Visual Coercion

A Camp November 17, 2009 at LPR John Darnielle of Mountain Goats Kurt Vile and the Violators, upright. Ted Leo, Henry Art Gallery Seattle, WA Atlas Sound Plus or Minus

Musique in le 2010

What a year. My apartment burned down, I got into a PhD program, I got engaged, I spent the summer sweltering in the Midwest, I got married, I drove across the entire country with my wife, and I just finished my first quarter as a doctoral candidate. Did I listen to any music?  Let’s perform [...]

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Summer Living/Summer Listening

I’ve been marinating in my own musky grown-up smells with the ample help of 90 degree 100% humidity weather all summer as I work on reacquiring my foreign language skills.  My bar slouch is turning into a desk slouch. That’s where I’ve been. I have managed to listen to just a very few things since [...]

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My Music Picks for ’07

In the midst of all that music coming out that’s demanding an equal amount of your diminishing time and attention (that amount is 100%, if you weren’t aware) there are still gems…. In no particular order, the records I liked the most this year are: Private Lives – Private Life (can still be bought as part of the Soul Jazz Records singles compilation.)

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