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musician, retiree, writer, goofus music: https://chaircrusher.com writing: https://littlevillagemag.com/?s=%22Kent%20Williams%22 Rock over London, Rock On Chicago, Budweiser: King of Beers #vcvrack #electronicmusic #house #techno #IDM #dubtechno

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chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · Jun 4

I, an un-gay, approve.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 50m

If we're even given that choice.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 1h

I just saw something about music on FB and misread "undeniable" as "undesirable"

Undesirable Music is my new genre. Maybe, based on the attention it gets, it already is my genre.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 1h

@bencollins.bsky.social why is Salon biting the Onion's photographic style? I really thought this was The Onion at first.

www.salon.com/2025/10/15/j...

John Roberts is slowly dismantling America

Twenty years of the Roberts Court has wreaked shocking damage. Is the Voting Rights Act next?

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 1h

Courting your disgust is a fun kink.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 1h

In the construction biz that's known as "Making it nice for the mice."

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 1h

Can't speak for the LV editors, but the UI J-School to Little Village pipeline's been going on for decades.

PS LV would love pitches from J School profs!

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 1h

@rushthewriter.bsky.social UM what the hell happened to N'West Iowa Review?

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 1h

ta m8!

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 3h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 3h

Which Derek?

Email from Sarah For Iowa - a candidate for the US House from Iowa, that starts out "Derek, sorry for the early message"

Ricky Gervais, famous asshole, condescendingly portraying a guy on the autism spectrum in his series "Derek"

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 3h

There's a valid point here, but I was distracted by the "biggest cleavages" -- which I think used to be a magazine you could buy out of the "Adults Only" room at book stores.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4h

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 3h

Can you think of a way for tax revenue from states to blocked from going to the Federal Government?

Ma non plus!

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 3h

We can be heroes, just for one day.

John Waters with Angela Lansbury pose, possibly in an Airport.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 3h

D'Angelo fulfilled the promise of Sly Stone, when Sly couldn't. He is deeply embedded in the context of black American music. Prince, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, Erykah Badu, Al Green: there's a tradition of black musical auteurs like him, but none like him.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 4h

When you are defied by people who run airports, you're kind of losing the battle.
www.thegazette.com/federal-gove...

C.R.'s Eastern Iowa Airport won't air DHS video blaming Dems for federal shutdown

The decision follows similar moves at airports across the country, who are broadly citing a desire to remain out of partisan politics.

www.thegazette.com

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 4h

Thinking about when I had a 640KB PC while I look at the GMail tab in Chrome and it take up 615mb...

#OldComputerDude

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 5h

Sometimes the worst music is the best music
soundcloud.com/charles-wegm...

I am a pianist and vocalist performing around the New York City area.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 5h

No one seems to know it, but there's a Jackie Gleason album for every occasion.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 17h

What did the President's wattlegina know and when did it know it?

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

If you're wondering why Donald hasn't done anything to fix the economy, bring down prices, or stop the violence by ICE in our cities . . . he is focused on bigger issues.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 17h

There's a lot of music - some that I love - that are utterly straightforward. When I try that I get bored. Some producers can stretch the same loop forever.

I've always loved improvisation, and want to use it more.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 17h

I was a music major in college for 2 years. But in working with synths & such it's all by feel. I know some scales on the piano and really, if you pick a scale and don't stray from it it sounds OK. Find dissonances, figure out how to play off scale and then resolve interestingly.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 19h

This is an Ask The World question: are there composers, producers, musicians on Bluesky that discuss things like theory and composition? I know just enough music theory to be dangerous, interested in vernacular music as well.

#Music #Composers #IDM #Ambient

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 19h

Listen to Thelonious Monk catalog, then then what to other people do, & you can hear dissonance is Monk's super power. He'd hit 2 keys - a minor second, and hold one with the sostenuto pedal, so you'd get the sharp dissonance replaced with the "right note"

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 19h

One day I just hit record and bashed away, thinking I'll fix the wrong notes. But either my musical ear is off, or they were all right. And it added up without hitting the quantizer.

chaircrusher @cornwarning.com · 23h

Not acquiring any more synths & plugins for making music. Harmony, melody and rhythm are my focus now.

After 35 years of wishing I could play synths as fluently as I can stringed instruments, now I can. I can improvise and it kinda sounds...OK? I guess I put in my 10k hrs fumbling around.