E.X || Chad R. Matheny

The nihilistic dehumanization some folks in DIY/indie music are displaying in response to a guy's neck exploding in front of 100s of impressionable college kids is...I've been ashamed of this subculture before, but never like this. You are being brittle, tiny-souled ghouls.

It doesn't matter what his stances were today. Mocking Charlie Kirk's extrajudicial execution before the body's cold is callous dehumanization. If you treasure human life like I do but can't see that, you're playing into the hands of our worst opponents, and you've lost your way.

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Трумп — хуйло!

Don't worry, being an antimonarchist is going to be just as fun as being an antifascist.

In 2025 we fight *monarchism*, a political philosophy that says those with power deserve it because they have it (social Darwinism) or because God ordained it (divine right of kings). It threatens the rights we've enjoyed for centuries, and it's winning (Putin, Trump, Bibi, Kim.)

These two tyrants want the same thing: a world where might makes right, power is hyper-concentrated at the top, and bloated nation-states carve up the globe into amoral mini-empires locked into ceaseless squabbles that impoverish most but enrich an unaccountable elite.

Trump takes control of Metro Police, deploys National Guard to take on Washington crime President Donald Trump recently promised Washington would be "LIBERATED" from "Crime, Savagery, Filth, and Scum."

A classic authoritarian move: oblique provocation designed to justify itself retroactively. Prob obvious, but we need to scream this, do something responsible about it, and stop rolling our eyes like it's a tacky shirt. Red alert territory. www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

See 1-. I think we agree incidentally (def on Ukraine), but to say "every" Palestinian uses antisemitic speech is just false, and even if it were true, Palestinian civilians wouldn't deserve to be arbitrarily and extrajudicially murdered by an occupying army for those hypothetical speech acts.

Reverb viola hip hop beats, cartoon cha-cha-cha on MIDI orchestra xylophones, infinite harmonically linear vi-IV-I-V loops, etc.: we underestimate how drastically the childish musical aesthetics of NPR shows and liberal podcasts undermine their credibility.

Remember when you were a scared teen and thought that being cruel in public to people below you in status was the same thing as being funny? Some people grow past that, some don't, and those two groups are the nuclei of a new political divide that cuts across left and right.

How's Q doing?

There's room for all kinds of friends on European trains. 🇪🇺

tonight in Brooklyn

Thank you, Mark Lipsitz. crmatheny.net/board/2025/0...

Happy Independence Day.
Take nothing for granted.
Empire looms eternally.

I listened to a ton of Christian rock as a kid. It was bad when it combined a superficial rebel cool kid with closed-minded conformist values. That fakeness was audible.

Much current DIY/"punk" music has the opposite problem: beautiful anticonformist values w/bland aesthetics.

Some shows have been added.

Some venues have changed.

Some require detective work.

Some do not:
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EMPEROR X w/ANOTHER MICHAEL, KLEENEX GIRL WONDER & MOCKTAG Tickets | $19.84 | Jun 27 @ Raccoon Motel , Davenport | DICE Appearing IN PERSON, EMPEROR X w/very special guests ANOTHER MICHAEL, KLEENEX GIRL WONDER & MOCKTAG!!! **ABOUT ANOTHER MICHAEL ::** Something very special ...

Davenport
35 hours from now
with my childhood hero Kleenex Girl Wonder
and my adulthood hero Another Michael
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truth

Indianapolis
11 hours from now
very correct

Surprise

Flight Mode so good!

Aus praktischen und politischen Gründen ist "...soliden Deutschkenntnissen..." mein liebstes Kompliment als Künstler! Biiiiiitte weiterleiten an die Ausländerbehörde, dann kann ich endlich europäisches Wahlrecht bekommen und meinen süßen aber verlorenen AfD-Nachbarn hart ärgern. 🇪🇺 :)

Principle to live by for studios with cats: beverages must in all cases be placed BELOW electronics.

Tankies

In times like these I like to focus on timeless truths, such as that based on vids coming out of the U.S. this week it looks like most American cops are still divorced jiggly sacks of asthmatic ham.

Heroes are real.

A free flat for a fortnight: the German city offering perks to fight depopulation Eisenhüttenstadt, once a socialist vision but now at risk of becoming a ghost town, seeks to ditch its far-right image

The Guardian wrote a piece about my adopted home sprawl, ask me anything. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...