Soft Deadlines

New vid by @JeffNemoPhoto yabyumwest.com/2018/11/soft-d…

My brother wrote, built, and made the music for this game. And it’s offbeat hilarious and kind of cute, you want to check it out

@hplemke The spirit is willing

you've heard of thanksgiving, now get ready for bootsgiving

@hplemke Not sure how I would justify this, but I think “extremely loud and incredibly close” is a great title and “everything everywhere all at once” is a pretty bad one. Curious about the movie though, did you see it?

Everything Everywhere Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and All at Once

austinites / texans / people who really love to drive: i will be playing an acoustic set next friday at swan dive and i would love to see you there!

@GleemerBand Thanks! I just heard it and I’m glad someone else had the same impression

This transition in friends sounds exactly rattled by the rush by pavement

i love when people say "we are better than this!" as a stock response to irrefutable evidence that we are not, in fact, better than this

@_pbnjer Maybe not? It’s a little hard to imagine any game being that good. The reviews are real though and there are a lot of em

@_pbnjer It’s just a few dozen 10/10 reviews, how good could it be?

@hplemke In fairness to Neil, he’s one of the few artists for whom this had a chance of working

lmao. love ya neil, but this really does sum up the history of musical activism

@hplemke I was just thinking about this album yesterday. At the time it was widely assumed that all LPs contain 1-3 singles and a bunch of filler tracks, or that’s my guess as to how Kiss Me rocketed into the stratosphere without helping their other music in the slightest

pov you had a lot of good songs but only one real hit but boy was it a hit

@scriptumsent @hplemke “Idk who needs to hear this” seems more like asking for an audience to target us

@hplemke In 2022 we’re targeting our audiences

i don't know who needs to hear this, but if you "don't know who needs to hear this," then why do you think i would

@hplemke Me too actually

this tweet did what nothing else could and made me think, maybe i’ll do it, maybe i’ll watch the thin red line

Don’t know why I love this so much

@PercolatedTrout @hplemke I was going to say this too. Feeling weak because you have allergy attacks in the Texas hill country is like feeling weak because Hulk beat you in an arm wrestle

oh, to not be a wimpy little guy who is allergic to the entire outdoors

@hplemke Or you could write about a tough video game boss who’s getting worried because there’s this annoying little attacker who just keeps coming back after you kill them

cannot recall where song ideas are supposed to come from

@hplemke I get the sense not a lot of people do it this way but I like to start with a single quotable phrase, turn it into a hook and build around it

@hplemke Also one of few records to deliver exactly the atmosphere that the cover art would suggest

the trials of van occupanther is still such a singular and great mood piece, nothing quite like it

@hplemke @HaleyCarrots Very thoughtful and well expressed

thanks to my friend @HaleyCarrots for giving me the kind opportunity to hold forth on the complicated relationship between faith and art

@hplemke I hate those too. I don’t need to hear their opinions

candid yams

@hplemke Very Lynchian that one on the left

some multiple exposures on 35mm film