Ada Lea‘s ‘hurt’ on the album one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden has a line in it which goes ‘get on a bus back to Montreal’. I’ve thought a lot about the genius of this line ever since I heard it. One one level, it speaks to me personally, because […]
August: Music and cricket for a lockdown
Going into higher gear. The Low Mays’ 人生贏家2: 明星生活 (Life Winners 2: Popstar Life) – I once wrote about the band here and their track about Flat Earth. I’ve since watched an interview and am convinced these five (six?) Hong Kong men are just taking the piss and they do it well. The autotune on […]
Turning Points
I am not far off from completing my Master of Public Policy and Management. Outside of social relationships and sports, life has pretty much revolved around this course. It is one I have mostly enjoyed and more than anything I’ve appreciated the breadth and depth that the program affords. I intend to write a list […]
Star Wars Physics, Chicago Jazz, & Warzones
Chuck Palahniuk on the Joe Rogan Experience #1158 Rogan bores into Palahniuk’s work process and ethic, raises questions about the limits of darkness in literature, and Palahniuk’s financial problems due to embezzlement. At one point, Rogan asks Palahniuk how he feels about not being able to recuperate the money that an accountant had run away […]
Formerly Angry Men & Former Heroes
The Church of What’s Happening Now (#606) and podcasts in general What a world we live in now where we can listen to Joey Diaz talk to Henry Rollins talk about music, work ethic, travel, and Al Pacino. If previously celebrity talk time was limited to late night or early morning talk shows, glossy magazines, […]
Joel Mak 