@caseyabrams.bsky.social
songwriter and musicologist, ghost story collector, amateur folklorist, music teacher.
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November 30-December 2, 1978: NOVA Convention • New York, New York - William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Robert Anton Wilson, John Cage, Timothy Leary, Brion Gysin, Ed Sanders, Susan Sontag, Anne Waldman, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass
November 30, 2025 at 2:44 PM
November 30-December 2, 1978: NOVA Convention • New York, New York - William S. Burroughs, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Robert Anton Wilson, John Cage, Timothy Leary, Brion Gysin, Ed Sanders, Susan Sontag, Anne Waldman, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass
Can anyone recommend a good headphone album that is an outer space or dungeons and dragons odyssey?
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Can anyone recommend a good headphone album that is an outer space or dungeons and dragons odyssey?
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Today is the birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. (Nov. 26, 1922-Feb. 12, 2000.)
November 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Today is the birthday of cartoonist Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts. (Nov. 26, 1922-Feb. 12, 2000.)
Who holds the copyrights for the ai products that are topping various charts now? Do the dillholes who pressed go on the computer program own them? does the AI company own them? In any case, there are real rights problems here because those trash generators was trained on copyrighted material.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Who holds the copyrights for the ai products that are topping various charts now? Do the dillholes who pressed go on the computer program own them? does the AI company own them? In any case, there are real rights problems here because those trash generators was trained on copyrighted material.
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Stein on the Danube, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25460
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25460
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Stein on the Danube, 1913
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25460
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25460
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remember: music is supposed to be a community you're a part of, not a thing that's on in the background that you passively consume
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
remember: music is supposed to be a community you're a part of, not a thing that's on in the background that you passively consume
Someone please help! I want to read ghost stories but I have the pina colada song stuck in my head.
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Someone please help! I want to read ghost stories but I have the pina colada song stuck in my head.
Maybe we don't say this out loud but does anyone else feel like their lives are falling apart due to current political, economic and social conditions?
November 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Maybe we don't say this out loud but does anyone else feel like their lives are falling apart due to current political, economic and social conditions?
Reading john meacham's biography of Abraham Lincoln and it turns out southern democrats were just maga people with more elaborate sideburns. The shit they said, the shit they pulled would have all fit in 100% 2015-present. I was amazed until it occured to me of course they were exactly the same ppl
November 13, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Reading john meacham's biography of Abraham Lincoln and it turns out southern democrats were just maga people with more elaborate sideburns. The shit they said, the shit they pulled would have all fit in 100% 2015-present. I was amazed until it occured to me of course they were exactly the same ppl
@iheartnoise.bsky.social
Man these fucking kids. Unbelievably great. I've never heard anything like it.
youtu.be/YWjTbB4ONeM?...
Man these fucking kids. Unbelievably great. I've never heard anything like it.
youtu.be/YWjTbB4ONeM?...
The Langley Schools Music Project - Space Oddity (Official)
YouTube video by barnonerecords
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 12:58 AM
@iheartnoise.bsky.social
Man these fucking kids. Unbelievably great. I've never heard anything like it.
youtu.be/YWjTbB4ONeM?...
Man these fucking kids. Unbelievably great. I've never heard anything like it.
youtu.be/YWjTbB4ONeM?...
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House on a River (Old House I), 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25714
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25714
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
House on a River (Old House I), 1915
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25714
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25714
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House with a Bay Window in the Garden, 1907
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24784
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24784
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
House with a Bay Window in the Garden, 1907
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24784
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24784
Do you think dick cheney learning to play the bass in heaven right now so he can do "the devil went down to georgia" with charlie daniels?
November 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Do you think dick cheney learning to play the bass in heaven right now so he can do "the devil went down to georgia" with charlie daniels?
I just posted yesterday that I think my favorite instrument is Michael McDonald's voice. These guys sound killer. Also be sure to read the comments for Ms. Cottem's thoughts on who should sing soul music. I think a book about this is in order.
About six people texted me this. I am perceived.
Big news day today so you might have missed @npr.org quietly sliding a Doobie Brothers Tiny Desk under the front door. youtu.be/jrkOQuRYCIQ
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I just posted yesterday that I think my favorite instrument is Michael McDonald's voice. These guys sound killer. Also be sure to read the comments for Ms. Cottem's thoughts on who should sing soul music. I think a book about this is in order.
I have to go teach so I listened to this to put my brain back inside my skull. I think my favorite instrument is Michael MacDonald's backing harmonies.
youtu.be/kqsAusL33Ac?...
youtu.be/kqsAusL33Ac?...
Stephen Bishop: Losing Myself In You (Bish, 1978)
YouTube video by Stephen Bishop
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I have to go teach so I listened to this to put my brain back inside my skull. I think my favorite instrument is Michael MacDonald's backing harmonies.
youtu.be/kqsAusL33Ac?...
youtu.be/kqsAusL33Ac?...
ice agents have just abducted a group of people behind the target on arsenal street in watertown, ma. sorry no footage or photos but others were filming there.
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ice agents have just abducted a group of people behind the target on arsenal street in watertown, ma. sorry no footage or photos but others were filming there.
the european editions of fahrenheit 451 are called 422 celsius.
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
the european editions of fahrenheit 451 are called 422 celsius.
Reading john meacham's biography of Abraham Lincoln and he just said "16 year-old Abe was respected by everyone in the county because he could jump the farthest and he never lost a wrestling match". I feel like the 19th c. was different from now.
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Reading john meacham's biography of Abraham Lincoln and he just said "16 year-old Abe was respected by everyone in the county because he could jump the farthest and he never lost a wrestling match". I feel like the 19th c. was different from now.
Does "wanna scrap" culture exist anyplace out there these days? .When we were about 17 we were walking to a part of town called Dead Man's Island and two boys I had never seen before just saw us and came up and said "wanna scrap?" They wanted to fight us for fun! They followed, insisting all the way
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Does "wanna scrap" culture exist anyplace out there these days? .When we were about 17 we were walking to a part of town called Dead Man's Island and two boys I had never seen before just saw us and came up and said "wanna scrap?" They wanted to fight us for fun! They followed, insisting all the way
It is unbelievable to me that a human being actually *wrote* this. One of the most moving and powerful songs I have ever heard. I love that he looks like a 70s steel worker too. "Yeah this is what I look like-- want to make something of it?"
youtu.be/5uOHlc-Zzvw?...
youtu.be/5uOHlc-Zzvw?...
Witch of the West-Mer-Lands
YouTube video by Archie Fisher - Topic
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 AM
It is unbelievable to me that a human being actually *wrote* this. One of the most moving and powerful songs I have ever heard. I love that he looks like a 70s steel worker too. "Yeah this is what I look like-- want to make something of it?"
youtu.be/5uOHlc-Zzvw?...
youtu.be/5uOHlc-Zzvw?...
I think about this all the time, and what it means for creativity, memory, suffering, etc
“Reeder had tested children’s imagery and believed that most children were hyperphantasic. They had not yet undergone the synaptic pruning that took place in adolescence, so there were incalculably more #neuronalconnections linking different parts of their #brain …” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Some People Can’t See Mental Images. The Consequences Are Profound
Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, and, above all, remember our lives.
www.newyorker.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I think about this all the time, and what it means for creativity, memory, suffering, etc
I hope this gets some traction somehow because I really want to know people's favorite songs about astronaut ennui and sadness. Mine are:
1. Space Oddity
2. Rocket Man
3. The Commander Thinks Aloud by The Long Winters
John Roderick wrote a damn song that is as good as rocket man and space oddity
1. Space Oddity
2. Rocket Man
3. The Commander Thinks Aloud by The Long Winters
John Roderick wrote a damn song that is as good as rocket man and space oddity
November 2, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I hope this gets some traction somehow because I really want to know people's favorite songs about astronaut ennui and sadness. Mine are:
1. Space Oddity
2. Rocket Man
3. The Commander Thinks Aloud by The Long Winters
John Roderick wrote a damn song that is as good as rocket man and space oddity
1. Space Oddity
2. Rocket Man
3. The Commander Thinks Aloud by The Long Winters
John Roderick wrote a damn song that is as good as rocket man and space oddity