Michael Doyle

Beehives, miniature railroads, beautiful boulevards, and an arboretum in my backyard. Royal Oak is the best.

This was way too much information for me, so I’m sharing it with you. My colleague’s penis is curved so much that he pees on himself if he doesn’t hold it down.

Islamic Fundamentalists and Christian Fundamentalists and Zionists cause most of the problems in the world [that Capitalists don’t already.] You never hear about Buddhist fundamentalists starting wars.

I had never heard of Peyronie's disease until David Harbour’s character on ‘DTF St. Louis’ described it. [It’s an abnormal curvature of the penis.] Very next day an older, on the spectrum colleague told me out of the blue that he has it and has had surgery for it. Noted.

Morning ride

Every day carry: writing tool, blade, fire, stimulant, cat

‘Crashing’ follows Pete Holmes’ book ‘Comedy Sex God’ pretty closely. Cancelled after 3 seasons, it doesn’t get to the God part of the book, which culminates in Pete meeting his spiritual guru Ram Dass. Dass died not long after meeting Pete. I often wonder what that fourth season would be like.

Patriot Season 1 Birds of Amsterdam Song | Prime Video YouTube video by Prime Video

Waiting for the next episode of ‘DTF St. Louis’, rewatching writer/director Steven Conrad’s very odd and lovely spy dramedy ‘Patriot’.

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Realized ‘Sin’, ‘Ana Ng’, and ‘My Head Is Bleeding’ are about the same BPM. *noting.

Nine Inch Nails - Sin (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Vitor Fernandes

If you were anywhere around 18 years old when ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ came out and NIN wasn’t the band you hung your aesthetic faith on, we need to not talk.

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I work mostly with black and Arab and South Asian women, and autistic people. We do not talk about politics at all. It doesn’t come up. Life and affordality is a much bigger concern than geopolitics.

They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng (BEST QUALITY Official Music Video) YouTube video by ParticleMen

The first time I saw They Might Be Giants live was in a cafeteria at Eastern Michigan University. The last time was in Central Park. [So much pogo dancing at both.] I don’t think Neutral Milk Hotel would exist if not for this song.

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A Place To Bury Strangers - My Head Is Bleeding (Official Video) YouTube video by A Place To Bury Strangers

John Carpenter meets ‘Testsuo: The Iron Man’ vibes. One of the less discussed and and more on-the-nose jams like NIN’s ‘Sin’ and ‘Heresy’. I love it.

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Trial of Slobodan Milošević - Wikipedia

This process should have started for Netanyahu two years ago. NATO’s handling of the Yugoslav Wars is a pretty good precedent.
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A Place To Bury Strangers - Love Reaches Out (Official Video) YouTube video by A Place To Bury Strangers

I don’t think there is a better song.
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Cousins? YouTube video by mixmith49

Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan in ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’ at Galapagos in Brooklyn [Jim Jarmusch, 2003]
Turning the loading dock into a reflecting pool was brilliant.

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I am in the last 20 years of my life. Enjoying a cigarette and glass of wine while soaking in an epsom salt bath with good lighting and Cocteau Twins playing in another room is exactly what I should be doing. Tomorrow I’ll be stocking cat litter to pay my utilities. And that’s fine.

Has there ever been a venue as great as Galapagos in the old mayonnaise factory in Brooklyn? It was featured in Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Coffee and Cigarettes’, Brian Kritzman and I went over capacity for a design presentation we did for Core77, and so many techno parties in the back room.

*Bellingham is between Seattle and Vancouver. Good freakin’ life choice.

Create routines so they can be abandoned.

Set an intention but do not allow it to become an expectation.

Dig the glorious paradoxes of Richie Hawtin’s Concept series, which turns 30 this year.

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My pal Greg [Lowfish] performed with freakin’ Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins at a small cafe in Seattle. A little, intimate, yet profound experience I won’t forget.

I ask people to repeat themselves not because I didn’t hear, but have auditory processing issues and it buys me time to figure out what they said the first time. I think visually and sensory and spatially. Words are code to be deciphered.

Someone I know was saying some really Islamophobic garbage today. I said, “You went to Roeper, and are my friend. I know you’re not this dumb.”

Zola Jesus - Night (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Hey Siri, play Great Lakes Goth.
Okay, here’s Zola Jesus.

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I stated DJing at my junior high school dances. I like researching and sharing. I am not a musician. I’ve owned synthesizers and guitars and never learned how to play them properly.

I was 12 and saved up money from delivering newspapers to buy a Commodore 64 and SK-1 at Meijer in 1984. Nerd.

Cocteau Twins - Shallow Then Halo YouTube video by glasscandles2u

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Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy) | 2018 Version YouTube video by MaxRichterVEVO

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My dance moves around the house to Max Richter are basically the same to Cocteau Twins and Nils Frahm. It’s Winston’s favorite thing to watch. Or he’s thinking, “WTF is the human doing?”

Tickets for the Masonic Temple Detroit show are around a hundred bucks. I have to go, right? This is why we live