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Blue sky with high wispy clouds and weak December sun setting over rugged pines bordering a snow-covered cow pasture in East Cathance Stream estuary, Bowdoin, ME (no filter or edits)

gotta hit a sunset swamp 5k @ 16°F for this kind of solitude. doing it daily for my running mentor & bandmate who passed. Dan was a fantastic human.

I have one of those

Just found out my sax player died an hour ago. Hitting the stage in 10 w/the rest of the band to do it like Dan would’ve wanted. Rest easy, bud.

I wish I could! It’s never been easy to make a living in music. Buying music direct on Bandcamp & at shows is always good.

All their millionaire c-levels invest in companies, PACs and politicians who do. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Don't kid yourself. Tidal still only pays artists fractions of a penny per play while paying their non-artist execs millions. There is no ethical streaming service because the model for streaming royalties is fundamentally unethical. It doesn't matter at all which service you use.

I think Daniel Ek is a POS, Rogan too. I just don’t think unorganized boycotts based on socmed shaming of individual users is an effective or useful tactic to challenge systemic power. Streaming rates are a problem across all services. There was never a time musicians got paid what they were worth.

y’xll lives matter

Old Fugazi t-shirt I wore every day in high school that says “You are not what you own”

miss me w/the spotify grandstanding. there is no ethical consumption under capital. putting the onus on the individual to solve systemic issues is class-traitor lib brainrot.

I’m 81 musical years old and I listened to 95k minutes of so-called “nu jazz”

2025 Best Songs

If you’re catching up on overlooked EOY list-worthy music, here are my top 120 tracks of 2025, one track per release, ~10 releases/month. No ranking, no nepo baby vocal pop, no boring chart/radio dreck, mostly underground, indie, weird & obscure. open.spotify.com/playlist/47c...

the fact that he picked a slogan that could be so easily misread to either be supporting billionaires or homelessness is a tell that he doesn't have the faculties to lead. even by the most charitable read, it's a bullshit HR newsletter platitude. it's so aggressively tone deaf, limp and uninspiring.

Sunset on a partly-frozen pond in East Cathance Stream estuary, Bowdoin ME

5k every day, even at 32° w/a broken nose, just so I can see this spot

What's Good (Week of 11/23/25) New music from Chester Watson, Jesse The Tree & Jason Griff, MAVI, Von Pea & The Other Guys, Zilla Rocca, and much more!

New What's Good is live! Music from Zilla Rocca, Von Pea & The Other Guys, Jesse The Tree & Jason Griff, Skilla, Count Bass D, Factor Chandelier, MAVI, and much more!

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ate tksgvng, passed a kidney stone, fainted, woke up w/a concussion & broken nose. it’s the curse of Mayflower descendants.

The Residents
Steely Dan
Boredoms
Madonna
Mr Bungle (3x)

If you have money, your job is not to ask an artist how they plan to make a living. Your job is to ask how you can be helpful, and to fork over cash.

Really thoughtful work here, enjoyed the deep reads, excited to hear more

Early AM shot of foggy coast at low tide in Passamaquoddy Nation territory outside Eastport, Maine

This record sounds like this picture looks

Compost Their Thrones As The Earth Shall Be Ours Lit By The Dawn, by Zachary Earl Howard 8 track album

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Real haunting, cinematic new record by a bunch of old friends, roomies & band tour comrades in Maine. eastern-tinged strings, dark folk, dungeonwave, found sounds, ambient poetry, drone & doom mass under tall pines in the thick coastal fog.

Whitetail doe next to pond in East Cathance Stream estuary

Whitetail doe by pond in East Cathance Stream estuary

Whitetail deer on hill crest in front of foggy East Cathance Stream pasture

Three Whitetail deer in East Cathance Stream pasture in front of rising spruce & white pine.

some of my deer friends from fall 5k runs thru the swamp behind my house

I’m a left-leaning voter in ME. I’m literally the target of your poorly-sourced arg, and you smugly dismiss my issues w/yr arg instead of making a better arg. Dunning-Kreuger in action. You have no business scolding Mainers on class issues you can’t even topically defend or define. Stay in yr lane.

You have never seen this or thought about class like this. This has been the common understanding of class since you were a child. The fact that you don’t know this shows why you aren’t qualified to discuss class seriously. Your framing is 1880s vintage and has been long discarded by sociology.

You’ve never ever heard the term or of Wright before I mentioned it. You don’t even have the tools to make a proper argument. You have vague feelings about inchoate notions of class. What was the last book on class you read?

No, you don’t understand the common concepts in any serious discussion on class for the past 50 years like contradictory class
location. Your point was superseded by a more complicated understanding a half a century before you made it. You don’t know how or why bc you aren’t conversant in class.

I appreciate Mike’s commitment to experimentation, but this one was a foregone MacGuffin.

I’m a laborer-owner of a small biz who lives in a trailer park today, and I actually read books about class. I’m more working class AND better read than you ever were. Take the L.

You literally don’t know basic class terms that were worked out in the 70s that have been part of every discussion on it since. You aren’t equipped to talk about class with the depth or intelligence of a 101-level course. It’s a peanut-gallery take.

JD has Comet Pizza nips

New Snarky Puppy record w/Metropole Orchestre is insanely good. New Mike Patton & Avett Bros collab (PTTN/AVTT) is beyond awful, way worse than I even expected.