Category: Music
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Pandemic playlist
What kind of music will fill up the dead air of an interminable year? If I knew, maybe 2020’s playlist wouldn’t have turned out as desultory as it is. This post is coming a month too late, but the past few months have left me with far too little sleep to lose over abandoned personal…
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Sunday Share: Jazz-inflected
I know some people tend to associate jazz with muzak / elevator music, but to me, jazz has always been the best example of music as communication.
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New songs, same loop
This series might be the longest-running commitment in my life right now. Ha. That’s probably because it doesn’t feel like a chore or an obligation, just something that comes into being over time. It’s funny: there are only three playlists so far, but they span three years, which is too long and too short a…
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Sunday Share: The Greeting Committee
My best Sundays so far have all featured good music. There’s nothing like a quiet afternoon in, hot tea in your hands and an album setting the vibe. Today, that album was This Is It by The Greeting Committee. I found this Kansas City-based band through Spotify: one of my Discover Weekly playlists included their…
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Home and the city
I’ve been working my way through Reportage on Crime, an anthology of Nick Joaquin’s true crime stories. One such piece, “The Lodger,” deals with the demographic shift in Manila brought on by the influx of laborers (and their families) from the provinces. I don’t have the same intimate understanding of Manila as Nick Joaquin does,…
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Obligatory New Year Post
There’s this funny game I’ve been playing for the past few months. Imagine this: a supervillain wraps a hapless woman in chains, balances a set of spinning plates on a stick perched on the tip of her nose, sets her on a unicycle, and tells her to make her way across a tightrope. Or else…
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