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Midwest writer. Records, books, jazz, movies. Bylines at @uncutmagazine @thewiremagazine Maggot Brain from @thirdmanrecords @aquadrunkard @vintageking
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It’s been a really awful year in many respects but getting to see that a copy of my cover story on Maggot Brain (which came out toward the end of 2020) made it into George Clinton’s hands was quite the highlight.
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Just remembered that time Philip Seymour Hoffman was on Arthur, during which he portrayed a famous theater director named William Fillmore Toffman. 🥹
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This pic of Kim Gordon shredding at the Louvre is one of my favorite music photos of all time.
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Pharoah Sanders on John Coltrane: "I loved being around him because I don’t talk that much, either. It was just good vibes between us both. We were just very quiet." A deafening quietude with these two.
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David Lynch has destroyed the neutrality of the ceiling fan. I walk past a house in my neighborhood, see the fan whirring through an open upstairs window, and feel chilled to my core and abruptly, horrifically filled with desperation.
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Thomas Pynchon not wanting to speak ill of Homer Simpson is truly king shit.
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What's the greatest phone call scene you've ever seen?
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“Who hasn't ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
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None of our Albini posts are even remotely hyperbolic. His impact and influence is almost beyond measure.
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One of the greatest guitar albums, one of the greatest albums of the ‘90s, aggressively intelligent and intelligently aggressive, interlocked interplay, some of the most impressive dynamics between musicians of all time.
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One of my favorite photos of Pharoah Sanders & Sonny Sharrock. I hope these jazz dreamers are ripping it up together in the ascension.
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RIP to the realest one 🥹
Who's an actor that always makes a movie better just by being in it:
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Baby Michael Imperioli as door guy with Fugazi poster in the background, Amateur (1994)
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The greatest double album of all time? My fighter is Double Nickels on the Dime, the tightest collection of punk jazz poems, music made BY people who pull over to find a library for pre-Internet fact checking FOR obsessives who care about words, history, romance. 🥹
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Rest in peace, Ryuichi Sakamoto. I’d like to celebrate his incredible body of work here. Please share your favorites, if so inclined 🖤
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“TELEVISION’S SECOND ALBUM IS NEARLY AS GOOD AS THE FIRST, JUST BECAUSE THE PRODUCTION IS CLEANER DOESN’T MEAN SHIT. THE GUITAR INTERPLAY IS AS DYNAMIC AND KNOTTY AS EVER, THE USE OF KEYBOARD TEXTURES AND MORE LAYERS BRINGING AN ALMOST PROG-LIKE EXPANSION TO THEIR OVERALL SOUND.”
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“What did my family ever do to Yo La Tengo to make you hate them so much?”
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Remember that time the jumbotron picked up Guy Picciotto at a Washington Wizards game and every Fugazi fan had the exact same thought? 🥹🏀
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Libra is easily one of the great American novels of the 20th century. The paranoia and plotting, the loneliness of facts, it all resonates to an appalling degree but none of that would matter if the lyricism of the sentences didn’t strike you in the heart repeatedly over & over.
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It's fucking WILD that John and Alice Coltrane only really played together for two years. I love this pic of them in Japan. 🥹
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Yo La Tengo motherfucker ⚡️
serious question: if the grateful dead is not the greatest band of all time from the united states then who is?
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RIP Gary Young. One of the best albums of the ‘90s would not be the same without you. Bob Nastanovich said he was the indie rock version of Keith Moon and that rules. 🖤
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I took an edible before the movie and it hit riiight when this guy showed up. It was wonderfully horrible.
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40 fucking years of this working-class masterpiece. Tight as fuck, smart as hell, topically sprawling and intellectually heavy, punk jazz or jazz punk, this is Bob Dylan to me. 🖤
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Amnesiac hive, rise up. "Knives Out" has haunted me for nearly twenty years and "Pyramid Song" is one of the most beautiful to ever do it, among other hyperbolic statements I could make about the best Radiohead album.
OK Computer used to be the canonical correct choice for Radiohead’s best album, and it was provocative to suggest Kid A was better, then Kid A became canonical — now everyone agrees it’s In Rainbows and the debate is over
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Detroit, Michigan needs an Alice Coltrane statue.
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It’s impossible to interact with my coworkers right now. I’ve never felt further from these people.
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This motherfucker peeled back the paranoid heart of America and presented it to us, flayed with precision: “This is who we are,” still an abominable truth. Dreams & desire & their caustic curdling, entwined with indelible images & immaculate sentences. Best book I read this year.
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I don’t even know what to say. Big Black and Shellac were EVERYTHING to me for my formative years. Albini’s lyrics were, are, possibly the biggest non-literary influence on me. Total freak shit, impossibly negative, I loved it so much. I can’t believe this.
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On this day every year I am reminded of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's liner notes to Coltrane Live at Birdland: "One of the most baffling things about America is that despite its essentially vile profile, so much beauty continues to exist here."
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Izumi Suzuki's "The Covenant" is a perfect story, some unholy mix of the Slender Man stabbing, Sayaka Murata's Earthlings, and Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue, decades before any of them existed.
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I sit in my bedroom and listen to “Kerosene” and can’t wait to leave that hellhole. I walk around campus and listen to “Prayer to God” and feel uncomfortably alone. I drive my car and listen to “Riding Bikes” and am surprisingly delighted. That was growing up with Steve Albini.💔
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Harsh true words from the man who wrote one of the most beloved children’s series of all time (Frances the Badger). 😳
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Wendy Torrance is one of only two Halloween costumes I've ever even attempted. I think I did pretty okay. 🥹
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I AM DAMO SUZUKI! Fuck, this sucks. Rest in peace and power, Damo Suzuki. He brought such a special and terribly necessary energy to a band that was already incredible, no small feat. Thank you for everything 💔
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Bull Durham is the perfect example of a kind of movie that’s simply no longer made, and mainstream cinema is worse for it. Sexy and entertaining, neither intellectual nor stupid, purely for adults.
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Dreams are free, motherfucker!
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The most stellar line-up of all fucking time ⚡️ Alice Coltrane & Sun Ra in 1973!
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This movie rules. Isabelle Huppert is fantastic as an ex-nun nymphomaniac who has never had sex, music is a perfect 90s mixtape, a young Michael Imperioli as punk club doorguy, obsolete technology like floppy disks & phone sex lines, a Parker Posey cameo. On
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What are some examples of other pieces of art that are considered both X and anti-X?
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It's such a fucking rough listen but it's so goddamn beautiful and brilliant that I can't help myself. Today I'm crying over these lines from All My Happiness Is Gone: "Friends are warmer than gold when you're old / And keeping them is harder than you might suppose"
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Pour one out for Damo Suzuki. Play it loud and freak the fuck out, for him and for you. 🖤
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David Berman’s songs contain entire worlds, populated by people you’ve never met who you somehow intimately know. Soul-pummeling inspiration for anyone who gives a fuck about words. Thinking of him today, and most days. 🖤
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I can't stop thinking about Tony Williams being 19 when he joined the Miles Davis Quintet. NINETEEN. Can't wrap my head around it.
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Songs About Fucking rightfully gets the love but Atomizer is my heavy hitter, in no small part due to “Kerosene,” anthem for a particular strain of Midwest desperation, but it’s also the shrouded cudgel of “Bad Houses,” abject sting of “Bazooka Joe,” and utter terror of “Cables.”
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To watch a Philip Seymour Hoffman film now is to intensely miss a person you've never actually known. The king of "eccentrics, lowlifes, underdogs, and misfits," even when portraying a charismatic (cult) leader. This is one of my favorite shots in The Master. Gives me chills.
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Wayne Shorter appreciation thread 🎷🔭Tell us your favorites. This is such a small sampling! The well is so fucking deep 🖤
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It’s here! To say I was delighted by the Thelonious Monk epigraph would only be a slight understatement.
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Happy birthday, Kim Gordon. ❤️🔥🎸 Pic by me, Body/Head at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, 2019.
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It’s not surprising that a film so resolutely about the horrific rot at the core of America wouldn’t be recognized but it’s still a goddamn shame. Killers of the Flower Moon might end up being Scorsese’s most important film.
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I’m fucking speechless. The MC5 are so meaningful for so many different reasons but they have a special place in the heart of Detroit punks and weirdos. A supremely influential guitarist and a hell of a dude. Rest in peace and power, Brother Wayne. ❤️🔥🖤🎸
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This was really easy and super hard!
Make a 20-track comp of your all-time fav tracks, each artist can only feature once. Not the 'best' songs, the ones that bring instant joy the second you hear the first note, the ones that give other people the best insight into what stirs your soul. Share when ready.
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Yo La Tengo's Painful is a goddamn perfect album. "I Heard You Looking" is one of my favorite closing songs of all ever.
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I cannot stop thinking about Wayne Kramer and how much the MC5 changed my life and the lives of so many of my friends. Kick out the jams, motherfuckers!
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When it comes to jazz, I have a tendency to get stuck in the past with archival releases or music that's just new to me, but I want to listen to some jazz from this year. What have y'all been enjoying?
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I lovelovelove all the 70s & 80s photos of Suzanne Ciani with her gear. (This one is from her feature in Keyboard Magazine, 1979.)
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Another year in a world without David Berman. We think of him on his birthday and on the day he died. We think of him constantly because he spoke for and about us in ways we’ll spend the rest of our lives revisiting and unraveling. Thank you, rest in peace, happy birthday, fuck.
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Already daydreaming about the books I’m taking to California with me in June. I like to read something set in the place I will be on my trips; I read Inherent Vice last time I went. Requesting your recommendation, please ✨
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Where my Phantom Tollbooth lovers at? I know you’re out there.
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Philip K. Duck sprang out of my brain upon seeing this. Who you got?
bought my kid something at the book fair; got a surprise author reference for me
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~ “Cherry Chapstick” is my favorite song on this album today but tomorrow it will be something else. What a goddamn stunner ❤️🔥
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I’m admittedly stoned but damn is this a perfect album or what? “Paranoid Android” is fuckin’ sexy, “Alien” is so pretty, “Exit Music” is so sad, “Fitter Happier” is an adorably depressing ‘90s timestamp, and that’s just the first half.
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This happened to me recently. I’ll more often reach for Amnesiac or Kid A but I had this strangely intense need to hear “Airbag” and then I just listened to OK Computer all day and now I’m doing it again.
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The Raincoats s/t is one of those albums that changed my life. Angular art-punk brilliance made by women singing about the void and covering "Lola" and there's a violin and it all sounds so weirdly alive in a completely different way than other music labeled punk.
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Carla dal Forno is one of my favorite contemporary musicians. She makes gorgeous experimental electro-pop, infused with elements of ambient and post-punk, all dreamy and lush and weird. This is You Know What It's Like, her debut from 2016.
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On my mind because I recently watched for the first time. Love the glasses of milk among the beer, what a tableau.
Name a film which takes place entirely within one day.
After Hours
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My dedo died today. He worked at a printing press setting the type for a Yugoslavian newspaper. They used lead & everyone but him died years ago. He retired, opened a soda shop & began farming the land in his village. I’ve missed him my whole life & now I’ll miss him forever.
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I know he means well but the same guy who responded to my Alice Coltrane commentary with "Oh, I'm a huge John Coltrane fan" and then bulldozed over me just asked if I've ever heard Bitches Brew before 🥺 I'm a semi-professional jazz writer but no, that one is new to me.
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Cell phones SUCK!!! We don't need to be in constant communication!!! I don't need to feel bad for not responding to texts! I have so many other reasons to feel bad! This message brought to you via COMPUTER!!!
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I used to think this scene was totally unnecessary garbage, a rare low point in a great film, but someone pointed out that it shows Marge how seemingly nice people like Jerry could just be quietly lying, so she goes to see him one more time and figures it all out. 🤯
no one in human history has ever acted better than this. peak performance
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Bob Dylan, man. He’s been with me and you through thick and thin. Naturally my favorite album has changed throughout time but I think Blood on the Tracks is the one I most consistently reach for when I’m in the mood for our guy.
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Your Pynchon character name is your favorite baby animal + the last name of the first jazz musician that pops into your head. Mine is Cygnet Dolphy.
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~ Punks who read are my favorite punks and boy is there no better example than the fucking genius of Minutemen ❤️🔥
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This album rips. Yeah let's throw a steel drum sound on "Vague Space," why not? And it's got the best completely unrelated line in a song about Yul Brynner: "Stay inside on Christmas Day / And make believe that you are my candy cane" 😍
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All roads lead back to Slint. Few albums make me feel that whole “I am so uncomfortable and unfulfilled that I have to rip all my fucking skin off” thing as pleasurably as this sweet little beast.
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It’s so tough to choose but I think Painful is my favorite Yo La Tengo album.
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“You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life” has been rattling around in my head for days.
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Found one of my Vintage Contemporaries white whales at a Half Price Books in Ohio. Beautiful condition. Totally beside myself. 🥹
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Another remarkable Suzuki story that brought to mind some of my favorite shit: JG Ballard’s primordial seas, Shirley Jackson’s alienated women, Satoshi Kon’s characters with double lives hidden to them.
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Bless my ninth grade English teacher for thinking her idiot students were up to this challenge. Rearranged my brain and made me want to live among words for the rest of my life. I try to reread it every few years. Last time was in 2018 so I’m long overdue.
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I absolutely could not stop myself from picking up one of these Dorothy Ashby shirts.
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I fucking hated football right up until the moment I realized how much my good will meant to the two people who raised me, who are still alive & have so much love in their hearts, and boy does it feel good to scream and cry together instead of being alone and smug in the corner.
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