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Apr
24
Why aren’t you listening to
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Listen to this song right here
and then
Laura Stevenson is from Brooklyn and is part of Read more
Jan
14
Shearwater’s Coming to Pullman
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Stereopathic is pleased to announce totally blown away that Shearwater is playing at the Bell Tower in Pullman on Tuesday, April 20th Friday, April 30th. The show starts at 8 PM. We’re lining up a local act to kick things off; Lawrence, Kansas’ Hospital Ships opens, followed by Shearwater’s thrilling and epic live show.
Shearwater, of course, will be touring in support of their Read more
Aug
19
Song in a Jar: Mount Eerie, “Stone’s Ode”
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When I heard Phil Elverum would be making a Mount Eerie album influenced by Scandinavian black metal, I worried. Black metal typically manifests as maudlin nihilism, and hasn’t drawn me in. While Wind’s Poem does contain some chaotic, heavy, distorted passages, it also goes subdued with tracks like this one, which closes the album. It also bears mentioning that Elverum has tended to punctuate with noise and distortion throughout his career, last year’s Lost Wisdom being a notable exception.
On “Stone’s Ode” the lyrics work with familiar Elverum themes. The stone is Read more
Aug
14
“And now I’m hung up on a dream.”
-The Zombies
August 11
I’m mystified. Last night in my dream there was a guy who sort of looked like my boss yelling at me for all the work I hadn’t done, because I’d gotten really into re-editing the Wikipedia page about Internet addiction. I still have no idea what it means. I also had the dream about eating my pillow. When I woke up, the Jet-Puffed Marshmallows I keep by the side of the bed were gone.
August 12
Dreams really are inscrutable. Last night I had this dream where I got Read more
Aug
12
“I’m feeling lost and found.”
-Taken by Trees
Several years ago a couple in their seventies used to come to the park near my house with metal detectors. They’d show up about once a week. Around their waists they both wore small aprons with pockets to collect their finds; the kind a waitress might use for tips. I liked the idea that they were working so quickly they needed to stash their winnings on-the-go, heedless of what they’d dug up until later. Since I didn’t usually have much to do in the evenings, I sat and watched them whenever they showed up.
In this way, I became increasingly curious about them. They never found Read more
Aug
10
“Like a hitman/Oh, like a dancer/All muscle.”
-A.C. Newman
Mel and I watched everyone walking past. We guessed about what everyone did. We sat on the bench in front of the playground facing toward the street. It’s about twenty yards to the street from the bench and in the early evening we used to do a lot of people-watching. We both wore jackets; mine olive, Mel’s a surprising shade of red. Mel said the sky looked like the yellow inside of a foam pillow ripped up by dogs and scattered across the sky. I couldn’t agree. I claimed it looked like a patient waking up just after the ether, eyes clear in front of a fogged brain. Mel stuck to his guns.
A man wearing pants with plastic buckles at the ankles. Bald on top, with a bird’s nest of Read more
Aug
7
Song in Plaster: The Magnetic Fields, “I Think I Need A New Heart”
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Two men, Tolly and Stephen, have shut themselves up in a room. They’re adapting Tolly’s off-Broadway play,The Heart Within the Heart, for the screen.
Stephen: So, in the play Robbie and Jeff are gay?
Tolly: No. They’re brothers.
Stephen: So why do they live in the same room?
Tolly: Because they’re brothers and their family’s a little poor, so Read more
Aug
4
Two former roommates meet at a class reunion. One of them works as a sales rep for Walgreen and the other is a physicist working on the Large Hadron Collider.
Chris: So you’re working on that thing? That’s amazing. Is it going create a black-hole and kill us all? (Laughs)
Lance does not react.
Lance: No, that’s impossible. There’s no way that anything like that could happen. We’re looking for Read more
Jul
31
Song in Plaster: J. Tilman, “First Born”
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You are to have—ease it —an open hand while you pray.
Say, tell it, speak like it’s for a free pass.
A condemned man, you have to kill the rule.
You have to keep down at mind.
If you have to have me,
break the first born friend
till it pass over me, Read more
Jul
29
New College, Oxford, is of rather late foundations, hence the name. It was founded around the late 14th century. It has, like other colleges, a great dining hall with big oak beams across the top, yes? These might be two feet square, forty-five feet long.
A century ago, so I am told, some busy entomologist, went up into the roof of the dining Read more
