Describe it 1 sentence: Holy smokes, I think I just found my new rap album.
Favorite tracks: “Gemini” because I too am Gemini (June 13th).
How I heard about it: Saw Nokia while scrolling the AV Club.
Fun / educational bit from artist’s Wikipedia: “Princess Nokia is a strong supporter of intersectional feminism, founding the Smart Girl Club with Milah Libin, a podcast where she discusses healthy living and urban feminism.” – Nice! I’ll have to check out that pod.
Spotify is a great service, however, when you are able, you should always support the artist directly by purchasing their stuff!
Describe it 1 sentence: A video game soundtrack that burrows unseen into the back of your brain, makes a nest, and is available for cuddles when you need them.
Favorite tracks: Title track all day
How I heard about it: Saw Leo while scrolling the AV Club.
Spotify is a great service, however, when you are able, you should always support the artist directly by purchasing their albums!
Describe it 1 sentence: Vocal driven, chill pop with whimsical and youthful lyrics.
Favorite tracks: “A Vision” and “I Go Out At Night”
How I heard about it: Saw Ratboys while scrolling the AV Club.
Fun / educational bit from artist’s Wikipedia: “MTV called Printer’s Devil ‘the best album of their career,’ while Pitchfork hailed the album’s depth as ‘comforting and sobering all at once.’”
Spotify is a great service, however, when you are able, you should always support the artist directly by purchasing their albums!
Describe it 1 sentence: Fantastic bass-lines and falsetto vocals that manifest Thundercat’s funny, tender, and funky personality.
Favorite tracks: I love them all – I’m going to go for “Miguel’s Happy Dance”
How I heard about it: Saw Thundercat while scrolling the AV Club.
Fun / educational bit from artist’s Wikipedia: “Through this, he is frequently able to renew elements from old soul, funk, and jazz albums. Known as “digging in the crates”, this method is best used to bring the sound, feel and emotion he wants to convey in his music.”
Spotify is a great service, however, when you are able, you should always support the artist directly by purchasing their albums!
Favorite tracks: “Your Body Changes Everything” and “Nothing at All”
How I heard about it: Saw Ladytron while scrolling the AV Club.
Most educational line from artist’s Wikipedia: “Hadreas’s music explores topics including sexuality, his personal struggle with Crohn’s disease, domestic abuse, and the dangers faced by gay men in contemporary society.”
Describe it 1 sentence: Chilly billy country music.
Favorite tracks: “Oxbow” and “Arkadelphia”
How I heard about it: Waxahatchee popped up in my Spotify “Discover Weekly”
Best line from artist’s Wikipedia: “In interviews, Crutchfield has said that her album Saint Cloud was largely written about her decision to get sober.”
I’ve deleted my Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook accounts for good! It feels great, and I’m less depressed. I’m currently working on developing Tumblr, so you can find me on there:
Describe it 1 sentence: Pulsing, sometimes with strange, irregular rythms electronic music.
Favorite tracks: “Emeral Rush”
How I heard about it: Saw Jon Hopkins while scrolling the AV Club.
Best line from artist’s Wikipedia: “According to reviews, ‘Hopkins’s aesthetic is perpetually intriguing. He transcends genres, melding digital coldness with subtle, bucolic textures; veering from skewed elegance to strange, unsettling depths.’”
Describe it 1 sentence: You’re on your first mission for NASA, freely orbiting the earth in a space suit, and you get a phone call from your girlfriend – she dumps you.
Favorite tracks: “Andromeda”
How I heard about it: Saw Weyes Blood while scrolling the AV Club.
Best line from artist’s Wikipedia: “When I record, I think about sacred space and I think about what would be the sound of your soul if there is music coming out of it. It would probably be an echoey, strange chamber.”
In addition to fever or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, loss of taste or smell and sore throat, the United States Center for Disease Control has recently add 3 new symptoms that may indicate a Covid-19 infection:
Flatulence resembling the drum solo from Phil Collin’s “In the Air Tonight”
You can only speak to your spouse with palindromes
Quick summary: The virus should not be equated to the common cold or flu. It spreads real fast and it’s no fun to get – even if the symptoms are “mild”. So the media’s suggestion to isolate early is inline with the severity of the virus.
Imagine if the hospitals experience what we’ve seen at the grocery stores in the past few days. Isolation is a good way to reduce the load that the hospitals will face.
Best line from artist’s Wikipedia: “Hebden’s recent output includes a number of improvisational works with jazz drummer Steve Reid and collaborations under the name 00110100 01010100 (binary for 4T) with Burial and Thom Yorke.”
How I heard about it: The band leader plays keyboard in my all-time favorite band.
Best line from artist’s Wikipedia: “A screamo band from Iowa City, Iowa had been using the same name through part of 2001. The band subsequently changed their name to Ten Grand after they sold the rights to the band name to McConnell for $10,000”
Friends, do the math, 2009 was 10 years ago and that means I must enthrall you with a tale of that year from my prospective as a modern day internet writer. Here’s what you need to know:
This is what i looked like on my driver’s license:
I joined an arts collective called christophermichaelsullivan. Though the collective is dead now, friendships forged live on! Here is my official bio and business card from one of the strangest work experiences of my life.
Taking headshots for my new position as Technologies Director at CMS
Taking headshots for my new position as Technologies Director at CMS
I started working at my first 9-5 job outside of the food service industry. I became a web designer y’all! One could argue that I still do that today, 10 years later. This was my business card.
I burnt my finger real bad while making soup for Megan.
Megan asked me to marry them, and I said “not at the moment”. It wasn’t because of the soup, we were just really poor at the time. We got married 3 years later.
Megan made her Portland theatre debut as Women #1 in “My First Time”
My good pal Benjamin graduated from the University of Southern Maine.
Megan turned 20!
Megan’s first birthday in Maine
I portrayed Professor Waldo for Halloween.
Megan attended their first Phish concert.
Megan portrayed Mrs. Shields in “A Christmas Story” at Schoolhouse Arts.
Wether you’re a dog person or a cat person, you’ve no doubt busted your buns and your forearms trying to get their fur out of your carpets. You’ve tried vacuums with fancy attachments, rug doctors, rug professors, and even rug lawyers – and the hair persists.
Good thing your here, because there is an easier way.
You can put your pet up for adoption. Chances are an other person will fall in love with your pet for all the same reasons you did, and that person will adopt your ex-pet. And maybe that person will have hardwood floors.
Bonus trick:
Can’t bear the thought of putting your pet up for adoption? Maybe it’s time to tear up those carpets and go all hardwood or tiles. If that’s more your speed, make sure you check with your landlord and roommates.
I just finished reading “First, We Make the Beast Beautiful” by Sarah Wilson. It’s the first book I’ve read, maybe ever, in which I was frantically taking notes while reading it. My spouse and I have been struggling with anxiety lately, and this book really got to me. I found the words and exercises very helpful, and I figured I’d share my rather unfocused notes with you. Maybe they’ll spark your interest and you’ll read the book too! I should note that I’m also seeing a therapist to help with my anxiety and depression. I wouldn’t want you to think that reading alone is a viable treatment for anxiety.
Have an imaginary talk with a kid. A kid you like, or even your younger self. Imagine that kid is having a rough time. Comfort them.
View insomnia as a way to get reacquainted with oneself. Maybe it’s your body’s decision, perhaps unconscious, that thinking will be more productive than sleep.
Write a “No Wonder” letter to your funny, little anxiety. “No wonder you are feeling this way…”
Just say “I’m anxious” it takes power from the amygdala, the animal part of our brain where anxiety lives.
Make your bed every day. Daily rituals that we complete without exception can quiet the brain.
I should research Vedic meditation
Have a daily gratitude ritual in which you list things you are thankful for. This can shift perspective. It works!
Does the problem that is making you anxious exist right NOW? Or is it something from the past, or something in the future. Think about the problem in terms of NOW.
Weekend Panic. Learn to back off from weekend expectations. Quell your FOMO by staying inside on a sunny day. You’re not really missing anything.
Flânerie: a wandering walk
Eat more veggies and fruits. 5-9 servings/ day
Eat more fermented stuff.
Check with a nutritionalist to see what supplements would benefit you.
Research Brené Brown and vulnerability ( Thanks for using WordPress to power your website. )
Shake up routines, try something completely different. Let go. Back the fuck off.
It’s said that if you view the sunrise from Acadia National Park’s Cadillac Mountain, you’ll be among the first people in United States that day to view the sun. It’s probably tourist fodder, but still Megan and I tried it out. It was really crowded up there, but worth the journey. The light and vistas were quite beautiful. I tried my best to capture them in these photos.
