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One of my favorite things I ever wrote and designed.

The choir at the end is from a protest I attended at the state house during the first Trump administration urging Massachusetts to become a sanctuary state.

Spoilers for Greater Boston but omg the speech Isabelle Powell gives thinking she won't be able to come with the people she worked so hard for in the exodus? The way the people build a bridge to get her to Wonderland? The choir? Tears. Tears at work.

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Women light up the world. That's why it's called Broad daylight.

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Julia Morizawa and Richard Penner Join Exercises in Sound

I haven't done a great job of hyping my newest show, Exercises in Sound, lately. Partly that's because it's summer, which means I've been traveling, and visiting family, and spending more time at home on family activities. Partly it's because I've really wanted to focus on hyping The Perfect Sentence, by @vandreasonable, which I truly believe is a tremendous work of personal art that I want all of you to go check out. (And it's only 90 minutes start to finish--shorter than a Marvel movie!) Partly it's because I've been dedicating more and more time to official @greaterblogston projects, including continuing work on scripts for Season 5! But Exercises in Sound has continued releasing episodes weekly all this time (well...I missed one week), and we have two new additions to the cast! (And these won't be the last new cast members to come!)

In the role of narrators, I'm very excited to welcome Julia Morizawa (of The Bright Sessions! As well as Omi Ogawa on Greater Boston.) and Richard Penner (of The Infinite Now! As well as Thomas Thomas on Greater Boston.). These performances were recorded remotely (the Jordans were recorded together in a local studio), but in a live session with James Oliva directing. These are two actors I always love working with, and it was such a treat to work with them in a live session!

Just as Jordan Higgs and Jordan Stillman both alternately play both roles of Character A and Character B, Julia and Richard are taking turns in the role of Narrator, exploring how their particular approaches to narration impact the tone of the story and the sympathies of the audience.

Additionally, the introduction of narration has added variations to the script itself, exploring how stylistic differences in narration script can alter the story, looking especially at differences in close versus distant narration, removed vs biased narration, and simply the impact of having more or less detailed narration.

Julia and Richard have appeared in three episodes each so far, with more to come! You can find them in: Narrated A Narrated B

Over-Narrated A Over-Narrated B

Bike Ride Narration A Bike Ride Narration B

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These are beautiful!

Made more podcast pins!

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Who wants merch?

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Hey bitches. Let’s fuck Monday hard

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I made a whole visual companion to my audio drama concept album - The Perfect Sentence. It's a montage of copyright free videos, images, and stuff I found on YouTube.

Check it out. Also the transcript is now available on my website, vandreaonable.com.

Thanks!

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Keep Up with ThirdSight Media

Perhaps you've noticed that we at ThirdSight Media have started launching new projects alongside @greaterblogston, whether that's @vandreasonable's gorgeous concept album The Perfect Sentence, or my own ongoing formalist exploration Exercises in Sound. We are hard at work on the fifth and final season of Greater Boston itself, but already mulling ideas for new projects to follow.

We used to rely primarily on social media for keeping our listeners updated on everything we get up to, but with the death of Twitter, and a seeming decline of social media in general, we've found getting word out to be increasingly difficult. But if you'd like to keep up to date on what we're doing, so you don't miss a development, there is a solution: We have a newsletter! Just clink that link and you can sign up!

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The Perfect Sentence is out now via Bandcamp, Apple Music, and Spotify, along with a dozen other music streamers. Thank you to all of you who have shared kind words and public shout-outs. You're under no obligation and I appreciate it. 

Promise I'll stop emailing about this now that it's out, but if you have any social media presence and are jazzed in any way about this thing, I'd appreciate a shout-out at some point. Again - no obligation, and thanks for all that you do. 

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The Perfect Sentence is out now via Bandcamp, Apple Music, and Spotify, along with a dozen other music streamers. Thank you to all of you who have shared kind words and public shout-outs. You're under no obligation and I appreciate it. 

Promise I'll stop emailing about this now that it's out, but if you have any social media presence and are jazzed in any way about this thing, I'd appreciate a shout-out at some point. Again - no obligation, and thanks for all that you do. 

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The Perfect Sentence Live Listen-Along - An hour away!

Join us for a live listen along to my new audio fiction concept album The Perfect Sentence! Grab some headphones and get ready for an experience. Register on Zoom below for the link! zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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The Perfect Sentence comes out Friday, July 11th (my birthday lol). Here's a music video of the title track using copyright free videos and stuff available on YouTube.

If you're interested, I'm hosting a listening party on Thursday, July 10th at 10pm EST. Click here to register for the Zoom.

You can preorder the album on Bandcamp here for $7.11 (get it?) and get the first single (Fortune Cookies), the title track, and a third song available now.

It will also be available on Apple music, Spotify, YouTube, etc. on Friday. You can hear a bit more about the project on the Greater Boston feed today, where I introduce the title track with a long winding preamble. lol.

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Jeff here. Sorry for just taking over the GB feed with my own project. I'd post from my own Tumblr but LOL that gets even less than this page soooo yeah.

My Bandcamp page is live, and so is the pre-order for The Perfect Sentence! Pre-order it now and get three songs off it ready to download and stream before the release Friday (7/11). The price? $7.11. LOL. Get it?

It's also my birthday. So. You know. There's that!

Also also also! We're having a launch party on Thursday, July 10th at 10pm. Register for it on ZOOM at this link right here.

I've worked really hard on it. So have a lot of people. It's half memoir, half fiction. It's spoken word and it's music. It's a weird, audio fiction concept album about grief, regret, misinformation, memory, and truth. I get it's not everyone's cup of tea, but if you can spare an hour to listen, I'd really appreciate it.

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Hey, all. I'm hosting a listening Party for The Perfect Sentence. What: I just told you. Perfect Sentence listening party. Q and A to follow.

When: July 10th, 10pm EST. About two hours before the album is officially released. Q and A to follow.

Where: Zoom. Register at the link.

Why: You're interested in hearing the autobiographical audio fiction concept album memoir that's about ...a lot. It's about a lot. A LOT!

Who? Me. You. Lots of other people related to Greater Boston (Alexander, Jim Johanson, Dirk Tiede, Jordan Higgs Bob Raymonda, Jordan Stillman) and other great audio drama folks (Oliver Morris of Kane and Feels did most of the music and it rules).

Maybe if we'll even chat about the upcoming and Greater Boston in the Q and A if you're lucky enough?

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Hey, all. I'm hosting a listening Party for The Perfect Sentence. What: I just told you. Perfect Sentence listening party. Q and A to follow.

When: July 10th, 10pm EST. About two hours before the album is officially released. Q and A to follow.

Where: Zoom. Register at the link.

Why: You're interested in hearing the autobiographical audio fiction concept album memoir that's about ...a lot. It's about a lot. A LOT!

Who? Me. You. Lots of other people related to Greater Boston (Alexander, Jim Johanson, Dirk Tiede, Jordan Higgs Bob Raymonda, Jordan Stillman) and other great audio drama folks (Oliver Morris of Kane and Feels did most of the music and it rules).

Maybe if we'll even chat about the upcoming and Greater Boston in the Q and A if you're lucky enough?

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Two weeks - out July 11th, 2025.