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Listening at the solstice

(Happy solstice, dearreader. I love our little planet, swinging through deep and silent space.) (This post is about music and has a bunch of mp3s linked from it. If you’d them all once, download the zip file.) Early this January, I deleted all the music on my computer and vowed to listen only to music [...]

Catching up: Overload, barricade, immobility

There’s been a lot going on. Threading the film to run in reverse: I’m in a chair at home in Brooklyn, with an increasingly vegetal right foot: swollen, and mottled in patches with bruising like the peel of a banana. The puffiness of my toes gives them a budlike quality, as though they might split [...]

Days 8, 9, 10: “(Nothing But) Flowers,” “Something’s Goin’ On In My Room,” “Open Window (for Piano)”

(Three more days from the thirty days of music: a song you know all the words to, a song that makes you dance, a song you fall asleep to.) Words: In, it must have been 2002, Amanda and I drove across the Bay Bridge into San Francisco and “(Nothing But) Flowers” came on the radio [...]

Days 3, 5, 6: “Monkey Business,” “The Water is Wide,” “Flutter”

Ganging the thirty days of music a bit, got a lot going on: Day 3, a song that makes you happy. Right now, Chuck Berry’s “Too Much Monkey Business.” That guitar solo that kicks in about 1:17 is cheap gas, shot springs, shot brakes, and a cigarette burn on the seat upholstery, plus Berry’s “aahhh!” [...]

Day 1: "Anthem for a Seventeen Year Old Girl"

For day one of thirty days of music: your favorite song. Broken Social Scene, Emily Haines singing, live a little while ago. I remember J first playing this for me in the white-walled tile-floored laundry room we intermittently shared in LA. “This is my favorite song.” Violet light outside, midsummer sunset, the blue in the [...]