Jay Batzner
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I write weird music and read too many comic books. Sometimes I do both at the same time...
Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Rather absurd framing when you consider the results up and down the ballot, and where expectations were before just the last few weeks.
Politico@politico.com · 14h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
Y'know what movie is underappreciated? Silverado. Damn fine movie.
I just learned how to route multichannel signals from Pure Data into separate tracks in Reaper. My life will never be the same.
The only song you need today. #magneticfields The Day the Politicians Died open.qobuz.com/track/88357193
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I miss when Aldi had more quirky German foods instead of $5 ice cubes and this monstrosity
15 years ago today, Miles Morales made his Marvel Comics debut. Created by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli.
This is a dynamite recording. I've only heard the piece on pianos but the additional instruments really add a ton Canto Ostinato by Metropolis Ensemble on Qobuz open.qobuz.com/album/zqq7qf...
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Cake Might be the New Recession Indicator. #BandNamesasNYTHeadlines
How Many Maroons are There? Not as Many as You'd Suspect. #BandNamesasNYTHeadlines
Middle East Conflict Closes Dire Straits #BandNamesasNYTHeadlines
Barenaked Ladies Required to Submit Proof of Gender Ahead of US Tour #BandNamesasNYTHeadlines
Is Captain Beefheart the New Liver King? #BandNamesasNYTHeadlines
They Might Be Giants and Here's Why That's Bad for Democrats in the Midterms #BandNamesAsNYTHeadlines
Sam Bergman@violanorth.bsky.social · 2d agoObservers Differ On Total Number of Maniacs #BandNamesAsNYTHeadlines
The sitting president of the United States got his accounts closed for money laundering and its barely news 🤯
One of my favorite scenes in DS9 is O'Brien and Bashir getting shitfaced and singing Jerusalem
This is a casual reminder that the first 10 minutes of Up have nothing on the first 3 minutes of Arrival.
If I had a time machine, I would do the following things: Give Lili Boulanger a case of Albuterol inhalers. Leave a copy of Berg's op 1 piano sonata on Beethoven's piano in 1825. Kick Wagner in the nuts with a steel-toed boot. Smoke some opium with Berlioz.
If that one guy is following your recommendation of listening to the Quatuor Ébène recording of Verklärte Nacht then I'm not going to argue.
Sam Bergman@violanorth.bsky.social · 4d agoChecked in on the ol' classical music news & discourse for the first time in a couple of months, and as per usual, the solution to everything is for everyone in classical music to stop doing everything they've been doing and start doing whatever this one guy over here is doing.
At Aldi the other day I saw a guy in a BRPD Baseball shirt. "Oh, like Hellboy?" I asked him. He looked at me, clearly confused. That's BPRD. This was Big Rapids Police Department. My attempts at being outgoing in public are going swimmingly.
"About 1,375 Olives are pressed to make 1 litre of Olive Oil, 8,435 Sunflower seeds to make a litre of Sunflower Oil . . . don't even get me started on Baby Oil."
The only thing Wolverine hates more than mutant intolerance is Mondays.
