Max Grafe

@amagicreflexham.bsky.social

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Composer • Teacher • Racing • NJ • Anti-anti-modernist • he/him https://composers.com/composers/max-grafe

The entrance to Kinhaven music school in Vermont, showing a sign for the main entrance and various campus buildings and trees in the background
Doctor: You need to get a colonoscopy Me: what's that? Doctor: It's a... [image of actress Cameron Diaz]
A large red capital letter E with a dieresis
A poster for Jordan Peele's film Nope
A green sign that reads "Kinhaven main entrance" with a grey shed in the backgro
A street sign for Green Needle Drive in Winter Park, Florida
Player names from the video game MLBPA Baseball: Willie Dustice, Jeromy Gride, Scott Dourque, Shown Furcotte
A guy from 007 First Light doing that thing only terrible people do where they push their tongue into their lower lip to look tough
A headline that reads "Trump says a deal with Iran and opening of Strait of Hormuz are 'largely negotiated'" while neglecting to point out the journalistically relevant fact that Donald Trump lies every time he opens his mouth
A bright reddish-pink cocktail with a generous head of egg white foam and a twist of lemon in a coupe glass
The title card for a fake episode of Star Trek Deep Space 9 called "The Gang Commits War Crimes"
A service alert on the New Jersey Transit app explaining that rail service is suspended due to a fire near the Hudson river tunnel
A poster for Iceberg New Music's 2026 show Dinner to Die For illuminated in pinkish-red
A meme depicting a goose chasing a person in a parka asking "Who normalized the rhetoric. Who normalized the rhetoric motherfucker"
A meme depicting a goose chasing a person in a parka asking "Who normalized the rhetoric. Who normalized the rhetoric motherfucker"
The lyrics to Fatboy Slim's "The Rockefeller Skank" formatted to look like the Burger King logo
Tina Fey, Timothee Chalamet, and Kylie Jenner sit courtside at a basketball game
A deep orange-red cocktail in a square glass sitting on a wooden butcher block
A headline that somehow describes three of the most significant composers in the western canon as "unrecognized"
A sketch in marker on a whiteboard of a bearded man with elaborate makeup and piercings labeled "yassified"
The composer's note from the score of Erik Satie's Vexations explaining that the piece is meant to be performed 840 times consecutively
Joh Yowza of Return of the Jedi special edition fame
Barron Trump is going into the beverage business, this company launches new flavor. The beverage brand's name, Sollos, combines "sol" (sun in Spanish) for sunrise and "los" (sol backward) for sunset
Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen Initiatives After citizens in Republican states used ballot measures to protect abortion, expand Medicaid and raise the minimum wage, statehouses are moving to make such initiatives much harder.
A transcription of an improvised song about the very painful zit I currently have in one of my nostrils
The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin hung with Nazi and Olympic flags
A bearded guy smirking into the camera, as if about to dispense the worst take you've ever heard in your life
Camina Drummer from The Expanse
A heavily distorted mirror image of a dark-haired, bearded man in a grey hoodie beside affirmational signs that read "I am amazing," "I love myself," and "I am confident"
A New Jersey license plate that reads "S67CRJ"
Jared Harris as Anderson Dawes from The Expanse with a speech bubble
Bugs Bunny saying "no"
A road sign that reads "300 feet ahead" superimposed with a photo of Quentin Tarantino looking intrigued/aroused
The metal band GWAR in full costume
Norman Rockwell's painting "Freedom of Speech"
A chart of split times from a five-kilometer run showing slow but consistent pace for the first four splits and a significantly faster pace for the final one
A button from the strategy game Europa Universalis 5 that says "fabricate casus belli"
A purple and white LMP2 race car on track with several more cars in the background
Orson Welles drunkenly going maahh HAAA the French
The album art from Spilt Milk by Jellyfish, showing a morose-looking child with red hair and a tiara in front of a room full of assorted musical instruments
Tony from West Side Story singing "Maybe tonight" at the end of Something's Coming
A step-by-step diagram instructing the reader to 1) lie down, 2) try not to cry, and 3) cry a lot
A freezer full of multicolored pints of ice cream with a sign above it that reads "If you have a mouth, we have a flavor"
An ad for the Melania Trump documentary at the Lincoln Center subway station
A sign that reads "bussing station"
An article about one of AI's supposed benefits to society that really only further enriches billionaires at everyone else's expense, featuring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang looking anxious
A purple and white Porsche 963 race car doing donuts after finishing a race in 2nd position
A pair of Porsche 963 prototype race cars, one purple and white, one red and white, crossing the finish line side by side at Daytona International Speedway. The purple car has a slightly damaged front end but just ignore that it wasn't my fault
A joke graph plotting every bad thing that's happened in America since the Reagan administration
The header from the Wikipedia entry on the Hotwheels sisyphus spider
Emperor Palpatine going "Goooooood"
A purple and white prototype race car driving at high speed through a corner
A purple and white prototype race car driving around a corner in front of a blue and white barrier at sunset
A summary and map of a 3.5 kilometer run on Strava
A picture of a woman playing a violin with the headline "Musical expertise is associated with specific cognitive and personality traits"
The cover of the album Spilt Milk by Jellyfish, featuring a disconsolate-looking redheaded girl in front of a large assortment of musical instruments
The checkout display at a Wegmans showing a total of $69.69
Dr. Doofenshmirtz saying "If I had a nickel for every time a Nobel laureate was complicit in crimes against humanity I'd have at least 8 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened at all"
A movie poster with grizzled actor Gerard Butler looking distinctly like noted schlub John Goodman
Baby JD Vance