cbd, aka Jimmy Neutral

@cbd215.bsky.social

Saxophonist, pianist, band director, composer ~ 25 yo ~ Philly sports fan ~ cbd215 on TikTok ~ pfp by @venusdarling ~ Free Palestine Him

As someone who took classes with this prof, he actually never claimed the 12-bar blues came from Bach, he claimed jazz musicians stole the ii-V7-I from Bach and only got the 12-bar blues from classical musicians (he was completely wrong on both fronts*)

stable strategies@stablestrategys.bsky.social · 20h ago

real shit a white professor named mark rimple at west chester university said to me once btw. fuck it man i haven’t gone there in years and afaik they’re still teaching his textbook as the theory curriculum so idgaf

while texting with a friend just now, he mentioned cocteau twins. i asked to have a longer conversation about cocteau twins at some point soon and he reacted with a thumbs-up. i also picked up a new bottle of laundry detergent this morning. i'm racking up wins all over today. i cannot be contained

There’s been a tiktok trend where women ask their bfs or husbands to pronounce words for them, and these man are struggling with “epitome” and “queue” and “ricochet” But like those guys are married So that means, somehow, whatever’s wrong with me is worse than being actually illiterate

Wanna get more serious in making music but I’m very worried my friends will constantly be asking me if I’m okay if I tell them I’m workshopping songs called “I SHOULD’VE” and “Final Dreams of a Dead Man” and “REPENT” and shit like that

stay on bluesky long enough and you'll encounter a noble yet unheralded class of poster: the joke marshal. the joke marshal stands watch over the replies of joke posts for repliers taking them at face value, and empathetically cautions them that they are being a horse's ass. thank you, joke marshal

TikTok wants me to suffer cuz it keeps showing me positive, well-intentioned dating content that seems perfectly curated to say “everyone would love to date you, so the fact that no one does is 1000% your fault and you should feel like shit about it” to me specifically

i know i sound like a broken record whenever i talk about this, but i'm fully convinced that at this point, especially in light of, well, just about everything that's unfolded in recent years, we really need to be honest with ourselves and face the reality th–i know i sound like a broken record when

Writing an arrangement of a buncha Halo songs for the community band I’m in for next summer and god DAMN I really can’t believe how good all the Halo music actually is once you break it down like this

I get where you’re coming from, but also isn’t Superman’s whole deal about how he often feels helpless in the face of things he can’t fix simply by being stronger and faster? Like I feel like he feels helpless enough in his day-to-day that maybe he doesn’t wanna get tied up when he gets home

stable strategies@stablestrategys.bsky.social · 3w ago

as i think a lotta the things we like sexually are things we think we aren’t capable or allowed to have in the rest of our lives i gotta imagine clark kent likes being tied up and made to feel helpless. doesn’t matter if it’s just a fantasy. sometimes headspace is as real as meatspace, yknow?