Lichen and sunshine in Daajing Giids.
You can hear and support my work on Patreon and Bandcamp.
| website | https://www.davidarcher.net |
| Patreon | https://www.patreon.com/DavidAetc |
| Bandcamp | https://davidarcher.bandcamp.com/ |
| pronouns | he/him |
David
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Composer, writer, etc. Music, piano, chronic illness, disability, bookstore co-owner, climate solutions, applied science fiction. #pwME
Based in Haida Gwaii, working toward a sustainable, just, thriving future.
You can hear and support my work on Patreon and Bandcamp.
You can hear and support my work on Patreon and Bandcamp.
I’ve got some new writing + audio published at Sick Stories! 📝🎧😶🌫️ “The wind feels nice: A brain fog memoir” is about my experience of brain fog as part of ME/CFS. It’s a glimpse of what chronic illness can be like.
https://sickstories.substack.com/p/the-wind-feels-nice-today
🐕 🎹 work in progress: I'm going to cover "Peaches in Regalia" at a piano gig next month. It's an amazing tune, it is 100% of the reason our dog's name is Zappa, and apparently I need a steep technical challenge to overcome (this is the easiest part) before I can have a nice rush of satisfaction.
Yellowface by R. F. Kuang - Just read this book in one day. A story about jealousy, originality, cultural appropriation, internet beefs, and book publishing.
It’s like a 350-page car wreck you can’t, won’t, look away from. Really enjoyed it. #books #bookstodon
📚🇨🇦 I just posted this to my bookshop’s socials but it applies across Canada. There’s no GST on books between Dec 14 (tomorrow) and Feb 15, 2025. So get out to your local bookshop!
📚 Here's introducing BookTalk, a new column about books and the people who read them!
I'm writing on behalf of our Haida Gwaii #bookshop, Which 3rd Avenue Books. This 1st issue is Haida Gwaii Wrapped: Your 2024 in Books. I spill the goss about what the community's been reading and share some customer book recommendations suitable for people living anywhere. Enjoy! #BC #books #bookstodon
https://haidagwaiinews.com/haida-gwaii-wrapped-your-2024-in-books/
I just got back from my first business trip in five years and got to use the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program at #YVR in Vancouver.
This program makes it easier for people with all kinds of invisible illnesses to travel, and I think more people need to know about it.
280+ airports have joined the program: https://davidarcher.net/blog/til-280-airports-have-joined-the-hidden-disabilities-sunflower-program
TIL 280+ airports have joined the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program — David Archer, composer, etc.
Have you heard of the Hidden Disabilities Sunflower Program? More travellers should know about this. I was making my way home from Vancouver to Haida Gwaii last week and picked up a sunflower lanyard from the YVR info desk. I’d just spent a week with a film crew in Tofino, BC, recording i
🎹 I released a short piano EP last month. It’s called Radiant, and it features J.S. Bach and my dog Zappa. I wrote about why I made this and what it means to record 300-year-old music here, now.
https://davidarcher.net/blog/piano-ep-music-video-radiant-bach-dog-zappa
Just started the audiobook of The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates 📚. Equal parts autobiography, travelogue, and Black history, as well as a letter to his writing students.
“It is never enough for the reader of your words to be convinced. The goal is to haunt. To have them think about your words before bed, see them manifest in their dreams. Tell their partner about them the next morning. To have them grab people on the street, shake them and say ‘Have you read this yet?’” #books
As though in solidarity or some kind of primal defiance, both our animals have puked this morning. Vibes are way off - take care ❤️