Mizzi

Traverse City / Northern Michigan is a magical place.

We’ll also continue seeking funding to take us beyond the prototype stage and into production. As we get closer to our final prototype designs, I’ll start sharing more about the product and the thinking behind it. Until then, if you’d like to follow our progress, sign up for our mailing list:

Over the coming weeks, we’ll continue refining our industrial designs, building our hardware and software, meeting with legal advisors on fundraising and artist partnerships, and preparing for our first working prototypes.

Last week was another banner week for DropCraft. 🧘 We finalized our prototype team. 🏗️ We began preparing to print our first prototype parts. 🎤 We sharpened our artist relations strategy and outreach. 🚫 We received our first thoughtful funding rejection. 🧑‍💻 We launched our company website.

This is what it’s all about.

It is an honor to be performing at Face to Face’s 35th anniversary show. Face to Face has been a huge influence on myself and many around me. The Bollweevils will bring it as always. I hope to see you there!

You Need To Know This Song - Bottomless Pit by The Bollweevils! #punkbass #bassplayers #bassguitar Tabs and full videos will be available soon at joemizzi.com

My take on “Dehumanize.” Fast. Loud. Locked. ⚡️ #punk #bass #chicagopunk

Pre-scroll problems. Funny how close some circles turn out to be. 🌀 #xennials #punkrock

You mess with Chicago, you mess with us.

I am feeling comfortable enough to share some of what I have learned on piano this year. A huge thank you to Irma Svanadze for her guidance. My passion for learning and performing has fully reignited. This is a bit of “June” from The Seasons by Tchaikovsky. #piano #tchaikovsky #classicalmusic

My friend, Gina Barcal has a new song out on Spotify. Completely different than what I know of her past work. It’s really good! Check it out! distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

A quick, fantastic read. Somnium by Johannes Kepler. Considered the first piece of science fiction. Written before Isaac Newton was born and has so many accurate details.

The Bollweevils are playing Liarpaloozer this year, the only Riot Fest after party that matters. Saturday, September 20th. I love Boybrain and am so excited we are on the bill with them.

Happy Star Trek Day!

Daddy, get off your phone and pay attention to me! She’s right, you know.

Check one two. @theironspiders.bsky.social

I have no idea what I’m doing.

The boundary between Xennials and Millennials is Pokémon.

As I sat up from my urologist examining my reproductive organs, he went to the counter to take his gloves off, and, with his back turned to me, said, “The good news is you’re not going to die.” That is how I found out, in my 40s, that I have cystic fibrosis.

Sorting out my ADHD has made reading far easier and more enjoyable. I don’t have to reread passages 100 times because I got distracted by something I said to someone 10 years ago, over and over. I’m still surprised this is my first time reading Cosmos by the late, great Carl Sagan.

A computer connected to the internet and a computer not connected to the internet are two very different tools.

To quote Andrew W.K.: “I love NYC.” #nyc

🕷️ The Iron Spiders are crawling out of the basement to play Riot Camp Vol. 2, an outdoor summer fest just outside Chicago. Bring sunscreen and a wallet chain.

How am I supposed to do anything else. This is the best.

I have Sugar Ray stuck in my head.

I brought Zelda to my reading spot in Grant Park!

The 2025 economy is one of those gifs of a drunk guy doing a long fall in a liquor state late at night

This first batch of @theironspiders.bsky.social songs is going to surprise some folks.

Four generations of Mizzi. Three of them named Joe. One of them named Zelda after a video game I played on the NES the eldest bought me in 1987.

Y’all give me hope.

The 90s was the best decade of music. Prove me wrong.

I feel like just going by the numbers at least one member of bad religion probably believes in God now

Whiskey Pete Hegseth has a Russian burner phone which he uses to communicate in secret with someone. 👊🇺🇸🔥

I don’t have notifications on for any apps, just text and phone. But I’m definitely turning @signal.org notifications back on… cause ya never know.