chapbooks

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this week...

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Red, Righteous, and Divine

Hosanna

Trying to Understand the Ununderstandable

Trans Am (the car)

If You're Not White

Communist

Lost

Deal Breaker

Rose Garden

Lately

Pissed Off People

What Still Remains

Just For Now

This Little Light

listened to "To Bring You My Love" (for the bazilionth time); so good, some think her best

I read "A Mark on the Wall" by Virgina Woolf for , like, the 3rd time. Just so incredibly clever.

watching the Derry Girls series again; the opening scene of the very first episode... "Are you reading my diary?!"...hahahhahahah

Sam Cooke live at the Harlem Club in Miami, is a thing of beauty. For real. Seek that out online and just bathe in it. I listen to that, probably, 5 or 6 times a month, all the way through. It's better than any meds ever.

I've read "ConsiderThe Lobster" a bunch of times, but every time, DFW's voice rings in a different way. Def...gone too young and too soon.

There's an Everybody Loves Raymond episode where everyone is hacking on Frank, and he just wants breakfast and he says "What the hell is going on here?!". More true words, perhaps, have never been spoken.

heard Illinoise for the first time this week; I don't think of it as hearing "new music", because I do like SS, and have listened to, and thoroughly enjoyed, Carrie and Lowell and Age Of Adz, but I'm admittedly late the the party here. LOVED this record. I may need to make space in my heart (maybe somewhere between PJH, AOF, BD, PS, and ELH) for Sufjan. Man, good record. WOW.

I found out that my mother read The Idiot when she was....get this....NINNNNEEE!; having, myself, just completed Brothers Karamazov and years before, Crime And Punishment, my journey with the Idiot has begun.

Watching the series Barry. Again, late to the party. (btw, I don't really care about being slow to unearth something for myself. I don't need to be on the front end of every new thing. Just sayin'...) But Barry; Bill Hader...hahhahahahhaha. And his character seems super cool and earnest and sincere. To me. For an assassin.

I think Aladdin Sane may be criminally underated. There are BANNGers on that record. Again, must be listened to slightly too loud on headphones for full effect.

I read an article in the Atlantic (RSS feed) reflecting on Pete Hegseth and the Signal...mixup (??). It was surely biased, as is almost everything, we see and read, one way or another, but ya; it was a good example of how we perceive accountability. This is a crazy time for that. Surely for myself, I have not been held accountable for some of my transgressions, but I sure have for some of them. I"m not sure it's a horrible thing to look yourself in the mirror, pretty intently, on the regular.

The Quiet Girl is an all-timer for me. It's not just a movie about how great it is to be finally noticed and cared for. It's also about what a gift it is to notice and care, deeply, for people we love, not just emotionally, but in real tangible ways.

Pasty Cline Greatest Hits; of course modern Best Of albums don't really count as 'albums', right...? Cuz we actually do have albums; but back in the day (Hank Williams etc) it's kinda all we had in terms of albums; my lord, that PC GH...is it ever good

I don't read many modern authors; the list is short, for sure, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, DFW, etc; Stewart O'Nan...his books are dear to my soul. They're all a slow burn, of sorts, which suits me just jolly well fine indeed.

Finally saw Marty Supreme; my sister and I got into it a bit, Sinners vs. MS. I get, 100, why S won the Oscar, but MS...c'mon. Felt like you were right there in NY, you know? Kinda like A Complete Unknown that way.

It's totally my own fault for not realizing what a monster guitar player Paul Simon is; that debut is a thing from the god's

I hadn't really delved into Walden much, but I think I was surprised at how deeply it resonated with me. I suppose I should've have been, considering my penchant for the simple, and uncomplicated. Ya, huge shock on the verdict: Thoreau is good. :-)

Is it odd that The Andy Griffith Show is something I'll likely be watching for the rest of my days? So peaceful and simple, and all those actors are SO great. Just such a tonic, for times such as these, no?

For anyone who is on the road to sobriety, I'd love to know if it gets any easier...at some point. Actually, if it doesn't, I'd rather not know. :-)