How I imagine @Micah C. Miracle on the radio :)

There still exist an independent internet where you can publish what you want. It's called having your own website. This is one of the best. A guy talking about independent music. I feel like @Micah C. Miracle would dig this article especially.

Sothis Medias

The Birth of Free Form Radio and the Crazy Wisdom of Wes "Scoop" Nisker

When the world doesn’t make sense, we find the need for crazy wisdom. Since the world never made sense, and probably never will, crazy wisdom rem...

Most of these are solved with wired headphones and a walkman. I'll be at dark prague in a month talking about this and more with of course, a special dark prague editing of the tape. View quoted note →

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My favorite part of this episode was when @Sir Spencer - Wolf of KC 🐺 and @DuhLaurien ✌🏻👽💨 react to me hanging up the phone from a legit handset :) View quoted note →

I once tried to post on nostr, it's outlawed you know in the town of Gloucester. There are no ads just bitcoin for Chads, Is there anyone else here on the roster?

I sent some Cosmic Cassettes out just this week. You can request one still my post card or just send me a postagram to say hi like @Boolysteed did 😆

@Frank Braun and Smuggler had a great podcast, cypherpunks bitstream. In episode 0x04 I think they talk about drop gangs. I'm thinking about this again after reading the Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. Inspired by both, I wrote this speculative sonnet.

W.A.S.T.E. 2.0

A speculative sonnet

Tape shipping day! You can get one! I take advanced payments like postcards and stats!!

How to get a tape

What I like about the surveillance state is that there are cameras everywhere. Walking outside your home is now a performance! When I go to coffee shops I dress the part. I spread out all the papers for my draft book while wearing a walkman. All caught on camera! My makeup was so so, and my reading poetry in my I'm-on-a-zoom-call-in-public-voice could have been louder, but overall I was happy with my performance.

I received this postagram to my PO Box recently. What's a postagram? It's return of value to me in the form of a postcard. Not all value is denominated in sats. Since it's analog August, send a post card to someone! It's fun! Don't know anybody's address? No problem, send one to me. The address is on my website: bitpunk.fm

My three favorite platforms are Bandcamp, substack, and primal. In this substack article the number 1 call to action is: Let’s create a music platform that looks like a cross between Substack, Bandcamp, and Spotify. We got into this topic a bit in the recent v4vj roundtable. This article is a bit frustrating because the independent web exists. People want it, but not really. Which is why primal is popular, why people don't run their own nodes (Bitcoin or nostr relay), and why bitcoinfluencers still shill advertisers. But I do think he is correct that the future of digital music experience is more than just streaming (Spotify), more than just buying albums (Bandcamp), and more than content (substack).

My Wishlist for 12 Substack Enhancements

The company raised $100 million to invest in "better tools"—but what should they be? Here's my list.

A fresh view on #v4v music. Check out https://music.podtards.com/ @ChadF and 33 others project highlighting music and podcasts. A lot of this is powered by the publisher tag which I'd recommend every podcaster use. It's like NIP05 but better, because it's RSS.

My synth-trumpet rendition of My Funny Valentine. I played this live today to introduce the concept of masculine grief in poetry. https://fountain.fm/clip/8LwiAOfIUL3p8eDnCXb1

It is international Analog August month! I am celebrating with some Miles Davis throwbacks. This autobiography is wild -- crazier than rock and roll autobiographies. You can participate too! Try an acoustic instrument this month! It could be as simple as whistling, drums, or whatever you wish. But try it out. I love synths as much as the next person, but the expressive nature of acoustic instruments connected to you is an experience.

Live muted trumpet in about an hour on radio.bitpunk.fm

If you want to jam bitchat connections it's pretty easy btw. Just stand next to a microwave oven whiles it's on. View quoted note →