We’re all connected now, stay composed

I’m sitting on the roof with a bottle of wine. Inside, my overpriced Marshall speaker is playing “The Metronome” by Pinegrove. I can hear it …

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The Moth

There are no rules,but there is cause and effect. When I was littler,I thought that when I grew upand metamorphosized into an adultI would …

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Ooo wee ooo wee ooo I can be your percolator

I’ve been thinking about radicalism lately. Radical honesty, radical empathy–those kinds of things. Lately the pit in my stomach–the kind that …

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So long aphasia and the ways it kept me hiding

It’s 5:40 AM. I’ve been having trouble sleeping lately. I got taken off the schedule at work–something I knew had to happen but nonetheless made …

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Why you bother me when you know you don’t want me

I’m not sure where to start. I could start with my feelings of trying to vindicate myself: of trying to convince myself, prove to my own body, that…

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Awkward silence, like when the grenade a dud

Thinking about things. Holding space here. Lyrical, poetic genius that goes unrecognized. Keep going. Thinking about all the talented people I …

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Broken Pieces

By Elizabeth Hammer oh this time it destroyed me, my dear. my heart has been lit on fire since you left out of fear. i can not say this…

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Why do Death Grips fans hate the new Praying collab?

Also, when do orders ship??? On the heels of that Death Grips tour announcement following their 2022 reunion comes the Death Grips collaboration…

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But I couldn’t stand to lie next to you

Time will tell, but from my experience time is a very reluctant communicator. And I’m impatient. By the time it takes time to divulge something to …

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Come skin your knees with us, life’s too short for a business lunch

On not getting it till you feel it, you’re in the swirl.  It’s been a minute. And by a minute, I mean six months, about. I’m trying to turn…

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“Bach-To-Rock”: How Baroque Invaded Rock Music in the ‘60s and Then Was Largely Forgotten a.k.a. my final paper for my MUSI 314 class submitted in May 2021

When the album Switched-On Bach was released by Columbia Records in 1968, it wasn’t released with the expectation of reaching mainstream …

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“Hyperpop: What a niche music subgenre can tell us about the music industry, the Internet, and contemporary culture” a.k.a. my final English major thesis submitted in May 2021

Choosing not to fix the formatting on this yet, because I'm lazy. Just copy-pasted. Ludic, Ebullient, and Counterintuitive: An Introduction to …

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spectral for days on end these days

Any music is good music, any art is good art. You just have to be willing to make it. And leaving it unfinished for now is okay. The only thing …

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i wonder if you know what it means

The lady (I thought she was the landlord but turns out that’s someone else) who gave me the key to my unit in this crusty fourplex smelled vaguely …

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losing touch with everything we can

I’ve been in a funk lately. Maybe it’s because nothing’s happening. Or I have nothing to do. Or I’m not doing anything risky. Or I’m not sticking …

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This time, baby, promise I have learned my lesson

(4/1/2022) If you ever heard me pining after a man I was desperately obsessed with sometime in the past eight months, know that I figured out …

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when my mind is uncertain, my body decides

My emotions have been shot. I’m sick. Like, actually. I have a cold or something. On top of that, within the last two weeks I have experienced all …

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when the bones are good

A homicide unit showed up at work yesterday. A girl was murdered on the Strip last Friday, walking from one of the bars at around 2 AM, and the …

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I never thought I’d see the day I’m drinking almond milk

(1/2/22) There are some people I know that are really good at being human. Honestly that’s the type of person I like most. People who live …

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Everything I sing, I sing for me

(12/10/21) I’m still throwing a lot of spaghetti at the wall, to see what sticks. A habit will always beat an idea. I told myself I would …

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