Cassette for Xander Harris / The Crow split, on the dashboard of a car

tuesday morning acid split from Xander Harris / The Crow

Cassette for Fred Thomas - Critical Violets, Dream Erosion Pt. VII, and coffee

sunbleached dreamscape synthscapery from Fred Thomas, of Saturday Looks Good to Me; coffee.

fredthomasmusic.bandcamp.com/album/critic...

a button that says "water on / water off"

movies 2026

i dont think i've had a good in person RSD experience since 2012 or so. if it helps record stores, great, but i have to
be content with going to shops at least once a week the rest of the year 🤷🏻‍♂️

(...and ordering the limited RSD releases i want on discogs, hopefully ideally from indie shops)

Front cover of 50th anniversary embossed Lou Reed Metal Machine Music record store day release

Back cover of 50th anniversary embossed Lou Reed Metal Machine Music record store day release

the best ever record store day release

(until i can get my hands on that sonic youth diamond seas disc!)

new boards of canada, tom waits and massive attack

this truly is the greatest day of 1998

a hexagon in a fridge door

new boc confirmed

cassette for propellerheads extended play ep

in honor of the (apparent) new Boards of Canada release, currently revisiting another group's tape i was listening to the month their first album came out in 1998

(and had forgotten about until finding this tape last year)

LP cover for Ministry - Chicago/Detroit 1982 live album

i always forget ministry started as one of the best early 80s fake british synthpop bands out there and then something like this comes around and it's a delight

it's getting late so i'd really love to know if my kid can to school tomorrow but what i'd love more is for the teachers and workers at her school to be paid fairly and with adequate budgets and support

Cassette case for Simon James - Cosmic Surgery and an Aiwa PX-550 cassette player, and coffee

Side A of Simon James Cosmic Surgery

Simon James - Cosmic Surgery / monday morning - coffee surgery

@simonsound.bsky.social

From the great Spun Out of Control

spunoutofcontrol.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic...

(ooo there's a 2023 vinyl reissue i missed! gotta get on that!)

CD case for White Town - Women in Technology

bought for 20c at my local library sale at my kid’s insistence, despite already owning it since 1997, because she loves the song “Your Woman” and who can blame her

whole album still a stunner

@jyotimishra.bsky.social

LP cover for Connie Converse How Sad, How Lovely

new pressing, old haunting

Schools are like "hey lock up your cell phones they're too damaging to the learning process. now please open up your lying plagiarism machine and start generating content"

Some NYU Film Students Will Now Be Given Tools to Make Movies With AI (Exclusive) Several Tisch programs, including the Hypercinema Lab, have made a deal with Runway AI.

truly ashamed of my alma mater, where we learned to cut actual film with a razor on a flatbed. i wish everyone could have that opportunity.

the dollar signs in these quotes are louder than the words

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

cassette case for Keith Fullerton Whitman - Contemporary Drummer [Redactions], an Aiwa PX-550 cassette player, and a cup of coffee

Another day, another Keith Fullerton Whitman @kfw.bsky.social cassette and coffee

as well as trying to completely devalue longstanding human forms of creativity.

but, they are, so fuck 'em

part of the issue is that yeah, it's not going away, but it's also not "filmmaking"- it's "something else." i would theoretically have less of a problem with it existing (plagiarism / energy issues aside momentarily) if the financiers weren't gleefully trying to put an entire industry out of work,

i don't think they care/know about me; i'm not on their radar as an alumnus. drop in the bucket. 🤷🏻‍♂️

(i have gone back many times to speak about sound design, via a great professor of mine. the NYU institution doesn't seem particularly interested in alumni accomplishments unless they're very famous)

so fuck nyu.

the students deserve better than being slopified

it's a very long story, but i was excluded from making my senior film for it being too non-mainstream, found a loophole to make it anyway, then wasn't allowed to screen it at the end of year showcase, then not allowed to walk graduation, then made the first feature of anyone in my graduating class.

but also not surprised. NYU always had a rep of being more friendly towards non-mainstream, experimental, indie leaning filmmakers - but this was very much not the case the way the institution treated me (and my work) 25 years ago. (students and teachers excluded here- lots of great people)

Some NYU Film Students Will Now Be Given Tools to Make Movies With AI (Exclusive) Several Tisch programs, including the Hypercinema Lab, have made a deal with Runway AI.

truly ashamed of my alma mater, where we learned to cut actual film with a razor on a flatbed. i wish everyone could have that opportunity.

the dollar signs in these quotes are louder than the words

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Hey hey hey! Please read this important message and help us to continue doing what we do.

cassette case for the primitives - lovely on the dashboard of a car

not the ones who did "The Ostrich"

literally everyone getting shot in the dick

Glass Eye Pix titles lined up on a shelf: Larry Fessenden Collection 1&2, Depraved, Automatons, I Can See You, Trigger Man, Satan Hates You

+New commentary by Peter Phok and myself!

Shelf coming along nicely

Closeup of tagline “A Nightmare Unparalleled in the History of Human Imagination”

I don’t think I’ll ever top writing this tagline

The Roost slip cover

The Roost case with white poster

The Roost case with dark poster and back of slipcover

New disc from Glass Eye / OCN (avail at @vinsyn.bsky.social ) has a rad new painted slipcover by Wes Benscoter, and the reversible insert features my white poster/title design (also in red on the great painted poster by David Bell, on the main side of the insert).