Christopher Buecheler

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The head of Richard Nixon perched atop a giant mecha-style robot, via Futurama
A zoomed in shot of an ice cream box showing that it's a limited edition Jonas Brothers flavor that's 1/3 coffee cookie crumble, 1/3 chocolate marshmallow, and 1/3 ... vanilla.
A teenage girl in the background of the linked Hillary Clinton video. She looks incredibly unimpressed.
A screenshot of an auto-translated voice mail from Amtrak. It reads: "this is Amtrak calling with a status update for Christopher Butler important boating notice the cars on asshole and 94 will be situated in the platform in a different ..."
It's the distracted boyfriend meme! The woman in the red dress is labeled "Temple Bar", the boyfriend staring lecherously at the woman in red's ass as she passes is labeled "Tourists", and the outraged girlfriend staring at the boyfriend in disgust is labeled "Irish friends who've repeatedly advised you to avoid Temple Bar"
It's my fingers holding up a tiny 1/8th punt of Guinness in the background is a blurry dark room with a gold chandelier.
A sticker on the bathroom wall of a Staycity hotel that says "please do not grab the towel rail as you exit the bath/shower" and then, I'm bold, "this is not a hand rail"
A pencil sketch of a young woman. She is in 3/4 profile, facing to our left, but glancing sidelong at the "camera". She has short hair spiked forward in a pixie cut and is wearing a hoodie. Her ear is pierced and an earring made up of three triangles hangs from it. She is smiling slightly.
A rocks glass full of ice and red liquid, and a Nick-abd-Nora glass full of green liquid.
Two pains aux chocolats, two oranges pressés, a café crème, and a double espresso.
The sun shines through the branches and leaves of two massive oak trees, their branches spreading very wide.
The cover to Possessed. A completed color illustration in which we can see three people walking down a Miami street at sunset. Two young women and one young man. One of the women is looking into a store window, and we can see that her reflection has been replaced by a demonic figure. At the top is the word POSSESSED scrawled in what looks like white acrylic paint. The bottom of the curve in the D is elongated and there are splatters at its end. At the bottom, in white sans-serif deco font, are the words "CHRISTOPHER BUECHELER"
A shot of the next ten days of weather, showing nothing but sun, with highs of 89F, 97F, 95F, 91F, 98F, 101F, 94F, 92F, 95F, and 94F. Lows are in the high sixties and low seventies.
A shot of the forecast showing highs next week of 89F, 93F, 94F, 95F, 98F, and 85F.
A spreadsheet with the following values: Our Lady Peace 10 Big Wreck 9 Silversun Pickups 9 Alice In Chains 7 Gorillaz 7 Live 7 Manchester Orchestra 7 Smashing Pumpkins 7 Stone Temple Pilots 7 VAST 7 Muse 6 Nothing But Thieves 6 Tool 6 AWOLNATION 5 Dave Matthews Band 5 Puscifer 5 Red Hot Chili Peppers 5 A Perfect Circle 4 Faith No More 4 Queens of the Stone Age 4 Royal Blood 4 Alpha Conspiracy 3 Bad Snacks 3 Incubus 3 Massive Attack 3 Middle Class Rut 3 Radiohead 3 REM 3 The Black Keys 3 The Blue Stones 3 The Decemberists 3 The Verve 3 Young the Giant 3 Zero-7 3 3rd Secret 2 Bad Books 2 Cage the Elephant 2 Cake 2 CKY 2 Elysian Fields 2 Kings of Leon 2 MD 2 Nirvana 2 Octavate 2 Pearl Jam 2 Soundgarden 2 U2 2 XYZZY 2 Army of Anyone 1 Audioslave 1 Autechre 1 Band of Skulls 1 Barefoot Gravediggers 1 Bowery Electric 1 Cat Stevens 1 Cowlick 1 DangerDoom 1 Disturbed 1 Eiffel 1 Eileen Noise 1 Ethel Cain 1 Everclear 1 Filter 1 Guns n Roses 1 Jerry Cantrell 1 King Hannah 1 King Missile 1 Linkin Park 1 Lovage 1 Mahal 1 Man Made Sunshine 1 Meg Meyers 1 Moby 1 Panic! At the Disco 1 Primus 1 Reignwolf 1 Seether 1 Sungazer 1 The Tea Party 1 Them Crooked Vultures 1 Tomahawk 1 Tosca 1 Zwan 1
Frodo surrounded by the fires of Mount Doom looking devastated. Below him the subtitles read "It's done."
The album cover for Eileen Noise. It's a photograph of a woman leaning out of the backseat window of a car (70s or 80s sedan, it looks like) that's driving down a gravel road in what looks like the mojave desert under an overcast sky, with hills in the background. The woman is very 90s heroin chic: young and broadly attractive; pale skin; very thin; somewhat stringy, long, dark hair; tons of eye shadow/liner; a black tank top; a necklace with a cross pendant. She looks very grumpy. At the top right of the image in black typewriter font are the words "eileen noise" and below that in the same font but smaller and in grey, the words "no one leaves clean"
A screenshot from Github of me approving a pull request with the message "Yes, this all definitely looks like things I understand and know what they do!"
The album cover to Victory Garden by Young the Giant. It's a cream-colored square. It's padded about half an inch on all sides. Inside that is a black and white photo that appears to be taken at an outdoor festival of some sort. There's a crowd of people in front of a bunch of trees and a clear sky (which fades into the cream color of the background). In the foreground of the picture, a young woman has her head tilted back and her hands raised, eyes closed, an expression of quasi-religious rapture on her face. The rest of the crowd, mostly men, seems a bit nonplussed. Above all of this in hand-painted lettering are the words "YOUNG THE GIANT" in green and "VICTORY GARDEN" in orange. Above the green are three simple painted flowers in purple, yellow, and orange.
The album cover for The Mountain by Gorillaz. It is an image of the top of a mountain above a vast, cloud-filled sky (most of the clouds are lower than the mountain). On top of the mountain are the four Gorillaz characters, variously perched and looking off into the distance. Above them in a gradiented yellow-to-orange, heavily outlined in black font is the hindi word for "Mountain".
A completed color illustration in which we can see three people walking down a Miami street at sunset. Two young women and one young man. One of the women is looking into a store window, and we can see that her reflection has been replaced by a demonic figure. To the left side of the image we see a Miami street at sunset, complete with palm trees, art deco buildings, and cars reflecting slightly in the asphalt below them. Downtown Miami is in the distance.
A god-awful pencil sketch of a wraparound book cover. The back features some palm trees and a building. The spine says "POSSESSED" and the front shows three people, barely more than stick figures, walking in front of a window. The window is reflecting a nebulous, shadowy shape instead of the person in the lead. At the top it says "CHRISTOPHER BUECHELER" and at the bottom "POSSESSED"
Matthias is a white male in his forties or fifties. He has short blonde hair, slightly swept back, and blue eyes. Despite living in south Florida, his skin is very fair. He is long and lean but not muscular. He is wearing a blue button-down dress shirt. He is looking directly at the camera, head tilted slightly down, and smirking a bit. He looks cruel. Above him is the POSSESSED logo and below him in sans-serif white deco font are the words "JUNE 18 • CWBWRITING.COM"
A feedback form in Proton Mail. It has been filled in with the following: Hello, It has recently come to my attention that Proton is sponsoring French far-right "influencers" on YouTube. This is utterly unacceptable. Why are you giving money to fascist, racist hate-mongers? As an immigrant in France myself, I am lucky to not have to deal with the racism (I'm a white American) but I still see and hear the things that immigrants from other parts of the globe have to put up with here. It's revolting to me that any portion of the money I'm paying to Proton annually for my two different plans is going to further these divisive voices. This needs to be addressed speedily and with nothing short of apology and a concrete plan for doing better. Otherwise I and many others are going to migrate from Proton, just as we migrated from Google when their company practices became unsupportable. Thank you for your time, -Christopher Buecheler
The album cover to Normal Isn't by Puscifer. It's a black square with everything inside it centered horizontally. At the top is a spiky brushstroke PUSCIFER logo in mustard yellow. In the middle in roughly 16x9 aspect ratio is what looks like an acrylic painting. It's a prairie with a few small trees in the distance, and a dark brown sky full of smoke. The prairie is on fire. In the middle ground is a clapboard two-story house with a peaked roof over the entrance. Birds (probably crows) fly above it. In the foreground, standing in the prairie grass, is a woman in a black duster and brown vest. Her hands have been bound with rope, but the rope hangs loose from each of them. The wind is blowing the flames, the trees, and her hair to her left (our right). It has blown a black cowboy hat from her head. Below this in red sans-serif font are the words "NORMAL ISN'T" and below that in mustard yellow is a small logo that looks like a lightning bolt in a circle.
The crowd chants and cheers and drums and claps as the players prepare to start the game.
A political compass made up of economic on the X axis and social on the Y axis, with Authoritarian at the north and Libertarian at the south, left-leaning economically on the west, right-leaning economically on the east. My dot is in the far southwest, meaning very left-leaning economically and very anti-authoritarian.
The album cover to Tenterhooks by Silversun Pickups. In keeping with their other covers, it is largely abstract. It's a painting, starting brown at the bottom and then moving to yellow-orange at the top, albeit not in a smooth gradient. In the brown section is what looks like a wood burning illustration of mountains and fir trees. Above that we move into the yellow-orange section, which looks like a watercolor panting, with bands of umbers blending into the more yellow tones. In the center is what resembles a smoothed-over mountain, long eroded, but it's formed entirely with shades of pink, and slight highlights of light blue. Here are there are scattered small rectangular shapes, and shapes that look like slightly distorted upside-down "U"s. At the bottom in which sans-serif font are the words "SILVERSUN PICKUPS" and below them, in larger, gold-foil serif font the word "TENTERHOOKS" - the "Tenter" part is slightly larger than the "Hooks" part, and the cross bars on both "T"s extend further on the right than on the left.
A screenshot from 82-0.com showing that a basketball team with Fat Lever at PG, Pete Maravich at SG, Larry Bird at SF, Elvin Hayes at PF, and Wilt Chamberlain at C scores a perfect 82-0, with a total scored of 112.6 points. 122 PPG, 62.8 RPG, 27.6 APG, 5.8 SPG, 1.4 BPG
The album cover to The Rest of the Story by Big Wreck. It is a battered and scuffed notebook/sketchbook cover. It's pink-red, with a square, white double border near its edges In the center is an embossed sunburst with an angel that looks like it's unconscious and being held in someone's arms, though there is no someone holding it. Above that, also embossed, in distressed white, sans-serif display font, are the words "BIG WRECK" and below it, non-embossed, in distressed, yellow-white, serif font, are the words "THE REST OF THE STORY". Behind this notebook cover, along the right side, you can see a hint of the album cover for their previous album, Pages.
An image of a rich text input. Inside, the following words have been written: "Watch a movie about giant space monsters hunting gianter space monsters. Also Elle Fanning is there." The word "gianter" is underlined as being misspelled, which of course it is, because it is not a real word.
The album cover for Metro by The Blue Stones. It is a photograph of a man walking in front of a paneled wall. Most of the photograph is black, with only the center illuminated The man is entirely in silhouette from a large, blue-green LED running along the top of the two central panels. Above this is a red neon sign reading "METRO". Above that are two diagonal slashes (windows maybe) showing off a stairwell with a staircase in it, lit entirely in red. These end up looking vaguely like a greater than (>) sign, but I'm not sure if this means anything. There is no text on the cover other than the METRO sign.
The album cover for The Phantom Five by AWOLNATION. It is a photograph of a field of roughly-mown grass in the fall or winter. In the background is a line of trees. In the field, a wooden 3D scaffold of the AWOLNATION logo (a big stylized AN) has been created from 2x4s. Several disco balls are lying on the ground around it, and a few have been placed on the scaffold itself. Five children dressed entirely in turquoise sweatpants, hoodies (hoods up), and grinning skeleton masks are in the shot. Two are climbing on the scaffolding, one is sitting on top of it holding a disco ball in its lap, another is crouched down in front of it and holding out a disco ball to the camera. The final one is standing with his back turned to the camera (revealing a "5" logo with two dots making a smiley face out of the curve of the 5 on the back), looking over its left shoulder and holding a dark wooden baseball bat. There is no text on this cover.
A comic image. It depicts a hand holding up a box of sushi. The sushi resembles a young, vacant looking woman with her tongue stuck out like a cat blepping. The label says "100% off - Dumb as Fuck" and the caption reads "If they made sushi out of you there would have to be a stupidity warning on the box"
A crowd of people celebrate with various Paris Basketball players, one of whom. Hifi, is leading the chant
A group of basketball players playing basketball (live, not on tv ... I mean, they're also on TV but I am at the arena). Paris is in black, and Strasbourg is in white. We are at Adidas arena in Paris
A screenshot of a weather app showing that today's high in Paris is 91 F and then we drop down to highs of 70, 77, and 67.
A message saying "Site Blocked Successfully" "grokipedia.com will be hidden from your search results from now on" "Manage sites you've blocked"
The album cover for Glass Beams by Mahal. It is a brown square with an orange border whose corners are rounded. In the center is a triptych - two rectangles on either side with tops that have a pointed dome growing from them are outlined in orange. Their interior looks like cross-cut amber or similar stone. In the center is a larger version of the same, except both the top and bottom of the rectangle are double-domed and pointed. Inside, above the stone, is a geometric design of orange lines forming squares, each inside the other and rotated 90 degrees from its parent. Above all of this in yellowish-white geometric font, sans-serif and difficult to read, are the words "glass beams" (this same design, in orange, is rotated and placed on the outer border of the album on both the right and left sides). At the bottom, above what looks writing from a South Pacific culture in olive, in yellow serif font with very high crossbars on the As and a very low crossbar on the H, is the word "MAHAL"
The album cover for I Want Blood by Jerry Cantrell. It's a black and white photo of his face in an otherwise dark room. The left half (our right) is lit up, and the right half is in shadow. The entire face is distorted and obscured by a pane of glass in front of it that's covered in dripping raindrops. There is no text on this cover.
A 6"x9" paperback book shot from the front on a white table. The cover features three people walking down a street. The young woman at the front is looking into a store window, but instead of her reflection we see a shifting black shape with glowing red eyes.
The album cover for Cope (Live at the Earl) by Manchester Orchestra. It is a white square. On it in the center in giant black sans-serif display font is the word "COPE" and below that in the same font but much smaller are the words "LIVE AT THE EARL". There is a useless and stupid parental advisory sticker in the bottom right corner.
The album cover for Pages by Big Wreck. It's a photograph of various sheets of paper in differing colors lying atop each other. The lower two thirds of the cover is just a single sheet of lined tan paper, somewhat wrinkled. Everything has a heavy film grain filter over it. The other paper colors include brown, purple, blue, green-to-orange, and greyish. The colored papers look like they were painted with watercolors. Atop the lined paper in hand-written black font are the words "BIG WRECK PAGES" and then what looks like it might be a "1" ... but it's hard to tell and I don't think they ever released a "2" so who can say for sure?
The album cover for Dead Club City by Nothing But Thieves. It's a soft-edged 3D render of a modern-looking piece of architecture. Large, long steps lead up through a thick, flat wall to a plateau area. Along the outer edge, at the back, the wall becomes a gently curving slope that ends in a point. In front of this are some low trees in planters and some benches. In front of those are a small raised section (unclear what it is), and then a large central-but-off-centered pergola structure made up of 12 or 14 large beams, wide at the ground and then tapering to a point. They're curved like subtle S shapes, converging at the upper S curve to create a teepee-like shape. Small human figured can be seen moving around the area. They are casting shadows that don't align with the sun, which is setting in a flat orange sky directly behind the scene. Atop the sky in white display font, sans-serif, are the words "Dead Club City"" and above those in much smaller, slimmer, white sans-serif font, the words "Nothing But Thieves". Also in white are a stylized logo that looks a bit like a garland of interwoven vines viewed from the top, and a stylized DCC logo.
The album cover for Back to the Water Below by Royal Blood. It is a picture of a long and many-tendrilled jellyfish floating in blackness. The jellyfish is entirely orange-gold, glowing slightly, with numerous sparkles on its body and tendrils, which swoop and swirl through the blackness. Small gold flecks can be seen around it. There are no words on this cover.
The album cover for The 2nd 3rd Secret by 3rd Secret. The background is orange and black, a series of black curved stripes crosshatched with orange lines. Above this is a woodcut-style illustration of a person in flowing robes, a pageboy haircut, and a hat. They are placing a garland of flowers on the head of another person, dressed the same, with a similar haircut, but smaller and somewhat more feminine looking. They are outlined heavily in black and are colored a uniform yellow with a faint crosshatch pattern. In the upper left in a woodcut-style display font, in yellow, are the words "THE 2ND 3RD SECRET"
The album cover for The Valley of Vision by Manchester Orchestra. It is a photograph (or possibly an extremely detailed illustration, hard to tell) of a woman's shoulders, neck, and head. She has very defined trapezius muscles. Her dark hair is shaved to a buzz cut, and she is turned in 3/4 profile. Where her face should be, the skin is flaking off in large chunks and falling away, revealing a different face below it. Or maybe it's the same face, just in shadow. It's hard to say. The face's eyes are closed and the skin seems to be a shade darker then the rest of the body. The background is a featureless blue grey, slightly gradiented. At the top left in very tiny white sans-serif font are the words "MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA" and at the top right in the same font the words "THE VALLEY OF VISION"
This album cover is very clearly AI-generated and as a result, I'm not going to describe it.
The album cover to In Times New Roman … by Queens of the Stone Age. It is a black square. In the center is a painting (possibly digital) of a man in a black leather motorcycle jacked. He has his back to us, but his head is turned as if he's planning to look over his shoulder. IOn the back of the jacket is a white snake in a circle. A switchblade has been plunged through its tail. Above and below it in what looks like silk stitching, cursive font, in red, are the words "In Times New Roman …". The man's skin is grey and his hair is black. Three green-ish hands, swarming with snakes and showing off long, twisted nails, are embracing him, one over his shoulder, one caressing his face, and one in his hair. From the back of his head, a howling wolf's head has extended. A red blindfold or bandana has been wrapped around the man's head, covering his eyes and going between the wolf's open jaws (making it almost look like the wolf's tongue is lolling out). At the very top in gold-green sans-serif font are the words "QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE"
Shannon is a fair-skinned young woman with bleach-blonde hair in a short pixie cut, light blue eyes, and red lips. She's looking directly at the camera. She has a septum ring and a lip ring, and is wearing a black choker with small black beads dangling from it, and at its center a larger black ring. She's wearing a black shirt. Above here is the word POSSESSED scrawled in white paint with a bit of a splatter below the extended tail on the D, and below her in white sans-serif deco font are the words "JUNE 18 • CWBWRITING.COM"
The album cover to I'm the Machine by Octavate. It's a picture of the entire band, all of them wearing jeans and T-shirts (all of which are either black or grey with no designs - hooray, men's fashion). Three of them have their arms crossed, one has his arms at his sides, and the third is leaning with his elbows on two of the other's shoulders. It's five white dudes in their late 30s/early 40s, which is not exactly surprising for this genre. Most of them have facial hair, which is not exactly surprising for this genre. At the top is the OCTAVATE logo in white, which is the word but most of the letters have been formed from triangles. At the bottom there is a white 8-pointed start with an infinity sign in the middle, and in white sans-serif font the words "I'M THE MACHINE"
The album cover for Spiritual Machines II by Our Lady Peace. It is a mixed media collage (probably done in software, not physically). It depicts a man standing on the side of a collapsed building, looking down at a scene of palm trees and a rusted rocket ship. He is holding scissors in his right hand, down at his side, and reaching out with his left hand, which holds a daisy. A 3D Model of a hummingbird is flying away from the daisy, its polygons outlined, and a 3D model that might be a sparrow is perched on the side of the building. The man himself is made up of what look like various anatomical drawings, but also various machine illustrations. His left hand is a photo of an actual human hand (or maybe a 3D render). His face is a picture of the same guy who has appeared on the majority of OLP's album covers, looking down in surprise at the rocket ship below. On the blue background is a diagram of some kind of engine or machine. Just below the man's outstretched hand in a jagged, handwritten, sans-serif, white font with black outline are the words "OUR LADY PEACE" and then below that, in the same font but smaller and with no black outline, the words "SPIRITUAL MACHINES II"
The album cover for Pretty Monster by the Blue Stones. It is a high contrast pic of the band's lead singer standing in front of a blue background. The band's drummer's face has been superimposed over the singer's, and a red and orange smearing effect has been applied, making it look like the head is on fire. Above this, in the top right, in white display font (sans-serif) are the words "THE BLUE STONES" and, below that, in gold-ish handwriting font, the words "pretty monster"
A picture of a large green parakeet hanging from a small, three-sided, wooden bird feeder hung from a hook drilled into the ceiling of a covered balcony/terrace. It is looking inquisitively at the photographer. Next to the feeder hangs a wind chime made up of three ceramic bells in decreasing size, glazed blue. Below the parakeet are a bunch of big green leaves from a fig tree.
A weather forecast showing that the highs for Sunday thru next Saturday will all be in the 90s (F) with little to no cloud cover.
The album cover for Preacher's Daughter by Ethel Cain. I'm copying this text directly from Genius.com user OddOttAllen because it's a good description. There is no writing on this cover. Here's the description: The front cover of Preacher’s Daughter shows the character Ethel Cain (portrayed by the artist) sitting in a chair and leaning on an end table with flowers on it. A portrait of the biblical figure Jesus Christ is above her, hanging on the wall. The presence of the portrait of Jesus Christ, as well as the overall dark and moody atmosphere of the photo, sets the tone for the album even before the listener presses play. Right from the beginning, it’s clear that Preacher’s Daughter is an album with a darker mood and religious themes intertwined within it. The artist, real name Hayden Anhedönia, explained in a video with Crack Magazine that the end table and white dress specifically are old items she bought at antique stores throughout Florida and Alabama.
The album cover for Man-Made Sunshine by Man-Made Sunshine. It's a black and white photograph of the night sky featuring many stars presenting as dots of various size. There is also something that looks like a nebula along the left side, and a flare of some sort from one star on the right side. In the center is a badly cut out black-and-white picture of Conor. He's wearing a striped knit sweater, baggy white pants, and black sneakers, and is in a sitting position. In his arms he's cradling a full-color cut-out picture of the sun (all orange and yellow). In the top right corner in mustard yellow font, a combination of serifs and sans-serifs, are the words "MAN-MADE SUNSHiNE"
The album cover for I'm Not Sorry, I Was Just Being Me by King Hannah. It's a picture of the two band members in a grassy lawn with a slight hill. At the top of the hill are some low trees and scrub brush, then a large sky with lots of white clouds. The sun appears to be just starting to set to the right. They're walking up the hill. Hannah is wearing a long black coat and white pants, and is looking back toward the photographer. Craig is wearing a blue jumper and brown pants, and a knit cap. He appears to be stumbling forward as if he just tripped on something. At the top left in a wavy font that looks hand-painted, in brown sans-serif, are the words "KING HANNAH" and below that in a similar font, but light yellow, the words "I'M NOT SORRY, I WAS JUST BEING ME"
The album cover for 3rd Secret by 3rd Secret. It is a woodcut-style illustration, black and white but tinted red (with some orange patterning on the background. It shows Krist Novoselic in the foreground with a finger to his lips, and lead singer Jillian Raye behind him, head tilted slightly back, and one hand in the air (or maybe both, and Krist's head is obscuring it). Above her head in a woodcut-style font, in yellow sans-serif, are the words "3RD SECRET"
The album cover for Physical Thrills by Silversun Pickups. It's a swirling fog of color, orange at the top left, teal-blue at the top right, pink along the bottom. A blurred woman's figure is in the center, but you can't really make much out other than that there's a head with long hair and one hand help up as if touching a pane of glass. The hand is orange, the head is red, and the hair is purple (though all these colors also bleed into the rest of the cover). Above all of this, centered and translucent, in white block display font, are the words "PHYSICAL THRILLS"