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Coming soon (hopefully): Perfect Lives

23 March 2024

Hi.
Been awhile, huh? 

I mean, wow, talk about neglect; the last public post on this website was December 2020. Well, I've been busy. Actually, since before that; in May 2020, I started working on the next "big" project of mine: Perfect Lives.

The short version is that I bought an old, rotting former train station in the Estonian countryside, and started renovating it,...

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Five reasons why I created an Onlyfans account

11 December 2020

If you would like to spend $4.99 per month to see me post biweekly video essays about music and other things on my mind, please go to onlyfans.com/icewhistle and subscribe to my Onlyfans. $1 of that goes to Onlyfans; $1 I will donate to the Democratic Socialists of America; the other $3 will go towards maybe buying myself a tripod or some better gear.

This video trailer will explain...

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I published three books.

26 January 2020

I'm pleased to announce the release of a three volume book series, Seventeen Years of Media Consumption (2002–2018), on Scarlatti Tilt. Details, sample pages, and ordering information can be found on the Scarlatti Tilt website.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

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SI audio podcast #4: Dispatches from 'block that chain'

12 October 2019

photo: 'Block That Chain' worklab, Graz, October 2019. It's way more fun than it looks, I promise!

This episode of the Serious Introspection audio podcast talks with several members of the block that chain worklab that I participated in in Graz, Austria. block that chain is a week-long worklab hosted by the wonderful mur.at to explore the questions,...

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SI audio podcast #3: Andy Beckerman remembers the wild kindness of David Berman

18 August 2019

photo: the host + the guest, sometime in 2004 or 2005.

I dusted off the microphones to record the first Serious Introspection audio podcast in over two years. Sadly, the occasion was the passing of David Berman, poet and musician, whose death has affected me immensely. I called up Andy, a comedy writer and proper podcaster based in Los Angeles, to talk about...

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Serious Introspection special episode @ Nida - 'The Shutout'

10 July 2019

There's some cliché about old dogs and new tricks that I always mangle, but clichés are better when stated incorrectly. It's been over three years since I (John) hosted a regular live talk show with Justin and Ernest, but we brought the act out again for a special reunion performance at the Nida Art Colony's ninth inter-format symposium, 'On the Fluidity of...

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