Loose Leaves

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:44:22 -0500

Reading: “Introduction” from Songs of Innocence. Of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. 📖

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:10:49 -0500

Currently reading: Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake 📚

What a delightfully somber, surreal mood piece. ~200 pages in, it feels like an uneasy dream.

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:07:08 -0500

Reading Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky 📚

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 11:00:56 -0500

Watched my new favorite movie last night: Let the Right One In. What an eerily beautiful, strangely wholesome, coming-of-age horror story. 📽️

Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:45:18 -0500

Watched: Clive Barker’s Nightbreed (1990). Kind of a mess, but very imaginative 📽️

Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:57:22 -0500

What? You’ve never heard an electric harp? Let's fix that with Dorothy Ashby’s funky, soulful, underappreciated album Afro-Harping (1968).

Just listen to the first few seconds of Ashby’s take on “The Look of Love” on YouTube. If you don’t instantly love it, you can tell me I’m wrong. 🎵

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:50:35 -0500

Wow, look at him go

Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:21:37 -0500

Japanese Funk and Soul That Will Brighten Up Your Day 🎵

My Analog Journal plays fantastic selections from enviable vinyl collections. The sound, video, and overall vibe on these videos makes for perfect summer listening.

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:20:32 -0500

Playing: American Truck Simulator while listening to Beck’s Midnite Vultures. “Peaches and Cream” sure hits the spot while long-hauling imaginary freight from Seattle to Bakersfield. 🎵🎮

Sun, 18 Feb 2024 22:00:49 -0500

Watching Orlando (1993). 📽️

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:57:52 -0500

Reading: The Once and Future King. 📚

UPDATE November 4, 2026: I abandoned this book after suddenly encountering a horrific scene of animal abuse/murder at the beginning of book two. I just couldn’t stomach the thing after that.

Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:52:47 -0500

Watched: It Comes at Night (2017), an incredibly well-written movie. 📽️

Sun, 07 Jan 2024 22:11:39 -0500

2024 is off to a promising start.

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 16:22:36 -0500

Reading My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. Only about 125 pages in, but Jones’s prose is fantastic. 📚

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 09:19:23 -0500

Watching Rosemary’s Baby. 📽️

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:12:04 -0500

Making a character in Shadowdark, which is a tabletop roleplaying game resembling what D&D used to be: a survival horror dungeon crawl. 🕯️

Sat, 25 Nov 2023 17:56:55 -0500

Listening to Sofia Rei’s “De Tierra y Oro” 🎵

Sun, 19 Nov 2023 08:56:34 -0500

Good morning! I’m listening to The Gnostic Preludes: Music of Splendor.

It’s mystical, lyrical music for harp, vibraphone, and guitar performed by some legendary figures from NYC’s downtown experimental music scene.

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:18:55 -0500

You’ve gotta hear “La Araña” by punk legend Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds! www.youtube.com/watch 🎵

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:50:55 -0500

Learning about how pelvic floor muscles play into singing. Wild. How’d I never notice that?

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:55:21 -0500

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 19:22:15 -0500

Listening to Patchouli Blue by Bohren & Der Club of Gore while reading My Heart is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones. 🎵📚

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:58:55 -0500

“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift… but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”

—The Country of the Pointed Firs by Maine legend Sarah Orne Jewett

Tue, 07 Nov 2023 15:21:35 -0500

Bub looks like a teddy bear who lost a button. 🐈

Mon, 06 Nov 2023 11:50:55 -0500

On to Gnostic Trio’s In Lambeth: Visions from the Walled Garden of William Blake.

What a fun surprise to hear Ikue Mori’s distinct electronics work on track “The Minotaur” 🎵