listening mainly to Mendelssohn while reading Alex Ross’s “Wagnerism” to make sure Wagner’s ghost knows that for all his choral and melodic facility he can still kiss the first, second, third and fourth movements of my ass

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

@colinmeloy.bsky.social I know it's a ways away but I'm putting a bug in your ear about a potential CW3/The Island at one of your upcoming shows with the Oregon Symphony, pleeeeeeeease???? 🙏🙏🙏

this is very good news, and is an example of the rigor needed to oppose the fascist actions of the sitting government against its own people