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"Remember saying things like 'we'll sleep when we're dead'
And thinking this feeling was never gonna end.

Remember that night you were already in bed, 
Said 'fuck it' got up to drink with me instead
" Younger Us - Japandroids

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2022 Songs of the Year

12/28/2022

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  1. Spiderweb - Built to Spill.   "I've had these feelings for a long time, ever since I was a kid. I thought they'd go away by now, but now I see they never did."
  2. Pharmacist - Alvvays
  3. CANDU - The Rural Alberta Advantage
  4. Simulation Swarm - Big Thief.  "From the 31st floor of the simulation swarm, with the drone of fluorescent, FLICKER FEVER FILL THE FORM.  With a warm gush, now I wanna touch, like we never could before. I'd fly to you tomorrow, I'm not fighting in this war."
  5. Loner - Day Wave
  6. We Used to be Young - Day Wave
  7. Never Alright - Built to Spill
  8. NBTSA - Joyce Manor
  9. Home - Castlebeat
  10. Alright - Built to Spill

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Top 10 Shows of 2022

12/23/2022

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My favorite shows this past year.
  1. YellowJackets (Showtime).  Lost meets I don't know--"Alive"--with a generous dash of Mean Girls and all-star performances from the present day actresses (Christina Ricci! Amazing!) as well as the girls trapped in the Canadian wilderness some 25 years ago. Buzz buzz buzz.
  2. Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu). A hidden gem of a series. Ostensibly a comedy, with some laugh out loud funny moments, but really just a sweet, slow-paced, comfortable ride focused on life on the "Res" and the drive to escape for four teens dealing (for 2 seasons now) with the pain of their best friend's suicide and their own family struggles.
  3. Severance (AppleTV).  Almost a miracle of a show, with so many mysteries and yet so much heart and warmth among the characters (and horror). 
  4. The Bear (FX/Hulu). Gripping, perfect performances. High tension with seemingly small stakes that become literally life or death in the hands of the writers and talented actors.
  5. Station Eleven (HBOMax)  This is a show that started in 2021 but ended in 2022 (much like YellowJackets) so it counts in my book. Post-apocalyptic gripping drama with a perfect first episode then a time-shift into the future, with at first mixed results but all the storylines come together wonderfully by the end. I'm planning a rewatch this winter.

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Top 50 Songs of 2021

1/9/2022

 
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1. Ritchie Sacramento - Mogwai
2. Superstar - Beach House
3. Before We Knew - Day Wave
4. Where Do You Go - Day Wave
5. Beach Life in Death - Glass Beach
6. Half a Human - Real Estate
7. Oslo - Cloud Nothings
8. Like I Used To - Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen
9. Little Things - Big Thief
​10. To the Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth - Mogwai


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Top 50 Songs of 2020

1/10/2021

 
PictureCar Seat Headrest - Making a Door Less Open (2020)
1. Life Worth Missing - Car Seat Headrest
2. You Fear the Wrong Thing Baby - The Radio Dept.
3. Martin - Car Seat Headrest
4. A Reason to Celebrate - bdrmm
5. Deadlines (Hostile) - Car Seat Headrest
6. Seventeen (Feat. Norah Jones) - Sharon Van Etten
7. Momo - bdrmm
8. Starting Again - Day Wave
9. Julia Take Your Man Home - Wolf Parade
10. I Know the End - Phoebe Bridgers


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It's Real

11/20/2020

 
PictureElie at Zeppelin Hall in Jersey City
 I haven't posted in four months.

I told myself at this time last year that I would post to the blog at least once a week, to help develop a following to market my forthcoming novel, maybe like the following I used to have some ten years ago when this was an indie music blog, back when sharing mp3's was a thing and indie music blogs were my life and I got hundreds of interested page views a day. But  mp3 blogs are not coming back and I'm not going to spend a couple hours a week crafting blog posts. I could have, this year especially, when Covid made work less demanding and travel nonexistent and activities that I used to do in my free time--concerts, visits to Manhattan and Brooklyn, everything--no longer viable. So I had time. But I poured that time into writing my next novel, into my dog Elie, and unfortunately way too much Netflix and Chill, something I always thought was lame but now has become my nightly existence. And now that the beautiful fall weather in Hoboken, NJ, has turned to winter cold and dark at 4:30, even the brief fleeting joys of going to write at one of the many outside bar/restaurants after work each night (often with Elie!) are gone, as it's been too cold and too dark to do much more than stay inside once the work day finishes.

​Biden won the election. And a vaccine is coming. But this is going to be a rough winter after a hellishly bad year and I wish I were in California right now. Maybe always.

On March 2 2020, I was in Huntington Beach. Sitting at a coffee shop several blocks away from downtown. It was a Monday so it was quiet, and it was warm enough to sit outside and write, something I couldn't do in NJ at the time. The coffee shop was very dog-friendly and I sent pictures to my boyfriend about how great it would be if he and Elie were there with me in Huntington Beach, and I could walk down to the coffee shop with Elie every morning and sit outside and write. That was my dream at the time. I remember it vividly. That was a long time ago.
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Downtown Huntington Beach

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