How do you respectively tell your publisher to 1. Stop changing your program notes with Ai to be more attention grabbing and 2. for cover art.

Opinion Editorial Board America’s income tax is progressive The rich already pay more than their fair share

Unbelievable stuff from the Washington Post on behalf of Jeff Bezos today.

2010 me would be very confused at the fact that im going to a comedy show based on a youtube series thats a white man who reads reddit stories on his iPad

Shadows in The City YouTube video by James B. Scott

Some hot fresh contrabasoon propaganda: youtu.be/rsSepSntWHI

Judges Fired After Blocking Deportations of Pro-Palestinian Students

The Trump administration fired two immigration judges who dismissed deportation cases against pro-Palestinian international students. The firings of Roopal Patel and Nina Froes are the latest move to reshape the country’s immigration courts.

Having a day job at a puzzle company with the state of the world right now feels like the biggest materialization of capitalism ive ever experienced

y'all. i have a new consortium for a new piece for three like saxophones. It's inspired by my piece Because for three bari saxes. you have until March 31 to join. It's $30 to join. The new piece will be delivered on or before June 1, 2026. Let me know if you are interested.

Something in me really didn't want to have someone give me money for this microwave so I listed the price as a 6 back of mexican coke and someone actually came through. Npcs have the right idea ngl

Something in me really wants to write a paper about all the major classical composers who happened to be terrible people, I just think it would be fun to know

Would anyone go to a recital of just solo bassoon/ contra bassoon with backing track?

I really hope i make it to the day I find people to do a professional project with who are as invested into it as I am.

I try my best to not be a judgemental vegan but everytime my day job gets something for everyone I get saltier everytime. Like weird flex that you still consume milk?

My father had the audacity to tell me not giving ice more money is short circuiting existing laws and that congress should be working on passing new laws instead of obstructing justice

Inure YouTube video by James B. Scott

A piece about my feelings about the world is guess? Idk ice sucks heres some music about how its the unfortunate reality
youtu.be/LyzVlJwGZNc

I wish I had better social skills so I could find more people in my life who were willing to commit to silly projects. The amount of silly projects happening this year is not high enough. I want to use my degrees for nefarious deeds not falling into the pipe dream of full time orchestra musician

Ive recently been catching up on the assassins creed games that have come out in the last 8 years and wowie fascism really does just look the same in every era

Call your elected officials in Washington and tell them:

STOP. FUNDING. MURDER.

It's kinda the absolute least they can do for the American people.

😢💔

I really dont like how much in the last few months ive had the thought of wanting to quit being a performer entirely, I really hope the next few months can be some kind of reprieve

Fun fact! We could be using the $75 billion allocated for ICE on literally anything else! Like essential services that help people exist! It’s almost as if these issues + our priorities have a lot of overlap!

Also people definitely can’t afford things if they get shot in the face!

Un reasonably anxious again today that im doing shit work at my day job after my coworker got in trouble for a puzzle

This is Renee Good.

She was a mother of a six-year-old child.

She was an American citizen.

She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.”

And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

It feels real fitting that my first project of 2026 is scoring a horror film

Sometimes I wonder if my hatred of golf has lost me any prospective gigs, I feel like it's a popular hobby amoung conductors

Had to get in one more piece for the year I guess. Double bar reached on Anamnesis for symphony orchestra. A work about dissociative amnesia.

I wont lie I kinda have a new years resolution to see how political my compositions have to get before the gestapo shows up at my house

Finding myself back on Bluesky for the first time in a minute because every other app is actively silencing anything talking about Lake Michigan, Iran, and Palestine. Yay fascism

In the realest way I could go the rest of my life without ever playing Christmas music again and be perfectly content

Ive been given the opportunity to write a TV intro theme and it feels like ive never watched TV in my life

The only thing I dont like about these new meds is I feel like the annoying autistic kid in high school again. Its so much harder to mask when the anxiety is knocked down so much