May 2022

That night my two favorite former Sepultura dudes played all my favorite Sepultura songs.

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Nineteen children and two of their teachers were murdered in Texas yesterday and I have no intention of engaging with it. I’m truly sorry for that community’s tragedy, but I can’t help them and I can’t prevent it from happening again. Not with my votes, not with my donations, not with my woebegone tweet thread loaded with statistics decrying right-wing hypocrisy. Certainly not with my thoughts and prayers. Sandy Hook, an even worse massacre, occurred… See more →

Some stray notes:

• Upchuck’s frontwoman is a powerful performer, but part of her schtick is taking swigs of water or beer and spraying them from her mouth onto the audience. Punk rock abandon or not, I’m astonished anyone doesn’t understand how the events of the past two years have made that kind of behavior 1,000 percent unacceptable.
• Not to say any of their songs are bad, but Amyl and the Sniffers’ set list made me… See more →

Forgot my bike helmet somehow. Hope today is not that day.

current status

Bittersweet to see the late Dallas Good playing with Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet in the new Kids in the Hall intro. 😢

Last night, after many years of persistence, my friend @sanspoint became the 2022 @usairguitar NYC regional champion, which will send her to the National Finals for the first time. My heart is full! 💗 twitter.com/sanspoint/stat…

Thanks for your suggestions! Keeping them in my back pocket for a future “Recommended by Twitter” marathon. Tonight I went with Richard Linklater’s “Tape.”

What movie should I watch tonight?

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Dueling new releases from @otobokebeaver and @sitenonsite (debut EP!) make this just my kind of bipolar Friday.

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come on

I don’t have much appetite for brooding on Twitter about current events these days. That’s what my blog is for. v6.robweychert.com/blog/2022/05/d…

A commonly expressed example of American excess is the fact that we constitute just 5 percent of the world’s population but consume a quarter of its resources. We haven’t quite reached that level with our share of the world’s Covid deaths, but our current 15.8 percent stake is still a plenty potent argument for American exceptionalism, though obviously not the sort of argument the exceptionalists prefer to make. Our Covid death toll makes well over… See more →

First gig poster I’ve designed in ages, for tonight’s @HTRK_ show at @PhilaMOCA!