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Monsieur Herr

@honsieurmerr.bsky.social

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runs the @honsieurmerr.bsky.social bluesky account; will NOT flip guitar; will CONTINUE to gratuitously use em dashes despite co-option by robots (gratuitous semicolons available upon request) https://honsieurmerr.bandcamp.com/ (shameful self-promotion)

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · Jul 18

Today is the day and the day is NOW: the new Monsieur Herr album (note: Monsieur Herr is me) BUYING INTO THE HYPE is out NOW wherever you get your music.

It's like 60 Minutes on acid.

honsieurmerr.bandcamp.com/album/buying...

Cover art for Monsieur Herr's "Buying Into the Hype" album. A guy in a gray suit and paisley shirt stands in a room with yellow-green floral wallpaper surrounded by Too Many Microphones, holding a piece of paper that reads "PREPARED REMARKS."

Text reading "M. Herr: 'Buying Into the Hype'" crosses the left side of the image vertically in wine-red Microgramma. Smaller text reading "33 1/3 rpm" adorns the bottom left corner.

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 6h

Considering the idea that Television and Neil Young/Crazy Horse are the platonic ideal of two guitars/bass/drums rock groups for when you secretly wish you were jazz and when you want to hang out and make a lot of noise and see what happens, respectively

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 6h

[A blinding light beams down from the sky, illuminating my body in a heavenly glow] "The Promise" by When in Rome is proto-Wii music

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 22h

𝐵𝑜𝒹𝒶𝒸𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓌𝒷𝑜𝓎𝓈 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝒶𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒, 𝒽𝒾𝑔𝒽 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒞𝓊𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒹𝑜𝓂𝑒.

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 22h

"The Cuervo Gold / the fine Columbian" and the 'Retha Franklin stuff are the obvious ones but lest we forget "Don't go for that cotton candy," "Szechuan dumplings," "I am holding the mystical sphere," pretty much all of the title track, pretty much all of My Rival ("stompin' time"), and so on

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 22h

Considering the possibility that Gaucho may in fact be the funniest Steely Dan album, which is no mean feat considering how often Steely Dan tries and is largely successful at being funny. It certainly has the best (i.e. the most ridiculous) one-liners

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 1d

Then again, David Lynch certainly is a singular Entity and he'll pretty much be around forever no matter what. But that doesn't make it any better

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still bummed out that David Lynch is no longer on this planet. Every time I'm reminded that he's gone I become irrepressibly sad. I'm not sure I'll ever not be sad about it

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i love the idea that there’s definitely a few thousand people out there everyday that ask grok stuff like “is broccoli healthy”

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 4d

Placing bets now on whether or not the new Taylor Swift album will reach Love Beach status in 20-30 years. By my understanding it seems to be equally hilarious and embarrassing largely by way of its creator not realizing how hilarious and embarrassing it is

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 21d

My new album is called "Gavin Newsom Is a Ghoul Who Feeds on the Blood of the Homeless and I Can't Believe You're All Forgetting This"

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 8d

What if instead of Lowe's it was Nick Lowe's and Nick Lowe was there and also Los Straitjackets were there. Would be really fucking cool

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 11d

Baldur's Gated Reverb

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 14d

My important drawings

David Byrne of Talking Heads in the Big Suit, saying: "It's like 60 Minutes on acid. I like symmetry and geometric shapes. In this film I sing it to a lamp."

David Thomas of Pere Ubu, saying "I'm gonna WALK! WALK! WALK!" "Watch me go now!! Here I go!!!" captioned "THE ART OF WALKING"

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 17d

Trying to come up with a list of the Good Billy Joel Songs as someone who isn't particularly a Billy Joel fan. So far I have Pressure, Uptown Girl, Movin' Out, My Life, *maybe* Angry Young Man? Maybe some others. Big but ultimately low priority WIP

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21d

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 21d

My other new album is called "Joining the War on Autism on the Side of Autism"

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 21d

My new album is called "Gavin Newsom Is a Ghoul Who Feeds on the Blood of the Homeless and I Can't Believe You're All Forgetting This"

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 21d

(NOTE: my new album is not called this because it's called something else)

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · 21d

My new album is called "Gavin Newsom Is a Ghoul Who Feeds on the Blood of the Homeless and I Can't Believe You're All Forgetting This"

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · Sep 13

Give it to the Raw Milk Boys!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRWn...

The Raw Milk Boys - New York Mining Disaster 1941

YouTube video by Monsieur Herr

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · Sep 12

My respect for Rupert Holmes was already higher than the average person's for producing Sparks' Big Beat but it went up even more when I found out his music was great for screaming "What a fucking bastard" to www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMeo...

Nearsighted

YouTube video by Rupert Holmes - Topic

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm becoming a big appreciator of Rupert Holmes and specifically the Partners in Crime album. A casual observer may dismiss it as mere Yacht Rock but in actuality the bulk of the album consists of top-shelf Prank Music for Awful People. Much like Steely Dan it just has a veneer of acceptability

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Zhir @zhir.bsky.social · Sep 10

Oh no!

Anyway here's the KFC original recipe as confirmed by Harland Sanders' 3rd great nephew Anthony:

1 tb+¼ ts Sage
½ ts Cloves
¼ ts Nutmeg
½ ts Cinnamon
⅛ ts Cayenne
½ ts Coriander
¼ ts Ginger
1 ts Garlic powder
1 tb White pepper
1½ tb Black pepper
½ ts Cardamom
3tb salt
1 tb MSG
3 cup flour

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Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happy Bandcamp Friday to all who celebrate. If you're not up to speed with the myriad of Monsieur Herr releases available to you, you have nobody to blame but yourself:

honsieurmerr.bandcamp.com

Buying Into the Hype, by Monsieur Herr

16 track album

honsieurmerr.bandcamp.com

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · Sep 2

[My eyes glow with a blinding light] The big difference between ELO and ABBA is that ELO has far more artistic pretensions (and worse drum sounds) while ABBA has never claimed to be anything more than exceptionally skilled craftspeople

Monsieur Herr @honsieurmerr.bsky.social · Sep 2

[A beam of light comes down from Heaven straight into my brain] ELO is basically ABBA with more street cred

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