Brian from Safe Houses

Writer. Raconteur. Reluctant Twitterer. I'm in the band Safe Houses (fka Shelter Dogs)

[Brian from Safe Houses @LaRuminator]

Twitter is the social platform where people who pretend to know each other pretend to have conversations with each other

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I’m out here still trying to find a label to release my band’s excellent as-yet-unreleased EP, while the guy who put out my (frankly terrible) teenaged ska band’s music is putting out freakin John Hinckley’s album now, so things obvs are cool and make sense

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Yeah idk, I kinda feel like if you can designate a record "Best New Music" AND rate it the numerical equivalent of a B-, your numerical rating system might need some adjusting

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Think I'd describe the trending aesthetic in Bushwick as "scumbari-core"

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For all the public radio listeners out there, this Air may have plenty of Gross in it, but it is certainly not Fresh

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@yesiamthecashew I mean it sure beats guessing the intervals and trying to jot down tablature when you're not near an instrument

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@Eve6 I call bs, there's no way this guy has the discipline to go around sticking his face into roaring brooks bear-style

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I know I had a lot of weird dreams last night, but I don't specifically remember what was in most of them that was so weird, except for Kathy Hochul doing karaoke, which is one of the parts I don't necessarily *want* to remember

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@alex_heigl I suspect those execs know very well how little creators get paid, but they exploit the common misconception of people outside of media that profile/prominence correlates w pay. Right-wing commentators obvs exploit this when depicting "MSM" as brimming w $

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@MusicShelfJSM Me & the Major by Belle & Sebastian

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@Spotify Royalties on par with radio and better audio quality

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@alex_heigl Feel like an obscure hardcore band from Manitoba would be 100% valid for someone who grew up in Manitoba. I've always said that when you're 15, the most important punk band in the world is the one that practices down the street from you

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It's so cool that all these blue-check people are so open-minded to following people they disagree with and then dive-bombing their comments to disagree with them

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This site's owner has announced that voice & video chat functions will be coming to this site, a site whose users fall into three categories: ppl you know how to contact already, ppl who have no reason to talk to you, and ppl you wish would stfu

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Hey, watch my band's new music video https://t.co/HENu6OS2ai

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Hey, download my band's new two-song single and give us $2 https://t.co/6Bw8V8X2lT

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There should be a word for the kind of internet person who leaves an obnoxious comment on a deleted Reddit thread from 5+ years ago. Something more niche than standard "troll"

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Word to the wise: When you're on the phone w your parents, don't mention your faults or character flaws, even those you feel you've outgrown, even if you're trying to be self-effacing for a laugh. You're opening a bad door

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@streever Same. Recited by the kids & teacher in elementary school, piped in over the intercom in HS. I had a few friends in HS who routinely sat through it and caught a lot of heat from the squares

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People who work in media know this almost ambiently. It's just part of reality. For everyone else, all you have to do is Google it to realize the pay-per-article model has always been dead in the water. There have been On the Media segments. There's a super prominent CJR thing

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This site's owner says Twitter will allow media outlets to charge non-subscribers for their content on a per-article basis. This model has been proposed through the years by a number of people who didn't bother to check why it's not already widely implemented. The reasons:

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Two, users tend to underestimate the cost of producing quality media. They expect an article would cost pennies, it rightly costs much more, they get sticker shock, they think the publisher is greedy and underhanded. Publishers don't want this