“In the Newness”

…The world at your fingertips In a dead door’s game When we’re like monks, Hailed for things we didn’t want anyway . So in conquest what we conquer is surprise And wisdom is old wisdom, That keeps us alive For as long as its firing lip song breaks.

“Freeze”

I feel inbred from the sun, like it knows my frame too well, if it looks too directly at me. This moistens, as others may notice it in me. We live on flat land, and the ground dances with the torture of all the dead, ours to behold, the comedic kaleidoscope of all those lives … Read more“Freeze”

“Continuous Art as Gap-Bridging through Inveterate Uniqueness: Sharon Jones and Adele”

The way fads come and go, sometimes it almost seems that the counterintuitive is an indispensable staple of human cognition. For instance, while Bill Clinton was in office, nobody was complaining about his failure to wage war: the economy was great, MTV was playing videos, and the cellular phone was sweeping the nation, uniting us all in a … Read more“Continuous Art as Gap-Bridging through Inveterate Uniqueness: Sharon Jones and Adele”

“Framing Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks’ ‘Baltimore’ with that ‘America’ Song”

Cokemachineglow.com around 2012: a little hit or miss; cokemachineglow.com circa 2008: damn near impeccable — I found out about Intelligence, Harlem Snakes and Surfer Blood on there, all unique and catchy acts in their own right. In 2012, though, cokemachineglow.com left Grizzly Bear – Shields off their year-end Top 50 out of apparent spite (I … Read more“Framing Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks’ ‘Baltimore’ with that ‘America’ Song”