the times square of new york city
For this week, a poem about a lady i met in the subway.
joan,
joan from atlanta,
most trafficked airport on earth
fly me away via screens
hospitals and weddings
napalm couldn't kill us
la operacíon yet still
we're born
You can read the rest here.
Hey people who read this newsletter! If you could do me a solid and share this newsletter for me, tell a friend, etc, that would be sick. I’ve really enjoyed hearing people’s thoughts on it, and it would be cool to have more readers, get my stuff to a slightly larger audience, and make new connections and whatnot. Thanks :)
A whole lot of kinda big gigs coming up for Overheard.
Colony in Woodstock, NY on Sunday August 10th, courtesy of the Capital Region’s Superdark Collective! Lenny can’t be there, so Joey Wright of TV Sleep and Tiny Blue Ghost will be stepping in on drums! Get tickets here;
DromFest in Catskill, NY on Saturday August 30th! We will be joined by Grace Moore on violin, and KT will be playing mandolin and viola, for an ‘Overheard Unplugged’ set! Tickets are sadly sold out for our specific date because of a certain Yo La Tengo, but the rest of the dates are still available here;
and O+ Fest (!!!!) in Kingston, NY on Friday October 10th Get tickets here.
In more exciting news, there will be another Ghost Down solo set on Sunday, August 17th at Hart Bar! I don’t know exactly what I’ll be doing for it, but I’m sure it’ll be fun and/or stressful. I’ll be joined by Anna Abondolo’s Worldwide Seagull in supporting the indie band Jersey Star! Webb of Jersey Star and I are considering it a joint birthday show (22nd and 26th, respectively).
Finally, if all goes well (send your prayers and best wishes and godspeed to my mixing/mastering bestie Evan Thomas), I will have an album coming out on my aforementioned birthday, Tuesday, August 26th. The album is called Mr. Mist. I did not realize when I started this newsletter in January that my birthday would fall on a Ghost Down day, and I think that’s neat.
Misc. Stuff I’m Into:
Movies:
Superman [2025, dir. James Gunn] and 28 Years Later [2025, dir. Danny Boyle], two films that detail with great care how and why respect and care for human life should be treated as paramount.
Sorry, Baby [2025, dir. Eva Victor]. Would recommend looking up content warnings going in, but still an excellent, darkly funny film, and one of my favorites of the year so far.
High and Low [1963, dir. Akira Kurosawa]. The man simply couldn’t miss, and I am very curious about the Spike Lee reimagining of the film that’s on the way.
Music:
Hanumankind’s Monsoon Season; thank you Kori for the rec! Run It Up is my favorite track.
Tyler, the Creator’s DON’T TAP THE GLASS; most of y’all have probably already heard this, but if you haven’t, check it out! Extremely fun and danceable hip-hop record by one of my favs. I tried to get tickets for his surprise Under the K Bridge show and they sold out literally instantaneously, what can you do, death to AXS/Ticketmaster/all of them, I’m not mad about it I swear. I did get to see him on the CHROMAKOPIA tour the week before though, and that was incredible.
Beats in Space 039: Wata Igarashi; Went to the excellent Nowadays in Ridgewood for the first time this past weekend to see him. He went on at 2 AM and basically doubled the volume to inhuman levels, and I left the dance floor to get some water and couldn’t get back on it because of the solid and impenetrable wall of people, so I left like twenty minutes into his set. But he still rocks!
Slow Pulp’s Moveys; Extremely hypnotic and subtly adventurous indie.
Reading:
Would like to highlight this piece, Gaza is Starving. The global community is allowing people to starve to death due to withheld aid in Gaza. And for what? Land development? Fuck this genocide, and fuck its apologists.
I ditched Amazon’s Goodreads in favor of Storygraph, and you can add/follow me there to see what I’ve read and am reading if you’re interested!
This past weekend, I had the pleasure of going to the New York Aquarium on Coney Island with Erin, KT, Grace, and Brendon. We snacked hard on dogs, fries, shrimp, and corn, we spaced out at jellyfish, we let out old man grunts every time the pouty fish opened their mouths, and I watched Brendon fiendishly construct a propaganda video for Timmy and Tommy Nook from Animal Crossing: New Leaf to unionize. He says “I’m in the heart of Brooklyn(?) at what many people call the Times Square(??) of New York City(???), Coney Island(????)” and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. The will to construct a sentence as a matryoshka of inaccuracies is beyond me, and I have to applaud its audacity.
Anyway, photos.
icymi, I released a song and wrote an essay about Sufjan Stevens in previous newsletters. Check ‘em out!
Thanks for reading!
Will