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Andy
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Guitarist (union station massacre).
Noise-core-ist (book of numbers).
Pedal over-enthusiast.
Pseudo-philosophist.
Total veganist.
Pinned
Longest of long shots, but I had this guitar stolen in Nottingham in 2012. It's a hand-painted Epiphone Les Paul Special. I painted it myself and would love to have it back. Any reshares greatly appreciated!
#stolenguitar #epiphone #lespaul #splatterpaint #handpainted #burroughs
Recent Reading: The Last Hour Between Worlds by Melissa Caruso. 2024. A supernatural investigator's night off from caring for her newborn goes spectacularly off the rails as she's drawn into a horrifying and deadly game spanning multiple realities. Fast-paced, vivid, and exciting queer SF #books
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Recent Reading: Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang. 2023. A failed author witnesses the death of her wildly successful friend/rival, steals her last novel, & passes it off as her own. Eviscerates social media, publishing, & white privilege. Demands to know where you draw your moral lines and why. #books
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Recent Reading: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. c. 1940. A trickster Satan and his bizarre retinue wreak chaos all over Moscow in this ludicrous and brilliant satirical novel. Seances, witchcraft, the debilitating guilt of Pontius Pilate, and an invulnerable pyromaniac cat. #books
October 31, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Recent Reading: Selected Works by Cicero. Published by Penguin 1960. The breadth of topics and styles make this a weird, incoherent book. Dense legalese, aggrieved correspondence, ethical guides, and a hilarious character assassination of Anthony. Apposite reading for populist times, though. #books
October 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Recent Reading: Out by Natsuo Kirino. 2004. A bleak crime novel in which four low-paid factory workers conspire to conceal a murder and are drawn into the Tokyo underworld. Memorable for its frank interrogation of patriarchy and the economic oppression it inflicts upon the women. #books
October 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Recent Reading: More Than This by Patrick Ness. 2013. Part sci-fi/cyberpunk adventure, part exploration of teenage love, betrayal, and grief, part metaphysical and epistemological inquiry. Whenever I read Ness, I'm impressed by clarity with which he approaches philosophy in a YA context. #books
October 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Today's words that I (quite unjustifiably) do not ever want to read again in any novel: cerulean, lapis lazuli, coruscating, acrid, thrum, and acerbic.

#books
#language
October 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Currently playing: Black Mesa by Crowbar Collective. 2020. A fan-made, original developer-approved remake of sci-fi disaster FPS/puzzler Half-Life. The headcrabs are awful, the ladder mechanic's infuriating, and do not talk to me about the helicopters. Somehow, it's excellent, though. #games
October 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Recent Reading: 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. A hit woman who pursues abusive men, a precocious novelist, and an archetypal Murakami loner investigate a cult guru and multiple realities. The novel's moral ambiguity leaves the use/portrayal of male gaze and sex either harrowing or problematic. #books
October 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Recent Reading: The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo, 2001. A funny, sexy verse novel about a black girl growing up in Roman London. Characters mix modern English, Latin, and slang in a book with plenty to say about power structures and the immigrant experience. #books
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Recent Reading: Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man. 1951. A collection of short sci-fi imaginings of where technology will take us. Prescient stuff with (what now reads as) a Fallout-like retro-future aesthetic. #books
October 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"You can't not-be on a boat."
"I've frequently not been on boats."
"No, no, no - what you've been is not on boats."
#Perfection
March 21, 2025 at 9:11 AM
A chaotic quarter of an hour in the world of remote composition. 'Wuuuuuutttt' indeed.
#music #composition #throweverythingatthewall
February 8, 2025 at 9:27 AM
1/3 Remembering that time when online listening parties were keeping me relatively sane during lockdown and I wrote an (insane) book about them
#lockdown #listeningparty #dataviz #selfpublished #music #books
January 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
After many years telling anyone who'd listen what a terrible format audio cassettes are, I have to admit I've loved making these 2024 mixtapes.
#mixtape #cassette #2024playlist
January 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Working on a mystery musical collaboration and the other side just added a note so confusing it can only be notated like this.
#composition #dissonance #collaboration
December 21, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Longest of long shots, but I had this guitar stolen in Nottingham in 2012. It's a hand-painted Epiphone Les Paul Special. I painted it myself and would love to have it back. Any reshares greatly appreciated!
#stolenguitar #epiphone #lespaul #splatterpaint #handpainted #burroughs
December 13, 2024 at 1:11 PM
A snippet from yesterday's bookofnumbers session. Unplanned and improvised #noisecore where the joy is in the performance and any recordings are (to me) very much a bonus.
#synth #noise #pedals #improvisation
December 2, 2024 at 4:30 PM
What do these knobs do? Anything? Nothing? No idea. Anyway, it sounded great! #noisecore #pedalboardsofdoom
December 1, 2024 at 6:14 PM