I can’t stop thinking about Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know. I had forgotten how great McEwan is at writing the internal lives of characters, with intricate plot to boot. It’s had the secondary effect of driving me straight back into the arms of Iris Murdoch, an obvious influence.
Everybody is getting into mycology while I’m out here tripping on musicology
I keep waiting for Blueboy’s Unisex (1994) to get rediscovered—how has “Also Ran” never been used in a Greta Gerwig movie? One of the sweetest and most underrated albums I’ve ever loved. Whence the Sarah Records revival?
In all sincerity, seeing Todd Rundgren playing in a cave might have been the most fitting environment I’ve ever seen him play in (Plato’s cave allegory, the dawn of man, “dragging my knuckles along the ground…”)
Todd Rundgren is NOT my mom but I may see him more times in a calendar year than I see her
Even if this isn’t true I am disseminating it because I want it so much to be true
Chris Glass@chrisglass.bsky.social · 2mo agoEnya was featured in a series of iconic Sasson denim advertisements way before she broke out with 'Orinoco Flow'
I’d like to postulate that, in most if not all situations, science & physics > self-help
Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew paper! A fun version of cyclic cosmology that is *exactly* periodic. So your life has been lived before, and will be lived again, an infinite number of times. Based directly on quantum state evolution.
I definitely think about this at least once every few months
Zan McQuade@zanmcquade.bsky.social · 12mo agoBut does Enya ever wear jeans
I always love it when my bookstore playlist gets a compliment, but I especially love it when it goes Cate Le Bon —> Steve Hackett —> Otis Redding
Yesterday at the bookstore I learned from a youth that Sartre’s Nausea is “trending” and Faulkner is cool again
Twitter: Walt Whitman Instagram: Mary Oliver TikTok: william carlos williams Bluesky: Frank O’Hara YouTube: Charles Bukowski Facebook: Robert Frost
I’m in love with being in love and listening to Schoenberg & Gesualdo, it would be a recipe for a breakdown if the sun weren’t out
Whoa—reading about Carlo Gesualdo, and the music is gorgeous but the Renaissance was a wacky time!
Times are so dire I’ve started reading mostly men again: Richard Hell, Faulkner, Luis Sagasti (but also, like, a ton of Nancy Lemann)
I feel like the only way to get through life right now is by building a tower of books around me about physics and neo-Kantian philosophy and renaissance music and late 19th century shifting concepts of time to read tiny sips from daily
"These are books for the misanthropes, the anti-socialites, those with negative self-regard. (You know who you are.)" New York Times heralds the return of Nancy Lemann, and her entrance into the canon of New Orleans writers.
A New Orleans Heroine Who’s Uneasy in the Big Easy
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Nancy Lemann, The Oyster Diaries—impressively ominous on this ominous day
That is the whole point of everything—to notice things more. —Nancy Lemann, The Oyster Diaries
At one point I wanted to write on the evolution of interiors in Sue Grafton’s alphabet series, which started in the 80s and so described true-to-time interiors, but over the years became a fetishized, distanced view of the 80s, making the interiors feel more like memories or phantoms than rooms
Levi Stahl@levistahl.bsky.social · 4mo ago1985 decor.
I’ve figured out that to be any kind of musician you either have to have complete conviction or a broken soul. Working harder on the conviction.
Every once in a while I go through phases of learning a song on the guitar and being absolutely LIVID that when I was younger I thought the guitar was some wildly difficult instrument closed off to me but, as it turns out, every GBV song is the same 4 power chords
I’ve been spending time learning this Carpenters song on the piano and it feels like I’ll never be happier than when I’m playing introspective minor 7th arpeggios youtu.be/39gcStKgR8o?...
Aurora
YouTube video by The Carpenters - Topic
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Might I be so bold as to recommend taking a trip to Japan to see your favorite artist perform? It might be one of the most emotional weeks of your life, in the best way possible. youtu.be/3wv_gOQp78E?...
Todd Rundgren I Don't Want to Tie You Down Mar.25.2026 at Zepp Namba,Osaka,Japan
YouTube video by sandbyrd001
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“josh, anything to add?” [performs entirety of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush] “uh i think you’re on mute” “oh whoops how about now” “we hear you now” [performs entirety of Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush]
I don’t think I had really lived until I listened to Shepherd Moons in lossless
I’m slowly morphing into a Jazz Girl. Lately: Cal Tjader and Sonny Rollins (and Mongo Santamaría & Miles by extension). Where should I go next?
Did you know that cardinals can live to 22? These cardinals might remember snacking on a Gray’s Papaya bun
Zito@zeets.bsky.social · 5mo agoSaw some tiny birds when we walked through the park today
