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Reading (b)log: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. I’m back. Tumblr provokes, in me, too much anxiety about digital clutter and my online popularity and other things I don’t really need to be spending time caring about, and I don’t understand their music posting rules, so I’ll keep it here until external forces dictate otherwise, which they certainly won’t.). I was originally going to call it Hair and Hearing Loss. For phrases, and found the synonymous EFFECTS OF AGEING. 1 East River Pipe – “New York Crown”. 14 Disco Inferno...
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Reading (b)log: July 2014
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Human Sounds, annotated. June 7, 2014 / 8–10 pm. WMCN 91.7 FM Macalester College Radio St. Paul Minnesota. Send me a remedy for this thing I’m feeling. It’s hard to be (hard to be! Deerhunter – Cover me (slowly) / Agoraphobia. First, my 30-second GarageBand collage of song snippets, forming a semi-coherent introduction as told by Primal Scream (sampling Easy Rider. Just what is it that you want to do? Second, the irreducible (WMCN’s current station manager agrees! After the music, ...
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Reading (b)log: Macromix 14
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Friday, December 26, 2014. 1/ 20 Perfume Genius, “I Decline”. 2/ 19 Real Estate, “Crime”. 3/ 18 Sun Kil Moon, “I Can’t Live Without My Mother’s Love”. 4/ 17 The Fresh and Onlys, “Who Let The Devil”. 5/ 16 EMA, “When She Comes”. 6/ 15 Tori Amos, “Promise”. 7/ 14 Death Vessel, “Ejecta”. 8/ 13 Tennis, “Timothy”. 9/ 12 Allo Darlin’, “Bright Eyes”. 10/ 11 Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar, “Never Catch Me”. 11/ 10 Merchandise, “True Monument”. 12/ 9 Young Thug and Bloody Jay, “4 Eva Bloody”. Some other great ...
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Reading (b)log: October 2013
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Monday, October 28, 2013. Breaking Bad 6.4-6.8. These comments will probably seem as quaint as the events of “Rabid Dog,” for example, seem after watching “Ozymandias,” but, in honor of maybe the first TV drama that ever truly ended, I didn’t want to leave this unfinished. Still, the weirdly populated depiction (food carts? Of a reliably empty place is another of this show’s crucial amplifications, where reality’s overwhelming realness sets the course of events. Would be Breaking Bad. 8220;Sorry for your...
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Reading (b)log: January 2015
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Friday, January 16, 2015. Pazz and Jop 2014. In Pazz and Jop this year! As a former student of the old polls I took it pretty seriously, and in particular did my best to vote for actual singles, whatever that means anymore. (Sort of like Raymond Carver, I kept asking, “Are These Actual Singles? 8221;) I was certain that “25 Bucks,” released as a single in April, would make a big splash in the singles poll, but was quite wrong. Village Voice also published one of the comments. As usual rappers were the on...
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Reading (b)log: August 2013
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013. 1 Lonely Are The Brave. At the Kimo. And then, a while later at the same theater, Ace in the Hole. 2 I mostly listen to music alone, and I especially listen to rap music alone. Something about being in Albuquerque, its space and anonymity probably, allowed me to turn my casual and intermittent interest in rap music into something more enduring and imperative. This is an ongoing change, but can also be reduced, by way of example, to a single album, Danny Brown’s XXX.
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Reading (b)log: Usable Mix
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Friday, July 17, 2015. After listing the proposed contents of Useful Mix. I arranged 33 of the 35 songs (only YG and The Kinks didn’t make the cut, through no fault of theirs) onto two hour-long discs. Of those, disc one ended up with fairly coherent sequencing, while disc two ended up as a dump of leftover tracks meant to keep us (or perhaps just me) occupied during our drives around Albuquerque. So I present to you only disc the first, for download. 2 The Chambermaids, “China Blue”.
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Reading (b)log: February 2014
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Thursday, February 27, 2014. Yet Another Year at the Theater. 2013, that is. The Thief of Bagdad (1924). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). Like Someone in Love. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II (1991). Ace in the Hole (1951). The Place Beyond the Pines. Night Across the Street. Star Trek Into Darkness. This is Spinal Tap (1984). Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) (1966). This is the End. Something in the Air. Jurassic Park (3D) (1993). From Up on Poppy Hill. I’m So Excited. Is a sec...
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Reading (b)log: July 2015
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Monday, July 20, 2015. Six Months at the Theater. 8212; I noticed the absolute beauty of one composition, girls on a staircase, the exact moment before the frame blows up. I don’t know that I’ve ever felt more jolted by a movie. DuVernay’s just as visionary in her one-shot overhead view of the aftermath, with echoes of The Wizard of Oz. She does so much with her one big scene here. 4 Picnic at Hanging Rock. 8212; From an e-mail I sent: “Yeah, Inherent Vice. 6 The Big Sleep. 1946) — See Inherent Vice.
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Reading (b)log: Useful Mix
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Sunday, May 17, 2015. UPDATE 7/17: Useful Mix. Is ready for use.]. Alvvays, “Next of Kin” — Haven’t nearly worn it out, and can’t imagine vacationing without it. Azealia Banks, “Soda” — Still haven’t figured out if she’s talking about drugs or guys or actually just soda, but whatever the case it’s the musical high point of an album that thrills front to back. Bedhead, “Half-Thought”. Broadcast, “Goodbye Girls”. Clarence Carter, “I Can’t Leave Your Love Alone” — Foretold. Dwight Yoakam, “Sad, Sad Mu...
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