Mads

If it’s countertenors replacing mezzos I will convert to Catholicism.

A conference... but it's Midwestern emo

Super excited to announce that I will be hosting "A Conference...But It's Midwestern Emo" in April 2026, what I believe to be the first conference dedicated to emo studies!!! Poster by Jacob Cupps!!!

My feed did a thing and adding on --- I too am in the northeast this weekend and man, it's nice to see real fall again. Now to find me some apple cider and apple cider donuts ✌️

New Yorker cover art from 1999 with a Pikachu dragging a bag of money during trick-or-treating

A series of five books related to video game music that are sitting on top of a wooden table. The first one is called nostalgia and video game music and the cover resembles a red game boy the second is called the music of Nobuo Uematsu in the Final Fantasy series, the third book is called analyzing NES music. The fourth book is called. The legend of Zelda ocarina of Time and the final book is called gender, race, and religion in video game

Some musical new additions to our shelves thanks to the amazing folks over at @intellectbooks.bsky.social 🙏 💙

For all you #Ludomusicology fans out there, be sure to check out this “Studies in Game Sound and Music” series. 🎶 📚

#GameStudies @ludomusicology.bsky.social

AI is a lack of consent machine whose greatest strength has been convincing people that other people’s boundaries are to be negotiated with

And that people who tell you no are defunct

Vienna Teng mention which means I get to post this. @viennateng.bsky.social

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Flyer that includes the cover image of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games in light blue text over a dark background and the text Pipeline to Publication: A JSMG Mentorship Workshop. Friday, October 17. 2:00pm EDT, 7:00pm UTC/GMT. https://tinyurl.com/bdcpupby Passcode: 847119

Announcing our JSMG editorial board Pipeline to Publication Workshop Friday, October 17 at 2pm EDT/7pm GMT at tinyurl.com/bdcpupby, passcode: 847119. We hope you can join us, and please share this post to all who might benefit!

Biiiig yikes 😬

A challenger appears: busted AC 👈😎👈

Never thought I'd say it, but grateful for my eight-ish years of admin experience right about now. Rescheduling meetings? Nothing to it.

Paul F. Tompkins: Something so poignant about "remember me on this device"

DIDO: Remember me, but ah! forget my fate on this device

Really wish I could privatize my Bluesky account for many reasons, one of the reasons being I'm tired of randos following my account. I'd probably feel differently about this if folks actually engaged with me 🤷‍♀️

Photographer Sally Mann warns of 'new era of culture wars' after art seizure As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum.

As she reflects on her career in a second memoir, Sally Mann warns of a "new era of culture wars" after police pulled several photographs she took of her children decades ago off the walls of a museum.

North American Conference on Video Game Music (NACVGM) 13 Conference CFP (Formats: Paper Presentation, Poster/Game Demo/Sound Art Installation, Performance)

Dates: May 1–2, 2026
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI); Troy, NY (in person & virtual)

Deadline: November 21 2025

nacvgm.org/proposals/

If I controlled an animation studio- any animation studio- I would jump both feet forth. Alas- for good or bd- I do not.

Got my covid vaccine?? Without a prescription?? In the south????

Day eight and, while not 100% fixed, the giant gaping hole in my bedroom ceiling is patched. Hallelujah.

Yeaaaah even more frustrating since I've only lived in this place for like, two months. At least nothing of value has been damaged...?

Day seven with a giant gaping hole in my bedroom ceiling and

Water leak! Apartment maintenance fixed the leak and removed the worst of the damage ... but they have yet to fix the giant gaping hole. Within the next hour I'll find out if the hole is still there 🤪

Day six with a giant gaping hole in my bedroom ceiling and how I long to sleep in my own bed and now the shitty couch that I purchased for $75 god what was I thinking

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

JOB: FSU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track)! I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions.

societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...

Day five with a giant gaping hole in my bedroom ceiling but at least I touched grass today.

If you use AI to summarize a research article for you, that is a tacit admission that 1) you do not understand what that article argues; 2) you do not know what evidence is presented to support that argument; and 3) you do not have enough information to evaluate either the argument or evidence.

Firing 9,000 employees while repeatedly raising the cost of a console that came out five years ago reveals a rot far deeper than the "macroeconomic realities (tariffs)" they get to prop the blame up on.

Giant gaping hole
In my ceiling for four days.
This is my life now.