dorianlistens

@dorianlistens.com

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noise rock, software, tacos, basketball. he/him Austin, Texas

A Japanese breakfast tray featuring rice, miso soup, grilled fish, and enoki mushrooms
The Claude status dashboard, with every product line showing a significant amount of red and yellow, indicating product instability. Several product lines are currently in “Major Outage”, while others are showing “Partial Outage”.
A screenshot of the Claude status dashboard, displaying a distressing number of outages in the past several weeks.
A black slide with white centered text, reading “JavaScript”
“Freedom of Speech” by Norman Rockwell.
Four piece rock band porcelain performing at Mohawk in Austin, under predominantly purple lighting.
Bare minimum for holding a conversation: This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, The Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, Fania All-Stars, The Bar-Kays, The Human League, The Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagara, Joy Division, Laurent Garnier, The Creation, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc, Rammellzee, Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force (just hit me!), Juan Atkins, Manuel Göttsching, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, The Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharoah Sanders and The Fire Engines, The Swans, the Soft Cell, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics
Three piece rock band flooding, performing at Chess Club in Austin TX on May 9, 2025. A wide angle photo, from the front row. The lead singer is mostly in focus, the bass player are blurred from motion.
The three piece rock band “Proun” on stage at the Chess Club in Austin, TX, on May 9th 2025. The lighting is a mix of blue and pink.
A white vinyl copy of Big Brave’s new record “OST” playing on a vintage turn table. The cover of the record is propped up behind the turntable.
A beautiful blue sky with pink clouds, a big tree, and a string of lights
A distinctly orange sun in the sky, with several trees and mid sized towers beneath it.
Porcelain, a four piece rock band, performing live inside at Mohawk during SXSW 2025
Tsuke Edomae Reservation Confirmed
A paperback copy of “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia E. Butler. The cover features a red hand painted silhouette of a bird, and a few orange and yellow polkadots on a black background. In the background, a backyard pool is visible.
The view from my seat of the court at a women’s college basketball game between the University of Miami Hurricanes and the UNC Tar Heels. The ball is in mid air, being passed from one UNC player to another.
The intersection of 7th and red river in downtown Austin, with the same flex posts in between lanes prior to the stop line. Only two are visible, because a black mustang has pulled slightly over the stop line, but still stopped before the crosswalk markings.
A Live Photo of the Blood Brothers, taken from the pit. Three members of the band are visible, bathed in purple light. Several audience members are in the midst of moshing, with raised arms, blurry in motion.
A palm tree waving in the breeze, with a blue/orange sunset in the background.
A copy of the new Godspeed You! Black Emperor album, placed on top of a stereo receiver
Aug. 12, 2024, 8:10 p.m. ET Ryan Mac It appears crypto scammers on other streaming platforms have tried to take advantage of the confusion on X by creating fake streams mimicking Musk's voice to persuade people to buy cryptocurrency.
A picture of the sky with pink clouds
A copy of "There's always this year - on basketball and ascension" by Hanif Abdurraqib. The cover image features a young Black boy perched on top of a basketball hoop.
A hardcover copy of Megan Kimble’s book “City Limits - infrastructure, inequality, and the future of America’s highways”. The cover features a photograph of a large highway interchange. The book is resting on a wooden table.