I’ve commenced my roughly quintennial reacquaintance with “Bridge Over Troubled Waters,” a song I believe to be irrefutably and uniquely powerful, but I can never get my head around the mix in the last section. I’m not sure where such a song is supposed to “go” but near-incoherence doesn’t seem quite right. But then, there I am, at the end of this breathtaking song, awash in cosmic reverb and a kind of asynchrony, and I think, “well, yes.”
I can’t remember how I found “American Diner Gothic” but anything with a tagline like “In the 2020s, the weird soul of placeless America is being born on Discord servers” will at least tickle my attention, and this piece, which folds alternately into anxious sociology and a kind of copped-out insider pov, turned out to be a wonderful read.
I didn’t know there were active offshoots or versions of the Guerrilla Girls but the original efforts remain inspiring. This kind of protest seems mostly impossible to me in our current moment. Too much info flows through specialized scrolling for their type of production and interference to touch anyone who isn’t already looking for it.
The photo site continues to be a work-in-progress. Which is to say, I continue to work on it and am making progress.
I made a memorial page for our cat, Lieu, to whom we said goodbye yesterday. Dearly missed.
I’ve added a new photos section to the site. it functions independently from the main site in some ways, e.g. the site’s search function does not extend to the photos subsite. Neither does the “photography” tag search the subsite. The photos site also has its own RSS feed. I might learn to remedy these distinctions in the future but for now it’s like an attached garage for photos. I’ll be organizing them by theme or location and adding photos when I can.
Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn, NY
Fugitive Recording, Brooklyn, NY
Not yet sure why I’m enjoying Inkwell so much so I’ll just roll with it. Nice work, @manton! Looking forward to its further development.
