This is where I collect fragments, bits, and pieces of ideas that don’t have a home anywhere else. Maybe I’ll spin some of these into something bigger, maybe not. These pages may or may not self-destruct.
The assignment: Every few days, I will write one sentence (or maybe more!) about a song or a playlist. Maybe that way I won’t forget how to write.
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Cat Power, I Don’t Blame You
Sometimes singing along in my low chest voice feels like a hug. The reverberations of my own breath warms me from the inside out and covers my heart. I feel like I am curled up deep within myself, like I have my arms around myself, like I am both shelter and sheltered.
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Best things of 2023
Hellbender – this came out in 2021 but I became obsessed with it this year and I’ve watched it over and over and over again and I love…just thinking about it. Poor Things – a late-breaking obsession, the last movie I saw and such a marvel. When I left the theater my entire body was…
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The Breeders and J. Mascis, Do You Love Me Now Jr.?
It’s been a second, it’s been a month! It’s been a few weeks of relentless activity, so I just want to put a few words down to recommit to this quiet little writing practice. “Do You Love Me Now” is one of my favorite Breeders songs and somehow layering J. Mascis’s creaky-creepy vocal on top…
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Tacocat, Dana Katherine Scully b/w Bree Sharp, David Duchovny
A poem about being almost 40 for Special Agent Tanya I achieved enlightenment the moment I realized that Fox Mulder was just another handsome dipshit and I should have had a crush on Scully all along.
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Big Joanie, Cranes in the Sky
This song makes me want to pick up a bass guitar again. I was talking about timbre and genre with a music theorist colleague today. About the way that genre can rarely be chalked up to form or harmony or meter and about how it’s so often tied to the identity of performers in a…
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Sleater-Kinney, Good Things
The best riot grrl songs are the dirges: the slow, grinding laments that just invite you to wallow in your 1990s angst. The angstiest angst.