Well, the first passing I learned about via my Mastodon timeline, and it’s a devastating one … R.I.P. Keith Levene, guitar mangler extraordinaire.

My friends — the below video has always been my favorite thing sitting on YouTube, hands down. I’ve posted it here before, but here we go again. What Keith does here with rhythm, noise, a guitar, and a synthesizer shatters the Fermi Paradox. He was an alien reaching out to us. If only we knew how to properly receive the signals.