Lots of holiday fun with two of these #midi controllers https://oddballism.com/en-ww
“Even when the Elf is not on the Shelf, you are never free of it. You carry the Elf within you, monitoring your own conduct for Naughtiness. You hold yourself prisoner within a self-surveilled snow globe of Santa’s making.” https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/great-philosophers-on-santas-naughty-and-nice-lists
#wfmu drove my snowed-in Holiday party with Todd-o-phonic Todd https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147208 and Fools Paradise https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147267 holiday shows
christmas On Mars (2008) https://archive.org/details/xmas-on-mars/Xmas+on+Mars/Title+T00-1.m4v
“It is in the financial interest of streaming services to discourage a critical audio culture among users, to continue eroding connections between artists and listeners, so as to more easily slip discounted stock music through the cracks, improving their profit margins in the process.” #streaming #music #economics https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/