valediction for a rental (2008-’09)
“[A] lovely little carriage house… enchanting and [...] a little bit lost in time. [S]o cute and so fairy tale-ish; everything was kind of crooked but beautiful and old-fashioned.” – NEW YORK TIMES, 29 March 2009
Read Moresea chantey (pastiche)
An ancient one-track/one-take favorite (talked about in AMR Podcast #8 alongside “Fierce Love”, if you’re hungry for context, and played on that old, broken junior guitar Bat and me used to have). Lyrics also included @ that link. And as long as this is a thing, I’m cobbling together these YouTube videos from the extreme [...]
Read More1/2 of The New Plagiarism EP
By Friend of a Friend Scott Davis, title inspired by the AMR kulturkritik essays I’ve been posting (but that’s all the credit I can take). These are pretty great, I think. 1. bi-products, by scott davis 2. candy vampire, by scott davis 3. sweet preacher, by scott davis
Read MoreAMR Podcast #21: The one about the sharks
Click for AMR Podcast #21! In this podcast: the one about the sharks, getting dumb comme d’habitude, a mild case of being inarticulate (i.e. ummm, like), edmund white’s City Boy, too-soon nostalgia, dirty water, neustonic plastics, destabilized oceanic ecosystems, and the encroaching food apocalypse & what you can do about it. Click here to read [...]
Read MoreCivil Disobedience: J-B. Lamarck & the Aspirational Self
Previously: Rethinking Plagiarism: The Death of Text as Authorial Icon pt. 1 Rethinking Plagiarism: The Death of Text as Authorial Icon pt. 2 Rethinking Plagiarism: The Death of Text as Authorial Icon pt. 3 Achieving Humanity: Theoretical Background ‘The folk process is as old as music, and depends on the ability of musicians to adapt [...]
Read Moreprocess: everything fake is real (found video)
One thing i love is: mounting context. like this song i recorded – one take, ten minute deal after one of those long days everyone’s been having… (more after the jump)
Read Moreecowarrior at the feminist bookstore
previously: finning sharks on garbage island there’s something about a man with one-armed reading glasses reciting the wrong chapter of a biography he mostly didn’t write, the one about
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