8 years together. I love you. #sf #igerssf https://www.instagram.com/p/CEWpUXthcal/?igshid=yaixdue55928
Q2 2020 Favorites
The 1975 | Notes on a Conditional Form (Dirty Hit/Polydor) Bob Dylan | Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia) Charli XCX | how i’m feeling now (Atlantic/Asylum) The Cool Kids | Volumes (Propler) Dance Gavin Dance | Afterburner (Rise) Fiona Apple | Fetch The Bolt Cutters (Epic/Sony) Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist | Alfredo (ESGN/ALC/Empire) HAIM | Women in Music Pt. III (Haim/Columbia) Hayley Williams | Petals for Armor (Atlantic) Hum | Inlet (Earth Analog) Jeff Rosenstock | NO DREAM (Polyvinyl) Knxwledge | 1988 (Stones Throw) Lady Gaga | Chromatica (Interscope) Midwife | Forever (The Flenser) Mrs. Piss | Self-Surgery (Sargent House) Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher (Dead Oceans) Run The Jewels | Run The Jewels 4 (Jewel Runners LLC) The Strokes | The New Abnormal (Cult/RCA) Umbra Vitae | Shadow of Life (Deathwish) Zoon | Bleached Wavves (Paper Bag)
Quarantunes, Vol. 8
Full of Hell | Burning Myrrh Real Estate | Friday Green Day | I Was a Teenage Teenager HUNCHO JACK | Saint Laurent Mask Apex Twin | 4 Birds in Row | 15-38 Young Thug | Memo Bat for Lashes | Kids in the Dark The Cool Kids & The Alchemist | Layups Cult Leader | To: Achlys
Quarantunes, Vol. 7
Marvin Gaye | What’s Goin’ On FEVER 333 | BURN IT Vince Staples | Hands Up JAY-Z | The Story of O.J. Noname | Blaxploitation Jesus Piece | Lucid Run The Jewels | JU$T (Feat. Pharrell Williams & Zach de la Rocha) P.O.S | sleepdrone/superposition (Feat. Allan Kingdom, Astronautalis, Eric Mayson, HardR, Kathleen Hanna, Lizzo, Lydia Liza & Nicholas L. Perez) Kendrick Lamar | i Gil Scott-Heron | I’m New Here Apple | Spotify
Quarantunes, Vol. 6
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga | Anything Goes Against Me! | I Was a Teenage Anarchist Charli XCX | claws Al Green | Simply Beautiful Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist | Something to Rap About (Feat. Tyler, the Creator) The Avalanches | Since I Left You Jeff Rosenstock | Scram! Carly Rae Jepsen | Want You In My Room Gallows | Crucifucks Death Cab For Cutie | 60 & Punk Apple | Spotify
Jia Tolentino speaking with Mike Hadreas in The New Yorker:
I think the core thing that got me healthy was a spiritual allowance to be uncomfortable—to just sit in it, and not scramble to soothe myself, or escape in a dangerous way, or in an easy way. Music gave me a way to make that scramble more purposeful or helpful. When I’m writing, I feel kinder, and wiser. I feel that all the things that I thought made me a bad person can help me be compassionate and observant.
But, then, I’ve been wondering: Why is writing the only time I feel that? Maybe I shifted too much toward work being the singular thing. It’s kind of not working for me anymore. It makes me feel less sober, realizing how enmeshed I am with my work as a driving force. I reserve all my goodness, all my patience, for the things that I make. And then, if I’m not working, then I’m just, like, kind of irritable and sitting down.
Wonderful profile. Leaning into discomfort has been a challenge for me as well.
Quarantunes, Vol. 5
Wolf Parade | Lazarus Online Britney Spears | (You Drive Me) Crazy Hayley Williams | Simmer Japanese Breakfast | Road Head Nine Inch Nails | Hope We Can Again Clams Casino & Imogen Heap | I’m God Best Coast | How They Want Me To Be Coheed and Cambria | Island Billie Joe Armstrong | I Think We’re Alone Now The 1975 | Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America
Honestly, same tho #dogsofinstagram #chihuahuasofinstagram #nofilter #mondays #sf #igerssf https://www.instagram.com/p/CAVbGSFBGSw/?igshid=taxofm1g8hgi
Quarantunes, Vol. 4
Novo Amor | Welcome to the Jungle EL-P | Delorean Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Heads Will Roll The Voidz | Human Sadness Sebastian Böhm | Blue Monday The Blood Brothers | Cecilia and the Silhouette Saloon Jess Williamson | As the Birds Are Simple Creatures | Drug Fucked Up | Dose Your Dreams Jack Harlow | RIVER ROAD
Quarantunes, Vol. 3
Alexisonfire | .44 Caliber Love Letter Sia | Unstoppable Travis Scott & Young Thug | pick up the phone boygenius | Souvenir Lana Del Rey | Fuck it I Love You The Chemical Brothers | No Geography Kyuss | Gardenia Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room | Me and Denver The Mars Volta | The Widow Foxing | Slapstick Apple | Spotify
Quarantunes, Vol. 2
The Strokes | The Adults Are Talking Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness | Synesthesia Pusha T | Hard Piano (Feat. Rick Ross) Generation X | Dancing With Myself Dinosaur Pile-Up | Thrash Metal Cassette Mazzy Star | Mary of Silence Deftones | No Ordinary Love Knxwledge | minding_my business Mike Dean | The Sixth or Seventh Day Frank Ocean | White Ferrari
Quarantunes, Vol. 1
Bad Books | Wheel Well Origami Angel | Doctor Whomst The Rolling Stones | Living In A Ghost Town Sharon Van Etten | Jupiter 4 Travis Scott/Jack Boys | Highest in the Room (Remix) Fall Out Boy | The (After) Life of the Party Orville Peck | Dead of Night Run The Jewels | Yankee and the Brave (ep.4) Every Time I Die | The Coin Has a Say Phoebe Bridgers | Garden Song
Q1 2020 Favorites
Alkaline Trio | E.P. (Epitaph) Boldy James | The Price of Tea in China (ALC/Boldy James) Caspian | On Circles (Triple Crown) Childish Gambino | 3.15.20 (RCA) Code Orange | Underneath (Roadrunner) Dogleg | Melee (Triple Crown) Dua Lipa | Future Nostalgia (Dua Lipa/Warner) Gil Scott-Heron & Makaya McCraven | We’re New Again (XL) Green Day | Father of all Motherfuckers (Reprise) Greg Dulli | Random Desire (Royal Cream/BMG) Hot Mulligan | You’ll Be Fine (No Sleep) Jay Electronica | A Written Testimony (Roc Nation) Mac Miller | Circles (Warner) Nine Inch Nails | Ghosts V: Together (The Null Corporation) Nine Inch Nails | Ghosts VI: Locusts (The Null Corporation) Spanish Love Songs | Brave Faces Everyone (Pure Noise) Soccer Mommy | color theory (Loma Vista) Tame Impala | The Slow Rush (Modular Recordings) The Weeknd | After Hours (XO/Republic) Wolf Parade | Thin Mind (Sub Pop)
Peace / Love #usa #jasperjohns #peace #love (at The Broad) https://www.instagram.com/p/B84bywuBZ9X/?igshid=1g6dors2lytcv
2019 Reads
My Spiritual Journey | The Dalai Lama and Sofia Stril-Rever (Memoir) Cathedral | Raymond Carver (Fiction, Short Stories) Walden | Henry David Thoreau (Non-Fiction) Girl in a Band | Kim Gordon (Memoir) The White Album | Joan Didion (Essays) Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion | Jia Tolentino (Essays) The Highly Sensitive Person | Elaine Aron (Non-Fiction) Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory | Raphael Bob-Waksberg (Fiction, Short Stories) Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists | Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus (Memoir) Outline: A Novel (Outline Trilogy) | Rachel Cusk (Fiction)
Ten seconds left Until midnight Nine chances to drown ourselves In black hair dye Eight faces turned away From shock Seven windows and six of them are locked Five stories falling Forever and ever Three cheers to the mirror Now there are two of us Can we have one last dance? Jet black - The ink that spells your name Jet black - The blood that’s in your veins Jet black - We say, “How long can we take this chance not to celebrate?”