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rhyslangston.bsky.social
Doing too much and doing it well
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Hear @rhyslangston.bsky.social and @mike-eagle.bsky.social team up on the airport-themed dance-rap track "Ate The Tuning Fork While I Taxied In The Crepuscular"

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I got 3 shows in LA this week Tues (today), 2/25 The Stowaway DTLA w/ Aaron Goldberg, Pendleton Ward, Smax Thurs, 2/27 Melody Lounge w/ Beat Cinema Sat, 3/1 De La Playa Records for nahhphet and Dick Chainey's 'Lavender Maze Recitations' release show

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Started sending out advances of the first single from my next album If you're a writer / press / radio person and are interested Bang my line

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Got ghosted by a publisher who I thought was going to publish my book of poems After 1.5 years of submissions, trying to bend the knee via email feels daunting Therefore, I'm seeking someone (who will be paid) who has experience copyediting (language) poetry so I can self-publish

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Reading poems this evening at the Expo Park Library Rapping raps Friday in Downtown

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Did you use the Internet Archive this year to research, read, explore web archives with the Wayback Machine, or discover something new? Your support makes it possible! 👉 Like & share to spread the word. 💙 Consider donating to keep Internet Archive growing: archive.org/donate/?orig...

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"Missing Persons Retort (Half-Carton Self-Portrait)" 2023 Acrylic, oil stick, spray paint, epoxy resin, canvas board, ceramic, plasticine on wood 12" x 14" x 3" _________ Something I didn't get digitized until this year A self-portrait of deferred expectation, in execution and surrounding life

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Thanks to @nofrillsreviews.com for giving me the space to talk about some of my favorites from this year

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Approaching old age in basketball years, but I still only need to play once every 10 days to still dunk with two hands Your favorite could never

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"Beninese Truck Stop (Libra)" 2024 chrome marker, acrylic, colored pencil on black paper 8.5" x 11"

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Dropped a song for my patrons www.patreon.com/posts/118042...

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"Half-Orc with Daisy Chain Mail" 2024 acrylic, ink, colored pencil on paper 5.5" x 8.5"

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Dropped a song for my patrons www.patreon.com/posts/118042...

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"Half-Orc with Daisy Chain Mail" 2024 acrylic, ink, colored pencil on paper 5.5" x 8.5"

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One of my favorite things that happened in my rap career has to be when I was when I was subtweeted by a rapper for crowdfunding for a record Jokes on him, cuz I'm about to do that again next year (and he's still got Stockholm Syndrome about white folks)!

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"soft power tools" 2024 Ink, watercolor, chrome marker, colored pencil on paper 9"x12"

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"3 po' boys" (triptych) 12" x 18" Acrylic, pencil, oil stick, soft pastel on MDF

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"Threefold Still Life" 2022 Graphite, colored pencil, orange juice on paper 8" x 10.5" ________ When drafting the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual, the loose theme was some allusion to citrus (obvious I know) This went with lyrics to "Blacksmith Django with All the Fingers" prod. by nahhphet

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"Gestural Agriculture" 2022 acrylic, marker, colored pencil on paper ___________ The page from the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual beside the written lyrics from the song "In the Suburbs of Babylon", a hypnotic bop regarding postwar partition, in literal and figurative form---

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Omega 3 Drawing Lookin'-Ass" 2021 Acrylic, Marker, Graphite on Paper 9"x12" ________________ Another page from my Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual book. This was paired with the lyrics from the song "Marinara in the Marianas" produced by Randal Bravery

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How long you gotta swallow your pride before it upchucks?

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"soft power tools" 2024 Ink, watercolor, chrome marker, colored pencil on paper 9"x12"

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DIY sublimation

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RIP NIKKI GIOVANNI THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME BLESSING US HERE youtu.be/cMKSSlaqTLE?...

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BREAKING: 300+ musicians including Tegan and Sarah, Kathleen Hannah of Bikini Kill, Deerhoof, Eve 6, Speedy Ortiz & more have signed an open letter opposing big corporate record labels' lawsuit attacking the nonprofit Internet Archive www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... h/t @liaholland.bsky.social

submitted 106 days ago • 6 comments

"3 po' boys" (triptych) 12" x 18" Acrylic, pencil, oil stick, soft pastel on MDF

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Language and speech were a mistake

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Excerpt from one of two poems of mine published in Sunflower Station Press' (DIS)HARMONY issue sunflowerstationpress.com/product/maga... Grateful to be included And for this poem to finally get outside of my personal archive

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Kind of surreal to be an employee of the school district that educated me as a child and to be experiencing systemic mistreatment and instability by them when all I want to do is give back

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Also updated my bio on the evil streaming site

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Buy my book for Bandcamp Friday It comes with a digital download of Grapefruit Radio rhyslangston.bandcamp.com/merch/grapef... Today I was assigned without warning to help in Pre-K special ed and I need a way out of these situations my work puts me in. Your purchase helps immensely.

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“A masterclass in minimalism, providing the backdrop for a lyrical maximalist.” Polyglot on Chloroform from @rhyslangston.bsky.social @fusedarrowrecords.com is no.3 in our top EPs of 2024. 🔗 nofrillsreviews.com/2024/12/04/2...

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Next up in the EOY review, is 2024’s top 10 EPs. Featuring underground hip-hop, punk rock, stripped back indie-folk. nofrillsreviews.com/2024/12/04/2...

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"Threefold Still Life" 2022 Graphite, colored pencil, orange juice on paper 8" x 10.5" ________ When drafting the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual, the loose theme was some allusion to citrus (obvious I know) This went with lyrics to "Blacksmith Django with All the Fingers" prod. by nahhphet

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The LA scene is allergic to organizing shows in a non-gentrified/transplant part of town We really need a venue in mid city and south central

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Gratis Rain Shadow

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Seeing the decades on my face today

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The fork in the road got a knife in one of its paths Thawed Robert Frost With my vitamin D deficient ass

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"Gestural Agriculture" 2022 acrylic, marker, colored pencil on paper ___________ The page from the Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual beside the written lyrics from the song "In the Suburbs of Babylon", a hypnotic bop regarding postwar partition, in literal and figurative form---

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Today I published a write-up for Fat Hippy Records Anniversary Compilation, Vol. 2, Curated by @fathippyrecords.bsky.social ft. @teller-banks.bsky.social, @juneayth.bsky.social, @bloodmoneyperez.bsky.social, @lunarsolitaire.bsky.social, @rhyslangston.bsky.social & more.

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Omega 3 Drawing Lookin'-Ass" 2021 Acrylic, Marker, Graphite on Paper 9"x12" ________________ Another page from my Grapefruit Radio Operator's Manual book. This was paired with the lyrics from the song "Marinara in the Marianas" produced by Randal Bravery

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