Andy Hanson-Dvoracek
@andrewhd.net
It is not your business to turn out a funeral.
Electrical and classical guitarman.
Recovering musicologist.
Wrote the boring chapter in the Julius Eastman book.
He/him
Electrical and classical guitarman.
Recovering musicologist.
Wrote the boring chapter in the Julius Eastman book.
He/him
Pinned
Andy Hanson-Dvoracek
@andrewhd.net
· Nov 11
Slightly more seriously, I'm taking this as the Universe lightly bullying me back into #musicstudies!
Time was I published/presented on:
🎶 Julius Eastman
🎶 Instrumental virtuosity re: Guitar Hero
🎶 The effects of industry structures on pop music (album cycles, radio station formats, etc.)
Time was I published/presented on:
🎶 Julius Eastman
🎶 Instrumental virtuosity re: Guitar Hero
🎶 The effects of industry structures on pop music (album cycles, radio station formats, etc.)
Saw a new Simpsons as I imagine most do nowadays: leaving the TV on to start dinner during the 4th quarter of a football game.
I wish I could my finger on what’s so uncanny about modern episodes. It’s not like it was without jokes but something (rhythm? voice?) is unsettling.
I wish I could my finger on what’s so uncanny about modern episodes. It’s not like it was without jokes but something (rhythm? voice?) is unsettling.
November 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Saw a new Simpsons as I imagine most do nowadays: leaving the TV on to start dinner during the 4th quarter of a football game.
I wish I could my finger on what’s so uncanny about modern episodes. It’s not like it was without jokes but something (rhythm? voice?) is unsettling.
I wish I could my finger on what’s so uncanny about modern episodes. It’s not like it was without jokes but something (rhythm? voice?) is unsettling.
I was able to share with my wife the theory that “Piano Man” is about the title character slowly realizing he took the gig at a gay bar. It did mean listening to the song again but it was worth it.
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I was able to share with my wife the theory that “Piano Man” is about the title character slowly realizing he took the gig at a gay bar. It did mean listening to the song again but it was worth it.
My new favorite fun fact
Guided by Voices main guy Robert Pollard threw a no-hitter in college
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May 11, 1978: Rocker Robert Pollard pitches first no-hitter in Wright State history – Society for American Baseball Research
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November 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
My new favorite fun fact
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One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
November 20, 2025 at 12:54 AM
One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical.
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!
I see we’re doing the thing again today where the world finds out (again) the Internet depends on four companies.
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I see we’re doing the thing again today where the world finds out (again) the Internet depends on four companies.
What a day to start with two rediscovered J.S. Bach works and then absolutely nothing else happened.
November 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
What a day to start with two rediscovered J.S. Bach works and then absolutely nothing else happened.
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Ton Koopman giving the world premieres of BWV 1178 & BWV 1179 RIGHT NOW
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Ton Koopman giving the world premieres of BWV 1178 & BWV 1179 RIGHT NOW
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Played a ska show in western MA at a cool spot with a super hot crowd and one of the bands on the bill were playing their first ever show and they started every song with “Fuck ICE Free Palestine”
Gotta remember to post the Ws
Gotta remember to post the Ws
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Played a ska show in western MA at a cool spot with a super hot crowd and one of the bands on the bill were playing their first ever show and they started every song with “Fuck ICE Free Palestine”
Gotta remember to post the Ws
Gotta remember to post the Ws
Played a ska show in western MA at a cool spot with a super hot crowd and one of the bands on the bill were playing their first ever show and they started every song with “Fuck ICE Free Palestine”
Gotta remember to post the Ws
Gotta remember to post the Ws
November 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Played a ska show in western MA at a cool spot with a super hot crowd and one of the bands on the bill were playing their first ever show and they started every song with “Fuck ICE Free Palestine”
Gotta remember to post the Ws
Gotta remember to post the Ws
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
These fucking guys (reprise)
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
These fucking guys (reprise)
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oh no i thought of something and i had to make it 🤼
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
oh no i thought of something and i had to make it 🤼
Coming to grips that I am separated enough from musicology that I wouldn’t even understand whatever the fuck happened at AMS.
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Coming to grips that I am separated enough from musicology that I wouldn’t even understand whatever the fuck happened at AMS.
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It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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Does anyone have a desktop Bluesky/fedi crossposter they like before I start building one to my own bizarrre specifications and somehow disappointment?
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Does anyone have a desktop Bluesky/fedi crossposter they like before I start building one to my own bizarrre specifications and somehow disappointment?
Does anyone have a desktop Bluesky/fedi crossposter they like before I start building one to my own bizarrre specifications and somehow disappointment?
November 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Does anyone have a desktop Bluesky/fedi crossposter they like before I start building one to my own bizarrre specifications and somehow disappointment?
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Zohran says you’re trans now
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Zohran says you’re trans now
I'm still wary about international travel at the moment, but I would very much like to go see the Revs inexplicably lose again if I can take an electric future train to the stadium.
I had no idea Montreal is building an electric, automated street-rail system.
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I'm still wary about international travel at the moment, but I would very much like to go see the Revs inexplicably lose again if I can take an electric future train to the stadium.
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i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”
Since my wife is a teacher, I’m aware that you need to be a little deranged to run for school committee at all. However since it’s basically the only election of substance I have this time I have to figure out if they’re the normal level or the “book ban” kind.
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Since my wife is a teacher, I’m aware that you need to be a little deranged to run for school committee at all. However since it’s basically the only election of substance I have this time I have to figure out if they’re the normal level or the “book ban” kind.
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Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
The Prudential Center, especially since the pandemic, is such a deranged mish-mash of various eras of commerce. There’s an AI medical startup next door to an at least 20-year-old Califorian Pizza Kitchen.
October 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Prudential Center, especially since the pandemic, is such a deranged mish-mash of various eras of commerce. There’s an AI medical startup next door to an at least 20-year-old Califorian Pizza Kitchen.
Is it really a thesis if some element of delirium doesn't creep into the late drafts?
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Is it really a thesis if some element of delirium doesn't creep into the late drafts?
I don't like that Suffolk poll either but these are not the actions of an energized opposition.
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I don't like that Suffolk poll either but these are not the actions of an energized opposition.