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Feeling silly about this pleasure but I've just scheduled my 7th newsletter issue of the year, which represents the most committed I've been to something entirely personal in a long time. Maybe my whole life? Thanks to everyone who reads & supports this shit. It means a lot. motherslug.substack.com

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This mirrors my experience so much. I still religiously use composition notebooks because of Harriet. 🖤💔

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Eric Dolphy :: Last Date (Documentary, 1991) aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/02/17/eric-dolphy-last-date-documentary-1991

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Watched my first Chantal Akerman film last night and fell right into its snail’s pace charm, love letters to interstitial spaces and interactions. I want to dance with my lover at an empty bar, drink a beer in a hot kitchen in the middle of the night, and ponder doors endlessly.

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Current stack.

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#NowPlaying Walking around my neighborhood in that brilliant twilight riverside blue that is uncapturable in a photo while listening to music from one of the last shows Peter Brötzmann ever played. Life is painful beauty. peterbroetzmann.bandcamp.com/album/the-qu...

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Four episodes of Eternity's Pillar, Alice Coltrane's mid-80s late night LA broadcast, is up on Criterion! Previously only available on YouTube rips and not in full, at least to my knowledge. (I could be wrong about that!) www.criterionchannel.com/eternity-s-p...

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The checkout lanes are not what they seem.

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"Despite being nearly 30 years old, also the perfect film to watch as we witness a chaotic schizophrenic America grapple with its demons" – yes yes yes sicko mode activated!

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This week's recommendation is the aeonic avant-rock duo you didn't know you needed! motherslug.substack.com/p/026-willia...

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I've always been obsessed with obtaining the edition of a book that has the best cover (in my eyes). In 2006 I went away to college, very unhappy but trying not to be. So you can imagine how electrifying it was to spot this in the window of the independent bookshop on campus, for like $6 at that!

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RIP Tom Robbins! As an avid fan in high school, his absurdist comedy (alongside Vonnegut & Heller) either saved me from being too insufferable to handle or, like an alienated teen onion, gave shape to a less negative layer. This is still one of the best book covers of all time.

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A writer's greatest high is the moment when some fully-formed observations come to her in the middle of unrelated work, such as washing dishes. Better yet when those observations can be used to open a review she's been struggling to compose. Fucking cheers!

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My collections of two favorites: Rachel Ingalls & Shirley Jackson.

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#NowPlaying “Hello, I'm Johnny Cash” is such a brilliant way to open this record. “Pigeons” might contain some of Callahan’s best lyrics, devastating in an entirely different way than the darkness of Smog.

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I love John Turturro in all things but wow, what a tremendous performance from him in Severance 02x04.

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#NowPlaying On my fourth listen of Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory's new album. There's kind of an electro-dance thing mixed in with the rock and it's really working for me.

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I got curious about Ratner’s Star, DeLillo’s impenetrable 1976 novel about a child prodigy mathematician at work deciphering a mysterious message from outer space, and was very delighted to happen upon a super clean, affordable mass market paperback edition, which is now on its way to me.

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Filing End Zone.

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2024 felt like such a massive year for music and 2025 is already feeling good, too! (At least that’s one good thing.)

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One of my co-workers just told me that I'm always giving her different life perspectives and values to contemplate. My heart grew about a thousand sizes.

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Heard "Happy Together" on the radio and was reminded of its exquisite use in Adaptation.

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i wrote about Marianne. jukeboxgraduate.com/for-marianne...

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I'm going a little nuts over here because I had no idea that Denis Johnson's immaculate novella Train Dreams has been adapted into a film that is apparently spectacular!!! Omg!!! www.vulture.com/article/sund...

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You too can enjoy great jazz tips if you subscribe to my little newsletter! New issue out today. open.substack.com/pub/mothersl...

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Rachel Ingalls is quietly nuts and I fucking love it. Two novellas here: Sis and Bud is about adopted siblings and is a weird mix of pleasant and unrepentant nastiness; Be My Guest, which I’ve only just started, is about a woman dealing with a boy in an alleged Freaky Friday situation.

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It was an honor to be a part of this remarkable AD article of creatives reflecting on the career and influence of David Lynch, from writers, artists, filmmakers, musicians & everyone in between. Read below at @aquariumdrunkard.com ...

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On my Severance Season 1 rewatch and I finally got to Defiant Jazz, which brilliantly casts the music of Joe McPhee in a decidedly Lynchian sequence that might be the show’s best expression of the inherent menace of the modern office vis à vis the masquerade of forced connection.

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Pleased to report that I have a feature on bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry, who released my favorite jazz album of 2024, in this wonderful issue!

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Make of it what you will

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Lost Highway is my favorite Lynch film for a number of reasons but one of them is that it basically opens with blistering free jazz from the Bill Pullman Quartet.

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It's week two of my new weekly album recommendation and so far, so good! This time around, please dig the magnificent, odd, and fierce duo pairing of drummer Rashied Ali and violinist Leroy Jenkins. motherslug.substack.com/p/023-rashie...

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RIP Jules Feiffer, who visualized the bonkers world of The Phantom Tollbooth, one of the no-joke all-time greatest-ever works of literature. images burned in my brain forever.

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#NowReading “The thin line between failure and success. The one a phantom of the other, thinks Katharina but doesn't say anything. The possibility of tipping over is basically the only true thing.”

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Just watched Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat & wanted to like it more than I do! My overwhelming sense is that it’s an effective piece of multimedia art that strangely fails to prove the thesis of its title. It’s dense and enraging, esp. if you don't know much about Patrice Lumumba, but...

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Freak flag at half mast. 💙

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