Meaningless Excitement
@smoothatonalsound
Like a cross between a hurricane, and a ship that’s run aground. Phish, Grateful Dead, mountain biking, snowboarding, gardening in Brattleboro, Vermont. Sometimes using my doctorate to talk about Phish.
This was yesterday in western MA. Luckily today is a bit bluer
In honor of not being at Deer Creek, here’s this epic pic of me, @paytheslacker.bsky.social, @momadancer.bsky.social, @rosesarephree.bsky.social, @cuntypoopster.bsky.social, Mark, and Tiffany from my 40th bday run in 2021
Holy shit. This Ives concert is a dream for me. Absolutely unreal selection — most of my favorite songs. Feldeinsamkeit!!
But part of it is just that Lincoln Portrait is Copland’s Americana mastery firing on all cylinders. It’s so ridiculously good. I forgot how much I love this piece. Had to visit Uncle Aharon and pay my annual respects post-show
My ideal alternative #America250 celebration: a Glass Symphony world premiere that uses the words of Lincoln to warn against the dangers of tyranny and authoritarianism, some John Williams, and Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, a piece written to lift the spirits of a nervous country.
I’ve been saying this since the beginning of the WC. @rosesarephree.bsky.social thinks he looks like Rog, the deadhead husband of Rachel Zoe
Departing employee turned in his computer. I cleaned only the right side of the screen. The entire screen looked like the left side of this when I got it. Why are men like this???
Run don’t walk to listen to this Billy Trey Wolfman’s holy fuck
Going through old drawers for yard sale, found my old @musicologyduck.bsky.social button! The idea behind this was that if you wore it at musicology conferences, it signaled to other duck followers that you weren’t a horrible person and could reliably be an outlet for neurospicy awkwardness
Asheville Tourists logo is so fire. Bear is straight CHILLIN. This was from the 90s I think, he might have been redesigned
Mason’s Children, the GD cover band touring with the Summer Tour documentary. Pure 1968 setlist, tone, and vibe. Takes some guts to do Born Crosseyed, New Potato Caboose, and Clementine! Also, a full Dark Star>St. Stephen>Cryptical>Other1>The Eleven>Other One>Cryptical suite which was wild
22 but I am as yankee as it gets. I wrote a fuckin dissertation on New England identity! (Literally)