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on the airing of grievances by titus andronicus + honeymood by oux

on the airing of grievances by titus andronicus + honeymood by oux

Yesterday I was sat in Rittenhouse Square, the only place in Philadelphia I can get to without getting lost, talking to my friend James [https://weirdupstairs.substack.com/]about all kinds of things. We talked a lot about Being Online and our newsletters and stuff. It was supposed to encompass

i did a bunch of research on songs named after months + now you get to read about it

i did a bunch of research on songs named after months + now you get to read about it

Hello it is my birthday tomorrow. I will be 23 years old. I thought about writing an emotional post about, I don’t know, growing up or like… listening to PUP and that’s it as it relates to needing comfort in a time which is the worst for me

on patreon + community without gigs

on patreon + community without gigs

I’m currently in the midst of interviewing people for a zine I’m making about the impact of the last six-ish months on people involved in music in different realms. I’ve been talking to managers, musicians, photographers, visual artists, label people, etc and while I’ve been getting

on my dad + music in memory

on my dad + music in memory

It’s 8:45 PM while I’m writing this but my laptop is an hour behind. I wasn’t aware it has manual time and date settings until I left central time and it never updated. I was aware my laptop shows a European date format but I was

on the weakerthans + being publicly emo

on the weakerthans + being publicly emo

I do discuss sexual assault within this newsletter. It’s not graphic and more about a response I had but, as with anything concerning the topic, I’d like to give a trigger warning. Welcome to my personal blog. Like and Subscribe and Smash That Notification Button. Yesterday was a

on twitter + fan culture

on twitter + fan culture

I am, by all measures, not twitter’s biggest critic. I have more positive than negative interactions on the site and have made great friends through it. Like with most social media, I firmly believe most people get the experience they set out to have and a lot can be

on sit resist by laura stevenson + sprawling by happy accidents

on sit resist by laura stevenson + sprawling by happy accidents

Despite a weekend of weird music writer discourse about newsletters (great bait for a newsletter topic), we return to my stated purpose: discussing an album from a while back that I’ve never heard and then discussing some new(ish) music I’ve really liked lately! This week it’s