It's not a binary, it's a spectrum.

If language is a virus, observe good hygiene

Eating solar rays, and turning it into cellulose.

a mood, an energy, a dynamic that until recently did not get enough coverage in pop songs.

basic instructions before leaving your body.

Conditioned response

Emergence and noisemaking, with a special emphasis on drones, hums, and chants. See you in seventeen years.

“The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck”

― Paul Virilio

"First, the disaster. Then the weeping. Then the outrage. And we are all too familiar with what comes next. After a few weeks, when the cameras are gone, when the ink on the editorials has dried, everything returns to business as usual. The health and the safety of America's coal miners, the men and women upon whom the Nation depends so much, is once again forgotten until the next disaster..."

― Robert Byrd

water/struggle/emergence/grandeur

Reflection on the dread and wonder we've lived with since 1945.

Lacking as we are in official rites of passage, hemmed in by greater barriers to household formation, and facing a world with fewer solid principles to trust in, we must come to adulting in new and different ways.

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

Some longer pieces in this one, all of them seeking of that time outside of time that one might call the groove (or the drone, or the Om.)

Serving up the best schist this side of the Trenton Prong

We have been serving you lists for a while now, and now are serving you a list of lists. Let's get meta.

Special Guest: Maria T of Her Jazz!

Are there large unknown beasts roaming the countryside, eating our cattle and seeking to live in peace outside the control of men? Seems unlikely, but let us know if there's an opening posted, sounds like a sweet gig.

zip, nada, zilch, nothing, zero. Without substance, or maybe just without definition. Let's get empty.

it's rainy and windy, life is returning, and you're not sure about coming back to life. Let's vibe with it.

Watch your back, Caesar.

One hour of car culture, one hour of transit-oriented tunes.

Jane Jacobs

Songs inspired by warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.