Michael Schell

Composer/intermedia artist, host for KBCS-FM, contributor to Sequenza 21, cribbage player. Views expressed are solely my own.

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Born on this date in 1945 was Anthony Braxton, arguably the most important contemporary bridge figure between the worlds of experimental composed and improvised music. Get your two-hour Braxton fix in this interview and retrospective podcast
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[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I asked a local councillor if the russian refinery here in Ireland should be sanctioned.

He said yes, if it was supplying Israel.
But Russia? No.

This is Ireland’s sanctions hypocrisy in 90 seconds.

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@ClickingSeason @SwannMarcus89 @feelsdesperate Because the alternative is a kleptocratic personality cult that cares more about poking half the American population in the eye than on preserving or advancing the country. The Democrats are often misguided, but they aren't fundamentally motivated by vengeance like the MAGA cult.

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@terrynewman When your city seems more racist than the heart of the Old South...

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@CoreyWriting It’s the same as the people where I was born who wear Confederate flag shirts and caps. It conveys their fetish for violence, military defeat and perpetual victimhood, cloaked in the certainty that they are morally superior to the rest of us.

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@JohnCleese These kids don't look too persuaded!

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@l_alternatiu The problem is Teo Pardo's racism, not sex education for adolescents who are well served by being encouraged to practice safe sex.

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@alomaaaa_07 @SaunaThermas Funny. You're from Spain, right?

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@Reaganista @StopAntisemites It's possible to be opposed to fascism whether it comes from the right or the left.

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This week we honor the late @SonnyRollins & @GunterHampel with a mini-retrospective. Plus @WayneHorvitz plays @TheRoyalRoom, @SeanStShibe plays @Thomas_Ades, @BangOnACan plays Andriessen, @PatKopViolin plays Illés & @TStefanovich+@SCO_Obrero play Hillborg.
https://t.co/4qemMOSsBx

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@Laibach was officially launched on this date in 1980. We'll celebrate the band with a look back at their Alamut project that sets Vladimir Bartol's adaptation of the Hassan-i Sabbah legend against the backdrop of European fascism.
https://t.co/ZQG2s5NxYc
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Tonight we bid farewell to @SonnyRollins & @GunterHampel who we'll honor with their most exploratory work. Plus @WayneHorvitz plays @TheRoyalRoom, @SeanStShibe plays @Thomas_Ades, @BangOnACan plays Andriessen & @PatKopViolin plays Illés
Sun 10pm PDT 91.3fm https://t.co/gAei9CnKP8

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@DavidM_Friedman @MikhailShmidt I’d support a New York mayor who didn’t pander to *any* group defined by fixed identity, except possibly women (for obvious reasons) and Native Americans (because their governmental relationships are uniquely defined by treaty).

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@DrAlwynTurner @drianpace Interesting, but I’ve seen most of those plus Miles Davis, Anthony Braxton, Muhal Richard Abrams, Iannis Xenakis, Steve Reich, Aaron Copland and Ornette Coleman performing theirs.

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@pensandpoison @EasterbrookG Did these “Teachers of English” also use problematic as a noun and foreground as a verb in their interrogation of privilege?

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

I obviously don't share Jeff's ultimate analysis of this race but I do think it would behoove Dems, when choosing candidates, to realize progressive Christian moralism is just as annoying as conservative Christian moralism to people who don't share the politics being moralized.

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@TheOfficerTatum Palestinian flags are the new Confederate flags.

[Sonny Rollins @sonnyrollins]

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2 https://t.co/6AGmFrB7x4

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Flotation Device salutes @MilesDavis for his 100th BD with some of his most unusual, forward-looking recordings. @KeithJarrettOrg @HerbieHancock @MarcusMiller959 and @RonCarterBass help us out. Plus new music by @Thomas_Ades, Simon Hanes & @KrisDavisMusic.
https://t.co/HlhORcK90T

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@EYakoby Another data point in how Palestinian flags have become the new Confederate flags in North American cities.