Jason Molina THE TOWNES VAN ZANDT COVERS (2016)

No one had as much soul as TVZ, until Jason Molina came around. Like the universe knew we needed someone. Not sure who we have now. Just old records.   

 

I used to sing Steph this song, looking at a lone pine covered in snow, wondering at my luck, steeled to fight doom, to scrap like the runt of the litter.

 

City of Bohane by Kevin Barry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

apropos of nothing surely, I'll never forget a certain Pakistani friend of mine, in high school, showing me an image of a Hamas freedom fighter hands raised triumphantly with an IRA man, two dead men against empire, braver than I'll ever be. Palestine will be free. Ireland will be whole. the land will belong to those who can endure the most.

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Harrison Lemke FOREVER ONLY IDAHO (2021)

Palestine will be free.

Burial + Blackdown SHOCK POWER OF LOVE EP (2021)

grim and grimmer, a president tells the wage slaves to get back to work, a governor sends in the National Guard when some workers at old folks' homes ask for a raise, our ally sends our missiles at children, apartheid is just a facet of genocide, an easing in, a settlers' tactic, and those savvy Americans slyly stock up on beef and gasoline

we must shock this nation with the power of love

Democracy by Joan Didion
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

can verify that you will learn more about realpolitik in 200 pages from Didion than 4000 from Tom Clancy. and uh, no duh, but it will be a million times better written

Mary Lattimore SILVER LADDERS (2020)

music that should be here, as if it was composed on the bottoms of rocks in the creekbed, smooth ovals of density brought up, and turned over to reveal music, caddisfly homes of pebble and twig

Ilyas Ahmen & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma YOU CAN SEE YOUR OWN WAY OUT (2021)

find some treefall and sit and read, freed from filter/feedback, command/control, an agent with no ego but simple agency, an agent between cases, alone with wild irises