November 2011
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J: What was my coworker's name... Something flowery... Like a garden... Ohhhhhh....
Z: Uhhhh...
J: EDEN!
Z: "A name like a garden." What are you like?
J: Japanese!
Z: Botanical!
J: Sunken!
Z: Olive!
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Block it all back out please.
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On the 20th Anniversary of Loveless
On Thursday I was trying on clothes that were popular when I was sixteen in a dressing room full of actual sixteen year old school girls in their uniforms and braces and acne under thick makeup. I was pulling on a pair of tie-dyed velvet leggings (ones that I now realize I was attracted to because they look like a rendering in fabric of the pink abstract cover of Loveless) when a Wild Flag song...
NEW FIELD MUSIC MUSIC →
(cc: Martha Plimpton)
October 2011
28 posts
“I’d work very hard, but I’m lazy
I’ve got a lot of songs, but...”
– Elastica, “Waking Up”
Unbelievable how this has remained my battlecry for nigh on fifteen years. If I owned a shield, this would be emblazoned across the front. And then I’d curl up and sleep under it.
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Still waiting for Cut Copy to remove their masks and reveal that they were Sunscreem the whole time.
“You think you are writing your own sentences: you find you are imitating hers.”
– Mary-Kay Wilmers reviews ‘Blue Nights’ by Joan Didion · LRB 3 November 2011
(This is just one resonant line in a beautiful piece that should be savored in its entirety.)
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Johnny Says I'm A Witch
artischeap:
Saffron Hunt asked me to write a song for her about a friend who thinks she’s a witch. I won’t go into why or the background, but this is my favourite out of the 21 songs I’ve written for this so far. I tried to make it sound like the Byrds. The drums are from a Broadcast song off Tender Buttons and the whole thing is totally Gene Clark. Maybe a clumsy pastiche… I dunno
Johnny...
