Outside Reading — Abortion Is Health Care edition
It’s been a rough, infuriating, disheartening week. There are a multitude of individuals far more qualified than me to explain why, so I will cede my digital floor to a few of them. Fuck You, I’m Done by Jessica Valenti … Continue reading Outside Reading — Abortion Is Health Care edition
This Week’s Model — Sunflower Bean, “In Flight”
This is exactly the sort of breezy melancholy I’m looking for in my summer jams. Set against a shuffling indie-rock rhythm and lithe synth and guitars, the track expresses that sense of stasis that twentysomething scufflers have been humming about … Continue reading This Week’s Model — Sunflower Bean, “In Flight”
My Misspent Youth — Marvel Premiere by Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. I think it’s reasonable to conclude that a lot of creative … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — Marvel Premiere by Steve Englehart and Frank Brunner
Medium Rotation — Bamanan; Angel in Real Time; Squeeze
ROKIA KONÉ AND JACKNIFE LEE, Bamanan (Real World) — You don’t have to understand the language Rokia Koné sings in on Bamanan to feel the power of her words. A gifted performer from Mali, Koné expresses herself with resonant intensity, the … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Bamanan; Angel in Real Time; Squeeze
Now Playing — The Northman
The Northman begins in the ninth century, and it looks it. Drawing on Scandinavian legend so distant that it’s thought to have served as inspiration for William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the film follows Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård, and briefly, as a boy, … Continue reading Now Playing — The Northman
My Misspent Youth — X-Men by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams
I read a lot of comic books as a kid. This series of posts is about the comics I read, and, occasionally, the comics that I should have read. There it was, taking the caboose position in the credits on … Continue reading My Misspent Youth — X-Men by Roy Thomas and Neal Adams
College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #203 to #201
203. JoBoxers, Like Gangbusters (1983) Subway Sect was a band that spun like a revolving door. Their first single, released in 1978, featured them playing with fervor and fury. By the early nineteen-eighties, their sound shifts entirely to lounge-tinged pop … Continue reading College Countdown: CMJ Top 1000, 1979 – 1989 — #203 to #201
Outside Reading — Crude edition
Why U.S. Consumers Are Vulnerable to Spiking Oil Prices by Hiroko Tabuchi and Maggie Astor In today’s edition of The New York Times, reporters Hiroko Tabuchi and Maggie Astor offer a straightforward accounting of the ways in which the U.S. … Continue reading Outside Reading — Crude edition
This Week’s Model — Arcade Fire, “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)”
Yeah, that’s the stuff. We, the new album from Arcade Fire, is scheduled for release in May. Continue reading This Week’s Model — Arcade Fire, “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)”
Medium Rotation — Lucifer on the Sofa; Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You; Life on Earth
SPOON Lucifer on the Sofa (Matador) — Ten albums deep, there’s only so much boat rocking Spoon is likely to do at this point. They can change recording locales and approaches, layer on different sonic techniques, and try to tap … Continue reading Medium Rotation — Lucifer on the Sofa; Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You; Life on Earth
Coffee for Two 