St. Lenox

Two turnips, which i have cut into shapes for a stew. The one on the right is a "chrysanthemum" cut, based on a video i saw from Shota Nakajima. The one on the left is what im calling a peony cut, that i made up, but I like how it turned out!

Is it good professional hygiene to post your records for Bandcamp Friday on Bluesky? Link to all of my records in the profile.

"At times beautiful, difficult, and brash, this is true 21st century songwriting."
- AllMusic

The look of love.

Samuel S.C. Premieres New Video "Another Good Lie" • Bad Copy We’re excited to premiere a new music video from Samuel S.C. "Another Good Lie" will be featured on their new album, out later this year.

Today, The Bad Copy premieres Samuel S.C.'s video for its brand new single, "Another Good Lie." Video by Andrew Choi of St. Lenox!

thebadcopy.com/news/video/s...

True or false: over the past decade, you need to come from a family in the top 10% of income earners and/or net worth in order to be in the conversation in indie music.

Go to an open mic! You can even scope one out ahead of time as a listener to figure out your comfort level with the place.

The Tyranny of Rhyme and Metaphor in Songwriting A number of years ago, when I was beginning to write my own songs, a fellow songwriter confronted me very seriously about my writing, telling me that I should have a go at writing more “tradi…

A late counterproposal, to a suggestion that I write "more traditional" songs. I will probably continue to edit this post as I think through the issue. But I provide some I think new and unique takes on the matter.

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The only scene i knew from Meet Joe Black was btw Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins where Hopkins goes on what seems like a 10 min. speech about cold lamb sandwiches. He says "cold lamb sandwiches" so many times, it feels like its an advertisement for cold lamb sandwiches.

This was hilarious btw.

YouTube video by T. Azimuth Schwitters The Last Five Minutes of Meet Joe Black! with The Neighborhood Listen

If you’re not familiar with The Neighborhood Listen podcast, we improvise in character based on Nextdoor posts but also sometimes we do watchalongs to five minutes of a movie. This one got away from us. Thanks to listener “T. Asimuth Schwitters” for putting this together

EVERYBODY'S DUNE A BRAND NEW DANCE NOW

I've been understanding less and less what the news is ever since outlets were paying for ads on old articles to drum up ad revenue. Outlets are now libraries of stories that generate revenue over time (and im sure authors dont get a cut). I also saw GroundNews is AI generated summaries too?

Underwerewolf.

Rosy Overdrive’s Top 25 EPs of 2025 EPs! My 25 favorites from this year, to be precise! A week after Rosy Overdrive wrapped its Top 100 Albums of 2025, the blog is sharing this smaller, (on average) more obscure, and all-around fun l…

Presenting...Rosy Overdrive's Top 25 EPs of 2025!

Pressing Concerns: The Kyle Sowashes, Daddy Fell Through, Tercel, Silk Daisys Welcome to a mid-December Monday Pressing Concerns! We’ve got new albums from The Kyle Sowashes and Silk Daisys, plus new EPs from Daddy Fell Through and Tercel. Stay tuned for some more year…

New blog post! Wrote about new records from The Kyle Sowashes, Daddy Fell Through @fitzplastic.bsky.social, Tercel, and Silk Daisys:

I think if many people used the DEI standards that are expected of large corporations, they would find out that their curation standards are much worse than large horrible corporations like Microsoft and JP Morgan.

Music journalists should institute the DEI practices they advocate for in the workplace, and look at the racial makeup of their listening queue throughout the year, move up bands from minority and underrepresented backgrounds. And do a yearly diagnosis on what they listen to and review every year.

Nominate Your 3 Favorite 2025 Korean Indie Releases Add the artist name and release name in the field below. Emails are collected to verify nominations and reduce spam. K-pop, while good, will be deleted. Nominations end on December 19, 2025

We need more of your nominations! This is decided by you! bit.ly/KoreanIndie2...

Why would they call the show Trash Truck, when it clearly relies on an ensemble cast?

I was just generally surprised by his taste in general. Dunkirk as the #4 best film of the 21st century? I didn't hate it, but it was basically a Seinfeld episode about World War II, and otherwise fairly unmemorable. The list and then his comments felt like he was screaming for attention.

Regular or golden?

Dr. Dillamond was able to pronounce the second "A" in Galinda's name but not the first?

But the analysis must exclude BonJovi and DiGiorno. Or whatever.

Thanks! Salt was one of the things I wasn't measuring by weight but I guess its easy to do so and the literal way to exercise the most control.

For health reasons (recommended by doctor), both my husband and I were trying to lower our sodium intake, and baking bread was one of the only ways for us to enjoy bread while controlling sodium because there are very few lower sodium alternatives.

@wordloaf.org does this sound right? I suppose not many bakers even try and cut salt significantly in dough recipes. But was surprised how much even the dough firmed up when I moved salt content from 20% recommended to 80% recommended.

Finally figured out the mystery of the dry challah. Bc I generally cut the salt in my bread recipes. This doesn't affect many of the breads I bake, but if it's a very enriched dough, the lack of salt leads to a dessicated texture that is not fantastic. Hence my brioche, pandoro, babka, etc...

This how I find out I have a son??

This jack-o'-lantern was inspired loosely by the faberge egg that Tsar Nicholas II gave to his wife, the Tsarina, Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in 1898. This year I didnt have enough time to really make something really detailed, so I just made it a regular jack-o'-lantern on one side.

Got to the show early and checked out the liquor stores in the area. Apparently Chartreuse, including Yellow Chartreuse is back, so I nabbed a bottle so I have a stash, before it gets sold out. (I already have two bottles of Green just in case).