Monica Carol Miller
@monicacmiller.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of English at Middle Georgia State University. I write about the intersections of region, gender, & sometimes music The Tacky South; Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion; Dear Regina: Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa
I was thinking about the Repo Man soundtrack, which I first heard in my freshman dorm (so many people had it!). The two albums that I was introduced to that year that really clicked with me were Repo Man and Carmina Burana (before the rave mix happened). This amuses me.
This does have some of my favorite albums—soundtrack or otherwise on it: Pretty in Pink! Repo Man! Purple Rain! Harold and Maude! But it’s completely missing my very favorite movie soundtrack: Dogs in Space! Such a great album.
Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 50m agoStealing Beauty erasure! But plenty of classics here. Including so many Beatles “soundtracks” feels suspect tho. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
I just realized that the line is not, in fact, “Elvis eats boats.”
I was so disappointed when I learned that Keats, Yeats, and Wilde are not, in fact, buried in the same cemetery. I suppose it was preparation for subsequent Morrissey disappointments.
This has me curious to compare depictions of Ma in the Little House books with depictions of Marmee in Little Women. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/b...
Ma Ingalls: An Appreciation (Sort Of) (Gift Article)
How I went from being Team Pa to recognizing Laura Ingalls Wilder’s less charismatic, quietly heroic and equally crazy creation, Caroline Ingalls.
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This is the real reason that you take the GRE to get into grad school. Those logic puzzles test to see who’s capable of finding a time for academics to meet.
Happy 40th birthday today to @remhq.bsky.social’s Lifes Rich Pageant. ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/anniezal...
it's all part of lifes rich pageant
On seeing the Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy R.E.M. extravaganza
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We are hope, despite the times #LifesRichPageant #REM
Today in "extremely low frequency vocabulary items sometimes acquire wildly different connotations in their different paradigmatic forms" Smite, smote, smitten
So many! Semisonic’s Feeling Strangely Fine Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend REM’s Automatic for the People Gillian Welch’s Revival Posies’ Dear 23 Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road —I could keep going
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last wk.the original prompt is "Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam or Alice In Chains" but I really resent the implication that grunge albums are somehow so definitionally superior to everything else that you have to exclude them.
It continues to surprise me how many students skip the extra credit question on the exam (which is quite the gimme question--of all of the things we've read in class, what would you recommend someone read and why?).
I will die believing P&P was Much Ado fanfic based on the premise "a woman writer would know that the guy giving off Benedick vibes is more likely to exhibit Don Jon behavior and vice versa."
I maintain that Wichita Lineman is one of the ultimate music geek songs. It’s a song that so many serious musicians admire (while other people make fun of it). R.E.M. covered it; Billy Joel said it’s a perfect song. Is there another song that is so similarly admired and dismissed?
I dreamed last night that I was going to go see a band described as "Lemmy meets Mark Almond in a bit of Bowie fabulousness." And now, I'd really like to see such a band!
When the weather gets hot, please take special care for the goths in your life. With their floor-length coats, platform shoes, and velvet capes, it’s hard for them to thermoregulate as we do.
I swear, "a pope from Chicago excommunicates a Nazi-adjacent sect" is like a cut scene from The Blues Brothers
The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.
There are three new #REMStories up today, including mine <3 remstories.net/monica-carol...
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It was my sophomore year of high school, and I’d convinced my parents to let me go with friends to see R.E.M. play the Omni in Atlanta on their Green World Tour. There’s bootleg video footage of th…
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Heavens to Betsy is coming to the 40 Watt Club this fall, and I just got tickets. YAY!!!
One of the many things that I enjoy about watching The Repair Shop is that they’re never pressed for time. They recognize that good work takes time, and they’re willing to be patient and go slowly.
Fortunately, I caught this typo in an email before I sent it--but I imagine that sending "Let me know if you're interesting" would elicit some amusing responses.
I am curious about the growing interest in "whimsy" right now. Why do you think it's whimsy that people are latching onto (as opposed to joy, fun, or play)? Does whimsy seem more attainable? (I'm not complaining--I'm genuinely curious.)
The version of "Visions of Johanna" I recorded live in Nashville last year hits streaming services on June 20. Here's the link if you'd like to pre-save it: ffm.to/v47eej2 Thank you in advance! Yours in Bobness, Emma
Visions of Johanna (Live At Layman Drug Company)
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Three more REM stories are up today, including one by John Munson from his time in Trip Shakespeare (which is still one of my very favorite bands). remstories.net
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Why don’t people on tv cooking shows wear hairnets?
This is such a wonderful project, curating and collecting personal stories of R.E.M.’s impact over the last several decades. Check out the first two here: remstories.net
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