I like the idea of Chris Cornell more than the idea of Scott Weiland, but if I’m being honest with myself I think actually enjoy more stone temple pilot sings than soundgarden songs. Unsure if I feel ashamed or not.

Gm #nostr, Brazilian music is great. #vinylstr #tunestr

Spicy Saturday night #bookstr

Saturday listening with my daughter. #tunestr #vinylstr

For many politicians, this emerging bull market will be the first time they’ve really seen #bitcoin not only not die, but rise from perceived (and/or desired) oblivion. Bitcoin is much more salient in the political consciousness, now. And I think this means a few things. Politicians will be forced to consider #bitcoin more seriously, which will of course mean more sedulous attempts to fit it into their existing, partisan, political paradigms, however uncomfortable the fit may be. What’s happening under the surface I think, with actual voters, is #bitcoin is transforming their politics and moving an increasing number of people out of or away from their prior partisan, political affiliations. It’s creating distance between people and our ossified two-party system. So at the grassroots level bitcoin is changing, and re-shuffling political affiliation, while at the political class level politicians are (and will continue) trying to figure out how it fits into the existing two-party paradigm. The bottom-up dynamics will be much more lasting, much more transformative, and, I hope, much more effective. More and more people are becoming politically homeless. And #bitcoin is becoming a new consensus force pulling together what would traditionally seem to be strange bedfellows. Anecdotally, every Dem I know who has spent any time meaningfully learning about #bitcoin is not thinking to themselves: how do I fit it into my current political party affiliation? They are thinking wow this really subverts my existing political thinking in a lot of ways. In the same way that Wall Street is capitulating to #Bitcoin (not the other way around), I hope and expect political parties to capitulate to bitcoin (and not the other way around), too. This could and should create a very interesting, generational re-shuffling. It’ll of course take time to develop and progress. But I suspect we’re already in the early stages.

This bull run is gonna be next level View quoted note →

My most controversial music opinions: I believe most of these things, most of the time 1. Craig Finn is a top five lyricist of the last 25 years 2. Let It Be by The Replacements is better than Let It Be by The Beatles 3. The Velvet Underground and Nico is the best album of all time 4. (Getting spicy now) Rage Against the Machine is the most overrated band of all time, and I actually think they kind of suck. Good in theory, but the actual result not so much. The idea of them is better than them. 5. pre-American idiot Green Day is actually pretty great 6. Darkness on the edge of town > Born to Run In Utero > Nevermind Stillmatic > Illmatic 7. Prince is better than Michael Jackson, and it’s not close 8. Bob weir is an almost legendarily terrible back up vocalist 9. Joy Division is good but not transcendently so. Give me echo and the bunnymen instead. 10. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is better than every Radiohead album (nothing against Radiohead) Non-exhaustive list

“Look out honey ‘Cause I’m using technology, Ain’t got time To make no apology…” Iggy pop on this #bitcoin pump

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” To all of you who made it through that long bear, who hodled through the collapses, the panics, and the handwringing…you earned everything that comes next.

Vibing. @Wavlake #tunestr

Wavlake

Never Die • Red Arrow Highway

Play, boost, and more on Wavlake ⚡️🎵

You guys are the best

Bullish. Shout out to @Trey Walsh for all his hard work on the pod. Taking it to a whole new level. View quoted note →

Gm

@Trey Walsh you’ll like these guys I think. Recommended to me by @rheedio. Some of that sweet melodic fuzz.

100%, heartily agree. I think it’s worth it though, for folks with moderate to large followings on X, to make known on X that #NostrNovember means followers gotta make the jump to nostr to keep up. View quoted note →

Okay guys how are we getting all our favorite bands on @Wavlake? I’m just going to start DM’ing them all unless anyone has any better, more coordinated ideas. Obvious hurdles and threshold issues are they have to be amenable to receiving BTC, which means not thinking it’s just some scam internet money. Might require some education. Then have to get a wallet set up. Which, if step one is in the bag, shouldn’t be too heavy of a lift. I personally think of bands I’ve spent hundreds of hours listening to, that I quote all the time, philosophize about, etc. Bands who’ve given me way more value and joy than can be compensated merely by buying a record or going to a show. The Hold Steady are probably the one that comes to mind first for me. But there are many. Would love to be able to send them bitcoin directly.

Will zap for shoegaze @wavlake #grownostr

Honestly more people should do this, and then we should aggregate the numbers somewhere as a kind of crowd-sourced decentralized inflation/debasement tracker. Pick something you like and consume often and track YOY price increases. View quoted note →