what if i file a review and it’s just this song…
Big Thief: Capacity
Album Review | Pitchfork
wrote about big thief’s amazing record capacity.
“Learning capacity
For make-believing everything
Is really hanging on”
saturday 6/17/17
fought with a bottle of gorilla glue
listened to Fever to Tell
ended up on Goop (?!?)
read this interview with Eve Babitz which BARELY discussed her writing -_-
which led me to this photo of Madame Nhu
and more photos by Julian Wasser
considered the lyrics of the Strokes “Alone, Together”
“Remembering what it felt like to be 20 overwhelmed by feeling and sensation, lost for words.”
— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick
omg rose’s guitar in this is so sick
rose *weeping emoji*
“Order and control are terribly important to me,” says Didion as she sits on a couch in her den, fingering a tiny green pillbox. “I would love to just have control over my own body-to stop the pain, to stop my hand from shaking.”
Joan Didion, 1979
a rare use of this here blog
i don’t have a list of writing from 2016 that i’m particularly proud of. much of 2016 was occupied with moving on from the fire and writing anything at all felt like a huge accomplishment. i remember last november, sitting in greta’s parents’ first-floor office apartment with allyssa and feeling such an immense sensation of loss: loss of self, loss of communication, loss of objects, etc. Writing felt like a world away. Then, in the bathtub of that same apartment, i got the call. I had a job. It’s insane for me that I spent 2016 working, writing, at Pitchfork. I truly do not think I thought this was possible.
that being said, I am very proud of this review of the Shaggs’ Philosophy of the World for a number of reasons. 1) The Shaggs represent friendship to me, friendship with Al, friendship with Colin, talking on the phone with them both about lyrics and fan theories. I listen to the Shaggs and feel close to them, even when we are so far apart. 2) I really fought for this review in terms of the chance to write it, the form it took, the rejection of fetishizing them as simply “weird.” I want to continue holding myself to that standard. 3) it’s the shaggs!!!
i remind myself every day that I am 23. we are all so young.