I was definitely listening to Throwing Muses pretty regularly, which is pretty depressing music by most accounts. Take a song like “Two Step” — the sense of loss and overbearing emotion is blistering, pathological stuff. Then Radiohead became my favorite band — “There, There” was my favorite song, and I’d make these best-of Radiohead mixes. … Continue reading “Notes on Moving Back to My Hometown at 26”