RM Francis

A flyer for the Environmental Studies/Nathan Ho/MouseMan show at the Chapel Performance Space in Seattel on August 8, featuring the names of the artists across the top and a digitally animated dragon in the bottom right corner emblazoned with the words "Xtreme audio."

Friday 8/8 8:00pm at the Chapel Performance Space, Seattle: Environmental Studies/Nathan Ho/MouseMan
More info: www.waywardmusic.org/event/enviro...

A poster for a concert featuring R.A. Jones, Wild Strawberries, and RM Francis at the Chapel Performance Space, 4649 Sunyside Ave N, Seattle, on Tuesday July 15, 2025, $5-20 sliding scale. The names of the artists are written in colorful cursive above a grainy saturated color image of a white balustrade in a wooded setting speckled with blotches of bright colors.

🌈🌈🌈SEATTLE DREAMERS✨✨✨Come hear the sweet, sweet, synthetic sounds of summer from R.A. Jones plus new duo Wild Strawberries (Nick Bindeman and Ryan Carlile)! Opening set by yours truly.
More info at www.waywardmusic.org/event/r-a-jo....
Flyer by @tombubul.bsky.social

Algorithmic Art Assembly

Woop! Early announcement for anyone planning travel for early next year -

AAAssembly 3 - Algorithmic Art Assembly will return - March 26-28th, 2026, Gray Area, San Francisco

aaassembly.org

Although tbh I'm a little more mesomorphic now that I'm meso-aged.

As a classic ectomorph, I am shocked and delighted to be referred to as a heavyweight here, along with skinny boy @jungantagen.bsky.social

The cover of Showing Cause by Two Weeks, which features a purple and blue mesh pattern over a mauve background

I wrote the liner notes for Showing Cause, the excellent new (quad!) release by Two Weeks (Obie Feldi and Ben Starkey). Check it out at etat.xyz/release/ShowingCause
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The cover of H E L L O After-Person by RM Francis and Jung An Tagen, which shows a red and orange mesh pattern over a dark green background

H E L L O After-Person, my new collab with @jungantagen.bsky.social, is available now at etat.xyz in both stereo and quad versions.
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I think you’re going to want to swap that out for *at least* a medium.

Twins! RM Francis shows in Moscow/Pullman area: March 21 at WSU Planetarium & March 22 at Moscow Contemporary.

LOLTRAX002, by LOL Editions 11 track album

My track “I am the reason why I’m alive That is the law” is featured on the beautifully designed and curated compilation LOLTRAX002, out today! loleditions.bandcamp.com
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Al the ones marked ***** are total bangers, although Unrest is probably the one I bring up the most in conversation (protagonist-less story about anarchist watchmakers in c.1900 Switzerland). Pacification also v v excellent.

Not Empire of Signs, but thanks. I read it so long ago that I’m questioning my memory. Maybe it was a book about Barthes rather than by him.

Same thing happens in The MANIAC by Benjamin Labatut (although I think it’s at the White Sands test), which is mostly a biography of John Von Neumann that then veers into the story of AlphaGo. A great, breezy read—much more formally interesting than most historical fiction.

Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease Our civic wells are poisoned. Why?

Also, if you (or anyone else) haven’t read this George Saunders article published just after the US election, it’s well worth your time.
Five Thought Experiments Concerning the Underlying Disease www.newyorker.com/magazine/dis...

a man stands on his head one minute— then he sit down all different

Too many great books last year to pick one, but I’ll single out the last one I finished, Complete Minimal Poems by Aram Saroyan, which I am tempted to reproduce here in its entirety because every page is pure joy.

I Saw The TV Glow ****
Last Things *****
Cure ***
Swallow ***
Late Night with the Devil ***
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat *****
Evil Does Not Exist ****
Dahomey ****(*)
La Chimera *****
Frenzy ****

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World ****
The Beast **(*)
Those Who Are Fine ****
The Death of Louis XIV ***(*)
The Sweet East **
Monster **(*)
Tabu ***(*)
Kinds of Kindness ****
Ob-i Ob-a the end of civilization **
Worst Person in the World *
Family Portrait **
The Substance ****

Every movie I watched for the first time in 2024:

The Delinquents *****
Fallen Leaves ***
Barbie ****
The Souvenir II ****
The Eternal Daughter *
Zone of Interest ***
Mission Impossible —
Pacifiction ****
Iron Claw ***
Dune Part 2 **
Incendies ***
Azor ****
Unrest ****
The Settlers ****

This Lisa Ullen is lovely! Thanks for the introduction.

Uh oh, I may have made some enemies today by referring to rock-n-roll as a “boomer idiom.”