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reading
On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature – Melanie Challenger
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Cosmic Cooties – Brandon Montclare, Amy Reeder, Marco Failla, Natacha Bustos
Dark Horse – Kristina Marie Darling
Star Wars: Yoda’s Secret War – Jason Aaron, Salvador Larroca, Kelly Thompson, Emilio Laiso
Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – Elsa Charretier, Pierrick Colinet, Jody Houser, Devin Grayson, Beth Revis, Delilah Dawson
The Voyeurs – Gabrielle Bell
On a Sunbeam – Tillie Walden
Living Beautifully With Uncertainty and Change – Pema Chodron
Unterzakhn – Leela Corman
Magical Negro – Morgan Parker
Glass, Irony, & God – Anne Carson
Ker-Bloom 139 – Art Noose
Disposable Camera: Koala and Disposable Camera: 15.05.19 Sydney – Gadigal Land – Vanessa Berry
Skating with Shes and Hers Volume 1 – Amelia Bjesse-Puffin
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson

watching
Castle in the Sky – Hayao Miyazaki
Camp Wannakiki Season 2
The Case of the Three Sided Dream – Adam Kahan
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The Young Master – Jackie Chan
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – Hayao Miyazaki
Ghostbusters (2016) – Paul Feig
Black Panther
Star Trek Enterprise
Drag Race UK
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

listening
Jei Beibi – Café Tacuba
The Dreaming and The Red Shoes – Kate Bush
I’m Still In Love With You – Al Green
American Queers – Superknova
For You and I – Loraine James
Live in Oakland – Dax Pierson
The Lion’s Throne – Terry Riley and Amelia Cuni
CHORDS – Ellen Arkbro
Time? Astonishing! – Kool Keith and L’Orange
Where Future Unfolds – Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble
and departt from mono games – LOFT

radio free jp – october 2019

Make all the Ghoul Girls Cry – Quix*o*tic
You’re Dead – Norma Tanega
We’re so Cool – Au Pairs
Heart on a Chain – GoGoGo Airheart
Vertigo – The Screamers
Happy Harvest – Coughs
Editions of You – Roxy Music
LIP MAP – Tatiana Heuman
Es ist vollbracht – Maria Kliegel
Satanam – OVO
Baby I’m Crying – Vickie and the Van Dykes
The Amputees – Tindersticks
The Devil – PJ Harvey
I’m Glad You’re Mine – Al Green
Dig It – The Coup
When Tomorrow Hits – Mudhoney
River – The Ex
For You and I – Loraine James
What Have I Done to Deserve This – Pet Shop Boys
Freedom – Sampa the Great
She Wolf – Mira Cook
She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult
Dracula (Main Edit) – Basement Jaxx
Tricks N’ Treats – Kid Koala
Hiyeeley – Dur-Dur Band
The Great Pumpkin Waltz – Vince Guaraldi
Way-Out is the Way Out – Lungfish

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reading
The Complete David Bowie – Nicholas Pegg
A Thousand Coloured Castles – Gareth Brookes
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth – Warsan Shire
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy – Jenny Odell
Revenge of the She-Punks – Vivien Goldman
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene – Donna J. Haraway
Last Night at the Casino #14 and #15 – Billy Roberts
Muchacha #12: Decolonize Travel – Daisy Salinas, editor
Ker-bloom! #131 and #132 – Artnoose
Dork Lifestyle #2 and #4, Number One: a zine of firsts, Black Cloud – Missy Kulik
I’m learning to dance through clouds, I forgot to love myself, A Book of Rainbows – Shei
Tell Your Own Story – Dayna Moth
The Water Spirit – Alexander Utkin
Spider-Gwen Volume 1 – Jason Latour, Robbi Rodriguez, Chris Visions.
Ms. Marvel: Generation Why – G. Willow Wilson, Adrian Alphona, Jacob Wyatt.
Spinning Silver – Naomi Novik
What Your ADHD Child Wishes You Knew: Working Together to Empower Kids for Success in School and Life – Dr. Sharon Saline
Bloom Spells – Rebecca Artemisa
Behind the Zines #8 – Billy McCall, editor
The Cranklet’s Chronicle #2 – Ellen Lindner
Fern Zine and Biblioburbia – Vanessa Berry
Possession Obsession – Olivia M.

watching
What We Do in the Shadows (series)
Dr. Who
UNHhhh
Looney Tunes
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
Lunch On
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Young Frankenstein
Liga MX Femenil
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Sick Day. Thomas Comerford. Ovef Ow. Jefferson Memorial Park. August 2, 2019.
Hugo Colin. Little Egypt. Axons. Superknova. Jefferson Memorial Park. August 3, 2019.
Natalie Duke. Donna Herula. Jessica Risker. Jovan Landry. Jefferson Memorial Park. August 4, 2019.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi

listening
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances – Drug Apts
Life Metal – Sunn O)))
Ecstatic Computation – Caterina Barbieri
Anyone Who Had A Heart – Dionne Warwick
Cuz I Love You – Lizzo
Legacy! Legacy! – Jamila Woods
Synergy – Jovan Landry
Metallic Butterfly – Princess Nokia
American Queers – SuperKnova
Crash the Party – Ovef Ow
Best Off – Kitchen and the Plastic Spoons
fantasii – Mhysa
7 directions – Nkisi
No. 2, Ame Debout, Paix, and Le Rat Débile Et L’Homme Des Champs – Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes

radio free jp – july 2019

We’ve Only Just Begun (The Reflex Revision) – The Carpenters/Reflex
Moscow (Mariposa Voladora) – Elysia Crampton
Invernadero Part 2 – QEEI
Profumo 1994 – ?Alos
Come Back 2 Me – Bizzy B / Cool Hand Flex
‘Tis a Pity She Was a Whore – David Bowie
Sous la mer c’est calme – Cyril Cyril
Il Triello – Ennio Morricone
Las Olfateadoras – Los Pirañas
Kut Masta Kurt presents Masters of Illusion – Masters of Illusion
Ruins – Wooden Shjips
Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale – Love
Liar (Reptile Demo) – Nine Inch Nails
Steppin’ Out – Joe Jackson
Chicken and Meat – Das Racist
Dancing Queen – ABBA
Never Knew Love Like This Before – Stephanie Mills
Little League – Cap’n Jazz
Abortion – Mommy Long Legs
Young Girls – Princess Nokia
Something About John Coltrane – Alice Coltrane
Holy Diver – Dio
Violence Grows – Fatal Microbes
Garçon Glaçon – April March

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reading
The Years – Annie Ernaux
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois – Amy Novesky and Isabelle Arsenault
Undocumented: A Worker’s Fight – Duncan Tonatiuh
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and its Legacy – Simon Reynolds
Original Fire – Louise Erdrich
Whereas – Layli Long Soldier
Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer
One Hundred Demons – Lynda Barry
Spinning – Tillie Walden
Ms. Marvel: No Normal – G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona
Beautiful Darkness – Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future – Lauren Redniss
Pretty Deadly: Volume Two, The Bear – Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios
House of Women – Sophie Goldstein
There Are More Beautiful Things than Beyoncé – Morgan Parker

watching
Shazam
Liga MX Femenil
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12
Ways of Seeing – John Berger
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth
Dr. Who
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
What We Do in the Shadows (series)
Documentary Now
UNHhhh

listening
Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants – Stevie Wonder
Human Exploration and Cosmo Cleaners – Uranium Club
The Radio One Sessions and The Menace – Elastica
You Are Repeating Yourself Indeed – Ewa Justka
Significant Changes – Jayda G
Ancestor Boy – Lafawndah
Itekoma Hits and Okoshiyasu!! Otoboke Beaver – Otoboke Beaver
Anima Mysterium – Yugen Blakrok
Falha Comum – Rakta
Choosey & Exile – Black Beans
Pocket Full of Bees – Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl

listening listening april 2019

All the music that caught my ear in April of 2019. Listen, won’t you?

Buzzers – Scott Walker
Dead Souls – Nine Inch Nails
Chasing Shadows – Santigold
Salton City – Hot Snakes
Jesso Testa – OOIOO
Alien – Mommy Long Legs
Alarmala de Tos – Café Tacuba
Being – Frank Wright
No More Tearstained Makeup – Martha and the Vandellas
Wow and Flutter – Stereolab
Forced to Drive – The Breeders
Point That Thing Somewhere Else – The Clean
Do It Again – Easy Going
Thrash Me – Malaria!
Beautiful Food – Edan
India – The Psychedelic Furs
A Simple Formality – Komeda
Nightingale – Roxy Music
Long, Long, Long – The Beatles
Outside My Window – Steve Wonder
Your Arse My Place – Elastica

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reading
Detroit: A Psychopathic Geography – Julie Wu
Always Coming Home – Ursula K. Le Guin
El Mal de la Taiga – Cristina Rivera Garza
Behind the Zine #7 – Billy McCall, editor.
Boundless – Jillian Tamaki
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
David Bowie: The Oral History – Dylan Jones
Houses of Ravicka – Renee Gladman
A Handbook of Disappointed Fate – Anne Boyer
Human Nature #5 – Harley E.D. Houseman and Missy J. Kennedy, editors
Pops – Michael Chabon
Truckface #17 – LB Briggs

watching
Kill All Redneck Pricks
Dr. Who
RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars
Swansea City AFC
Drunk History
Ajijaak on Turtle Island – Ty Defoe, and others.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
Review with a Jew

listening
All Kind Music – Georgia
Elysia Crampton and Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City – Elysia Crampton
Everything’s Fine – Jean Grae
Dialogue – Helen Newby
Degradation Loops and Traced – Jasmine Guffond
Room 25 – Noname
Irreversible Entanglements – Irreversible Entanglements
Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun – Ben LaMar Gay
Friends. Lovers. Favorites. – The Hirs Collective
Selected Early Keyboard Works and Central Palace Music from 100 Model Subjects for Hegikan Roku – Catherine Christer Hennix
Faith Exotica – Shoeg
Sequence – Rattle
Pieces of a Man – Mick Jenkins
Eye Chant and Beside Herself – Michele Mercure
Oculto Pelos Seres and III – Rakta
Negative Capability – Marianne Faithfull
Khonnar and Klabb – Deena Abdelwahed
Free Lutangu and Mentor – Bonaventure
Julius Eastman: Piano Interpretations – Kukuruz Quartet
Really Good – Happy Nina and Nelson Bandela
Queen of Golden Dogs – Vessel
Overload – Georgia Anne Muldrow
Thought Gang – Thought Gang

influences

A list of writers who influenced me in some way that directly affected my own writing. Presented in order of first encounter.

Autumn Mather
e.e. cummings
Langston Hughes
Allen Ginsberg
Tristan Tzara
William S. Burroughs
John Porcellino
Barry Gifford
Joan Didion
Anders Nilsen
Michael Ondaatje
Sofia Samatar
Renee Gladman

two things

  1. Lotion in the armpits to prevent deodorant burns.
  2. A small needle puncture on my thumb, a gift from an overzealous cat.

– July 16, 2018.

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reading
Upgrade Soul – Ezra Clayton Daniels
Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales – Greer Gilman
Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors – Louise Erdrich
Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (In That Order) – Bridget Quinn
Battling Boy – Paul Pope
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
Tongues #2 – Anders Nilsen
SuperMutant Magic Academy – Jillian Tamaki
Afar – Leila Del Luca and Kit Seaton
As We Have Always Done – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Proof I Exist #29 Billy McCall
Men in the Off Hours – Anne Carson
A Different Pond – Bao Phi and Thi Bui
Crawl Space – Jesse Jacobs
Rust Belt Arcana – Matt Stansberry
Writing a Riot: Riot Grrrl Zines and Feminist Rhetorics – Rebekah J. Buchanan
Casi Libros 2 – Mariela Arzadun
My Pretty Vampire – Katie Skelly
The Crankelet’s Chronicle 1 – Ellen Lindner
Caboose #8 – Liz Mason

watching
Absolutely Fabulous
Dr. Who
Swansea City
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Golden Girls
Dragula Season 2
Carol – Todd Haynes
Mary Poppins Returns
Early Man
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 4
UNHhhh
The Snow Queen at Filament Theatre

listening
QEEI – Tatiana Heumann
Psychic Hearts – Thurston Moore
Bodiless – Ale Hop
Born Again In The Voltage – Caterina Barbieri
Ecce Homo – Ipek Gorgun
Brancusi Sculpting Beyonce – Lamin Fofana
In Gleam – Nadia Khan
Desire Loop – Lori Scacco
Paraiso – Adelaida
Soda Pop * Rip Off – Slant 6
Sound in Time, Pass and Stow, and Rainbows from Atoms – Lungfish
Weirdo Shrine – La Luz
Geogaddi – Boards of Canada
Gun Hill Road – Infesticons