Seth Tisue

RIP Country Joe McDonald 😔

choose your fighter

Everything will continue in the same way forever, though we won’t be there to experience it.

Jesus: “I don’t know where the hell any of these words are?!”

When we hear a piece of music we don’t like, this is an opportunity to explore what it is within us that’s denying that enjoyment, and then to work on that, to help facilitate more overall enjoyment.

we can no longer ask Éliane, but perhaps she left something useful behind

🎵 Sabu was sad, the whole tour stunk / The airlines lost the elephant’s trunk 🎵

Inside the windowless van,
I might be anywhere. In space, perhaps.
Outside the van: frogs, stars.

😔. I saw Shrimp Boat live (!), but not with Vajarsky. But I did see him play once — in 1995, in an ensemble Weasel Walter put together as his graduation project from Columbia. Wish I’d had and/or taken more chances

it’s been raining here in Death Valley

Ken Russell would like a word

meanwhile, the epistemologists can’t find jobs

on LinkedIn today: “I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard ‘I have an ontology, and…’”

portal to the Black Lodge

I was there!

I don’t remember this episode of Twin Peaks

you’re thinking of Lionel Marchetti, I think?

“Often, while composing, there is the clear sensation of finding oneself in front of a pile of garbage. Every sound to which we try to give life leaves in its wake a stench beyond compare.”

*Unfortunately, Babies R Stupid cannot perform tonight due to incarceration for defacing personal injury lawyer billboards. I’ll book them again at a later date!

top notch noise show flyer footnote (source: @more-noise-please.bsky.social)

Scott Adams the man is gone, but the idea of the man, the thing he stood for above all others, is alive. Anywhere someone is fucking up their successful professional lives not due to middling talent or performance but entirely because of their awful personality and beliefs, Scott is there, too.

everyone tries but no one can touch Feldman’s pp

what, and lose my innocence and purity?

me

“We have some ontological problems and now I think a whole pile of shit is coming from the cosmos” — Béla Tarr answering some interviewer’s innocent question. RIP

* Los Lobos, X @ Silver Legacy (Reno)
* DKV Trio @ Elastic Arts (Chicago)

* Yan Jun @ three venues (California)
* Darren Johnston's Standard Issue @ Bird & Beckett (San Francisco)
* Iron Lung @ Holland Project (Reno)
* Ulrich Krieger & Jason Kahn @ High Desert Soundings (Twentynine Palms)
* Pedestrian Deposit @ High Desert Soundings (Twentynine Palms)
...

I didn’t get to as many shows this year as I would have liked but I saw some excellent ones, especially:
* Still House Plants @ Indexical (Santa Cruz)
* Jandek @ Aztlan Theatre (Denver)
* Jeb Bishop Quintet @ Constellation (Chicago)
* Obscuress @ Chess Club (Austin)
...

(and some nonfiction)
📭 Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
🏜️ Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire (1968)
🎤 Bob Dylan - Chronicles (2004)
💀 Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
🌈 William E. Jones — True Homosexual Experiences (2016)
🛫 Lisa Carver — Lover of Leaving (2025)

🦚 Michael Moorcock — Dancers at the End of Time (1972/4/6)
👴 Barry Gifford — Landscape with Traveler (1979)
🏊 Alan Hollinghurst — The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
✈️ Kaveh Akbar — Martyr! (2024)
🏩 Miranda July — All Fours (2024)
💣 Rachel Kushner — Creation Lake (2024)