Restless Mosaic
restlessmosaic.bsky.social
Restless Mosaic
@restlessmosaic.bsky.social
My third album, Quality Mirrors, is out as self-released and on SomeOthaShip Connect.

restlessmosaic.com has more song details, plus a lot of music history content.
Advent calendars mark the season when society obeys instructions to eat chocolate by mysterious brands they've never heard of.

Naturally, this season follows a month after really caring what types of candy strangers give out.
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
On January 30, the album I made for Grammy-nominated hip-hop legend Declaime finally comes out (singles January 2 and 16)!

I've been sitting on the masters since Groundhog Day, and it's relief as much as excitement to share this with you.
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
If you're creating a joke by writing your own lyrics to something, always make sure to match the meter.

That's what gets the joke to land.

Source: I make up lyrics for jokes a stupidly high amount of the time.
October 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Producing one of my favorite vocalists of all time, and it feels like I'm bathing my brain in honey.
September 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Tonight, I had the classic song production conundrum:

Is this song meant to be sparing with its layers, or am I just lazy?
September 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Today, I sent one of my favorite singers one of my favorite instrumentals.

Today, she agreed to write lyrics for, and sing on, it.

And another one of mine too.
September 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
@baseball-reference.com Hi! Is there an easy way to get Standings for Any Date (and the teams' schedule page records) to match the actual standings on those dates? Suspended games being counted to the day they started, instead of the day they completed, means historical research isn't reliable.
August 26, 2025 at 6:50 PM
High-pain gobs
Penison benefits
Apple at this lunk
August 17, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I bought 94 individual Clif bars today.
July 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
@highheatstats.bsky.social

I made a list you will LOVE.

It's all 66 instances of a PR batting later that inning, then not taking the field.

Highlights:
Eric Davis/Peanuts Lowrey 2x
Cobb, Mungo, Stargell, & Mike Hampton
The 23-22 game
Lefty Atkinson's only MLB game

stathead.com/tiny/Guxlg
Player Batting Game Stats Finder - Baseball | Stathead.com
Find game-level player batting stats fitting certain criteria and filters
stathead.com
July 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Don't cry over spilled milk.

Mourn fallen creamrades.
July 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
By my tally, if the 2025 Rockies got a win for every game they took the lead, they'd still only be 44-50.

@highheatstats.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Also about music:

My song "7000 Sparks" is in @mmemaledicta.bsky.social's Pride 2025 mix, the corpus of which I'm now listening to.

The song's about navigating how parental relationships change over time. And my autism diagnosis reception got a similar frosty disbelief that many who come out get.
*finally* got it all tagged (my vision's been screwed up for a week, limits my time looking at a screen😢)
Therefore:
I am *extremely* proud of this one!

#MaledictaRadio presents: The #Pride2025 music mix!

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Divided almost evenly into thirds...1/
Pride 2025 - YouTube
youtube.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Restless Mosaic
If you lived through 90s CCM movement in American Christianity - and I did - this one from @restlessmosaic.bsky.social is going be an uncomfortable read. Read it anyway ordinary-times.com/2025/07/01/w...
What Will People Do When They Find Out It's True? - Ordinary Times
To a secular band, losing two singers to sex and drugs in 25 years might be seen as normal attrition rates. But not in CMM and not Newsboys
ordinary-times.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I wrote a piece for @ordinarytimes.bsky.social about the Michael Tait scandal & assumptions of the '90s music moral panic that helped get us to here.

"For every demonization, there is an equal and opposite lionization."

Big thanks to @four4thefire.bsky.social !

ordinary-times.com/2025/07/01/w...
What Will People Do When They Find Out It's True? - Ordinary Times
To a secular band, losing two singers to sex and drugs in 25 years might be seen as normal attrition rates. But not in CMM and not Newsboys
ordinary-times.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Red Sox quotes about players who do everything "night in and night out" to help the team win smack a lot of:

"Kids these days have no respect for their elders!"

without elaborating on what the elders have been doing.
June 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
When you say some more stuff
Like there was not enough
That's furthermoré
June 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Hannah Kate of North Manchester FM interviewed me this past week as a follow-up to an amazing interview two years ago.

It starts around 1 hr 2 min of her weekly show:

www.mixcloud.com/Hannahs_Book...
Hannah's Bookshelf Pick And Mix - 07/06/2025
www.mixcloud.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The other half of my work team left too quickly. She was great.

She paints nutcrackers on the side.

This is music-video me + (on the hat) day-job me in nutcracker form.
June 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Reposted by Restless Mosaic
A wild read from @restlessmosaic.bsky.social

"I wondered what lawyer would have been bold enough to argue all this to a higher court. Was it the sighing, obliging grandkid of someone from church who they were told was a “sweet young man with adorable cheeks who I hope settles down soon”?"
A Hopeless Semantic - Ordinary Times
My gob unsmacks when I trace the history of someone whose starving for truth might have just been starving for semantic range.
ordinary-times.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Over at @ordinarytimes.bsky.social today, I wrote my first article in five years.

It's about a man who made a very high-strung, literal hymnal, his tax law problems decades later, and either a surprising or unsurprising connection with modern politics.
From @restlessmosaic.bsky.social "A lot of shiny lives get admired by shiny-aspiring people – they must have been built their life-house on a great foundation, because look how nice the house is! Meanwhile, that life-house is actually on the sand, hanging by a moment."
A Hopeless Semantic - Ordinary Times
My gob unsmacks when I trace the history of someone whose starving for truth might have just been starving for semantic range.
ordinary-times.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm in this issue when it drops! If you're near a Barnes and Noble at the end of the month, you should be able to buy one.
Big Takeover Issue #96 (Bob Mould cover), Our Special 45th Anniversary Issue, About to Ship! Existing Subscribers: Update Your Address ASAP!
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May 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Quality Mirrors, by Restless Mosaic
11 track album
someothaship.bandcamp.com
May 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If Mother's Day is a touchy subject for you, I've touched on that subject for you:

restlessmosaic.com/7000-sparks/
7000 Sparks
Influences Ozric Tentacles, “Crackerblocks” Zymosis, “Path of Nocturnal” Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith in general Story In January 2019, I declared to my parents that I needed a set…
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May 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Today's album review calls "Nearest Pool of Chaos" - my collaboration with @rosealaimomusic.bsky.social - "the album's finest moment."

SO glad they recognized it! Day-to-day, it very often is my favorite too.

ringmasterreviewintroduces.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/r...
Restless Mosaic – Quality Mirrors
photo by Jennifer Wee Recently, RESTLESS MOSAIC released its third full-length in the shape of Quality Mirrors. It presents a collection of tracks that it is fair to say examined attention and the …
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May 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM