Nine years ago we got married at a Towson courthouse - we were already two decades deep as a couple so not that big a deal to get the state involved but it is a way of marking time - I love, you, Martin!
sorry to sound like a sap but seeing a young composer and student orchestra build and play something this ambitious and great reminds me not everything has to be fascist and stupid and ugly and destructive
some stunningly ambitious and beautiful music going on here- a 47 piece orchestra and 6 dancers and a slide projectionist / animator interpreting Calvino’s text - composed by Marcus Hart - one to watch!
To any Democrat who ever said about any issue, "Maybe if we agree with Republicans just this far, they'll stop there," remember that you were wrong, it was obvious at the time, and you really should never believe that again about any issue, ever.
“To make sense of Trump’s law enforcement operations, it is useful to see the police less as a simple instrument of state power than as a political body in its own right” —@stschrader1.bsky.social
My favorites are “Adnos I - III” and “Trilogie de La Mort”- each of them are three hour long continuous arcs / trips, so set aside the time and let it happen
R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.
Cheers! Glad you’re feeling it!
Soft Pink Truth "Can such delightful times go on forever?".
Baltimore music inaugurating Baltimore-designed speakers, Polk Audio ES 20.
Can't wait to watch the UFO box!
@drewdaniel.bsky.social
#CDFriday
Sorry to gush but this panel on “Our Minor Poets” was so fun! Great conversations about Chidiock Tichborne, Bathsua Makin, Michael Drayton, Eleanor Davies, Katherine Philips, public/private and manuscript/print distinctions- delightful turnout and smart questions in q+a
My Lord Chief Justice, speak to that vain man.
It’s a name to conjure with!
tbh I’m mostly cheerleading for “minority” as I think about anthology construction, then and now ( but to answer your question Chidiock Tichborne and Bathsua Makin make appearances )
greetings to all who are headed to #RenSA26 ! I will be taking part in these two sessions on poetry and queer studies respectively- and hope to cross paths with simpatico early modernists- I’ll be the one feverishly buying too many books 📚
I’m putting together a team
Happy to help!
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism
bookshop.org/p/books/swee...
Curious to learn more about Puerto Rico after Bad Bunny's explosive Super Bowl performance? Access "Puerto Rico: A National History," an engaging and surprising history of colonialism, revolt, and the creation of a national identity, on MUSE.
https://bit.ly/4bLOp3i
I would say it took about three years- it overlapped with finishing the “Is It Going to Get Any Deeper Than This?” material
Thanks for this careful response- I definitely tried to conceal the extent to which this is all a work of collage / assemblage - very little ensemble recording going on here - but I tried to mix it and cut it together to mostly conceal my interventions
Delighted at the SPT shoutout and @carlzoilus.bsky.social is always cogent! Check him and his crew below:
Hey! Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) made a video for the last song on my new album by collaging together a bunch of photographs I have taken over the years - check it out:
Cheers! 🥂 thanks for listening, I am grateful
I’m in good company!
🙏🙏🙏🙏 grateful this is finding listeners - I was pretty worried tbh about whether it would connect
Hey folks! Years in the making, my new Soft Pink Truth album « Can Such Delightful Times Go On Forever? » is out today from @thrilljockey.bsky.social ! Super grateful to everyone who helped me make this happen! ⏳⌛️🕯️🙏
Thanks 🙏 for reading- glad it resonated - I wasn’t sure I should publish this but I’m glad I stuck my neck out
🙏e🙏n🙏j🙏o🙏y🙏
🙏 thanks for reading and listening! And hello to you from over here!
