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jaxcheese
@jaxcheese.bsky.social
260 followers 460 following 230 posts
he/him
vgm composer/enthusiast
pro archivist!
drums & viola
pxtone proponent
fan of turtles, jazz, sci-fi, mega drive, string qtet
no envy, no meanness
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movie by the common is also a good excuse to hit THE MUSIC RESEARCH LIBRARY in beacon hill
three record albums laid out on the floor. - Glenn Gould - Beethoven Bagatelles op.33 & op.126 - Allan Holdsworth - Road Games - The Square - Truth
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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it's not bandcamp friday
screenshot of the bandcamp app showing six new purchases - RABBIT & STEEL EXTRA SOUNDTRACK by はがね - DUSK to DAWN (WAM #4) by cloud crew - Feed Me Weird Things by Squarepusher - selected works (heavy edition) by petet - Apiary by Gingerbee - Velocity : Design : Comfort by Sweet Trip
November 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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with as often as this gets posted it kinda feels like leaving money on the table that no one has released a chiptune album titled "the crap sound of 8-bit"
fragment of a brian eno quotation: "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as..."
November 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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that's what I'm talkin about
the game "atomic runner chelnov" is on the tv now
October 25, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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shut up I'm just trying to play chelnov
mega drive mini 2 attached to a tv. the tv says "Detecting device... You can easily control the detected devices with your Smart Remote. Press the Down button on your Samsung Remote if your device is a PC."
October 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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currently reading
photo of my hand holding the book Dhalgren, by Samuel R. Delany
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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"I love ives. that is my answer to that statement"
screencap of the "I did not care for the godfather" scene from family guy
October 22, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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my dear friend @michaelwithana.bsky.social and I put together a bespoke 9-piece "rouge stage music from sonic adventure 2" cover band for this very special occasion. I'm working on the arrangements and I'll be playing drums. this will probably only happen once ever! not to be missed! I'm so excited
October 21, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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currently reading
photo of a book in my hand: "Werner Herzog - Every Man For Himself and God Against All - A Memoir"
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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garfield cartoon where jon is putting food in the oven as garfield watches. jon's speech in this cartoon was famously replaced with "why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food", but in this image it is instead replaced with a photo of an excerpt from the gertrude stein book in the linked post: "Eating he heat eating he heat it eating, he heat it heat eating. He heat eating."
October 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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it's bandcamp friday!
screenshot of the bandcamp app showing albums I have just purchased - Björk - Post - blower - zipmaster - Cecile McLorin Salvant - Oh Snap - crazygoji - lucid dreaming - Elliot Smith - Roman Candle - Alfa Mist - Roulette
October 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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I believe this is what they call an "option select". the strong forms take significantly longer though, risky!
infographic with a shouting cartoon person and a couple of tables Key to Applause in Opera "Great Job!" Bravo! said to congratulate a single male singer Brava! said to congratulate a single female singer Bravi! said to congratulate many singers "Fantastic Job!" Bravissimo! said to a single male singer Bravissima! said to a single female singer Bravissimi! said to many singers
September 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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final goodbye to my home of ~20 months. like me, it was sometimes warm and loud and sometimes cold and quiet, it contained many mysteries, and it occasionally smelled a little funny
screenshot of a twitter post from january 7 2024 by @jaxcheese. the post reads "livin in the city" and there are three cropped photos: 1. a small figure of dr. eggman holding an emerald, sitting in a windowsill with a snowy road visible through the window. 2. a desk with a laptop, a stuffed toy of kk slider, and a few other things on it. there are posters of the sonic the hedgehog (mega drive) box art and a work by kandinsky on the wall. 3. a record player sitting on a table beside two crates full of records. small perler bead sculptures of two characters from kero blaster lean against a cd player on the bottom tier of the table the same windowsill from the other photo. eggman is conspicuously missing and it is dark outside
September 26, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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I wrote and sang a song for the new 10th anniv @staffcirc.bsky.social album!!! it was an honor to celebrate this special occasion with a bunch of musicians I have admired for years... I'm pretty new to this kind of songwriting so you will have to forgive the rough edges (but I plan to do more soon!)
September 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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it's bandcamp friday
screenshot of the bandcamp app with a grid of albums I bought today: - Animaru by Mei Semones - Resonance Modulation by Resonant Union - Ys by Joanna Newsom - INFINAUT Original Soundtrack by squiggythings - BRAY/DUVAL by kelly bray + caleb duval - Splashnode by tenby & WangleLine - pistachio island by ilkae also listed here but without the "New" banner because I bought them last month: - Bit by bit, Pixel Rain by Shogo Sakai - ekkolaptómenos by HARU NEMURI
September 5, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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in baltimore. bought a slightly busted copy of MOONLIGHT SYNDROME for $20. going to play the congas for ~35 minutes at "bit gen gamer fest" later. coincidence???
my hand holding copy of Moonlight Syndrome for the playstation 1 in a cracked cd case
August 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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best bit so far. "a piece of cruelty that I will never forgive"... some of you are still this serious about your comic supplements
Just at the end of the visit they were more natural. Fernande asked Miss Stein if she had any of the comic supplements of the american papers left. Gertrude Stein replied that she had just left them with Pablo. Fernande roused like a lioness defending her cubs. That is a brutality that I will never forgive him, she said. I met him on the street, he had a comic supplement in his hand, I asked him to give it to me to help me distract myself and he brutally refused. It was a piece of cruelty that I will never forgive. I ask you, Gertrude, to give my myself the next copies you have of the comic supplement. Gertrude Stein said, why certainly with pleasure. As we went out she said to me, it is to be hoped that they will be together again before the next comic supplements of the Katzenjammer kids come out because if I do not give them to Pablo he will be all upset and if I do Fernande will make an awful fuss. Well I suppose I will have to lose them or have my brother give them to Pablo by mistake.
August 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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now reading
photo of a book in my hand: "Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein - Edited by Carl Van Vechten with an Essay by F.W. Dupee" photo of the same book opened to a page that reads "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"
August 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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it's "rockport chamber music festival" season. it's "weave your car through beautiful rich people for half an hour trying to park" season
photo of a piano and a couple of chairs and music stands on a stage, in front of a big window looking out over the ocean
August 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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it's bandcamp friday!
screenshot of the bandcamp app showing albums I purchased today: - Shogo Sakai - Bit by bit, Pixel Rain - Haru Nemuri - ekkolaptómenos - Bitterviper - Bitterviper - Agargara - FAMICOM GRANDPRIX - kqvc - replace/retract - STAFFcirc - STAFFcirc vol. 11 - SORA SUITE
August 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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photo of a section of a book: "I sometimes wonder if you people might go too far. Too far, with us robots. Too far, perhaps, with the underpeople too. Things were once simple, when everything that talked was a human being and everything which did not talk was not. You may be coming to an ending of the ways."
July 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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advertisement for super monkey ball 2 with an illustration of a parade of monkey ball fans captioned "SHARE THE MONKEY DREAM. JOIN THE MONKEY PARTY!"
July 22, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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currently reading
photo of a book in my hand: The Best of Cordwainer Smith ed. J.J. Pierce
July 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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it's not bandcamp friday
screenshot of my new purchases on bandcamp: - Prototype by Reginald Chapman - Paradise of Replica by After Dinner - The Sound of Hello World by PHASED SUN - Half Life by Collars
July 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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playing earthbound with my left hand and ravel with my right hand
photo of a segment of the biography of composer Maurice Ravel: "Under two minutes in length, Ronsard à son âme appears to be the simplest song Ravel ever wrote, even if he told Falla that he Har 'put as much energy into it as thought it were destined for me'. The piano part consists mostly of bare fifths for the right hand alone, suggested maybe by the opening of L'Enfant (Ravel declared it was his favorite among his own songs because he could play it and hold a cigarette at the same time). screenshot of the George Wood review of Earthbound which shows him holding a slice of pizza in his right hand and a snes controller in his left hand
July 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM