brazil" is a Christmas movie.

If you can read lips you can see that he's saying "Temba, his arms open wide!"

my little bot is ready for Trump's address tomorrow night.

Minimum Wage! HYAH!

All alone, all alone All by myself

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. giphy.com/gifs/foxhome...

Yet one of these kittens is not prepared to have a good time. It stands alone ...away from the crowd. It's your kind of kitten.

Call the men of science And let them hear this song Tell them Albert Einstein and Copernicus were wrong

Thank you.

Tell one, tell all -- I've finally moved my old @tmbotg.bsky.social They Might Be Giants (@tmbg.bsky.social) lyrics bot from the other place to here. Follow! Be amused!

You literally only see this behavior in captivity.

Beginning #zappadan as I always do, with a rare moment where he put everything aside except for the beautiful parts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBY...

Try this one: "Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!"

Shot for shot remake of the complete 9.5 hour version of von Stroheim's "Greed".

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now, Charlie Brown.

Yes, and also everyone else.

A new piece of mine, "Brewerytown Cycles," for sax quartet and drums will be premiered here in #philly next Monday evening at the library on the Parkway, performed by the PRISM quartet and Tyshawn Sorey. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0CB...

"a slight Italian mustache" SLIGHT?

As the parent of a relatively recent Montclair State grad, one of the things I liked about the school was that it seemed to be a solid meat and potatoes-style State University. The kind of academic doublespeak they're using here fascinates and amuses me, but I would have steered my kid elsewhere..

This is madness, and reflects poorly on bsky as a platform.

THIS IS MY HOAGIE. THERE ARE MANY LIKE IT BUT THIS ONE IS MINE.

It's official. Nearly 7 million people. Today is the single largest day of protest in American history. Americans from all corners of the country are standing up and saying #NoKings. This is what peaceful, patriotic protest looks like.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

In Center City Philadelphia for the No Kings demonstration (in lieu of alt text: 4 photos of a lot of people in the city, many with signs ranging from funny to livid in their messages.) NO KINGS NO NAZIS GO BIRDS

Have fun today friends! #NoKings www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvOZ...

Hey @governor.pa.gov let's get Pennsylvania on here as well...

Having worked through the dotcom bubble, I can say one of the worst outcomes of the AI bubble will be that a bunch of idiots & con artists will make a lot of money and surround themselves with sycophants that will tell them they are the smartest person in the room for the rest of their lives.

This is all next-level information. I'm wondering about my friends who went on as Big Time Jazz Professors and now have students who grew up with such a different feel for being 'in the pocket'. (and to do it live! It's different when Dilla did those time offsets on an MPC...)

When we were getting ready to buy this new house earlier in the year, we promixed each other to not repeat one big mistake we had made in our previous house: we waited far longer than we should have to make some important updates to the place. https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/renovations-part-1/

Excited that I've been accepted to a composers workshop here in #Philly that's being led by PRISM Quartet, Ursula Rucker, Diane Monroe, and Tyshawn Sorey, to be concluded with a performance of a new piece that I'm yet to start. *cracks knuckles*

Our ruling class is not visionary. It is not innovative. It is not competent. It is a cartel of hucksters living off our willingness to be dazzled.

You don't say.

An odd flashback yesterday found me looking for an old Charles Amirkhanian text-sound recording and subsequent googlage led me to this excellent piece on him by @abstracttruth.bsky.social: www.musicandliterature.org/features/201...

I've always thought of this as "Bean Dadding" "I guess I need to go Bean Dad what a Milkshake Duck is..."

The new dilemma: Do I take the day as a mental health day, or save that for a day that's certainly coming down the pike that's going to be much, much worse? Should I have read that Beckett novel that's been on my shelf for 35 years by now? You go on.

Lived in #philly for 6 months and already at the point where I read this and say, "yeah, makes sense."

NZ: Dymista, Chemist Warehouse AU: Azep, Chemist Warehouse US: Astepro, CVS + Walgreens (also Walgreens generic) www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #Covid

Sometimes it makes me angry that I attended one of the best jazz schools in the world on a trombone performance scholarship and had to discover Mangelsdorff on my own, on the streets. The rest of the time it makes me livid.

If this morning’s rumors are true, I’m really looking forward to watching the rest of the administration try to hold their movement together as they fight for individual dominance like cats in a burlap sack.

Saw U2 from 20 feet away at a community college gym in Auburn, NY a few weeks before the War album blew up big.

Following up on my report posted after our First 90 Days here. https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/six-month-report/

I don’t often comment on the news, but would like to point out that the Herr’s factory tour was excellent when we took it many years ago, and now that we live in Philly we should check it again. Potato chips immediately out of the fryer! Still hot!!

This is a lot of fun -- a lot of really great textures, tasteful microtonality...

The forgotten story that's core to our era is Robert Sheckley's "Can You Feel Anything When I Do This?" (1969) about a smart vacuum cleaner who falls in love with a passing customer at Macy's and has himself delivered to her. It's time for a Sheckley revival.

This one is for the teachers and professors artologica.etsy.com/listing/4350... 🎨

It was a beautiful day yesterday–a break between two heatwaves, so we walked down to the river and wandered a bit. There was a photo shoot of a huge multi-ethnic wedding party, but I only took pics of scary faces at the skatepark. https://bgporter.net/posts/philly/saturday-walk-photo-dump/

A fantastic post in observance of 808 day: cdm.link/tadeo-kikumo...

PSA: STOP USING SUBSTACK It's a Nazi bar. theracket.news/p/substack-s...

Just like you should not be on Twitter, you should not be on Substack. There are viable alternatives that aren’t The Nazi Bar.

Me: "Knock knock!" Wife: "Who's there?" Me: "Not me!" _sleeping on the couch...AGAIN.Thanks, Gemini!_