for the pitchfork sunday review, i went long on basic channel, the history of minimal and dub techno, and the institutionalization of dance music on berlin
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- such a gift to be alive in the same moment as phil elverum, his description of the new mount eerie album sounds absolutely incredible
- another melinda cooper banger that does a good job historicizing what jackie wang meant by carceral capitalism lpeproject.org/blog/the-rise-…
- went to the mount eerie record release show last night and still riding the high of how heartwarming it is to see all the alienation + naturalism in his earlier work sublimate into this really beautiful critique of empire
- losing my mind trying to recapture the delusional optimism i felt about cultural criticism when i was 22
- still no idea what donald fagen meant by this but it’s basically how i feel about journalism
- It seems like every city has inexplicably gotten some version of a Japanese-style hi-fi "listening bar" in the past few years. For @dirtyverse, I interviewed the documentarian @NickDwyer about his new film on the topic and tried to make sense of the trend
- too many virginians like to take credit for dave matthews' success but he only ever ended up in charlottesville to avoid military conscription in apartheid south africa. justice for dave and dmb rollingstone.com/music/music-ne… x.com/SaulStaniforth…
00:12Musician Dave Matthews protesting against Netanyahus visit: "I'm ashamed that my tax dollars are going to the brutalising of an entire people" - going to commit to being off social media for the next few months as I work through the reading list for the comprehensive exams for my phd. these are the 40 books i'm reading. hopefully will be moving back to new york from montreal in the spring. email me if you need anything
- just putting this out into the world: as of earlier this week, I'm officially abd on my phd! which is cool but also means i'm looking for freelance/part-time/full-time writing/editing/webdev work in the greater nyc area and/or remotely
- need a month alone in isolation to read all my novels and watch all my films
- tyler austin harper was a 24 month sociological experiment conducted by the atlantic media fellowship program
