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Meaningless Excitement

@smoothatonalsound.bsky.social

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Like a cross between a hurricane, and a ship that’s run aground. Phish, Grateful Dead, mountain biking, snowboarding, gardening in Brattleboro, Vermont. Occasionally using my doctorate to talk about Phish.

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 3h

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Potato Chip - Saturday Night Live

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 11h

You don’t take people’s potato chips

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 3d

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 3d

Wolf this hit way harder than it needed to

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 3d

I have no doubt that i would be targeted if i were still a professor bc i like to teach ideas like “music is inherently political” and “Black composers were suppressed because of systemic racism” and “some composers were gay”

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING:

"Just landed."

Mark Bray confirms to me this morning that he and his family did, on the second attempt, make it out of the US and to Spain

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He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 3d

Because anyone can open a dispensary and they don’t have to actually know how to grow?

My local spot in Vermont has great stuff, but only from the brands I know and trust

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 3d

He was so so good in Dobb’s Dead!

Also I love that $ is what he used to denote Reprise. Probably just random but also maybe not!

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 4d

That long scene at the end with all the road dips WOOOOO BOYYYYY

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 4d

Holy shit just saw One Battle After Another tonight. Really incredible movie. Very intense given <gestures wildly> everything going on

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 4d

I actually recorded it last fall and they’re replaying it!

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 6d

Rose called me after the BMFS show in Utrecht tonight. Sounds like everyone is a bunch of messy Americans when you see Billy in Europe! Shocked/not shocked

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 7d

This is excellent fiscal and foreign policy and definitely won’t cripple the American economy for decades

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 7d

Bag of dog food was $74 instead of $55 today. All tariffs. Absolute garbage

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 7d

That is unintentionally funny cardboard placement in my in-laws’ house

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks!

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 8d

For us non-lawyers, why is her reminding this guy that he’s an officer of the court a big deal? What’s the implication that I don’t get here?

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Mar 10

My thing is, my family came to the U.S. from an authoritarian country and I'm not moving again so we have no choice but to win and fix all this shit

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 9d

Anyone have an extra or two for Bertha in Cambridge tonight?? For a friend not me @lindsayclaire.bsky.social @hotsoupski.bsky.social @boneydiego.bsky.social

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 10d

The title track off the new page album, which I’m loving so far, reminds me of Keyboard Cavalry in a good way

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 10d

Could you imagine if Neil had made it onstage about 2 minutes earlier and they had just kept jamming that Jim?

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 13d

They suck so hard they wouldn’t let fans from outside the tristate go to the game!

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 13d

Fucking legend, D

Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 13d

Got my post-Hampton inbox under 100

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah here's the story: youtu.be/7iwNEB3OSHw?...

Trey Anastasio - Willie Nelson/Neil Young Story 10/27/19 Nashville Ryman

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Meaningless Excitement @smoothatonalsound.bsky.social · 13d

Yes I think that was part of it! Down by the River was impromptu, I believe. You can tell Neil is stoned AF because they do the two verses and choruses, two huge jams, and then he starts singing "Be on my side, or be on your side..." a few times but doesn't sing the rest of the verse

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