Guy Forget

@guyforget.bengreenfield.com

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Debut album “Or Current Resident” out now! http://bengreenfield.bandcamp.com Or find the link to your streamer of choice at linktr.ee/mrbengreenfield

Daniel Ek
A screenshot from the LivePhish app shows that on 7/19/17, Phish played a song called Marissa.
An Instagram comment from @lil.zenax reads “Please can we organize a drag night for phish msg”
Jennifer Dances sign
Future senator Jonathan Fishman
A drink menu includes a “lawn boy,” with origin gin, citrus herb simple, ginger beer
An exceptionally handsome man plays a sprightly fingerpicked piece on solo guitar
An old Yiddish definition of chutzpah is the young man who murders both his parents in cold blood and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
A story on the front page of the Glendale News-Press has the headline “Local UPS Deliveryman Retires” and includes a photo of the man, Alfred Valles
A search for “best tweezer” returns a bunch of useless links about plucking tools
Change your default search engine on iPhone You can select an alternative search engine as the default to search for content on the web. Go to the Settings app on your iPhone. Tap Search, then tap Search Engine. Tap the search engine you want to set as the default, then tap the Back button.
A sign on a urinal reads “out of orber”
Ryley Walker playing some sweet tunes
Nithya Raman posts a “Happy Cornell ‘77 Day to all who celebrate” message on Instagram. She has a Dead shirt on and is flashing a peace sign.
A screenshot of a playlist that includes hits like Army of One by Bon Jovi, Kung (Original Club Mix) by Rene Amesz, and Spock’s Brain by Greg Hillis
A vista of the red and white rocks in Red Rock Canyon, NV
An ad atop a Las Vegas taxi features a bunch of half-naked hunks and reads “THUNDER FROM DOWN UNDER”
Taper’s Choice re-melts an audience full of already melted faces
A downed sign on the side of the road reads “SPECIAL EVENT AHEAD.” In the background is the Las Vegas Sphere
A screenshot of a scene from the Casino script, with “nobody told him he was eighty-sixed from the joint” highlighted
On Instagram, RJ Bee has a screen shot from Apple Music of the album “Or Current Resident” by Ben Greenfield with the caption “Long overdue post about @mrbengreenfield’s album being awesome”
A screenshot of a document from the California Secretary of State about the Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act, with text highlighted which reads: “Additionally, candidates are no longer allowed to run as “independents” or “write-ins” at the general election.”
Shitty former congressman Joe Walsh
Me with a possum on my shoulder
An Instagram post from Adrian Belew includes a picture of a graying Frank Zappa and the following text: here's an anecdote I wrote in 2007. Closure. my last time seeing frank zappa face to face was just months before his death in December 1993. I went to the zappa abode for a short visit. he looked like the picture above, which was a shock. frank was obviously ill, his voice a whisper. instead of the vibrant frank I knew there was an older man. only 52 but seeming very weak and tired. in place of his usual habit of chain-drinking espresso he was sipping orange juice freshly squeezed by his maid. frank talked about his latest project. the conversation drifted off. I felt a tinge of guilt taking his time. soon he excused himself to rest for a while. our interlude was over. I prefer to remember a different ending. one night in late 1992 I woke up from a vivid dream. I looked at the clock. 6 AM. I couldn't get back to sleep. in my dream frank and I were laughing and talking, having a lively conversation about music and things. it felt good, like a friendship. since I couldn't sleep I went downstairs and sat in a chair, replaying the dream. there was no such thing as e-mail then, about the fastest delivery was by fax. so I decided to send a fax to frank. in my fax I told him about the dream. then I said I had never properly thanked him for all he had done for me and I wanted say "thanks". I had no idea at that time that frank was ill and dying. later that afternoon I got a call. it was frank. what a great surprise! he said to me, "that was sweet". that's the word he used: sweet. not a word you would normally associate with the acerbic edgy satirist. we proceeded then to have a wonderful conversation much like the one in my dream. and that's the way I remember frank.
An image shows the Las Vegas Sphere with someone near the top, and the caption, “Someone was seen climbing the Las Vegas Sphere”
An image of the album cover of “…I Care Because You Do” by Aphex Twin
A poster showing Eggy and Taper’s Choice tour dates, including 4/4 San Francisco 4/5 Stateline NV 4/8 Eugene OR 4/9 Bend 4/10 Portland 4/11 Seattle
Taper’s Choice jamming at Lodge Room in Los Angeles
A sticker features a burger logo with an orange bun, but with “EMPTY GRAVE” in red letters between the buns instead of the iconic “JENNIFER DANCES”
A protestor holds a sign reading “THE ONLY GOOD ICE IS WOODER ICE” with a picture of water ice
A poster reveals the new Dune title/subtitle: DUNE WITH DISEASE Up Before The Dawn
Polling average showing that Hilton, Bianco and Swalwell are all in the 13-15 range, Porter and Steyer are at 10-11, and other candidates are under 5%.
“When we play an arena, we cover up all the ads as much as we can -- the corporate sponsorship thing has nothing to do with music. We've had offers, but forget it. I know when we tour we're going to have to play SFX buildings, because they can control everything. But our goal is to take more and more in-house by promoting our own shows and releasing our records through our own mail-order business, and move in exactly the opposite direction that everyone is moving.” -Trey Anastasio, Providence Journal, 6/1/99
A crossword puzzle clue, for 1-across, reads “Behave like an ass.” The poster has entered “FART.”
The poster puts some mail on the turntable
Melania has a 7% rating on the Tomatometer (critic reviews) and a 99% on the Popcornmeter (audience reviews).
In which I Heart Noise and I discussed trying to get Joel to join Bsky back in Nov 2024
A screenshot of @ghosttwist’s post above, with the Bluesky butterfly inserted in the top right
A screenshot of the LivePhish app at the precise moment when Trey ruined a beautiful jam out of Waves on 2/22/20
A photo of Bob Weir and the boys from Hanson, who a caption indicates sat in with Weir at the Wetlands (in 1999)
The sun begins to set in LA, as another portion of the sky shows a small section of a rainbow. Only a few wisps of clouds dot the sky.
The Phish 12/31/98 mail order ticket features a subway train with graffiti on the side that says Phish Madison Square Garden 12-31-98 New Year’s Eve
Screenshots of Mitch and Seth’s guesses: Stephen Miller and Mike Johnson
A screenshot of Wordle shows that JENNYDANCE is not accepted as a word
Barack Obama’s favorite music of 2025 list, which includes music by both Kendrick Lamar and Drake
A screenshot from the new Knives Out movie where a character says, “Darla left me last week”
“My favorite tape -- then as now -- was the second set from Bomb Factory (5/7/94), with its 67 minute “ Tweezerfest.” One thing I love about that set is the way it inverts the normal relationship between a song and its jam. Ordinarily, the band plays the composed part of a song, then they jam for a while around the song’s chord structure, then maybe they stray from the original structure into “Type II” jamming, finishing either by coming back to the song or segueing into something else. But in Bomb Factory and Binghamton’s second sets, I feel it’s the jam itself, rather than any song, that comprises the primary unit of music, and in the midst of exploring this open ocean of glorious jamming, the band occasionally encounters these little islands of songs. The “NICU” from this set is a perfect example: it pokes its head out of the jam just long enough to wave hello, impress with a dose of familiar awesomeness, before being subsumed back into the roiling sea of improvisation. It gives the set a sense of fluency and unity that makes it so much more than the sum of its (admittedly excellent) parts. Eventually, the set reaches its apotheosis with a stunning performance of “Slave” that was my favorite version at the time and probably still is.”
A Ticketmaster screenshot indicates that 103546 people are in front of me in the queue for Phish tickets at Sphere
A Reddit post indicates that 2024 Phish tickets at Sphere ranged from $108.90 to $181.20 for mail order tickets
A comment (on a video featuring AI-generated fake interviews in the Grateful Dead parking lot) says “the bus came by, but he missed it and ordered a Waymo instead”
Some bullshit that someone extruded from the bullshit extruder
“Other People,” performed by a dozen or so Bens Greenfield
Some nonsense from an old idiot
D’Angelo’s cover of the Phish song “The Line” playing on Phish’s SiriusXM channel
Dave Matthews holds a sign reading “I AM ANTIFA”
A sign at a protest reads “HONK IF YOU ARE NOT IN THE EPSTEIN FILES”
The Line by D’Angelo
A chandelier with Matthew Perry’s face on every individual light, and the caption “Chandlerlier”
Snippet of the music video for “Chandelier” by Ben Greenfield