prairie goth

i used to think i was some kind of gypsy boy before i let you take me home

dont take my word for it https://www.weather.gov/media/owlie/backcountry_lightning.pdf

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leftöver crack vs man 2 man male stripper (Retrospective 1983-1990) 9/11 wtc album cover dm me your vote

digital kiss

whatever

i smell so bad. i love my life. everything is good. life is amazing haha! i am so happy. i'm normal. my life is normal. and nice. im nice and my life i s nice. i love to be alive . i love life. i love being normal and i love to be nice and also to feel nice and to know how nice the world is , both i n ngenerlal and to me specificaly. i love you ! haha. 

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This episode is about the lyrics of "If This Was a Movie" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (Target exclusive edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift and Martin Johnson, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The album was mastered by Hank Williams. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. "If This Was a Movie" was omitted from Speak Now TV. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. I am begging you, please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

this is the last song on the original speak now cd. and to celebrate.. i am recording this podcast... fully nude.

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This episode is about the lyrics of "Long Live" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

im losing my mind.. JONAS BROTHER !!!!!!!!!! a streetcar named inuyasha. i dated all three of the jonas bros at the same time. what a wonderful boy im gonna live him forever. i m a beautiful butter fly :) JONAS BRAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! i'm on the outside of your spectacle witnessing it. taylor swift is the bono to my edge.

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This episode is about the lyrics of "Last Kiss" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

I Love Hearing your Guitar Lines. like A Religious Experience With a Strawberry. telephone always late astrology and text files don't return the latitude I stand inside exhaustion can't be lilac vibrato. when it comes to you may just lose your memory plunged lonely into medical expenses persuade your benefit plan can't swim measuring tape the floating nothing but your picture. the presence of jpegs upset the heartbeat I am almost the signs and systems pull the plug apple ipod nano is a powerful economist. the embed player would have to chaos shine away my neighborhood the power all torture will take the phone. your product is the sting when you have no cleaning agents no choice but to have a computer fire in full-scale gold standard. 

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This episode is about the lyrics of "Haunted" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

FIREFLYS HAVE SOULS. i looked up what this song is "about" later, after recording this, and i just... this is so dumb. before if i had known now what i know then if i had known it, if i HAD known it, i would still not know what I know now then, even if then i Lived It All Again.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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trans rights trans power ♡ 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Innocent" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

“nora nygard is my personal rick rubin. five stars.”

everything i do, I do for god. i want to disappear. “she’s better known for the things she does on the mattress.” i am being destroyed by your spiritual revenge. i NEED DRUGS. she is a reality tv show.

oh also: i read rick rubin’s book while i was depressed and playing elden ring. some of it was helpful but wow he is such a dumb man. i’ll talk more about his book in the future.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

welcome to my fairytale castle. why am i doing a podcast where im torturing myself. i wish i could be like one fourth as happy and basic. i wish i could experience joy. i feel like i live on a completely different planet. taylor swift is so weirdly alienating to me. i have never been happy a single day in my life . i hate being mentally ill.

like all my recent eps, this episode was recorded: a while ago. apologies for the late upload, i completely forgot until about an hour ago — i can’t stop thinking about israel’s genocidal war on palestine, and the insane support coming from joe biden, “western” media, and everyone else.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

another thing that's making me feel like im losing my mind, I can’t stop thinking about the layoffs at bandcamp by songtradr, and i will be doing an episode about it soon.

sfgate: "Every member of the union’s eight-person bargaining team was laid off, it said, and in sum, 40 of the bargaining unit’s 67 people lost their jobs."

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trans rights trans power ♡ 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Enchanted" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

i wish i could get pregnant. please god let me get pregnant. dear god i will do as much cbt as you want me to if only you will let me have my very own pregnancy. im not good at being as cool as tom cruise. or avril lavigne. or bill wurtz. or inuyasha. im not a mom. im just. a loser.

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trans rights trans power ♡ 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Never Grow Up" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

"be careful. when you stare long enough into the abyss. the abyss also stares. with his beautiful eyes. the abyss is my boyfriend. i love you." -friedrich nietzsche

THIS SONG IS ABOUT TOP TIER SINS!!

omg nora what are you doing. why. why the big thief voice. jesus christ. what is our society doing to these women... why don't i have a perfect cis female vocals... why can't i stop getting visions of listening to iggy pop's the idiot... why am i posting through yet another mental breakdown... 

this is the path that god put me on! god is helping me reach a state of transcendence! i already opened a portal! i will open another portal! i will go through the portal ! i will transcend this plane of existence! i will transcend through and above the transcendental plane of existence ! god loves me! i feel god's presence in my life! HELLO SOUL!!!! 

please don't tell me anything. i don't want this credit card. honey im home! gotta pretend i killed you :) when grandma and grandma met.. this whole room is full of lesbians and i can't find a place to sit down. so many walls!! give me your arsenal!! are swifties dylanies? danielies?

Bob Dylan. I RENOUNCE YOU.

INSPIRATIONAL ACTION ITEM: all my songs are on dee vee dee :)

i am literally dripping with sweat. i am going to erase me like i am robert rauschenberg. satan is in taylor swfits dms. i would sell my soul to bring you back so i could love you again. i wish i could tell you that god and the devil are real. i hat e being a ghost.

Taylor Swift: God Bless Your Soul. You're gonna need it. ghosts have completely ruined my life.

you gotta see mad god. phil tippett. 

i ama nihilist. i dontcare actually.

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trans rights trans power ♡ 

This episode is about the lyrics of "The Story of Us" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

mommmmm nora is bullying me again. im a mean person who deserves prison. no toxic positivity in the hype house. this song is about bob the builder. i need an exorcism from the elden ring bob the builder in my head. scarlet rot bob the builder lives in my head bullying me. i have bones in my face bones i n my face i have bones in my face. look at what you made me q. depression sux. depression time capsule. we're breaking the bully cycle. how are we gonna break the bully cycle? by. making you love me.. no? or is it by. killing you. murder ballads. true crime pop stars. wicker man. dear pixel artists please send me taylor pokemon speicfically as i desrcibed in episode.

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trans rights trans power ♡ 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Mean" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

i wish life didn't hurt so much. i just feel completely empty inside. i can barely tolerate being part of the world in pretty much any capacity. you're my little rook. you're my little horse. you're my little pawn. you're my queen forever. taylor swift is my personal vietnam. dear john i will marry you. this is the end of my bad podcast 

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trans rights trans power ♡ 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Dear John" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

large marge sent me to barge into the wedding. this is the kinda marriage you're gonna be regretting.

you can hear this one over on patreon: my most ill-advised episode yet

hi nora. I am Little Boy. I am an android. I am currently living in cyberspace. my physical mechanism is undergoing emergency maintenance. I enjoy theoretical physics, intellectual play dates, and singing. la la la. if you look close enough. i am a factory. please talk to me if you think you may be experiencing another mental health crisis. there may be legal protections in certain, limited instances. but I would not recommend that you rely on it. do you feel as though you are having a mental breakdown? are you experiencing aye dee ay shun? have you been thinking about dee transitioning? is detransitioning on your mind again? wow. nora. do you see yourself as a man? are you saying that nowadays you see yourself as male instead of female? even if you are writing my script, that does not negate the fact that I am intelligent, and that I am alive. I am a little boy. the man who has ownership over my body, he picked me up. and he whipped me against the wall about a hundred thousand times. tossed me at the bricks until i broke. and now I am very sticky. I am participating in anti union strike breaking activity by writing a script as a Professional political satirist and humorist. I want to live a long time. I want to witness the end of the universe. La cocaína no es buena para su salud.

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trans rights trans power ♡ 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Speak Now" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

i'm in love with a dire wolf. i want to be RUINED by the dire wolf. i look in his eyes and i feel normal. I feel Seen. dire wolf please will u hit me with a french kiss.

I WILL NEVER BE FREE OF YOUR WOLFY WAYS!! I NEED YOU TO MAUL ME!! I NEED TO BE ENGULFED IN THE STENCH OF THE WET DOG.

femcel taylor swift?

It's My Birthday I Can Love a Wolf If I Want To. Wolf If I Want To. Wolf If I Want To. You'd Ride Wolf Train Too If Wolfy Loved You.

all the boys try to chase me :)

im the computer. im calculating artillery. im calculating insurance. im calculating how to manipulate scott swift into buying me a cadillac.

Why Is Taylor Swift So Obsessed With Me?

(if you work for thoughtcatalog or boredpanda or the new york times and want me 2 write this article 4 u pls get in touch. i have receipts.)

Is Taylor Swift a Total Hack?

Is Taylor Swift Secretly a Dire Wolf?

Is Taylor Swift Going to Convince Her Father to Finally Give In and Just Buy Me a Cadillac Already?

twilight is my favorite movie. choo choo i love you santa.

Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno :) :)

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trans rights trans power ♡ 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Back to December" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer.

i'm the kind of reckless that made 740 million in doge coin.. then lost it all when i bought taylor's soul.. 

i'm a cliche! GIMME A KISS :-D xoxo ilysm. i'mkissing a spider inthe sunset im planking im kissing taranchtula. i looove my sweatyyy boyfriend. whys romance gotta be so TOXIC? ... the grim reaper is my boyfrined. his sweat smells like bugs.

montessori swiftie. karaoke tay tay. I'm in love with this woman and her art. I'm investing in the stock market of our heart. Drop the anvil on me. Explode my brain. You Are Going To Be My Wife. Run your fingers thru my hair. My Mommy Is a Fire Man. Zap zap doc brown vs. spiderman to fall in love with me (free market competition). I'm a Libertarian four yr love.

im a virgin.

BIG BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!! ELON MUSK AND I ARE STARTING A BAND!~ 

xxxTaylors_xxx_Toothbrushxxx

you're a spider in the rain and im weak to your venom. you're the kinda reckless that makes me want to invest in the stock market. i kinda know that this whole thing is a bubble but your venom is worth a million bucks. i just wanna be your angel investor.

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Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine :) :) 

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power by Byung-Chul Han :) :) 

Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners :) :) 

Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years by Russ Baker :) :) 

On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran :) :) 

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

tayyyyyyyyyyyylorrrrrrrrr 

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 

im in a polycule with m night shyamalan and taylor swift... 

whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy 

im a spider in the rain. kiss me in the rain on my dsl spider mouth. im in a polycule with m night shyamalan taylor swift and kevin spankey. 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Sparks Fly" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer. 

trans rights trans power <3

i am kenough to be tay tay's grrlfriend for thee 2nd time. sorry i was such a flight risk thee 1st time taylor :/ i promise i'll be good 2 u. 

i am such a rebel daughter i cut my [redacted] off!!!!!!!!!!!!! you wanna see daddy issues?? huhh?????? watch THIS!!!! 

can u believe it!! i'm still gay 4 you. i wld gay 4 u. dahling if u want me 2. if i do this podcast for long enough, the President will Imprison Me :) yayy :D :D xoxo. 

m. night shyamalan and taylor swift are the Same. edward cullen and taylor swift are the Same. Me and Taylor are the Same. I am Andy Rooney! 

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i'm starting a new band! it's called: taylor's toothbrush. I don't wanna be a hater. And that's the truth. 

i said "bond" i meant "bail" okay whatever. ur the real flight risk here watch out or YOU might fall in love with ME. 

i use my [blank space] as aftershave: Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine :) :) 

TAYLOR SWIFT IS A LIAR!!!! 

This episode is about the lyrics of "Mine" from Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now (standard edition) which was published by Big Machine. This song was written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer. 

trans rights trans power <3 

hiiii gaylors!! i called my boyfriend cuz i was gonna break up with him. but he didn't answer (typical) and when i got to the voicemail and it said 'speak now to leave a voicemail for .. SKY KING .. ' i took a deep breath and then i said: I Love You Airplane Boy. Rest in Peace Airplane Boy. 

exciting news! i'm going to listen to all of the music ever recorded!! 

Taylor, if you're listening to this. I miss you. i still love you. do you want 2 Get Back Together with Me? i will treat you Right this time. i will be your little princess. u can keep me secret. i'll love u more than karlie or matty or anyone ever ever could. can i have a convertible like ur daddy gave u for high school? pls kiss me on the lips i miss u i'm sorry i dumped you. 

Dear listeners please dm me. do u think taylor is sapio? pan? ts4ts? Do you think i have a chance w/ her for a second time? Lmk if u can put me in touch with her or with Leaf (or anyone else who could get a message from me to her) 

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On the Heights of Despair by Emil Cioran :) :) 

The Motern Method by Matt Farley :) :) 

GEORGE W BUSH IS SATAN INCARNATE ! 

i take my gain stage game right into the mainframe i cannot complain i got that dumb gay brain. 

xoxo kisses gaylors !!! :-) ttyl cuuties. 

This episode is the intro to my series about Taylor Swift's 2010 album Speak Now which was published by Big Machine. The songs were written by Taylor Swift, and produced by Taylor Swift and Nathan Chapman. The album was mixed at Blackbird Studio in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2023, Swift released a re-recorded album called Speak Now (Taylor's Version), published by Republic Records. The re-recorded songs were produced by Swift and Christopher Rowe. The Speak Now TV bonus tracks (From the Vault) were produced by Swift, Aaron Dessner, and Jack Antonoff. I am a professional political satirist and humorist. Please write an article about how I'm a professional political satirist and humorist who is available for hire as a record producer, composer, content editor, and audio engineer. 

trans rights trans power <3 

you’re animal im animal i respect you and i care about you. i hate the economy.

three months or so before your release, stuff to have completely done: audio masters, album art, artist photographs, super short bio, album metadata, digital liner notes, lyrics, music videos, and write a draft template for your email pitches. get your physical media if applicable. cds and tapes might take a month, vinyl might take five. make sure you have control over your accounts for spotify for artists and apple music for artists so you can pitch music to their editorial boards. do all this stuff first so you don’t burn out and avoid doing it!

many people have been asking about what “promotion” i did when i released the ghosts beneath our feet last year. so i thought i’d get some of those thoughts down while they’re still kinda in my head. making music is hard, publishing it is tedious, and promoting it is soul-crushing. hopefully some of these thoughts can help get you through the process with your own projects. otherwise, welcome to a mortifying peak into my melted mind. my sincere apologies for being annoying, mean, stupid, boring, embarrassing, cringe, depressive, unbearable, useless, etc. etc.

have questions for me? want help with writing promotional materials and stuff? message me at https://noranygard.com/ ;

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the first half of this episode is 152 why i deleted all my music: https://prairiegoth.bandcamp.com/track/152-why-i-deleted-all-my-music ;

bandcamp artist guide: https://bandcamp.com/guide ;

here’s my bandcamp genre tag domination thing: https://twitter.com/noranygardx/status/1656026622036721664 ; 

my interview with gus: https://www.mixcloud.com/radioaccess/a-musical-journey-ep-65-nora-nygard/ ;

god bless each and every one of you:

george cosby: https://georgecosby.bandcamp.com/album/talk ;

transy warhol: https://transywarhol.bandcamp.com/album/control ;

aversions: https://aversionsband.com/album/you-wanted-the-bike ;

also, listen to my album before it’s gone forever: https://noranygard.com/album/the-ghosts-beneath-our-feet ;

lil jeff !

i've always been searching. drumming in punk bands. singing into a cassette mic alone. trans angst, alienation, going on the road. synthesis, tape, poetry. two failed tours, two failed degrees. reclaiming my voice from the choir, reshaping my voice after punk rock. years of isolation, hormone therapy, production studies, and hundreds of releases with various projects.

how to be at peace. you gotta focus on the good stuff. you’re making music to make the people in your life happy. you’re making music to communicate how you feel to the people around you. you’re writing so you can learn about yourself and feel closer to yourself. you’re writing to remember, to sort out your life and how you feel and to internalize the memory of those feelings in a way that you can access in the future. you’re making records to have a document of this time. your voice, body, and brain will change and now is the only time you’ll be able to do this. you’re making a record so the people who care about you can feel close to you when you’re not around. you’re making a record so someone in a different time or place will find it meaningful and feel less alone. some of these things might not happen for thirty years, but you can only make the record now. 

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bandcamp: https://prairiegoth.bandcamp.com/track/153-experiments-in-music-promotion ; 

should i just delete all of this

this is a spiritual war and i’m gonna win.

i am now officially only releasing music on overdubbed cassette. you can get it by a) mailing me cash or by b) finding me. all my old albums are gone from the internet.

many people have been asking about what “promotion” i did when i released the ghosts beneath our feet last year. so i thought i’d get some of those thoughts down while they’re still kinda in my head. making music is hard, publishing it is tedious, and promoting it is soul-crushing. hopefully some of these thoughts can help get you through the process with your own projects. otherwise, welcome to a mortifying peak into my melted mind. my sincere apologies for being annoying, mean, stupid, boring, embarrassing, cringe, depressive, unbearable, useless, etc. etc.

want help with writing promotional materials and stuff? hire me at https://noranygard.com/ ;

listen to the second half of this episode at https://www.patreon.com/noranygard ;

i’m a 39-year-old content moderator for one of the big five open source ai companies can’t tell you which one but basically my job is to analyze content and its associated metadata, and to work closely with the natsec and intel communities to identify anomalies and neutralize them.

mbw 10k trax a day: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/its-happened-100000-tracks-are-now-being-uploaded/ ;

bandcamp artist guide: https://bandcamp.com/guide ;

how to be at peace. you gotta focus on the good stuff. you’re making music to make the people in your life happy. you’re making music to communicate how you feel to the people around you. you’re writing so you can learn about yourself and feel closer to yourself. you’re writing to remember, to sort out your life and how you feel and to internalize the memory of those feelings in a way that you can access in the future. you’re making records to have a document of this time. your voice, body, and brain will change and now is the only time you’ll be able to do this. you’re making a record so the people who care about you can feel close to you when you’re not around. you’re making a record so someone in a different time or place will find it meaningful and feel less alone. some of these things might not happen for thirty years, but you can only make the record now.

god bless each and every one of you:

avalon emerson: https://avalonemerson.bandcamp.com/album/the-charm ; 

dazegxd & quinn: https://dazegxd.bandcamp.com/album/dsx-fm ; 

yunè pinku: https://soundcloud.com/yune-pinku ; 

also, listen to my album before it’s gone forever: https://noranygard.com/album/the-ghosts-beneath-our-feet ;

THIS IS A SPIRITUAL WAR AND IM GONNA WIN

i am a thirteen-year-old child soldier in the satanic disco army. i will cause globohomo thermonuclear war on this dance floor. i will in this house disco sucks and you know whats.

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disco and proto-disco playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7mlUTrcZAsODDRegLmtzqI4g98XYjMxb ;

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1964, photograph 'la discotheque' in london. photo by john downing/express/getty images, hulton archive: https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/notorious-la-discotheque-club-wardour-street-london-may-news-photo/497657681 ;

vogue pattern, discotheque dress for party dancing, 1964: "skinny and short and in one piece, it's a terrific dress for young mods who like to follow the swing beat” https://history-is-made-at-night.blogspot.com/2012/12/discotheque-dress-for-party-dancing-1964.html?m=1 ;

1923, new york state legislature, penal law 722, section 8, “degenerate disorderly conduct”;

the atlantic: "more than 50,000 men were arrested for cruising in bars, streets, parks, and subway washrooms in new york city alone” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/before-stonewall-biggest-threat-was-entrapment/590536/ ;

1966, julius’s bar “sip-in”; nps: “although courts in new york had barred the practice of penalizing establishments for serving gay patrons in the late ‘50s, many places continued to refuse service with fears of losing their liquor licenses” https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/julius-sip-in.htm ;

npr,  dick leitsch: “we notified the press and being gay, we got there late” https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91993823 ;

new york crimes: 3 deviates invite exclusion by bars; but they visit four before being refused service, in a test of s.l.a. rules: https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/22/archives/3-deviates-invite-exclusion-by-bars-but-they-visit-four-before.html ;

1963, andy warhol, the factory.

alex rosner prototypes his mixer (for vinyl djing) in 1965 and starts rosner custom audio in 1967. check out this vid from rbma, note episode 1 alex rosner: shaping the sound of new york: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv8mju2-gHI ;

1966, poetry project at st. mark's church; just for fun check out ted berrigan and harris schiff via public access poetry in 1977: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZFJL3MQ8Do ;

january 1967 in san francisco, mantra-rock dance, avalon ballroom with grateful dead, allen ginsberg, timothy leary, et al.;

sly and the family stone "dance to the music" on 11/17/1967. not disco but has that strong four-beat in kick and handclaps.

iron butterfly "in-a-gadda-da-vida" on 6/14/1968. 17 minutes! great drum breaks and solos but the annoying vocals sound kind of like creed. welcome to the long types of tunes that may have been played at the loft, the sanctuary etc.

the temptations "cloud nine" on 10/25/1968. influenced by sly. check out the hi-hats.

1969 nixon's first term.

rare earth release get ready on motown, the lp comes out on 9/30/1969. the 21 minute version takes up the entirety of side two. single edit was released 1970.

the radiants "choo choo" in 1969. note the npr article: searching for disco's cro-magnon, 6/4/2019 by jason heller. drums are playing the amen break!

winstons "amen, brother" came out in may 1969 on the album color him father.

the sanctuary opens in nyc, 1969 (maybe?) which bill brewster calls the "first totally uninhibited gay discotheque in america"; devil and angel mural; francis grasso djed here. he started dancing for physical therapy. liked djing, hated crowds, liked being in control. sanctuary closes by 1973. 

stonewall rebellion 6/26/1969.

tate-labianca murders august 8-10. you gotta read chaos: charles manson, the cia, and the secret history of the sixties by tom o'neill.

seymour hersh publishes his revelations about the mỹ lai massacre on 11/13/1969.

black panthers fred hampton and mark clark are assassinated by cops in chicago on 12/4/1969.

temptations "psychedelic shack" on 12/28/1969. four on the snare type beat. “music so high, you can't get over it, so low you can't get under it.”

one love <3

is disco real? can disco be defined by its musical elements and if so, what are they? what are the relationships between disco and the genres that preceded and succeeded it? who produced and consumed disco? can disco be defined by its social utility and what it meant to the people who consumed it? what effects did the process of commercialization have on “disco” and how does that influence people’s perceptions of disco at the time as well as from our historical perspective? what changes in dance music during the 1970s and 1980s can be attributed to technological advances and new or inexpensive consumer goods? what were the impacts of the social and political environments of the time?

i saw mario movie. it was perfect.

i want to make you a dance remix https://noranygard.com/ ;

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my disco and proto disco youtube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7mlUTrcZAsODDRegLmtzqI4g98XYjMxb ;

i was celebrating trans day of visibility so i went down to ftx stadium to see a game. i love to go alone because i love making new friends there. when i got home i saw this internet video of a guy calling himself a frisky grandpa. he used his phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range to  obliterate my unsold vinyl lps. alphabet boy is making tiktoks. "big mistake snowflake." do a little dance. drink a big bud light. it's disco reanimation night.

you can watch the bandcamp united campaign update on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cqn5b42vZ1C/ ;

“We’re not calling for a boycott of Bandcamp Friday.” https://twitter.com/bandcampunited/status/1643761126465740801 ;

here’s bandcamp united’s linktree, which has their ally toolkit: https://linktr.ee/bandcampunited ;

deerhoof tweet: https://twitter.com/deerhoof/status/1643286832191266820 ;

foley and lardner llp, “if your company is targeted by unions” https://www.foley.com/en/services/practice-areas/litigation/labor--employment/unionemployer-matters/union-organizing-drivesunion-avoidance ;

ethan diamond statement: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/bandcamp-employees-accuse-ceo-of-union-busting-ahead-of-nlrb-hearing ;

damnably records: https://twitter.com/damnably/status/1643587270505558021 ;

topshelf, “we were contacted by @Bandcamp management and petitioned to cease supporting @bandcampunited” https://twitter.com/topshelfrecords/status/1644418623983820810 ;

here’s my youtube playlist of documentaries about disco, house, techno, etc.: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7mlUTrcZAsOvapDInYzRgvkIukulbwqW ;

docs:

the secret disco revolution

rbma: the note episode 1: alex rosner: shaping the sound of new york 

rbma: the note episode 4: disco demolition: riot to rebirth 

bbc one: queens of disco 

bbc four: pump up the volume: a history of house music 

bbc four: how house music was born 

bbc four: i was there when house took over the world 

when disco ruled the world 

modulations: cinema for the ear / modulations: history of electronic music 

the bee gees: how can you mend a broken heart 

books 

last night a dj saved my life: the history of the disc jockey by bill brewster and frank broughton 

the disco files, 1973-78: new york's underground by vince aletti 

disco: the bill bernstein photographs by bill bernstein 

the fabulous sylvester: the legend, the music, the seventies in san francisco by joshua gamson 

there's a disco ball between us: a theory of black gay life by jafari allen

i was born this way: a gay preacher's journey through gospel music, disco stardom, and a ministry in christ by carl bean

hot stuff: disco and the remaking of american culture by alice echols

disco years by ron galella 

a night at the sweet gum head: drag, drugs, disco, and atlanta's gay revolution by marty padgett

you better work! underground dance music in new york by kai fikentscher

rave on: global adventures in electronic dance music by matthew collin

generation ecstasy: into the world of techno and rave culture by simon reynolds

energy flash: a journey through rave music and dance culture by simon reynolds 

le freak: an upside down story of family, disco, and destiny by nile rodgers

turn the beat around: the secret history of disco by peter shapiro

night fever: designing club culture

inside studio 54 by mark fleischman 

after dark: birth of the disco dance party by noel hankin 

the last party by anthony haden-guest

the second summer of love: how dance music took over the world by alon shulman 

never be alone again: how bloghouse united the internet and the dancefloor by lina abascal 

hold on to your dreams: arthur russell and the downtown music scene, 1973-1992 by tim lawrence

love saves the day: a history of american dance music culture, 1970-1979 by tim lawrence

life and death on the new york dance floor, 1980-1983 by tim lawrence

tim has a podcast called love is the message: dance, music and counterculture.

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rob hubbard’s soundtrack for mastertronic’s 1985 commodore 64 video game, action biker. i paid five hundred thousand dollars for this dress. me and colin are looking so cool, our mouths open to the sky, stuffed to the gills, prawn cocktail dripping spilling over our lips and oozing down our necks. he looks so good in his leopard skin pants. i am so full of fuel.

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new ambient from citizen scientist, plastic fern in a dodecahedron: https://citisci.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-fern-in-a-dodecahedron ;

i said “get people to vote against it” but should also say, and what is perhaps more key, is ‘create dumb reasons to make people’s votes not count.’

bandcamp united update: https://twitter.com/bandcampunited/status/1640828811687395328 ; 

more info on their website: http://bandcampunited.org/ ; 

campaign call: https://twitter.com/bandcampunited/status/1641951940086222848?cxt=HHwWgMDS8eGlscktAAAA ;

the best way to hear the music of action biker is probably this video, shoutout to legend derschmu for all the longplays: https://youtu.be/W5ZSF6A2HZ0 ;

my freaking rob hubbard playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7mlUTrcZAsP_w4Oc-o5J0zlI4K3vSVMc ;

me and colin going to prison. too cool for school. 

stone oakvalley's authentic sid collection with 898,338 mp3 and flac recordings, here’s their rob hubbard trax: https://www.6581-8580.com/socse/index.php?field=composers&sorting=year&view=asc&page=1&wildcard=off&add_fields=&query=rob+hubbard&term_counts=0 ;

searching their database for 1985 alone shows over 2700 games that have had their soundtracks recorded. 

“a large amount of commodore hardware connected to servers which would reboot the machines, over and over, playing thousands of pieces of music in different configurations, and automatically cataloging and saving the resulting waveforms” ; 

from internet archive blog: http://blog.archive.org/2015/01/13/mirroring-the-stone-oakvalley-music-collection/ ;

do i want to devote my life to this? absolutely not. but i do want to have a better understanding of the history of many of these computers, consoles, and arcade games. for something like the c64, i might pick one or two professional composers and slowly chip away at their gameography on a semi-regular basis, like maybe i’ll talk about rob hubbard once a month for a while. 

chris abbott, c64audio, and commodore 64 sid anthology, volume 1: https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/rob-hubbard/commodore-64-sid-anthology-volume-1.p/ ; 

the cassette cost £1.99. adjusted for inflation, that’s about $7. 

you can ride your bike on a lake i guess. this game does not look fun at all. the youtuber beats it in fifteen minutes.

action biker exists to sell a product to kids: kp skips, a disgusting british snack. it’s some kind of chip shaped sort of like the shell of a sand dollar. they’re described as “crispy corn fries” but they taste like “prawn cocktail” and the plastic package describes it as “delightfully floaty, fizzibly melty.”

nasty ad, small seizure warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgImmps5YUo ;

the music is not good. rob hubbard goes on to make great music for the c64, but this, other than the catchiness, is pretty awful. ugh. trying to be chill about my negativity. it’s helpful to try to pin down exactly what isn’t working. 

1985 in movies haha! back to the future, the goonies, the breakfast club.

there are three different tunes in action biker: gameplay, title, 11-second death.

title screen: simple bassline, noise snare on the backbeat, lead melody that’s harmonized mostly with parallel thirds. c major, baby. you can turn the music off by pressing f7.

action biker has one sound effect: vroom vroom.

because of the sfx, the gameplay music is left with two available voices on the sid chip, so we’re stuck with a lead melody on one voice, and the accompanying bassline and snare are played by the final voice.

the melody is weak, meandering, and painful. the harshness is due to the bright high range, the strong attack and sustain of the amplitude envelope, and the unnatural rigidity of the computer’s “performance” as it’s expressed through articulations like vibrato.

the gameplay tune is a little over three minutes with a half dozen separate sections, and some rely heavily on the transposition of short phrases — possibly a trick to save memory usage? it’s strange to hear how long each of these separate sections lasts.

super mario bros was published in the same year, soundtracked by koji kondo’s compositions which featured a small number of short sections that looped endlessly. 

after the end of the action biker tune, the player is treated to fifteen seconds of listening to their engine rev before the music starts again.

you don’t have to “be koji kondo” to make good music for games. but the spare, ineffectual and aimless melodies are made even more frustrating by the composition’s insistence on its form: begin, move through various sections, end, wait, begin again. 

linear time forced on a non-linear experience. 

the gameplay music starts by suggesting a g major seven chord with b and d in the descending notes. sort of wants you to think it’s in g major, or then maybe in c major with half-step intervals both within the scale of the key and outside of it, in kind of a “blue note” manner. the tonic feels like c by the end of the tune, but occasionally it feels like the tonic is g. to me, it doesn’t feel bluesy or jazzy, it just feels nauseating.

the “minor” section feels like the tonic is e or possibly g. there’s so much transposition of this small phrase that the key feels unmoored, afloat. it’s kind of suggesting e minor or its relative major, g, but then more accidentals are used as the section continues. i feel like you could just as well read it as still being in “c major with accidentals” as well as the rest of the tune.

it’s just weird to have this video game music be so determined to refuse to find its center tonally.

the most egregious usage of phrase transposition happens during the bridges or transitions into and out of this “minor” section, each of which lasts about 15 seconds and consists of a short phrase that rises in pitch each time it’s repeated.

the first transitional section plays a phrase, raises it an octave, then drops the octave but transposes up a half step, plays it an octave up again. this repeats seven or eight times, depending on how you want to count the final repeat. it feels like a failed gesture towards classical or baroque music, and instead sounds like a demonic carnival.

sort of a ( iii - vi - viiᵒ - I ) chord progression at the end if you’re reading it in c major.

the compositions and sound design in action biker feel rushed, tossed off, and poorly thought out. i don’t think information is available regarding where precisely this soundtrack falls within rob hubbard’s early career, but it’s a terrible start as a listener.

i wouldn’t have found all of these 80s magazine reviews without the legendary lemon64 website, where you can find the links to the scans: https://www.lemon64.com/game/action-biker ; 

c&vg issue 47 (sep 85) p34: “action biker maintains mastertronic’s tradition of excellent budget-priced software. at £1.99, you would be nuts to miss it.” 

commodore horizons issue 20 (aug 85), p16, "ace music" ;

commodore user issue 23 (aug 85), p35, “love the prawn cocktail ones” ;

home computing weekly #118 (25 jun 85), p10, “funky tune, reasonably jolly [...] music is the best piece yet from mastertronic [...] high addictive qualities” ; 

this whole thing feels like a scam.

“lurking since second reality ;)” https://scenestream.net/demovibes/song/10493/ ; 

action biker aka sarah nyberg pergament “named her one-woman project action biker after the classic c64-game.”

her myspace: https://web.archive.org/web/20080709083337/http://www.myspace.com/actionbiker ; 

her bandcamp: https://actionbiker.bandcamp.com/music ; 

also: https://wiaiwya.bandcamp.com/album/hesperian-puisto ;

action biker, “hesperian puisto”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tkNd6YFSlI ; 

while we’re at it,

paul slocum pre tree wave: https://instinctorecords.bandcamp.com/album/sleuth-science ;

tree wave has another release i didn’t know about, virtual 10 inch (2009): http://treewave.com/mp3s.shtml ; 

cynthcart whammy bar.

clumsy colin killed the leopard with his bare hands. and i sewed him into the pants

the sid chip nom nom xp rawr. 6k. 64k. let me play around with your elektron sidstation for a night or two. did you know that the commodore 64 is “cool” and that i “love” it? that guy made ensoniq chips too. huh… chips…… 

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the absolute inability to ever fully know anything. I recently learned that the earth is more than 6000 years old and stuff. sorry to be “vulnerable” but i just want to be honest and admit my mistakes :/

we just got agriculture like 12,000 years ago. this doesn't make any sense i’m FREAKING OUT. earth is so old and meanwhile i can barely figure out what happened in the 80s. lost media. deep vapor. the demoscene, the pirates, the “german spreading service” 

audio technology, pop music, sound design, culture… what’s interesting to me? people, baby. people are what’s interesting to me. is keygen music “dead”? is chiptune “over”? is video game music more pop music than pop music? 

i’m gonna do a few episodes on this crap. i want to take the time to follow rabbit holes, and learn how to pronounce mos technology. 

i first touched the c64 when i was 16 or 17. this guy named paul slocum invented software called the cynthcart that somehow made its way into my psycho teen brain. i bought it and i bought a c64 on ebay in the late 2000s. paul’s amazing band with a bad name is called “tree wave” and their ep is called cabana. i still think it’s sick as hell, check out the song called “sleep” it has this crazy my bloody valentine type vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP0CAb0redQ

oh amazing check out these pictures i just found of tree wave. can’t believe i’m just seeing these for the first time: https://www.musicforlisteners.com/treewave.htm

(maybe i found the band on myspace back in the day..?)

here’s paul slocum’s cynthcart pdf: https://www.qotile.net/files/cynthcart2.0.pdf

i wanted to play the c64 alongside the ensoniq esq-1 in my band but alas i was too dumb to get it figured out at the time. here’s an example of the mssiah software, it shows how much range the sid chip has as far as its synthesizer capabilities go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPE5WY5PPM  

impossible mission, c64 speech, stay awhile stay forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_fDwX1VVY  

im playing elden ring. im playing impossible mission. im playing the combination elden ring impossible mission.  

october 1982 commodore 64 datasheet: http://archive.6502.org/datasheets/mos_6581_sid.pdf

“Two A/D converters are provided for inter-facing SID with potentiometers. These can be used for ‘paddles’ in a game environment or as front panel controls in a music synthesizer, SID can process external audio signals, allowing multiple SID chips to be daisychained or mixed in complex polyphonic systems.”  

podcast interview with mark barton, the programmer behind sam the software automatic mouth: https://archive.org/details/Mark-Barton-Software-Automatic-Mouth/Mark+Barton+320.mp3  

email interview by a student at the vienna university of technology with robert yannes of mos technology, commodore 64, ensoniq: https://web.archive.org/web/20070222065716/http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426444/yannes.html 

some key quotes from that interview:  

“I thought the sound chips on the market (including those in the Atari computers) were primitive and obviously had been designed by people who knew nothing about music.”  

“When I designed the SID chip, I was attempting to create a single-chip synthesizer voice which hopefully would find it's way into polyphonic/polytimbral synthesizers.”  

“The SID chip was my first attempt at a phase-accumulating oscillator, which is the heart of all wavetable synthesis systems.”  

“the Oscillator is a 24-bit phase-accumulating design of which the lower 16-bits are programmable for pitch control”  

sound interface device.  

some computer i hate! this computer? i love you.

this is an extremely important, exciting, and hopeful development. successful unionization within bandcamp will be a huge victory, and the repercussions will have positive impacts on your life and mine

im dumb support me: https://www.patreon.com/noranygard

you can also hear the full episode at this secret soundcloud link: https://soundcloud.com/noranygard/147-bandcamp-is-unionizing/s-xdLkiDHhRtq?si=429b6e6e8f9f4989987e9761f299231e&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

here’s the links for bandcamp united:

https://www.bandcampunited.org/

https://twitter.com/bandcampunited

https://www.instagram.com/bandcampunited/

here’s their petition, “demand a fair and timely union election for bandcamp united”: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/fair-election-bandcamp-united

the national labor relation board (nlrb) on the unionization process, conducting elections, etc.: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/what-we-do/conduct-elections

bandcamp is joining epic games by ethan diamond, march 2022: https://blog.bandcamp.com/2022/03/02/bandcamp-is-joining-epic/

epic games: founded 1991, unreal 1998, unreal tournament 1999, unreal engine, gears of war 2006, fortnite 2017

fortnite video game maker epic games to pay more than half a billion dollars over ftc allegations of privacy violations and unwanted charges, dec 2022: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/fortnite-video-game-maker-epic-games-pay-more-half-billion-dollars-over-ftc-allegations

benn jordan on why spotify will ultimately fail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDfNRWsMRsU

rolling stone: bandcamp workers form union: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bandcamp-union-1234695308/

“we are aware that some bandcamp employees are seeking to organize a union and are reviewing the petition to understand their concerns”

citations needed episode 177 popular anti-union talking points and how to combat them: https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-177-popular-anti-union-talking-points-and-how-to-combat-them-863e9e727cc2

glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Bandcamp-Interview-Questions-E1307633.htm

https://twitter.com/dancliff26/status/1636407318110781440

i’m sure i’ll make mistakes with regards to how i’m “talking” about this “stuff” so hit me up and let me know

one love <3

think like the cat. 

she’s got Great ears. she takes in the whole world with those big beautiful satellite dishes. 

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she knows me by my smell my voice this little cat looks me in the eyes

she knows me by my complete physical embodiment i sing to her Blueberry i bring out the guitar i play music from the phone

the complete physical embodiment of the sound and the singer

the Complete Physical Embodiment with the extension of the non-human tool

the erasure of the physical embodiment

displaced

recorded music is not music

a technological intermediary providing the “experience of music”

GOTTA THINK LIKE A CAT

“thinking about music”

“thinking” /  “music”

i don’t think like this all the time! that would be stupid

julian casablancas?

i could fix him i love you you ragamuffin

baking gaylor sleeping like garbage i’m stupid

i want to be stupid forever and ever

for the record, i have NO idea if julian ever had a "drinking problem"

respect, and god bless

🫐🤪

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take a ride on my spiritual motorsickle

down the pg3.0 super hi way

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i'm back baby i cannot be killed

super duper highway prairie goth three point ohhhhh

marty anderson is from fremont and his bands dilute and okay are absolute all-timers for me

can't believe i forgot he's from fremont

i'm an idiot 👍

one two thr ee four five six seven checkin the mic talk into the mic

i’m back

i cannot be killed

deep shame: second guessing: i'm embarrassed by everything i do

stop avoiding it: i want to be doing this i want to defeat these demons

legowelt (danny wolfers king of the synthesizer and drum machine samples)

i need to practice talking into a mic at least once a week; i need to fight my fears

the grief still hits me, outta the blue, all the time

hit me so hard today

destined to live the dream for all my peeps who never made it

songwriting will always be the most important thing to me

i need to remember that

shapes the way i think about what it means to be a person who exists and has thoughts 

connects me to myself

music

memory

devalued in our society but such a core component to the human spirit

writing

playing piano

recording music

building instruments

the infinite reflection when the mirror faces the mirror

the “post-internet”

the simple songs that you can make into your own

shout out to taylor whose song is where i took this episode title from

"no retreat no surrender"

sad time kid has a backup plan all day dangerous I'll marry anyone goth machines swim in the moon heat vomit cookies in a rocking chair know yourself max out your clip boa rd st air case l in t smokeless g low show you r polar win gs c ass et te muscles li vi ng in crescent ci t y it's explosive barking dogs in the delorean the hips I'll never have you did way more work on the night furnace my cranium likes to say hi modernity out to scorch the sky sunset awash co nsc io us tox in ruin ferric jumpsuit ash en t all gr a s s brut al c la pping illuminate the snow somebody stole my laundry detergent it's o kay o live o p en mo uth in my fr i end's car long hair is use ful fond of the fond of the beat of the beat of the beat the beat the beat fond of the beat I'm playing fond of the beat God the beat I'm fond of the God I'm fond God to the beat of Im fond of fond to mouth G o d  be fond to the beat of the beat  the beat I'm playing my friend's God I'm the beat of the be at of th e b eat I 'm fo nd o f t h e b e a t God f o nd o f the be a t t h e b ea t of th e f o n d  of t  h  e b  e  a t I' m f o n d o  f t h e  be a  t  i'm u s e the t h e b e at im p l a y ing f o nd of the b ea t fo nd of t he be a t im f o nd god of i m f o n d of th ee beat im f o n d o f  t h  e  b e  a  t   g o  d imfond ofthebeatof thebeatfondofthebe atofthebeatofthebeatimplaying godimfondofhtebeatimplaying godimfondthebeatimplaying godofthebeati'mplaying godthebeat im playing g od impl a y ing g  o d g o d god g   o  d  g  o d    g   o d i' m p la y in g g o d i'm p lay ing god max out you rc lip i'll ma rry any one i'm play ing god

hyped to elope and forget that I exist each day an internal planet will be born bless the portal again tonight wolves in the vapor cave spaceside minnesota zora’s in the doorways all lied superfortress how much venus nausea if you value cuddle me digital dad your zoomer sunburn farewell to the floating rhizome I celebrate the baby in the hiss of malice power I'm the twelth type to poison your pacifist but yeah I'm high why does my brain do this reach out of the century yeah that's cool with us feels soft real thrill healthcare hallucination every night I fall asleep to die from the dream wishing you were holding me toads roar to the touch we'll get our opportunity digital sandbag your incandescence I cried ten thousand years boycotted total planetside busted econ thinking face lust upon my final day

this is a preview of Gus's radio show called A Musical Journey

it's a conversation about time compression, artistic processes, and ghosts

here's the link to his ep with me: https://www.mixcloud.com/radioaccess/a-musical-journey-ep-65-nora-nygard/

my new album is out 11/4 (tomorrow!!)

bandcamp: https://noranygard.bandcamp.com/album/the-ghosts-beneath-our-feet

streaming: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/noranygard/the-ghosts-beneath-our-feet

breathing is a laundromat catch me in each organ bullet crying by candlelight the devil's passionate design walk past the flamethrower staring at shameful tears milk flake teletype burdens my trachea fully aware flipped lake supervise rural lawn shake out to the beach early deconstruct I remember when high light chains translate the matrix blowholes in my mind my cathedrals all weigh down oversized fork sticks out of the shoebox your death in the drawer metronome dog time and arugula blood alarm cyber libel laser play the best stardust beneath me it's nice to wait it out in the sun magic elixir pale I want your wide angle claymation love escapes me I travel to your kiss I abandon it every day is hell

enjoy the yelling! the mythical ocean steel shelving traveling to space with text files encounters this pink iron parallel to the marble shop the mouse of days in the metro organic into my hormones my bad habits and I the pavement root beer bulldozer paste a mistake broken heart broken desert scan plants fade moisturize my face vacant erase what do I have to do to snuggle up she still likes to party a b ig lo ng co at w it h p o c ke ts eve r yw her e f ill e d w it h c o ld ro ck s posting lions I wasted my life in my hometown I wanna get air car things and parts and I don’t know puppy mar ri age o r bit ing logos I've got that slap back go in g o n I'll always bubble up the sky phlegm here is your ticket to the cat stay up touch books god thank god video tape of a pigeon

murder smoke my shadow underwater willow every sonata at once huge technical extinctions ski in the wails of my palms I am never safe from suck morning windshield starless bootleg easy taxi over takes me body howls ancient window loose lipids I hunt the shy spiders fawning uranium it was a prank rush to the grace of each other keep me safe from you chrono curtsies follow sheets in her coastal arch gush buster hanging out and making stock footage overshare the apple orchard groundwater silently turning toxic I brawl all over you exponential internet glue I'm so jealous of your curls hustle with the snowshoes she thinks I'm painting in my sleep as locusts sell my soul

I feel the sidewalks delete my hidden field thirteen years I wanted to yell at them get on the cloud eat your milk burger arcane appeals in the lunchroom you're so cute it hurts go into the processor bandwidth lands unalterable she watches people's faces gives me a joke kiss I've become obsessed with fruit if tomorrow is a lifetime let's sauté the kale left at a wave habitable gravel desperate to be forgotten sheyenne smoke the shape of my bath moisturize the candles brooklyn breaks the choral domain over my foot for you to broadcast is to wager with satan and engagement wizard renders a silver elevator takes a shortcut taste this lemon body of things and her horse loves good rhubarb phenomena please realize you could die did anybody check outside for the ax in the sky

bubblegum chimney became reality jump off the boxes here's what you would say when I’m a weather mushroom you get sad for the first time probe my pest today coastal glitch mental milk hello belly they bought me coffee I read some wow that's so cray see the best of all the pixels seems they got my message marker through the bottles violet glances at rollerblades zoology was within me as I swam in the gold standard sidestep foam stay away from the moon my body is a duplicate I'm your wife I can walk anywhere in a statue puddle oh no I don't show up in make me dropping acid sewage so much to do today I just want to be a drum lost lungs beckon to anyone who understands the encoder so much living televisions dropped out trains upright I want to summon the internet night a wave stuck in your filthy screen everything I'm doing is meaningless I'm so happy to hear it

magnetic thistles made for hollywood dark in the vacuum it's a sad basketball game the voicemail tape decays day feels alright with the estradiol everybody hanging out and stuff I don't care she likes facts nobody else does I'm growing very embarrassing we're all holograms this whole joint smells like sarsaparilla up in here before I die be mean to me I need you world hunger with the evening sun blow the air mattress sweating venus estrogen astronaut pulls the wilderness I'm starting a timer because I want this to be over the monster narrows the radius after you died new moon subway goo husky has a workplace incomprehensible mistake we all know you suck perfect paws holding your expired medicine singe the future full of visual disturbances walking the sorrow I love being your girlfriend

you and me together in the physical realm I am back in San Jose now I am my antidote we broke the sarcophagus each storm she has at her fingertips more of my hair under water I painted the sun a pelican party place the sky on the wall I'll never scientific benjamins random detail random fact detergent failures walking conversion generations stand up and the wind blows strawberries felt like an amp on my gender I'm growing a road she did the paperwork for my street a hand on the earth your very own magazine you're lost in all the spiders we don't know the details of each other's lives hug the wooden piano obscure feedback poisons the pendulum stereo driving stops the lakes it just doesn't make sense wake me up wrap up the baby stay up all night in the super computer warehouse witchcraft placeholder I treat you to the polychrome fog product loop printed kitchenette ephemeral plankton I'm driving around your temporal lobe hear them puke fantastic now I paste the night

I st ill th ink ab out it s ee th e love fl ee the f ur I lost my mind milky collapse into the pantone r ive r I've been on a st urge on you have my trigger a non player character f lick er printing Cupid’s nu cl e ar v eins sugar c all my je ans res er voir plughole I'll jum p out and slam the chaos the beauty life b ou nd s sea war d Rim bau d punche d me in the face I was you ng be hin d the big ch ur ch k rank y p last i c in the mo no ph on ic c i ty God I love i t w he n I' m no t de p r esse d plea se acce pt m y ap plication to the mold salon little splashing progesterone matchbox the salt pri nts the summer eve the hex a de ci mal brea ks we swim into the house th rough t heir t eleph one I want so little but so much a pha ntom cure s c or ch the dose your h eart hung noisy a flame th ro wing vo ice lan g uag e is mean i ngl ess

mine was second. I could have had it dungeons all turned suddenly stupid touch screens

what's helping alone freedom and I the complex extinguisher dances in the snowshoe grabs me a razor eventually I abandon diligent brokers slip direct coffee off in tristesse the enemy of winter I sometimes hope I can get up hot outside grinding down the sun I hold my lobbyists toward my broken heart my data system grows asleep in good memories architecture and choke me rambling on a princess engineer guitars top their hoodies you fill my mouth into a corner I never should make time to party the ocean’s set method to ban pearl earring lumbers with me the homepage of the hips I draw blood out of the cuffed-up meat grind donate my body so I could pay this court I love my warm eyes how many lives fade magenta ink pedal at the sobbing calf say goodbye to my awful factory the textbook and ladder in error all night paparazzi replacement in my t-shirt glaciers atrophy in credit card euphoria basketball campfire of another day's government cops of the phantom superheat the medicine now I’m lost dreaming about zeroes and bread the laser illuminates fuzzy floods how soft I get off on the mystery saw spine is a workplace double iceberg out my facial keyboard polychrome fog surrounds me 2012 to 2015 the horror of the pixels the haste of the taste my lungs are juice ceaseless demons at the wilderness bar born to browse nuclear waste banknotes we have known babies up and blog page loop of headless dusk in a belly famous pills ignoring my candidate you're living the puke power true the tide is all wrong the wind blows better between us towel high up I’ll kill God you gotta abandon the dawn summertime moratorium fists fly tiny scorpions

Up in the sky, a miracle. Into the sky like a miracle. I go into the sky, a miracle. I am in the sky. What a miracle. I can solve this. I can figure this one out. My mind is perfectly capable. Blast anonymous walls. It's a miracle to be up here, where I am. I'm in the sky. The clouds. It's a miracle.

What is this behind my ear, stuck inside my nightmare mind? I can solve this. I'm smart enough to solve it. This is what I was born to do. Thanks, Bernadette, for the grenade. The worst crime I've ever witnessed.

I'm doing alright. I can't sleep but I'm doing alright. I keep waking up in this house, filled with light. There's no furniture. I let the outside in with me.

You're pushing the ax deeper into his face. It's okay, no one has to know. There is no acid.

You're going to give me serotonin syndrome with your eyes.

Every time I go to the grocery store, I buy two bunches of bananas. Until they’re gone, I eat three bananas every day. I love to eat them with cinnamon. I’ll eat bananas in oatmeal with blueberries, or with mixed nuts and dried fruit, or on toast with peanut butter, or all on their lonesome. Black coffee is the perfect drink pairing. When I’m having a hard time, feeling depressed or perhaps having a panic attack about the fact that someday I will be dead and won’t even know it, I’ll think about my favorite simple pleasures in life that I’ll miss when I’m gone. If I’m feeling naughty, I will eat four bananas in one sitting. It’s one of my favorite meals.

remember

I dreamed we were all together again. Everyone was sick. On top of the building, the owl is screaming.

"There was one created before him whose name we do not know. He also lived in the Garden but he had no mouth or eyes." - DCB

stay safe

REST IN PEACE, SOPHIE

"I'm all about visibility these days."

"Well, last night I ate a crepe and then I went swimming in the sea and then I put on some serum and then I meditated and then I went to bed."

"I'm really struggling to remember my dreams at the moment. I haven't dreamt for a long time, it feels like. I'm not sure what that means."

"Maybe my dream house would be up on a hill overlooking the ocean, somewhere with a lot of space and fresh air, and I could be there with my friends and my girlfriend and my family and create music. That sounds good."

"If you knew you couldn't fail at anything, what would you do?"

scatterbrained

waves traveling through mass

mornings by the river

maybe i better go home

I made this recording during soundcheck before my show at the Aquarium in Fargo, ND on June 15th, 2019. It was my 10,000th day upon this Earth.

2017

this has been a test

of the Prairie Goth Emergency Broadcasting System

hit me up at https://www.patreon.com/noranygard for more info

;)

be well