Max Grafe
@amagicreflexham.bsky.social
Composer • Teacher • Racing • NJ • Anti-anti-modernist • he/him
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Max Grafe
@amagicreflexham.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Important things about me: I'm a composer and music prof living in central NJ (yes it exists and it's called pork roll don't @ me) and I love racing, cooking, and cats. Let's hang
Your stomach growls, my stomach plays the first 3 notes of Also Sprach Zarathustra, we are not the same
January 9, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Your stomach growls, my stomach plays the first 3 notes of Also Sprach Zarathustra, we are not the same
If my parents picked up the phone it would kick me off the internet
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 1:57 AM
If my parents picked up the phone it would kick me off the internet
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It must be such a poor existence, clinging to the idea that anyone who likes anything artsier or more challenging than Vanderpump Rules is faking it for intellectual clout.
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
It must be such a poor existence, clinging to the idea that anyone who likes anything artsier or more challenging than Vanderpump Rules is faking it for intellectual clout.
Some of my students have a truly uncanny ability to ask me questions the answers to which are literally the last thing that came out of my mouth. It's genuinely kind of impressive
January 8, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Some of my students have a truly uncanny ability to ask me questions the answers to which are literally the last thing that came out of my mouth. It's genuinely kind of impressive
In a movement whose character is defined by some of the most reprehensible people on the planet, Loomer may just have them all beat
“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”
January 8, 2026 at 12:27 AM
In a movement whose character is defined by some of the most reprehensible people on the planet, Loomer may just have them all beat
Everybody needs to start saying this, loudly, and ideally with the corollary that we will not vote for anybody else under any circumstances
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Everybody needs to start saying this, loudly, and ideally with the corollary that we will not vote for anybody else under any circumstances
I could have told you what the endgame for DHS/ICE was the day it was formed* and I was in fucking middle school
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I could have told you what the endgame for DHS/ICE was the day it was formed* and I was in fucking middle school
In the Mafia they speak in hushed, reverent tones of the don who controlled the entire black market pasta trade in Latvia, they say nobody ever did it like Riga Tony
January 4, 2026 at 11:14 PM
In the Mafia they speak in hushed, reverent tones of the don who controlled the entire black market pasta trade in Latvia, they say nobody ever did it like Riga Tony
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my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them
January 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
my plan to get this country back on track consists of one bullet point: i propose we stop pretending stupid people arent stupid just because theyre loud and theres a lot of them
Funny how people stopped blaming all of society's ills on violent video games the moment they started making a few people obscenely wealthy
Video games, heavy metal music, even Dungeons & Dragons got far more panic and condemnation, and yet none of them have driven people to this.
January 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Funny how people stopped blaming all of society's ills on violent video games the moment they started making a few people obscenely wealthy
See you'd think this would work except their idea of an "unsafe" city is "I have to look at a homeless and/or nonwhite person"
The way we need to market this shit is to do what conservatives did for the past 30 years and write books like “The ten forbidden truths you’re not allowed to say on politically correct tv” and then it’s just cities are mostly fine and it’s good to get a flu shot
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
January 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
See you'd think this would work except their idea of an "unsafe" city is "I have to look at a homeless and/or nonwhite person"
Leaving Barney Greengrass after lunch, opened the door and there's Richard Kind staring me in the face. We kinda nodded at each other and went our separate ways. It's the most NYC thing that happened to me in 9 years of living there
Please quote this from the time you didn't interact with someone famous.
I was visiting with family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the same time that Mother Theresa was there visiting her Missionaries of Charity. The bishop held a Mass for her at the church where I was baptized. I didn't go.
I was visiting with family in New Bedford, Massachusetts, at the same time that Mother Theresa was there visiting her Missionaries of Charity. The bishop held a Mass for her at the church where I was baptized. I didn't go.
Catching a train from Bristol Temple Meads, but they shifted the service along the platform because a scene from THE OUTLAWS was being shot where it would usually come in. The scene featured Christopher Walken and Stephen Merchant, but my train came before they shot it so I didn't see either of 'em.
December 30, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Leaving Barney Greengrass after lunch, opened the door and there's Richard Kind staring me in the face. We kinda nodded at each other and went our separate ways. It's the most NYC thing that happened to me in 9 years of living there
Yeah we know, it's called "autism"
December 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Yeah we know, it's called "autism"
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Famously Sauron is known for never allowing his home to he penetrated by intruders.
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
Sauron, the high-end home security startup for "super premium" customers, plucks a new CEO out of Sonos | TechCrunch
Sauron is appearing on the scene as concerns rise about crime among the most wealthy.
techcrunch.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Famously Sauron is known for never allowing his home to he penetrated by intruders.
I for one can't wait to recreate the experience of heightened, inscrutable classical dramaturgy by only being able to understand 20% of the dialogue because the sound mixing is complete dogshit
I'm pretty much on board with Nolan doing the Odyssey. How good does it really have to be? The important thing is that it costs $250 million to make
December 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I for one can't wait to recreate the experience of heightened, inscrutable classical dramaturgy by only being able to understand 20% of the dialogue because the sound mixing is complete dogshit
Not for nothing but one of the reasons I'm glad I left Twitter is I kept getting in fights with someone I can only describe as the Will Stancil of contemporary concert music
December 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Not for nothing but one of the reasons I'm glad I left Twitter is I kept getting in fights with someone I can only describe as the Will Stancil of contemporary concert music
Zoot is clearly an accomplished musician, so him playing the "wrong" note at the end of the Muppet Show theme should be read as an inspired creative choice rather than an error, in this essay I will
December 26, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Zoot is clearly an accomplished musician, so him playing the "wrong" note at the end of the Muppet Show theme should be read as an inspired creative choice rather than an error, in this essay I will
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boat against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, reckoned he got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt him and sivilize him and he can’t stand it. He been there before.
December 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the Tim. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
My hottest take is that society was doomed the moment we started using the word "winningest"
December 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
My hottest take is that society was doomed the moment we started using the word "winningest"
Okay #tarkovsky let's make this happen
please tell me that posts about this game on this website are collectively known as Tarkovsky
December 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Okay #tarkovsky let's make this happen
Do you hate yourself and enjoy suffering, ask your doctor if Escape from Tarkov is right for you
December 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Do you hate yourself and enjoy suffering, ask your doctor if Escape from Tarkov is right for you
One of the most essential qualities of an artist is an ability to imagine a world different from the one that exists, something of which an LLM is structurally incapable. An LLM can never create, only compile, and to even do that it has to gorge itself on the blood, sweat & tears of actual creators
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
One of the most essential qualities of an artist is an ability to imagine a world different from the one that exists, something of which an LLM is structurally incapable. An LLM can never create, only compile, and to even do that it has to gorge itself on the blood, sweat & tears of actual creators
Regietheater distant future production of Fiddler in which Lazar Wolf is an actual wolf made of lasers
December 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Regietheater distant future production of Fiddler in which Lazar Wolf is an actual wolf made of lasers
So like, we know the tariffs are also part of the fascism right? One of the highest priorities of a fascist movement is to achieve a monopoly on culture, and how better to do that than make everything from other countries prohibitively expensive
December 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
So like, we know the tariffs are also part of the fascism right? One of the highest priorities of a fascist movement is to achieve a monopoly on culture, and how better to do that than make everything from other countries prohibitively expensive