On loop as Democracy falls. Stand by, I guess.
I get these weird phantom smells when I remember something, sometimes. Or a specific kind of thought hits. Not sure if it’s olfactory hallucination or synesthesia. Or an unacknowledged mass. I don’t have a great explanation for why the reverse-autobiographical ghost redolence.
To that end, this song, mixing with that CD emoji up top, as I picked it, this one smells like Sharpie marker, and old light from the sun.
Truth is, that all light from the sun is old, but I guess there’s something uncomfortably cosmological about this kind of nostalgia, and sea, or climate change.
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semicolons
sugar free soda
air
birds
radiohead
meat and muscle
wrinkles
hurt
accordions
sometimes i really do think the world is ending. and i know that’s not niche- not one bit
but i feel it in the sense it’s hormonal, in the sense it’s so obviously not, that is the fuel, the jerrycan and the gas station cashier, it is me it is her it is the accordion and it is the birds and how they sing
i’ve so much to say, right now, but no one to say it to
Mar 24, 2025
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Idk why but this line from In The Morning by Built to Spill just repeats over and over in my head... maybe it's cuz I used to listen to the Front Bottoms song where they ape that line in high school. Something about the way Doug Martsch says it just scratches my brain ykwim ..
Apr 18, 2024
Specifically track 4 Salem Sisters
It (at least in my interpretation of the lyric) being about the social awkwardness of being at a party being depicted as being burned at the stake resonates with me an insane amount. plus someone (professor skye) called them British boygenius so you can’t go wrong. (man I wrote being a lot)
Apr 8, 2025
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The film has so many moments of the most haunting and affecting imagery I’ve ever seen, and beyond that is staying with me in some kind of a sea-change way, which I don’t fully grasp.
It’s freely available on YouTube (linked here). Kanopy, too. Go see it.
Feb 9, 2025
David Berman was incredible with words. A new rainy day track on loop, for me.
Feb 10, 2025
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Like those weird, out-of-place lines that pop into your head when you’re trying to write a thing.
Write them down! Sometimes they lead somewhere or grow into something incredible and you just don’t know that in the moment. Like David Lynch & the opening line for Lost Highway popping into his head, completely out of context at the time.
It takes some work to trust yourself on these things, but it's damn worth it.
Feb 16, 2025