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Colin Self

@colinself.bsky.social

Artist, composer, performance maker, alleged multi-hyphenate. XOIR and TIAPS co-founder. My 3rd LP is out February 21st!

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Colin Self

“respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis”, el tercer disco largo de @colinself.bsky.social, es un álbum extraordinario en variedad –avant-pop, 2-step, R&B, glitch music, ambient soul...–, inventiva y ejecución.

✍️ José Manuel Caturla

05.04.2025 15:36 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My controversial queer theory is that being happy is good and helping people is good and wanting better for the world is good and lecturing young queer people about negative politics while making six or seven figures a year at a private university is bad bad bad bad bad.

21.03.2025 14:00 — 👍 48    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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REVIEW: Colin Self, respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis | FT Get more from FT on Patreon

I reviewed the new album by @colinself.bsky.social over on Patreon.

No paywall, free to read!

02.04.2025 21:21 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Colin Self

“respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis”, el tercer disco largo de @colinself.bsky.social, es un álbum extraordinario, lleno de canciones sobre deseo, soledad y transformación con un punto de esoterismo que conecta con el antiguo Antony Hegarty aka ANOHNI.

✍️ José Manuel Caturla

02.04.2025 20:50 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

💙🪢❤️

02.04.2025 21:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This beautiful track from @colinself.bsky.social’s new album has been on a loop in my house recently.

01.04.2025 16:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Babe wake up, Colin Self is going on tour!

14.03.2025 18:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Hosting a special one-off XOIR session in NYC next week! shotgun.live/en/events/xo...

11.03.2025 17:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps

block the path

09.03.2025 20:31 — 👍 7682    🔁 2800    💬 7    📌 72

🥰🥰🥰 thank you Justus

08.03.2025 17:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Music Recommendation Alert:
This my favorite album of the year by far - please do yourself a favor and check it out. Ghosts, connection with spirits and total bangers - listened to it many a time all the way through!

Congrats @colinself.bsky.social this work is permeated with cosmic care

07.03.2025 17:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis, by Colin Self 12 track album

Hi! It’s Bandcamp Friday! 100% of sales go straight to the artist! You know what to do~

colinself.bandcamp.com/album/respit...

07.03.2025 16:11 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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My new video for Losing Faith ft. animations by Aidan Koch is out today on YouTube ! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

27.02.2025 22:42 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you

14.02.2025 22:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have got to be more of a faggot

14.02.2025 04:47 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Getting ready for tour

12.02.2025 22:32 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love *is* the law 𝗵𝘂𝗵

04.02.2025 09:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Seven Poems by Martha Shelley," The Ladder, Vol. 14, Issue 7-8, April/May 1970.

24.01.2025 15:42 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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#Serbia 🇷🇸: mass protests also took place in Novi Sad, in the northern Vojvodina region, the site of the railway station tragedy.

24.01.2025 14:24 — 👍 126    🔁 28    💬 2    📌 2

Bratislava. Belgrado. Tbilisi.

24.01.2025 22:06 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE confirms no immigration activity on Muni. But SFUSD helped spread rumor. SFUSD sent emails notifying families that a middle school student claimed to have been approached by ICE. It wasn't true.

Don't spread rumors. Stick to substantiated data. Here's a rumor that spread a panic that this excellent news source found no basis for. missionlocal.org/2025/01/sfpd...

24.01.2025 21:34 — 👍 428    🔁 71    💬 13    📌 0
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"Born out of the political and ecological dump of the mid-1970s, object performance plays this script in reverse: it proposes playing in the dump."

From our new issue, read Gabriel Levine's "Dump Puppetry": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

24.01.2025 23:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Wow these quotes are like 🎯🎯🎯

24.01.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
“I've found that a lot of people have an
"annoying guy at the magic show trying to prove how smart he is" energy towards art in general, and especially the work of people like David Lynch.
They either want to reject the idea of mystery altogether - insisting that they can see the man behind the curtain - or
they want to believe that there are clues and the mystery can be solved.
We cannot just let a thing be, we want answers. We want evidence that the
artist either had some specific authorial intent that we can deem as acceptable, or we want evidence that the artist was
a con man in order to prove that we were never fooled. Because heaven
forbid the idea that we decide what it
means for ourselves. That's too vulnerable and uncomfortable.”

“I've found that a lot of people have an "annoying guy at the magic show trying to prove how smart he is" energy towards art in general, and especially the work of people like David Lynch. They either want to reject the idea of mystery altogether - insisting that they can see the man behind the curtain - or they want to believe that there are clues and the mystery can be solved. We cannot just let a thing be, we want answers. We want evidence that the artist either had some specific authorial intent that we can deem as acceptable, or we want evidence that the artist was a con man in order to prove that we were never fooled. Because heaven forbid the idea that we decide what it means for ourselves. That's too vulnerable and uncomfortable.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

24.01.2025 23:26 — 👍 23    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0

Stupendous article. This screengrabbed bit really resonated.

24.01.2025 23:23 — 👍 42    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

Agreed on all fronts! I just finished Fire Walk With Me for the first time and am about to start season 3 (o◞ิ‿◟ิo)

24.01.2025 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Laurie Anderson -  Long Time No See  (Set and Reset score)
YouTube video by KouKlouvahata Puppet Theatre Laurie Anderson - Long Time No See (Set and Reset score)

youtu.be/4ainJO9Heo8?... on repeat all day

24.01.2025 11:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I could not imagine a better time for Tabatha Coffey to take over the USA.

24.01.2025 10:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Is there an open-source extension for this or any other app that blurs the face of E*on or Dump?

23.01.2025 13:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Doing my German taxes for multiple years and I can safely say right now… I would prefer jail time! Lock me up? I would prefer that. Carceral residency!

23.01.2025 11:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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