Huh. Compare: • LA glam/para-goth cut "You Hold Nothing" by Page Croft, 1978 • LA glam/para-goth cut "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction, 1986 (released '90) 66bpm, Bmin verse, Bmaj chorus with repeated downbeat "Shadows" on D# Seems possible Perry would've known the former.

Loading up my Little Free Library with E-Mu Proteus synth RAM expansion cards.

it’s already happening, but I believe the coming years will only see more of the best musicians giving up the social media game / constant self-promo. eventually we’ll be in a place where some of the best music on earth is being made by people with no web presence whatsoever.

Scholars of fairytale, myth, and the gothic: what are your favorite readings (primary or secondary) about THE WOODS as a concept? I am taking a class into a forest and I want us to read some stuff that will render the setting utterly mystical, timeless, and somewhat terrifying.

Subject lines in emails from the provost: • "Big News!" = we have changed office supply vendors • "staffing update" = we have eliminated the department of anthropology

Drank too much coffee and now I am angry about how every recording of Schubert's "Erlkönig" is too slow. Daring accompanists, if we do this at 200bpm we can break the 3-minute mark. WHO IS WITH ME?

I take real pleasure in choosing search terms, even (and maybe especially) in trivial cases. For instance, I just had to pull up my .pdf of Stanley Fish's _Is There A Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities_. So in my search bar I typed FISH CLASS.

When the new Cure LP drops, I'll add it to this megathread: x.com/industrial_boo… In the meantime, the new single is lovely. Yes it replays the same topic that they've relentlessly hammered for at least three LPs. But it sounds REALLY good. youtube.com/watch?v=sx9SVA…

🕰️ With 'symbiont,' Jake Blount and Obomsawin (Jake Blount, m a l i o b o m s a w i n) breathe new life and power into traditional African and Indigenous music, freeing these old songs of their colonial trappings. Click for more on the album, out tomorrow! nodepression.com/album-reviews/…

Over at my Patreon we're transcribing Skinny Puppy side projects

Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin's _Symbiont_ is a very special record. It looks to the future through Black and Indigenous lenses while remembering the best and worst of the past. Industrial. Folk. Blues. Noise. Wonder. jakeblountmusic.bandcamp.com/album/symbiont Happy release day to Jake Blount!

I've received some very flattering awards and honors in my day, but few things have made me feel better than this note complimenting our Little Free Library and its curation.

If you're looking to buy the strangest works of neo-impressionism, I recommend the Bazaar o' Bizarro Pissarro Beaux Arts.