My friends tell me that I have a bad habit of making impossible to listen to mixes. So here’s my answer:
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1. Big Blood - She Said Nothing
2. Animal Collective - Water Curses
3. High Places - Head Spins
4. M83 - Kim & Jessie
5. Atlas Sound - Ativan
6. Ermasse - Courez Courez
7. El Guincho - Palmitos Park
8. [...]
It’s that time of year. With two weeks to go, our students are scrambling to finish their research papers, desperately trying to eke out that A or B—or, in some cases, just pass the class. Inevitably, and unfortunately, one or two or seventeen of our students will be desperate enough to cheat. Perhaps a few [...]
I take the train down to Harrisburg for a wedding, three hours or so via Philadelphia. My hotel is within walking distance of the train station downtown, but to get just about anywhere else in Harrisburg you need to drive. I end up chauffeuring the bride’s mother and two cousins across the river to the [...]
New York seems, to me, to differ from other major world cities in the recyclability (is that even a word?) of its symbols — especially its architecture and public art. To get what I mean, consider the Louvre by contrast. You experience it as an art museum, and yet if you’ve given your tour book [...]
Once when I was a teenager, I designed my own funeral. What might have been a medication red flag for some kids was only Saturday night with a new notebook for a saint-obsessed, Brian’s Song-Sunshine-Death Be Not Proud-movie-of-the-week-weepy addict, folk singing, beatnik wannabe. I listed the music first (very heavy on the Peter, Paul and [...]