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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/09/2026

Tonight: Philadelphia Orchestra performing Brahms and Bernstein. Love having easy access to one of the best orchestras in the world.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25/09/2026

This thread rings true to how my son and I think of these things. Also: my son turns 30 next week.

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TMB(ot)G @tmbotg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey!

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 24/09/2026

The only thing from them I've come across on streaming (that's still crediting Gramavision, not like where Bobby Private's got his masters back) is the Anthony Davis opera "X". Not an exhaustive search. Davis' "Hemispheres" changed the direction of my life -- I would like people to hear it!

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 24/09/2026

Man, I wish that the entire Gramavision catalog was still available. So much amazing music of the era now relegated to used CD shops.

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Jason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I'm just saying, if you see every example of someone with unconventional clothes/hair/mannerisms/language as a sign of utter civilizational collapse, there might be medications that can help you

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/09/2026

In the 90s, I heard a catchy pop song about breathing on the radio in my wife's car and they back-announced it as being the new track from Duncan Sheik. Wait -- the kid in the pink suit? He went on to a bunch of other successes that I enjoyed watching. RIP Duncan. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/a...

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Duncan Sheik, Who Traded Pop Stardom for Broadway, Dies at 56

Weary of the heartthrob label after his 1996 hit “Barely Breathing,” he pivoted to musical theater and won two Tonys for composing “Spring Awakening.”

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/09/2026

There was also a 12-year old kid with a really distinctive name who enjoyed hanging with the much older 16/17 year olds. Also memorable because he brought 1 suit for performance days, and it was a vivid salmon color.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/09/2026

I'm still friends with some of them, my friend Jamie is a music teacher/working musician in the Scranton area, my friend Marty ended up a few years behind me in college, and has since done a bunch of composing for dance and TV and has been the drummer for They Might Be Giants for the past 20 years.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/09/2026

I spent the summer of 1981 as a counselor at a music camp that was located on the campus of Bard College, in the Hudson Valley. It was a mix of really talented young people and really rich NYC kids whose parents wanted them gone for 6 weeks. (1/n)

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 10/09/2026

A while back I did playlist software for the a company that did in-flight entertainment systems, and while I blocked out as much as I can, it's more complicated than that. I do remember that when doing a playlist for international flights, each track needed a license for the PRO at each end.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 10/09/2026

I spent 6 years going to college in Miami and I can only remember a lot of people coked out of their gourds and regular discoveries of hacked up body parts in Biscayne Bay and the Dadeland Mall parking garage. Also many, many tiny lizards. He must mean the lizards.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 07/09/2026

“Why Must I Be Sad?” by @tmbg.bsky.social namechecks 3 Alice Cooper albums.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 07/09/2026

> a Nathan Fielder documentary about Thomas Pynchon "The Kenosha Kid" only in theaters this November. "You?" "Never did!"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 02/09/2026

RIP Cassandra Wilson -- listening to the first track I ever heard her on: www.m-base.org/sine_die_mp3... www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 02/09/2026

Happy "all seasons of SCTV are now available on Netflix" Day to those who etc etc etc. If you need me, I'll be watching the NASA and the Buzz Aldrin Players performing TS Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Proposal to replace the tired phrase “silent killer” with the punchier “murder mime”.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 01/09/2026

My traditional first listen on 9/1 every year: David Sylvian, "September," from "Secrets of the Beehive" (1987). The separation between listens keeps getting shorter. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOWY...

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David Sylvian - September

YouTube video by TheRedmeka

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 31/08/2026

Artiphon, the company I was working for at the time, was officially headquartered in Nashville, but like many tech companies did, started to welcome remote workers after the pandemic, and by the time I joined in 2021, the team was fairly widely... bgporter.net/posts/misc/mystery-1

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Mystery #1

Puzzling out the path taken by some old vinyl

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 31/08/2026

I worked at Spec's in Coral Gables FL when I was in grad school (88-89). The best. Foreign/art film collection was deep enough that other stores would send us customers. Cast of Miami Vice were regulars. Dave Barry's wife yelled at me! Gary Hart's friend (?) Donna Rice was a customer.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 30/08/2026

There’s what’s right, and there’s what’s right, and never the twain shall meet.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 29/08/2026

A childless couple from Arizona cares for a quintuplet.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 28/08/2026

My first SXSW was in 2014 and it was filled with people who kept talking about how much it sucked compared to the old days and now I'll be able to do the same thing. (Yes, I'm still a bit sore that I didn't get to give my talk scheduled for SXSW 2020)

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 28/08/2026

"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 28/08/2026

By presidential decree: "Sullivan's Travels" starring Veronica Lake America.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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Bear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 27/08/2026

Happy birthday to Alice Coltrane -- John's centennial is getting the rest of the year; we can afford one day for Alice. (not my car, seen randomly in a Philadelphia grocery store parking lot)

Car bumper with stickers:
- "Keep Honking! I'm listening to Alice Coltrane's 1971 Meteoric Sensation 'Universal Consciousness'"
- "My other ride is the extra-terrestrial energy generated by the cosmic transmissions of the SUN RA ARKESTRA"

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/08/2026

Farewell to delightful, charming, insouciant Jaye P. Morgan. ❤️

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Pirijan @pketh.org · 25/08/2026

Your only career goal should be "How do I get a cool job where I'm just making a cool thing with cool people?"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25/08/2026

If anyone wants to get out their 5 string electric violin and play along…

First page of the score to JL Ponty’s “Egocentric Molecules”.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25/08/2026

Sometimes I wish that the world would stop making new music for a few years so I can catch up, just a little bit.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25/08/2026

You're one listen ahead of me - that lineup puts it into the queue for me for sure.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 25/08/2026

My bot agrees: bsky.app/profile/tmbo...

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 24/08/2026

If the sequel is Stockhausen vs Cardew, I am ALL IN.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20/08/2026

He wanted me to be an engineer and I guess the big joke is that I was unable to prevent that from being my fate. I just went about it in a really weird way.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20/08/2026

The idea of someone graduating at 22 with a quarter million in student loan debt and not even the skill to play wedding gigs? My dad did NOT want me to study music and I understand it now that my own kids are through college and supporting themselves (also w/zero debt)

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20/08/2026

I'm lucky! Hefty scholarships in undergrad and a fellowship for my master's left me zero debt, and I happened to stumble into a series of positions working in music technology, but... it's like in the 80s if all of the English majors' classes were "how to use a word processor"

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 20/08/2026

A few years back I met a current administrator from the music school I attended in the 80s and asked what it was like now; he said (excitedly!) "We are ALL IN on AI!" and was confused when my response was anger and confusion. Someone's paying $90K a year to have their kid NOT learn to make music?

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TMB(ot)G @tmbotg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Make way make way and stand aside The crowd takes up the cry He comes he comes

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 19/08/2026

There’s a critic whose name I’m incapable of remembering who uses the descriptor “chamber music by other means” and it describes about 80% of what I listen to.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 19/08/2026

My favorite ZZ Top is naturally a pretty deep cut: youtu.be/nNC-BtsLFdQ?...

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ZZ Top Manic Mechanic

YouTube video by Whiterabbit7406

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/08/2026

I'd see Flatlands just for Ches Smith, but Labor Day weekend is stuffed. I have tix for Taborn/PRISM Quartet (I got to work with them last fall) and Horse Lords in October, still musing the rest of the schedule.

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brett g porter @bgporter.net · 18/08/2026

There's at least one show elsewhere where he's doing a 30-minute pre-show talk, and if that were happening here as well, I would hope that ANW would by hyping the heck out of it. So based on the text I suspect not.

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