So this dream I had a few years ago, a big southern dream with big southern houses. Loads of Mississippi kudzu and lush green workplaces with design firms magazines fashion and journalism, and all the time, the Mom and Son are a little too close in proximity and familiarity, its as if in a way [Continue]
Listening to REM at the end of another school year as a teacher is an odd prospect. Firstly, the music is different than when you were on the other side. Instead of a teenager struggling with identity,possibly suicide, and the inability to find even the most rudimentary of dates, you are now supposedly an adult [Continue]
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There’s something that Elliott Smith said one time that really got to me. Something about Americans being hardwired to not accept failure. How just admitting it is Un-American, to admit that what you do is anything rather than a rousing success is to venture into some darkened hallway of American consciousness that people just don’t [Continue]
My Thoughts on Chronic City…. So Far…. With a cover reminiscent of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, and my mind still reeling from Lethem’s Fortress of Solitude, I was really ready to surrender myself to the narrative, to submerge myself in this world of marijuana and cultural criticism. But [Continue]
