Oh then for the sake of the straw poll, somewhat, but more about prosody / stressed syllables lining up with strong vs weak beats, less so about formal structure

What you might be hinting at sounds like a super fun undergrad comp assignment though — like “write a musical villanelle”

In grad school yeah, my advisor (Larry Polansky) was the editor of Tenney’s book of theory writings so a lot of form. In undergrad I was an English major so yes poetry worked its way into comp lessons. The poet Basil Bunting called his long poem Briggflats a sonata, fun fact.

Rinuccini whoops (librettist of Peri’s “Eurudice” the so called first opera)

There’s some great early scholarship by Barbara Hanning in “Of Poetry and Music’s Power” that discusses early opera in terms of Italian poetic form (esp Rianucci). A big part of my DMA quals!

Me: what if instead of forming a writers group I formed a scrollers group, where people could scroll on the phones together in peace

My wife: it’s called marriage

the best part about writing is all the re-reading I get to do

And Mr. Back's thesis project focused on C++ — the same programming language Satoshi used to code the first version of the Bitcoin software.

Ah yes, you found him, Satoshi; the only person who wrote his thesis using C++

Sometimes I wonder how many writers of the breathless articles about “vibecoding” have actually compiled literally anything. (As Claude Opus 4.6 responds — “Good catch! …”)

I feel like my whole day is just barely keeping it together until 8pm when it’s to respond to all the texts I’ve ignored

what if we find out the falcon had airpods in the whole time. just vibing, nodding at the falconer, like "yeah man, I hear you"

today i wrote and it was the best part of my day

usually i'm like (15%) "scheduling doesn't work but keep in touch" or (5% rando, 20% personal friends) "space too big, here's a selection of great ~50 cap spaces" or (the rest) no response but sometimes you gotta let em know

I send very few "fuck off" emails but reserved my quota for the guy who wrote "bumping this" on the fourth email pitching a bass-music producer LIL FISH to the lab

manifesting my 10 day lunar journey

excited for free burmese take out due to putting out a literal fire immediately adjacent to the restaurant

just got an ad for an AI-powered bill pay feature ("we find your vendors") and filed it away for whenever I want to stochastically pay my bills

shoutout to the guy clipping his nails in the post office

tech types suddenly discovering mimetic vs agentic like the most annoying art history grad student you know

What’s the polymarket spread on Trump falling asleep during oral arguments

flow state

hi Andrew, many leaders at experimental art venues struggle with client acquisition, especially in Q1. This may be a forward question, but is The Lab, San Francisco in the same boat?

today in AI splam (slop + spam):

many leaders at experimental art venues struggle with client acquisition

what is this dungeon synth discourse

dm me your email, I'll send the advance release

whoops jim o'rourke

or that one time alan licht covered "fast car" by tracy chapman for 30 minutes

did you get it too?? from clandestine pr - closer to a mix of heroin by vu and "nothing but heart" by low. random open based on the name, and refreshing.

jesus is the path to heaven power ! @jesusisthe pathtoheaven

their previous records are here and the first single from their new on drops may 26. jesusisthepathtoheaven.bandcamp.com

everyone once in a while i open a release pr email and it just blows me away. today it's a self-released record by "jesus is the path to heaven" that just repeats "little lamb on the cross, is your home in my heart?" for 13 minutes while transcending an appalachian velvet underground heroin ecstasy.

This meeting could have been an email

This email could have been a slack message

This slack message could have been a thought you thought quietly to yourself, scribbled in your journal, never to tell another soul. A little secret, just for you, never to burden another.