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P. Andrew Willis

@pandrewwillis.bsky.social

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Movie Music/Other Music. Citizen Sleuth coming 2025 via @darkskyfilms.bsky.social MASS/LOUISVILLE. ANDY. I like guitars. https://linktr.ee/paw_music

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 17d

PSYCHED to announce that "The Hard Machine" is now up for pre-order w/ first single "Monkeys (On Your Back)" available for your rocking pleasure! CD + download options incl highres audio (24-bit/96kHz). Trinary System = Roger Miller (from Birdsongs/Burma)/Larry Dersch/This Guy - maybe you'll dig it!

The Hard Machine, by Trinary System

8 track album

cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com

P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 5h

more please

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 6h

This song is soooo good @skybondsor.com

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 10h

Test press for new Don’t Ever Lie to Anyone single coming very soon on #spookytreerecords - what an odd an enjoyable group to bass upon. @skybondsor.com @bointillism.com, and Boston vocal celebrity, Noell Dorsey 🤩🤩🤩

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 14h

“What did you write in the letter?”

Frog said,"I wrote, ‘Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend.

Your best friend, Frog.'”

Toad's mailbox awaits...something.

From "The Letter"
In *Frog and Toad Are Friends*

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 12h

White Castle is def the right move

P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 1d

a travesty

P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 1d

They're great. He's got that Bill Evans one too that is excellent

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 1d

Thelonious Monk day - inspired by @rickmclaughlin.com here's my favorite Monk "covers" album, Monk in Motian

Paul Motian – Monk In Motian

YouTube video by bbburito

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 1d

I wanna see her again!

P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 1d

Right and I only knew Birdsongs because Gary had records he'd spin during breaks at Web practice. Luckily Mary still had all her Burma records from her UMass days and caught me up!

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 1d

YES - saw her at this year's waterworks fest here in Boston- incredible for real

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 2d

I’ll work on him 😂

P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 2d

HE should - I’ve heard him spin some yarns for sure

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 2d

Knew the name but never dug in until the reformation. Guess I’d met Rog by then through the film sound community tho since he was gettin me into shows

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure how I missed Burma in my 20s 🤷‍♂️

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 2d

Yes way! Trinary System 👊

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 2d

I've been in a band with Roger for over a decade and just got around to telling him I'd never heard Burma before I moved to Boston. Birdsongs of the Mesozoic though . . .

Robert Dallas Grue 🦇 @robertdallasgray.com · 2d

incredible record. still not easy to come by https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oLgYnsI6_YU

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 2d

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P. Andrew Willis @pandrewwillis.bsky.social · 4d

I'm waiting patiently here . . .

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 4d

APOTHEOSIS OF WAR (1992)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 20” x 19”

People often ask me, “Where do you get your ideas?”

I always have so many that I don’t think I’ll live long enough to paint them all...and if I ever experience a shortage, I just have to pick up the morning paper. 1/3

A white on black abstract rendering of the culmination of war. It stands with arms flung out as if declaring "look what I have wrought!" Horns sit upon its helm pointing up and outward in a slight arc. Eye slits sit high with a double opening between jagged cheek plates. The effect elongates the helm, an inhuman distortion that looks more devil than man. The collar and pauldrons are wide, overwrought and wickedly spiked. Open mouths scream from the underside, echoes of suffering or cries of bloodlust. The figure is skeletal with one bony foot exposed beneath long flowing tattered robes loosely wound with barbed wire. Lines across the fabric of its chest suggest ribs as if there's no other substance beneath but bone. The hands, however, are tense, anguished flesh with long curving nails as if saying the delicate instruments of war are all too human. Projecting like bladed weapons from each sleeve, the sleek heads of a dragon and a long-beaked demonic bird extend in a mockery of open arm

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