David Menestres

Sam Gilliam Was a Black Lifer DC Artist. I Wanted to Be Like Him. - Washingtonian Beauty Pill frontman Chad Clark remembers his former neighbor.

www.washingtonian.com/2022/06/29/s...

(I wrote this a few years ago.)

Absolutely. Hide the women & children etc.

For sure even still there are times & places one needs to be careful. True for everywhere. But dang, home to Go-go and Dischord? That alone cements the greatness of DC and that's like a tiny sliver of it all.

This is very good

one of the reasons publishers are motivated to license their content is the very real possibility that people will eventually stop using traditional Google/library searches and being part of the training set will be the only way to discoverability

Flash back: mixing what would become Proxemics. #juno3

image being scared of DC, the best city with the best people and the best scene

I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (Deluxe Version) - YouTube

Every day is a good day for Sinéad O'Connor.

Instagram’s “Friend Map” sounds like a fun way for friends to share their location.

Unfortunately, Meta thinks your friends include Meta's own employees, advertisers, and cops.

Here’s why & how to turn it off 🧵

1/5

Sam Rivers Tuba Trio: Essence - The Heat and Warmth of Free Jazz - YouTube

Sam Rivers
Warren Smith
Joseph Daley

Essence - The Heat And Warmth Of Free Jazz (1977)

Would watch.

"Hi I'm David. Nice to meet you. The Jolly Green Giant asked that I say hello."

Rachel Beetz Flutist + Composer

Check out the Rachel Beetz madness. Come for her set if not for our's.

I'm excited to hear Rachel in person!

This is Friday in DC and it will be incredibly sick.

This is Saturday in RVA and it will be incredibly sick.

Some righteous double guitar & drum noise to wake you up in this ongoing nightmare. You'll still need coffee so you don't get the shakes because you're a junky, but this helps.

More than 20% of the world's data centers are in VA. Totally fucking nuts. And who gets to pay for all this new electrical infrastructure? We do! Not the corporations. Electric bills are going up $250/year per household. For fucking chatgpt bullshit. End of the world can't come fast enough.

They are the worst!! An absolute plague on us here in Virginia. Between my house in RVA and DC 100 miles away there are more than 500 data centers.

Welkin, by Welkin 3 track album

What better for a Monday morning than a new album of metal/noise/improvisation? welkin1.bandcamp.com/album/welkin (we're also playing a late night gig at the Vortex in London at the end of the month alongside Bone Folder: see www.vortexjazz.co.uk/event/vortex...)

W, by Trio Blurb Mia Zabelka/ Maggie Nicols/ John Russell 2 track album

W (2018)

maggie nicols – vocals
john russell – guitar
mia zabelka – violin, vocals

Trio Blurb, by Maggie Nicols/ John Russell/ Mia Zabelka 4 track album

Trio Blurb (2013)

Maggie Nicols - Voice
John Russell - Guitar
Mia Zabelka - Violin, Voice

basically no one I know expects anything good to ever happen again. To the extent that this orientation attends the sub consciousness of at least two generations, we have under-attended to its consequences on culture and social possibility.

Five Prayers, by Joy Guidry 5 track album

really quite beautiful

Yesterday was proclaimed “Ron Carter Day” in the city of Rochester, NY. Carter attended Eastman School of Music. He was inducted in the Rochester Music Hall of Fame in 2015.

Photo from his twitter.

Sick lineup

My point is: if you were around Cville in 2017, and you feel like half of one slapped ass, tomorrow begins our Días de Estupidez so that might be why, it is entirely kicking my ass this year. DMs are open.

Rn is a great time to learn about the fossil fuel projects being built in your area & connect with the advocacy groups fighting them, even if it’s just attending a webinar. This is the first step to action. Here in VA were fighting 3 major pipelines & have groundbreaking Rights of Nature work.

This is the way

Our government is a petro state & using fracked gas to power data centers creates a market for this commodity that nearly everywhere else on Earth is rejecting as they transition to renewables. Methane is 80% more potent than CO2 for global heating, fast tracking us to a hothouse Earth scenario. ☠️🔥

hot tip not all trans people share the same politics because gender and sexuality are not coherent political identities