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Reading My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Only about 125 pages in, but Jones’s prose is fantastic. 📚
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Watching Rosemary’s Baby.
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Making a character in Shadowdark, which is a tabletop roleplaying game resembling what D&D used to be: a survival horror dungeon crawl. 🕯️
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Listening to Sofia Rei’s “De Tierra y Oro” 🎵
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Good morning! I’m listening to The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor.
It’s mystical, lyrical music for harp, vibraphone, and guitar performed by some legendary figures from NYC’s downtown experimental music scene.
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You’ve gotta hear “La Araña” by punk legend Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds! www.youtube.com/watch 🎵
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Learning about how pelvic floor muscles play into singing. Wild. How’d I never notice that?
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Listening to Patchouli Blue by Bohren & Der Club of Gore while reading My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. 🎵📚
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“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift… but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
—The Country of the Pointed Firs by Maine legend Sarah Orne Jewett
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Bub looks like a teddy bear who lost a button. 🐈
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On to Gnostic Trio’s In Lambeth: Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake.
What a fun surprise to hear Ikue Mori’s distinct electronics work on track “The Minotaur” 🎵
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Listening to In Search of the Miraculous, an album of mystical-sounding music by John Zorn’s Alhambra Trio joined by guests Kenny Wollesen on vibraphone, Carol Emanuel on harp, and Shanir Blumenkranz on electric bass. 🎵
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Listening to: Derek Bailey’s Pieces for Guitar 1966–67 🎵🎸
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Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality wins the “most eye-catching book title” contest that I didn’t know I was judging. 📚
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Mr. Business says “daylight savings time” is a bullshit human construct. Lunchtime is now 11:00 sharp.
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Listening to legendary downtown NYC musician Ikue Mori’s One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, a collection of her compositions performed by a chamber ensemble and released in 2000.
The album’s inspired by (and named for) Yoshitoshi’s collection of 100 woodblock prints. 🎵
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Tzadik Records’s catalogue is now on streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. What! 🎵
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Beginning to play Signalis. As a longtime fan of the early Silent Hill games, I’m loving the atmosphere and exploration so far.
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I tried Obsidian for notetaking and loved it enough to use it for writing.
Then I got Obsidian Publish. I absolutely love this writing/publishing environment 🖤
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Looking forward to this winter. ❄️
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More webrings. More zines. 🖤
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Reading Misery and listening to The Iron Soul of Nothing by sunn O))) and Nurse With Wound. 📚 🎵
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I appreciate that they’re trying Maine accents in this 1979 Salem’s Lot movie.
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Watching Salem’s Lot (1979) 📽️