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Late to this party, but kinda wigging out over how good this is. Their new LP drops via Lost Map in April… paintingband.bandcamp.com/album/painti... #lostmap #paintingisdead

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Figure Drawing Workshop today: layered gesture drawings on vellum and a longer take in watercolor pencil

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this is one of my two derps, Martin

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Here’s the latest batch of tunes pulled from the ‘now playing’ pile next to my turntable at home, assembled into a generally listenable order… open.spotify.com/playlist/7fc...

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“…unless we have the space to imagine and a vision of what it means fully to realize our humanity, all the protests and demonstrations in the world won’t bring about our liberation.” —Robin D.G.Kelley

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#bestof2025list addition. So perfectly confounding. Much of my favorite music lately has been people staking out unique sonic spaces. Reidy delivers wholly unexpected combinations: mictronal guitar + autotune? WTF but yes. julesreidy.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-... @thrilljockey.bsky.social

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subtitled, brutalism

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BEST-OF-2025-LIST ADDITION Vulture Feather have pedigree that stretches back to both the 90s indie rock heyday and the 2000s post-punk revival and it shows in the best way. Their sophomore LP displays a unique voice but also simultaneously sounds classic.

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Framing new music in compartive terms feels counterintuitive to me. My approach is more a spectrum between craft and innovation. Craft being the technical acumen, construction, and the tradition it's built upon. Innovation is what feels unexpected-what new terrain is charted. #minicritique

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Just came across this song. Honestly I’d only known it from Future Pilot AKA’s Tiny Waves Might Sea album. Didn’t even know it was a cover tune. But we could all use a song with a repeated refrain of “Makes me feel glad that I’m not dead” lately

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From David Austin’s book Dread Poetry & Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution

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This was my first encounter with #danielledutton (tipped to by a review in @mcsweeneys.net’s Believer mag). Read it just a few nights. Absolutely amazed. Such an arresting deployment of language. . Buy: bookshop.org/p/books/prai...

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It bears repeating: if we undo every federally funded program except the military, we become a nation that defends a way of life without defending the quality of that life.

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it’s no surprise that Asura, on Netflix, is the best TV I’ve seen since Marriage Story. Writer/director Kore-Eda is responsible for a number of modern movies I’d rank as absolute classics: After Life, the Shoplifters, Still Walking, Monster… #asura #koreeda #netflix

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9 years ago today I came home from work with a puppy I named Lloyd. I don’t know where I’d be without him today. Here’s to more years with my dude, #goodlloyd

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I’ve been drawing frames from movies in a series I call Cast Light Sketches, with the intent of exploring drawing as shapes of light but also devolving them into abstracts while still respecting the light on some level.

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This playlist is a periodic summation of what vinyl I’ve been spinning at home. Every few weeks, I empty it out for the next batch so it’s regularly a wholly different collection. open.spotify.com/playlist/7fc...

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Venus appeared with a crescent moon from behind Seattle cloud cover for a hot minute

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Nostalgia demands tribute. In an attempt to counteract the black-hole pull of the past, l've developed a simple challenge called Hibernation Listening: pick one record and listen to it, at least once a day for the month of February. Consciously reroute your aesthetic narrative. #minicrtique #music

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This was from a recent @nytimes.com morning briefing, ostensibly about Dylan and Complete Unknown (and our relationship to artists as fans) but ultimately it seemed an apt statement about love in general.

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stucco streets echo walls seep humid cumbia ghostly shadows sway _______________________________ #myshittyhaiku inspired by walking #mérida streets late Saturday night #poetry?

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Tourist-ing in Uxmal #uxmal #yucatan #Polaroid #doubleexposure

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Greetings from Mérida, Yucatan #travelMexico #Polaroid

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#bestof2025list Ulla Straus delivers a stellar new ambient album on their new label. This feels like hearing music in the act of becoming, and yet also complete, not in any way lacking. Sonically, it’s disarming. #ullastraus

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In which I write shitty haiku. It’s worth noting that this practice for me is more word game than poetry. In that sense, I like to keep the 5-7-5 format and include at least some of the renga rules: must set the scene with some reference to location / time / season #haiku

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from A Picture Held Us Captive by Danielle Dutton #litessay #danielledutton

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Using delays or looping, as far back as Pussyfooting by Fripp and Eno, a solitary musician can readily erect orchestrations before our ears. While it sometimes feels gimmicky, there's a unique thrill in witnessing the mechanics of it unfold. #minicritique #frippertonics #looping #andrewbird

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Ruth Goller’s Skyllumina was my personal pick for best of 2024. Floored from the listen, it stayed on heavy rotation for months. She creates such a hyper-specific soundworld, yet remains nimble and expressive within it. #ruthgoller #internationalanthem #bestof2024

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I revisited Renoir’s 1936 Lower Depths tonight. There’s a particular joy in rewatching a movie (in quick succession): you get to relax your attention to plot and performances and focus on lighting, framing, editing, sound—all the myriad things that make a movie but you usually absorb unconsciously.

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Nate Wooley, who already has a formidable catalogue, reached a new tier with Henry House. Minimalism with spoken word and both are quietly evocative and emotive. #bestof2025list

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That REM, a jangly, lyrically abstract, and ambiguous guitar band would ascend to stadium rock status- all while the 2 Jacksons were unimpeachable and hip hop ascendant, with rave and grunge soon to sideswipe the rest-seems a document out of time.

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