Lightleak aka D.H. Currier aka Dustin

...or better yet, you can just have the files. Burn it to a CD, jam it on yr phone, whatever!

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Wood & Wires, Vol. 1, by D.H. Currier 9 track album

New album WOOD & WIRES, VOL. 1 out today 🎈

Solo guitar music + field recording for quiet, restorative moments. Mastered by Heather Jones @ So Big Auditory.

Streaming most places (but not Spotify or Amazon)—listen on @bandcamp.com: dhcurrier.bandcamp.com/album/wood-w...

Saxophone has to be the instrument that I most often mistakenly hear as a human voice for a sec.

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

Just learned that it was Alfred Nobel (of the Prize fame) who invented dynamite!

Very very cool. Love the brief “scribbly” moments!

Chicago indie musicians organize to spurn Spotify via open letter  - Chicago Reader Local indie artists organize to spurn Spotify via open letter, the 19th annual Hyde Park Jazz Festival lights up the neighborhood, and more.

You may recall when gentleman and scholar @imleor.bsky.social wrote about Chicago artists dumping Spotify last month. Fortunately, telling Daniel Ek to go fuck himself appears to be contagious! Solidarity to these musicians, and may their movement continue to grow. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...

The Autobiographies of the Haymarket Martyrs

Gang of Pawns, by Lightleak from the album Helluva Swing

Good guys with guns watch over us
They know what’s best to serve the economy
Good thing they so seldom hurt us
Their aim is true when protecting state property
And you know how us crowds get unruly
When we’re upset, when we’ve got the numbers…

lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/track/gang-o...

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For no real reason, thinking about this piece about the "headline news about famous guy saying transphobic thing" industrial complex I wrote for Paste two years ago. Just before everything got worse.

www.pastemagazine.com/music/transp...

It would seem we agree about the infectiousness & overall danger of Covid (though it's vascular, not exclusively respiratory).

But it sounds like you've got another idea for how to influence a response that is not social, though—what do you suggest?

If brevity is the issue, might I suggest “early Covid” then?

Assuming precision in language is a shared value, I think that is objectively more accurate & requires no justification or assumptions.

It’s not hard to use a couple more words for the sake of accuracy.

Also it’s almost always clear that what people actually mean by “during Covid” is that they chose the false reality of the pandemic being behind us biologically at the time it was declared “over” socially.

At best, it’s incorrect & imprecise. At worst, it IS callous & dangerous—a perpetuation of the kind of thinking that keeps Covid itself spreading nonstop.

Except no one who takes it seriously (& actually behaves accordingly) would say that. Maybe this is a case where it’d be good to take the word of people who actually do take it seriously re: how it’s best discussed.

Every time I hear/read someone saying “during Covid” in the past tense, it makes me lose another little bit of faith in humanity.

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order to resist Trump's plans to deploy feds, troops to Chicago • The TRiiBE Mayor Brandon Johnson said Trump's deployment of federal agents to Chicago could begin as early as Friday, Sept. 5.

“The order demands that President Donald Trump stand down from his threat to deploy National Guard personnel to Chicago and affirms that Chicago Police Department (CPD) will remain a locally controlled law enforcement agency…”

thetriibe.com/2025/08/mayo...

Kinda rad tbh. I personally consider this a greater & far more necessary & obviously less terrifying service than walking around with guns.

The camo does come off a bit camp in this context though.

an empire’s dying days. it’s up to us how we will protect one another, and what we will build as the structures we have traditionally relied on cease to function

Cowards all.

Any recs for a video camera for someone (me) who has never had one but insists on having one that produces supremely interesting images?

US military preparing for National Guard activation in Washington D.C., officials say The U.S. military is preparing for the activation of hundreds of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday.

On the potential DC guard deployment:

“One of the [U.S.] officials said it was unclear what exactly the troops would do, but could take part in efforts to protect federal agents or even carry out administrative tasks to free up law enforcement officials.”

via @reuters.com

Those little microphones everyone holds in their little internet videos now are very goofy, no? Are we all thinking this?

Not only am I not interested in this “manosphere” (& pretty sure I would hate it), I’m basically disinterested in the notion of manhood as a whole.

The only criteria that I think is worth considering in judging any man exclusively against other men is how they treat non-men.

Helluva Swing, by Lightleak 11 track album

It is @bandcamp.com Friday & this album is still free: lightleakthing.bandcamp.com/album/helluv...

Wrote, recorded & mixed this over ~4 months—a scrappy guitar-oriented rock & roll record.

RIYL Chicago in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, Letterboxd reviews, pop songs that are just a little “off”, etc.

I would like to read a 33 1/3 book (or even better, a full tome) on Blonde Redhead’s otherworldly masterpiece ‘Misery is a Butterfly’.

Skin, Flesh and Bones - Bones Dub [Jamaica, Dub] (1976)

Skin, Flesh and Bones - Bones Dub [Jamaica, Dub] (1976)
https://redd.it/108ga5x
https://youtu.be/fwc5RrY77RA

iPhone that does air conditioning (but only in the summer).

Happy 30th birthday, Bisexuals.

PARTY TIP: Instead of using AI to prove fun points about how shitty it is, you can just… not use it. At all. For anything. Ever.