Well no but also like the earth and the rain and the protons and electrons

Get yourself to this show. It’s going to be a good one. @msezrafurman.bsky.social @ryanhwalsh.bsky.social

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And while we’re thanking, save some gratitude for the recording engineers, the record label employees, the manager the venue owner the drumstick manufacturer the parents of all those people the food growers and truck drivers that fed them and at some point I think you do arrive at something like God

BUT I also think understanding that art can catalyze those kinds of feelings IS part of why the artist makes art, and may play a role in the artist’s art making. So I do think the artist is among the people to thank. But it’ll always be a weird thank you, for a feeling they didn’t create or intend.

I relate to the objection and also to the objection to the objection. JD is not discounting the role of the artist here but noting that those amazing feelings of redemption etc in the listener were not what the artist was trying to create, and they couldn’t have possibly have intended/imagined them.

Estrogen by Concession (After the Rain, March 2023) YouTube video by Free Key Choir

There are certain beautiful things that certain terrible things can only make more beautiful. It is in this narrow victory that I dwell today

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It’s so crazy that being trans has so much negative stigma when it’s the coolest thing ever.

It’s like if ripping a killer guitar solo was seen as gross & suspect.

“We just don’t know about this lead guitar stuff. Do what you want, live your life, but don’t rub it in my face” WTF is wrong with u

I guess all these critics are planning to follow up their year-end lists with a list of “The Albums of 2025 That Were Even Better Than Those Other Ones”…??? Eagerly awaiting

Despite the implication of this post I am very very excited about that!!

Every time I hear that Bob Seger song “Turn the Page,” I’m like: Bob. Just don’t book the shows. You don’t have to play the shows if you don’t book the shows.

And then I realize I’m talking to myself and I stay home for 6+ months

You’re joking but this is truly what I want. Nothing bad happens, the book

You’re God’s lonely poster

On it

As a longtime wearer and clutcher of actual pearls, I am APPALLED and HORRIFIED at the proliferation of “pearl-clutching” as a derogatory expression for performative overreaction.

I stand with my fellow pearl-wearers and all the diverse ways and reasons we fondle our pearls

I got 3 extra tix to @msezrafurman.bsky.social at Union Stage DC tonight, so DM if anybody local wants something to do :3 you don't gotta stand near us less you want to 😚 pay what you want/free

Federal terrorism in my beloved city. Bring these bastards down. Block them wherever you can. ICE go home.

A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.

Leave Ethel Cain alone!!!!!!!!

…. And come to me… and listen to my brilliant music!!

…because all trans women in music are in competition with one another for attention.

See? that’s what it’s like if you think through why you’re posting something and what you want and why! You simply must try it

In 38 years, I’ve learned a few things about life. Some deep, profound things. Oh yeah… these things…… just wait til you hear em…..

The skeletons are starting to come out of my closet…

That’s really well-said. “What they perform and how we receive it.” Thanks for that

Everyone commenting on my shit online is either like “you are disgusting keep away from my children you misogynist pervert” or else “you are the finest mind of our generation your soul is worth more than other souls please kiss me”. Chill out

This is very very bad.

This person - Mahmoud Khalil - has been detained & relocated & his wife no longer knows where he is

What he did: demonstrate against US/university support of Israel

Does making people with the wrong political stance disappear sound like anything other than fascism to you?

The inability to accommodate trans people is a pretty wild claim from the society that does Daylight Savings Time

I will never forgive the right wing for causing this many well-meaning liberals to say things about trans people

Being that I reject the labels “leftist” and “progressive” I am workshopping some new names for my politics. One contender is “thrivalism” but my favorite is “don’tkillmeism”

No promises darling but thank you. My sweet heatgulp

Ya just made it into the song I’m working on today

Why world make want vomit

The right light is not always easy to find. When someone shines a light that is the right one for you, be grateful, of course. But be proud, too. That you worked out just how to turn your soul to catch it.