Aloysius the Band

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always an aloysius, sometimes a band. hammock evangelist, freelance psychopomp, anti goon squad. Minneapolis. Listen to MORTISE+TENON: 📀 aloysiustheband.com/music

A griddle with quesadilla event horizon
Screenshot from notes app ••• Ways I have described my record in review requests mortise+tenon is a record about the transient nature of ontological reality maybe, or not, and also love, loss, ghosts, volcanoes, hope as an insurrectionist act, etc The record is 57 minutes of cosmic indie bedroom folk about potential realities, parallel lives, connections across time and the boundaries between worlds, and what we bequeath to future generations. Aka love and loss and humanhood. The songs are about change and ontological crises and the agony of loss and the relentless cavalcade of days and honestly not much woodworking despite the title, which is more a metaphor of connection and strength and togetherness, which is also what the songs are about, too.
18:12 al. ••• some in peace and some in war settle like a broken score no matter that we're driven to distraction plug your ears and close your eyes nothing able to surprise negate all principles of ataraxia freedom is a tangled vein you push you pull you poke and then suddenly burst forth into the blind light where choice becomes an upturned bowl, gravity well, magnetic pole like moth to flame you step into the limelight take the stage and speak the lines nothing as if not by design forbidden words the only ones we've uttered stand for this and kneel for that waver often, take it back leave truth knocked out lying in the gutter freedom is a term of art stitch together rip apart whether freshly mended or asunder use it wisely or let go
Screenshot from threads with so many words and the auto-copy feature isn’t working I’m sorry if you want to know what it says I will tell you but 99% chance nobody sees this at all
Still from Perfect Days of a man sitting in the woods staring smiling up at something above the frame
Heavily colorized photo of a cut tree with sprouting growth, a hand drawn cartoon face where the cut would be
Drake meme ❌ money for food 👍 money for bombs
Mike Johnson and security detail running down a hallway not a one caught in normal human running stride
Screenshot from threads user stacycay Me gerrymandering: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me getting gerrymandered: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Anakin padme meme template, text: I solved the “people sleeping on the bench” problem by addressing the structural issues that put them there in the first place, right?
Screenshot from indeed.com showing a job posting for a Prompt Engineer, Claude Code at Anthropic, with an adversities salary range of $300,000-$405,000 a year
Frame from Paddington 2 end credits scene featuring many pink-clad inmates tap dancing while twirling pink umbrellas
album covers, clockwise from top left: Humanhood by Weather Station, Stardust by John Coltrane, What of our Nature by Haley Heynderickx and Max García Conover, Heavy Metal by Cameron Winter
From Devil Makes Three by Ben Fountain: "In Haiti there's no money to buy bread," a grand-mère casually observed at intake one morning, "but we never run out of money for bullets." Everyone laughed, and Misha found herself wondering, how much did one of those bullets cost? Her mind running to the hundreds of thousands of bullets that had been fired since the coup, mass-produced bullets, the bullet as global commodity, an object manufactured and consumed in the context of a transnational economy based on anomic self-interest. Viewed from the center, such arrangements would naturally appear rational and necessary: this was, after all, the very nature of the center. But out here on the periphery, the land of scant bread and endless bullets, that central logic was joke fodder for wisecracking grannies with the strength of sanity to go on living in a barbarous present.
Audio interface, sm57, cables and microfreak in a clear plastic bin
Post it note on a guitar body with the post text handwritten on it
Partial Article text: Here's what you need to remember: There is no reward that comes later. No righteous justice will be dispensed, not soon and not ever. Renee Good and Alex Pretti don't come back to life. The lives of their loved ones are not made whole again. Thousands of people will remain disappeared, relatives scattered, families broken. This story does not have a happy ending, and 1 can assure you the villains do not get punished in the end. If that is your motivation, try again, start over. But you also need to understand - and this is equally important - that we've already won. The reward is right now, this minute, this moment. The reward is watching your city - whether it's Chicago or Los Angeles or Charlotte or the cities still to come - organize in hyperlocal networks of compassion, in acephalous fashion, not because someone told you to, but because tens of thousands of people across a metro region simultaneously and instinctively felt the urge to help their neighbors get by. So in the resistance you drive the car pool. It's fun, and it's mostly not scary. Your
Ice out map from 2/3/26 showing lots of active reports
Richard Scarry's Lowly Worm, tied up in knots (but smiling)
“don’t Tread On Me” flag but as a meme with the added line “tread on them 👍”
Pic of a grimy white truck with “FUCK ICE” written in the grime
Screenshot of post from Zohran Mamdani mayoral account on Threads: “Ridiculous news this morning. 👈🏽”
Photo of an intersection, street pole with a paper sign reading “FUCK ICE” drawn in marker
Photo from Alex Pretti memorial, no parking sign in foreground with FUCK ICE, safety goggles and bandana
A guy wearing sunglasses and a yellow hat, in his car, talking to the camera. “Stop taking about training. Abolish ICE. Fuck ICE.”
My face, in a balaclava rimed with frost
Simpsons still - Skinner looking at Lisa across a desk. Caption: To be honest, I'm surprised and saddened. No, not saddened. What's the word? Ah yes, delighted!
Moe from Simpsons meme “Immigants! I knew it was them! Even when it was the beard I knew it was them”
change my mind meme -- "every video conversion website is just an ffmpeg command"
Sign reading Please Supervise Your Children
Comet, Space Pup magic the gathering card.
Show poster with three crudely-drawn singing ghosts Aloysius the band Acadia cafe October 23, 2025 free
A library copy of Carmilla
If I had to make a sweeping "what is this record about" type of statement about I might say that MORTISE+ TENONI is a record about connections, made and missed; about loves, held and lost; about futures, realized and evaporated. About the inherent contradictions in a normal existence, about how an unassuming event can take on outsized proportion, about how you can never know the genesis of a thing until you get the full stretch of history to analyze it. How that's in and of itself an irreconcilable contradiction, deep with pathos.
Show poster Aloysius the Band Mortise+tenon record release Amsterdam Bar & Hall October 10 2025 with Andy Ulseth Haters Club
four LP records, clockwise from top: The Band - Music from Big Pink Cassandra Jenkins - My Light, My Destroyer Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary Deerhoof - Noble and Godlike in Ruin
screenshot of the spotify release page showing that it's released in 21/251 countries
Insert for a product that has a service email listed: sale.service.ass@gmail.com
Kurtz from Apocalypse Now saying “I love the smell of finding out in the morning”
Simpsons quote “Marge, Bart rides up in the front seat today because he’s a good guy at sports”
Apocalypse now — “I love the smell of finding out in the morning”
Guy playing a poignant tune on a violin
Cookie Monster dancing and going oh yeah
guy playing an upright bass, wearing a buttondown shirt (the bass, the bass is wearing the buttondown shirt)
a bunch of abstract art with some cut up lyrics spread out upon a table, also a copy of Abolish Rent which you should read immediately
Lego Spider-Man hanging from the ceiling on a web made of Blu-Tack
A bowl of quinoa with broccoli (and tofu and carrots), a bottle of liquid aminos beside it
A custom made guitar distortion pedal with the name WORMFOOD
Principal Skinner meme: Am I out of touch? No, it's the wokes who are wrong.
Lowly Worm by Richard Scarry, all tangled up
Screenshot of cursed Instagram widget offering user the opportunity to “chat with AI”
Bullet Bill stuffy
Screengrab of weather app showing -19F in Minneapolis with an Extreme Cold Warning notification
Paul Giamatti saying DESTRUCTION. BEAUTIFUL AND TOTAL
Book cover for I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
Book cover of The Swank Hotel by Lucy Corin
Book cover of Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO YELLOW STRIPEY THINGS CARPENTER BEE -ACTS LIKE IT'S TOUGH, BUT CAN'T ACTUALLY HURT YOU -HAS NO CONCEPT OF WHAT GLASS IS -LIVES IN YOUR FENCE -FLIES AGGRESSIVELY TO TRY AND SCARE YOU AWAY HONEYBEE -IS THE BEE THAT NEEDS HELP THE MOST -EXCELLENT POLLINATOR -VERY FRIENDLY -CAN ONLY STING ONCE BUMBLEBEE -ALSO POLLINATES STUFF VERY WELL -SO FAT IT SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO FLY -WILL LET YOU PET IT WITHOUT GETTING AGITATED -ACTUALLY A FLYING PANDA HOVERFLY -WEARS YELLOW STRIPEY UNIFORM TO SCARE YOU -ACTUALLY CAN'T DO ANYTHING TO YOU -HANGS OUT IN FIELDS -FOLLOWS YOU IF IT LIKES YOU PAPER WASP YELLOW JACKET -LOOKS SCARY, BUT WILL ONLY ATTACK IF PROVOKED -WANTS YOUR FOOD AND WILL FIGHT YOU FOR IT -STING HURTS LIKE THE DEVIL -NEVER LEAVES YOU ALONE -WILL CHASE YOU IF YOU SWAT AT IT -WILL STING YOU JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT -HAS NO CONCEPT OF PERSONAL SPACE -IS JUST A JERK CICADA KILLER -LOOKS LIKE SATAN'S NIGHTMARES -EXCLUSIVELY EATS CICADAS -CAN STING YOU, BUT USUALLY WON'T -STILL PRETTY TERRIFYING DIRT DAUBER -ALMOST NEVER STINGS ANYTHING EXCEPT SPIDERS -BUILDS NEST IN THE GROUND -HOARDS SPIDERS IN SAID NEST -COOLEST LOOKING OF THE WASPS
Homer Simpson saying “you hear me? No comeuppance!”