“Looking through the letters / I can see / into the earth / below, the blue blur / of bones.” – Ocean Vuong, “Logophobia”
Albums I Loved In High School: Before Today & 'A Celebration Of An Ending'
“We should be learning from our history” – Before Today, “The Process of Losing and Gaining”
Friday Links: NBA Playoffs Edition
“She choreographed our advance out of the west, / camouflaged in North Face jackets // and New Balance sneakers. Papa hushed” – Jaswinder Bolina, “House Hunters”
Albums I Loved In High School: Blink 182 & 'Enema Of The State'
“Nobody likes you when you’re 23” – Blink 182
Friday Links: Thank God For Words Edition
“The speaker of a poem must be like a sac spider that ties itself down so its babies can eat its body.” – Lee Seong-bok, ‘Indeterminate Inflorescence’
Albums I Loved In High School: NOFX & 'The War On Errorism'
“How was the band? They were okay. Not great, but pretty good. They played the songs I knew they would.” – NOFX, “Medio-Core”
Friday Links: Your Life Matters Because You're Living It Edition
“You know very well that the earth is filled with angels and djinn, partying like teenagers, spinning around like waterwheels. Come listen.” – Kaveh Akbar, ‘Martyr!’
Let's Meditate On Art With Matt Freeman From Rancid (Not An Interview)
“If you wanna get the feeling and you wanna get it right / then the music’s got to be loud” – Rancid, “Radio”
Friday Links: Slaughter and Peace Edition
“We all want the same thing / from this world: / Call me nobody. Let me live.” – Amorak Huey, “We Were All Odysseus In Those Days”
The Epics Want You To Remember Some Guys
“I beg you by those you left behind, so far from here, / … my lord, remember me, I beg you! Don’t sail off / and desert me, left behind unwept, unburied, don’t.” – Elpenor, ‘The Odyssey’