Jason Russo of Hopewell and Mercury Rev – Twitter Account of the Year

"klout believes you are influential about horses" called, something about the internet being a planet sized omnivorous parasite

— retsoor (@retsoor) May 21, 2012

The 63rd “best twitter account of 2012” is ?uestlove’s – well at least that’s what Paste believes. Pitchfork offers Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, St Vincent and Wayne Coyne as “top twitters” of the year. Very well, but both sites overlook the wittiest feed on these here interwebs: Jason Russo @retsoor.

Frontman for both Hopewell and Common Prayer, Jason’s band news is covered @wellhope and @commmonprayer – freeing his personal account for an unyielding stream of demented, disjointed poetry. Unlike any other musician account, it reads as existential dialogue twisting images, quotes and familiar expressions to play with your mind. Full of punning non-sequiturs, surreal metaphors, jokes on jokes, and internet mocking, it’s often funny though not a “comedy account” per se. Followers can mostly expect amusing fragments about jazz hands, aging, this vs that, ponies, and sex (not necessarily together).

Word. Kurt Cobain has nothing on it. For example:

a magical tweet that changes meaning every time you read it

— retsoor (@retsoor) October 18, 2012

god creating atheists in a moment of self doubt

— retsoor (@retsoor) July 21, 2012

jeremy irons is a complete sentence

— retsoor (@retsoor) June 4, 2012

jazz hands unable to wash the time off your face

— retsoor (@retsoor) September 4, 2012

spent the afternoon trying to turn around quick enough to catch the past happening

— retsoor (@retsoor) October 11, 2012

lazy scientists putting off the invention of time travel because what's the rush?

— retsoor (@retsoor) October 13, 2012

my little pony vs your giant needs

— retsoor (@retsoor) July 19, 2012

to be the pony your daddy never gave you until death parts us

— retsoor (@retsoor) June 18, 2012

so hungry you could eat a horse by the water he wouldn't drink

— retsoor (@retsoor) May 19, 2012

when your lover smells like the inside of a prosthetic limb the musical

— retsoor (@retsoor) January 31, 2012

a choose your own adventure book wherein suicide is always an option

— retsoor (@retsoor) October 29, 2012

reality show called the reflection of your aging face in a computer screen

— retsoor (@retsoor) December 20, 2012

murmured "there's more to life than living" into your décolletage

— retsoor (@retsoor) October 13, 2012

jazz hands making it rain lit newport lights

— retsoor (@retsoor) October 6, 2012

an emotional anorexia that eventually leads to a morbidly obese corpse

— retsoor (@retsoor) October 29, 2012

live tweeting from the grave

— retsoor (@retsoor) July 13, 2012

a video game that takes 800 hours to lose

— retsoor (@retsoor) June 13, 2012

like busta rhymes in a china shop

— retsoor (@retsoor) September 28, 2012

putting the laughter back in slaughter

— retsoor (@retsoor) September 10, 2012

honk if your job is just a computer program that hasn't yet been invented

— retsoor (@retsoor) July 13, 2012

nothing isn't an everything bagel

— retsoor (@retsoor) May 24, 2012

what god is vs what god isn't called, tag you're it

— retsoor (@retsoor) April 12, 2012

employees whose genitals are cleaner than the door handle must wash hands regardless

— retsoor (@retsoor) May 18, 2012

non beauty is only skin deep too

— retsoor (@retsoor) September 8, 2012

the endless podcast of your internal monologue insists you feel guilty about the future

— retsoor (@retsoor) March 28, 2012

a beard you can set your watch to

— retsoor (@retsoor) February 8, 2012

i've got 99 agressive female dogs & not one of them is a problem, son

— retsoor (@retsoor) June 21, 2012

we're gonna need a bigger adjective

— retsoor (@retsoor) April 19, 2012

note to self: it's not you, it's me

— retsoor (@retsoor) July 6, 2012

but together we can equal one attractive person

— retsoor (@retsoor) January 18, 2012

jazz hands consistently dropping the ball

— retsoor (@retsoor) June 30, 2012

not knowing is half the battle

— retsoor (@retsoor) April 12, 2012

history teaches us that we can't be taught

— retsoor (@retsoor) August 30, 2012

get rich or try dying

— retsoor (@retsoor) March 10, 2012

felt nostalgic for the present as we sat & discussed the future

— retsoor (@retsoor) August 28, 2012

people have ceased to add the word "young" before the words "tony danza" re: my face

— retsoor (@retsoor) January 9, 2012

staring at a picture of myself not being on the internet on the internet

— retsoor (@retsoor) January 1, 2012

honk if you don't own a car

— retsoor (@retsoor) May 31, 2012

seeing the best minds of your generation disassociated from their bodies instagramming on the toilet

— retsoor (@retsoor) December 28, 2012

RT if you hear a faint snicker every time you click "connect"

— retsoor (@retsoor) September 29, 2012

what kind of world would it be if twitter had italics?

— retsoor (@retsoor) January 23, 2012

we'll invite exactly 140 characters to our wedding

— retsoor (@retsoor) January 11, 2012

what became of thoughts before twitter?

— retsoor (@retsoor) January 10, 2012

so in love we forgot the internet

— retsoor (@retsoor) November 25, 2012

Twitter, happier, more productive….

If 140 characters is just too concise to tickle your pickle, Jason discusses Hopewell’s future, his experiences playing in Mercury Rev and more in our interview – complete paragraphs and all…