Better Banter Through Poetry
Boundless Backgrounds Through Podcasts
Brewing Brainwaves Through Puzzles
Botherworldy Bexperiments Through Plainsong

Michael F. Gill: musician, audio producer, poet, puzzler, runner, living in Boston!
 Contact: michael [at] bbtp [dot] net
This page last updated September 19th 2021

Podcasts

  • Solutions To Problems is a fictional relationship advice show/sci-fi sitcom that I produce, co-write, and musically score.
  • Part of the show is a miniseries I created called Wait Wait Don't Teleport Me!!, an ambient comedy sound-collage about dreaming, time-travel, night owls, and other things.
  • Two lesser-known podcasts that I love: KPFA's mindwarp massage Puzzling Evidence, and BBC Radio 4's Round Britain Quiz, which involves cryptic questions.

    Poetry

  • Calligraphy Rainstorm City, a collection of concrete poems I wrote
  • The Telephodyssey, a re-telling of Homer's Odyssey, via a game of telephone.
  • 404 Haiku Not Found, a collection of 404 (modern) haiku written by 18 people on 04/04/19
  • Setlist from The Allston Elephant Room, who performed 30 short plays in 90 minutes in 2019
  • 365/365 Challenge - Since 2009, a private group-blog of poets attempting to write 1 to 365 pieces in a given year (email me for an invite)
  • Brighton Word Factory - Informal/generative writing group in Boston since 2010 (email me for an invite)
  • Boston Poetry Slam At The Cantab Lounge - Weekly reading in Cambridge, MA

    Music

  • Unstable, an album of folk songs (and a few improviations) by Sarah Jane and Phoenix Renee that I produced/co-wrote/played on in 2014. Album #2 coming soon!
  • Purple Oranges, the "greatest hits" of The Laughter Epidemic, a shifting ensemble of friends which produced original and improvised pop songs during jam sessions from 2008-2011.
  • Blank Start, a collection of mostly electronic music I did on my own from 2004-2011, including songs created entirely out of samples, bad karaoke covers, remixes, and other curiousities.
  • Listen At Your Own Risk, the "greatest hits" of French Traffic, a lo-fi/experimental/improvised pop duo I was in with Jonathan Klys from 2003-2005.
  • Grapefruit is an hour-long conceptual piece from 2009 where I recorded myself repeating the word "Grapefruit" in the flattest, most boring way possible.
  • Cultural Diffusion, an hour-long prepared mix containing the beginning of 500+ songs, simulating a music player on shuffle. Finished in 2007.
  • An Hour With Scarlet Smears is a sequel to that mix, using the same format, but recorded live in 2007.
  • A list of my 500+ recommended Italo Disco (and Italo-related) songs, because I can't get enough.

    Puzzles

  • Mokelfish Puzzles are mostly multi-part variety word puzzles with cryptic, meta, logic, and jumble elements.

    Support

  • April March Penn is my best friend, check out their poems, as well as their tarot site, and their literary journal/DIY MFA project, The Self-Educating Poets Network.
  • Runfellow is a great non-judgemental running group in Boston.
  • "I'm using the chicken to measure it!" -- audio/text and video from Frank Zappa's "Uncle Meat". Here's my homemade sign and mask.
  • James Joyce's Finnegans Wake: Complete annotated text, unabridged audio book, and four-part podcast introduction series.

  • Here is a list of organizations I $upport, and think you should support too:

    WFMU, Planned Parenthood, Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Youth On Fire, WBUR, NPR, KPFA, Wave Farm, Ububweb, BAGLY, Give Directly, Wikipedia,
    Cradles To Crayons, The Greater Boston Food Bank, The Food Bank Of Western Massachusetts, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Trevor Project,
    Massachusetts Bail Fund, The West End House Boys & Girls Clubs of Allston-Brighton, The ACLU, Allston-Brighton Community Development Corporation,
    Clear Flour Bread, ILX, WJIB, Feeding America, The Life You Can Save's all-charity appeal, Black Lives Matter. LGBTQIA lives matter.

  • I recommend switching from Google to Startpage or DuckDuckGo

  • I believe in the open source model, the Creative Commons, and the spirit of collaboration over anything singular.

  • I'm not moving back to New York City, but I'm still a fan of their bagels, The New York Mets and The New York Islanders.

  • I have a tip jar over at Paypal if you want to support any of the content created on this site with a donation.

  • I love you!

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