“Making music is like constructing a machine whose function is to dredge up emotions in performer and listener alike. Some people find this idea repulsive…they would prefer to see music […]
Friday Links: Weirder Functioning Public Transit Edition
“To see something like that, to discover that the world you thought you’d lived in was a lie, a thin shell of respectable rationality over a roiling core of madness?” […]
Ekphrasis: Punks Edition
“The desperate, innate desire to create and perform had been exploited rather than supported. It was like taking a basic human need, like wanting to love and be loved, and […]
Friday Links: Functioning Public Transit Edition
“This is not the bus that was foretold to us by the great prophet. This is not the bus to Chicago. This is just a temptation sent by evil doers. […]
10 or 13 Anthologies Worth Reading Cover To Cover
“There are allegedly two stories to tell: a stranger comes to town, or a person goes on a trip…This was an idea I paid to hear.” – Ben Marcus, The […]
Friday Links: Good Books By Good Friends Edition
“If I’d been the one to give his eulogy, write his obituary, I’d have said that.” – Chloe N. Clark, “In The Dark, They Say You Can’t See What’s Coming […]
Albums I Should’ve Listened To Already: ‘Everything Falls Apart’ by Hüsker Dü
“let’s not listen to the things that they say / everything can fall apart / let’s think about our actions before we do them / everything will fall apart” – […]
Friday Links: Anarchism For The Environment Edition
“Billions of people around the world are already responsible for conserving biodiversity, building on the efforts of their ancestors to live harmoniously with the environments they inhabited.” – Ashley Dawson, […]
Ekphrasis: Nature and Abstraction Edition
“Beyond these applications for communities and nations, [music]’s also a cosmic telegraph that links us to a world beyond ourselves, to an invisible real of spirits, gods, and maybe even […]
Friday Links: Surely The Spanish Civil War Teaches Us Nothing About Today Edition
“Who wants to be in an army? Do we make the revolution to be in an army? I am willing to fight but not to be in an army.” – […]