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I started listening to the EP promo for Built to Spill’s new When the Wind Forgets Your Name, which includes “Spiderweb,” “Fool’s Gold,” “Understood,” and “Gonna Lose,” on the train home. Later, when I got there and continued listening, I cried and cried—at the blue notes on “Fool’s Gold,” at the outro of “Gonna Lose,”… Continue reading “Fool’s Gold”

“Gravity of the Situation.” (c. 2004). I love how he repeats the refrain like eight times in a row. Punk as fuck. Amazing poetry, too.

Keith Karrett!!! This music makes me think of how great nature writers just try to “see what they are seeing,” but for hearing (in my professional opinion, the most wonderful of all the senses). And with a through-line like that. Stan we must; we do. RIYL: Cecil Taylor, Bill Evans, Jimi Hendrix *this review not… Continue reading “Part III – Live” (2016, rel. 8/2022)

It is a lovely day here in New York City—still a little hot for my liking, but cooler than yesterday, with an off-and-on breeze. I was just sitting near my apartment window, listening to the birds and thinking about those exciting New York City years around 201X. I recently saw a few writers on social… Continue reading less hot day

I’ve spent the better part of today blasting “Welcome 2 America,” Prince’s 2010 live album. If you don’t mind me sharing a personal memory, this album takes me right back to college, when my boyfriend (now friend)’s roommate would bump Prince 24/seven, days on end. Now, those unhinged people were the type to play entire… Continue reading “Welcome 2 America” (2010)

Earlier this year, something caught my eye: a photo at the top of a story about COVID on The New York Times website. I remembered this image. The same one had been placed above a different COVID story, just a few days before. A hospital patient sits up in bed while a nurse in blue… Continue reading stock photos

Claire Jarvis, “Daughters and Lovers,” Bookforum (link) “She will find work to support herself and she will raise her son alone. But a life without love, or a man, or sex, however you think of it, isn’t a tragedy in this world.” Sophie Lewis, “A Woman is a Woman?,” The Baffler (link) “I do not… Continue reading friday fete

Andrew E. Kramer, “Russian Prisoners and Ukrainian Soldiers,” NY Times (link) – 2022 “The prisoners said they did not know what would happen to them after the news conference. While they said they were treated well, days after their capture it was unclear if they had showered or been offered clean clothes.” Democracy Now headline,… Continue reading the monday mix

1. Max Fox, “Cashed Out,” in The Baffler (link) “It seems that the financial establishment, whose temperature our authors aim to credibly report, is still ambivalent about digital currencies and the end of cash.” 2. Rachel Syme, “Kirsten Dunst’s Feminine Urges,” New Yorker (link) “The humor—you don’t laugh so much as hiss through your teeth—is… Continue reading the tuesday ten