Yes, well.

@annkpowers.bsky.social ma'am, your latest newsletter made me think... dammit 😬 excellent job 👏👏👏

big h/t to @quartzcity.bsky.social this could only mean that I'm due to go into a verlaine listening frenzy tonight

oh man… this is gonna dent my wallet (for the right reasons) (seeing just a single hanukkah show is one of our bucket list items)

@anniezaleski.bsky.social 👋 I seem to recall you said something about Carriers (the Cincinnati band) recently... or is my brain just turning mush? (both statements may be true) I was talking with a local critic (long-time friend) who's been writing about them since Kiser was in the Pomegranates...🤔

This.

Since the infighting and one-upsmanship has started--people who feel helpless + frustrated turn on each other, it's just a sad fact--remember: you don't have to like the people you fight alongside. Your comrades will say profoundly stupid bullshit to you, about you, etc. Let it roll off, keep going

Do your best work offline and do not expect to be thanked. Do it because it's the right thing to do, not because you want people to like you. We all go into the dirt alone. No one else will be there when your guardian angel starts listing off your good deeds. Learn to be emotionally self-sufficient.

Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law - "Back From The Future," aired May 9, 2004. 22 years later. It's still a ghastly joke. 😔

If you know, you know😬

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

On this horrible morning after, if you need a moment to focus on what was good a decade ago today - before everything went to a whole new level of shit - @bowiesongs.bsky.social has provided it. I can not recommend it enough. 🙏

To that, I will contrast a lot of what people are doing in music (from inside MI, not techbro-funded megacorps). Some of the sound applications, vocal synthesis, is so much more fun. Forget "old man yelling at cloud" -- I feel like we're letting down younger generations in every possible way.

we’re never returning to “normal “ that world is dead and gone we create a new one, or we live in hell

Buy physical media, folks.

We cannot be more clear. Leave us the fuck alone.

There are more of us than there will ever be of them.

I don’t know if a flood of calls at this moment asking for dissolution of DHS and abolishment, investigation, etc., of ICE and Noem will matter, but I made the calls - it’s easy to do, and it can’t be a flood without us.

Cut and dry murder. Arrest the officer right now.

Went down a rabbit hole, came out a wormhole (interesting fact: this band recorded 43 albums 😳 )

After getting Wendy’s feet up and giving her her pain meds, I’m doing paperwork and she’s watching Dante‘s Peak… and I just realized: it’s the perfect drinking movie… Every time one of the characters says “not good!”, you have to take a shot you’ll be comatose one hour into it😵

Music Software Niche post: As @pkirn.bsky.social says, this was a long time coming. The shrinking continues.

This is the discourse we need today.

@brucelevenstein.bsky.social I've got to assume you already know about this, but just in case you don't:

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

I gotta say: the more I listen to @themountaingoats.bsky.social “through this fire across from peter balkan” head to tail (y’know, old-school-listening-to-an-album), the more I’m absolutely blown away by it. I love listening to an artist stretch - and it’s even better when the stretch succeeds. 😬👏👏

today's oddball discovery: you can buy an album of suzanne ciani's sfx and music for the Xenon pinball machine suzanneciani.bandcamp.com/album/xenon

A great @chrisrichards.bsky.social piece - it also quotes Mike Pepi’s work that succinctly nails why LLM’s & scrapers are an absolute creative dead-end: they’ll eventually run out of “creative” gas. Highly recommended.

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

we got so played

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

and also: you aren't bad or heartless for watching sports/cartoons/ or tuning out today the opinion industrial complex is selling its wares and you do not have to buy it to be a "good, informed person" there is no instant fix to this, so keep your emotional powder dry

bumping this for the morning crowd, especially this morning

Good morning, from the actual axis of evil

AHHH

well, I guess we’re now an international outlaw nation 🤬

in these rotten ass times, we believe in supporting our friends, especially our musician and writer friends @leerosevere.bsky.social is one of those - and for bonus points, he’s Canadian and unlike some, ummm, individuals, we like Canadians so check it out👇 & maybe throw some money in the till🙏

this is not... inspiring 😶

okay - for people who like sleep or its effects & feel no need to stay up 'til the middle of the night just to receive happy new year's greetings, here's last night's happy new year's greeting from us may your wisdom & common sense guide us all in this next year as is, i'm going to take a nap😴

happy new year, CST edition ⚡️ here’s pounce with a hair band in her sunny spot today - we wish you the same joy she’s having with that band for this year may this year be different for us all - in a good way (for a change) we wish you peace k&w ;-)🙏

OK, I never do this… But here's a timeline cleanser. I kinda needed this one today

meanwhile, if someone really wants all of us to have a happy new year, could they quietly steal the child-in- chief's phone?

On Criterion as well - you have 'till midnight! (make the time for it)

*listens* Hm, not a bad little track, this. Very much a modern postpunk vibe, the New Orderisms alone are clear, but I like the results and it’s less than a dollar (American). Give a listen and throw in a bit of cash.

Happy Birthday to the late Bo Diddley, born Ellas Otha Bates 97 years ago today

my annual year-end mix, 103 mp3s i've known & loved, 7 hours of music ready for shuffling & affronting darkness. drive.google.com/file/d/1GyQz...

Absolutely Seconded. (and now i'll shut up about this issue🤐)

moving from listening to music from 55 years ago (The Move) to music from this year… and I've got to say, I really love the latest @themountaingoats.bsky.social release - with a passion highly, highly recommended 😬👍

per previous post, big hat-tip to @sotoalfred.bsky.social for inspiring it🙏

just went through a mini-binge of late- period The Move up through 1st album ELO (basically The Move with strings) it still works & still sounds fresh 😬👏👏 (and i agree with @sterlewine.bsky.social - even though Roy Wood didn't think so, Shazam was probably the band at their best)