Reading I’m currently in the middle of a lot of texts, but for fiction I’m chewing on the second book from The Raven Cycle (by Maggie Steifvater) and Can’t and Won’t by Lydia Davis. I just finished Kim Gordon’s Girl in a Band and wow! Just. Wow. I absolutely loved seeing things from her perspective—her […]
A thing I promised a few days ago but never got around to posting. In case you’re an old reader of this blog, you might remember that I used to make a ton of mixes. In case you’re ancient, you might remember warmest corner, a music blog I had with Petra. Somehow, I stopped listening […]
Disclaimer: This blog entry is mostly for myself and includes a lot of “thinking out loud” and expository narration (lol), but it also has some fun Q&A action that’s clearly indicated anyway. Thank you. So, a glaring omission from this blog is probably a recap of The National’s performance here in Manila, which is sadly […]
I’m working on my intense (!) backlog for Nothing Spaces—updating which I know shouldn’t feel like an obligation, but they’re things I’ve intended on posting about anyway—but here’s one of the little sprinkled joys I’ve had the last month. I went to the Vincent Moon screening in Big Bag Wolf. Apparently, it was held on […]
in which I experienced something I didn’t know I had been waiting for. Once upon a time, I didn’t really get The National. Those were very dark times. A friend of a friend said “Slow Show” was her favorite song. So, I listened to Boxer again—listened, this time, very carefully—and something life-changing happened. There’s just […]
