Text: In the 2020's, it's much safer to be an iconoclast than an icon.
We can’t stop a war, but we can do our part in destroying an idol.
This, at least, we have agency over.
It’s our Puritan birthright.
New post at A Queer Imagination:
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My guy, @fluxinflux.bsky.social, made me into a cartoon and I love it so much.
Creatives Intro Thread
Name: Matt/Matthew
Pronouns: he/they
Location: A world of pure imagination
I make: songs, recordings, the occasional knitted accessory, good trouble
Sources of inspiration: queers, rhyming dictionaries, esotericism, paradox, the beautiful mess of ordinary life
URL: in bio
Today, I started the morning songwriting rather than immediately consuming news.
I managed to get something started, which I hope to work on more later in the day.
In an age of unrest, it’s easy for hypervigilance to supplant every productive, generative act.
Creation is an antidote to malaise.
I contain multitudes
We need to keep reaching for beauty.
Making beauty.
Longing for beauty.
We can’t settle on the ugliness of violence, indifference, and casual cruelty.
Justice…
Love…
Kindness…
Equity…
Bodily autonomy…
The freedom to exist…
There is beauty in these things.
We need to seek it out
and work for it.
In the midst of the global unraveling…
I found a new musician whose work I’m falling in love with: Ethan French.
Rarely have I ever seen someone with this kind of musical dexterity, fluidity, strength… and also a gentleness.
I’m a fan.
/ethanfrenchmusic on IG, YT, TkTk
Music on Spotify
What’s always been so absurd about discourses surrounding political violence in America is that it’s accepted, understood, agreed upon, bipartisan, mainstream that our military gets to vaporize little kids half a world away without consequence
This one hits hard today.
All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles.
Who will rule,
Who will lead,
Who will define,
refine,
confine,
design,
Who will dominate.
All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles,
And most
are no more intellectual
two rams
knocking their heads together.
EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.
EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
I’m halfway through Parable of the Talents, the Octavia Butler masterpiece. The book (as did the first in the series) feel like a warning, a prophecy, and a guide for survival.
I could find no bound collection of the Earthseed wisdom, so I’m considering making one for myself.
If you have musical Starter Packs I should check out, packs of creatives worth engaging, please share them. I’ve been a musical sponge lately. I want to hear what people are doing… what’s moving folks.
I’m intrigued by the current clash between “traditional” creative approaches to music making and the adoption of AI tools.
I’m not a purist in either direction. I’m just curious about how this can shake out.
I’ve posted my way through life changes, career changes, social and political changes, and changes of belief and practice. I find value in writing my way through life.
These posts may be brief, but they emerge from an expansive, sometimes confounding life.
It’s the end of ‘25.
I sit down at my desk with a yellow pad, a pen, and my guitar and I write a song.
While everyone debates the legitimacy of AI tools in the creative process, I go back to the basics.
In a similar but different move, I’m coming back to regular posting on social.
Is this your last printing?
In this past, I would have been arguing for a “better understanding” of the faith tradition. Today, I just point it out to show the logical inconsistency.
I can think of few statements that are more anti-Christian than professing to the world that you are “saving God.”
Gladly! And thank you! Shoot me a message to let me know how best to.
Um…. Pattern please!!
Tempted…
In a world of so much uncertainty, it’s nice to have plans
Thanks, but I’m no longer following ELCA matters. I appreciate the considerations.
Post your first phone.
Buy gay shit from gay shops
This.
We have the first American pope now. Pope Leo the XIV.
I’m not Catholic, but I’m still floored by this.
