“The indifference is impenetrable and reliable and distributed across centuries, and I am stupidly hurt when my friends can’t see that.” – Claudia Rankine, “tiki torches” It’s a week where […]
Friday Links: The Future, and Basketball, Are Worth Fighting For Edition
“so, who am I if not the rain? / at once welcoming & // un-welcomed” – upfromsumdirt, “‘Sometimes It Snows In…’ (Well, You Know The Rest)” First things first: new […]
Friday Links: What We Listen To When We Listen To Music Edition
“I have witnessed a Fuck U Pay Us show, and I have not been able to stop thinking about it ever since. Black people shouting because…there is no other volume […]
Friday Links: How Music Works Edition
“A host of factors contribute to making the experience of live music a far from objective phenomenon.” – David Byrne, ‘How Music Works’ Don’t usually title the whole column with […]
Friday Links: Rebel Without A River Edition
“Who were they / those men darkening // the barnmouth, / leaning like that” – Joe Wilkins, “Evening Elegy” Goofy month for titles, it seems. Well, it will make sense […]
Friday Links: I Thought Your Name Was Todd Edition
“Maybe I would’ve gone about it less bluntly, or somehow differently. But not much, not much differently.” – Michelle Cruz Gonzalez, ‘The Spitboy Rule” They’re calling it “my most doesn’t […]
Friday Links: Punk History Edition
“The first all-Black punk band Pure Hell is nearly written right out of the history, in spite of being along from the trough to the crest of the first wave…Something […]
Friday Links: Start The Year With Malarkey
“With everything that happened, she now fully believed Charlie’s story. She shivered, as the reality of everything agitated her that much more deeply.” – Lauren Bolger, ‘The Barre Incidents’ What […]
Friday Links: Yeah Let’s Read Bernadette Mayer Again This Year Edition
“Snow describes a pattern on a series of roofs, there’s no one around. // Lewis comes in. Marie says we’ve got to have Talking Heads dance music.” – Bernadette Mayer, […]
Friday Links: On A Long Enough Timeline, You Still Have To Get Out Of Bed In The Morning Edition
“come by— / the song is yours / if you want it— // this piano sitting by the / side of the road, playing / dead music in the breeze.” […]