#25: 24
The last four or five weeks I’ve tried to stay offline as much as I can. I deleted the Instagram and Twitter apps from my phone, accessing the latter only...
#24: el oh vee ee
In the balmy late-spring evening, a warm breeze blowing the soft dryer sheet air, a casual sun coming in and out of focus, I walked slow and steady,...
#23: Third Wind
GulferCherry Seed I find a modest pleasure in listening to Gulfer. Rarely (give or take a Del Paxton) am I served up something that hits so squarely in my...
#22: Experiment
I haven't meant to be so quiet. Once the zines went out in September, I had to start dedicating pretty much all of my energy to school, or at least start...
#21: Introducing "Aviation and more"
Announcing "Aviation and more," a new free zine of stories by me and poems by Tali Cohen.
#20: pure music
When Strange Ranger first announced Pure Music earlier this year, I wasn’t very excited. Even though I had been following the band since their first full-...
#19: not my world
On January 1, the 2010s-era pop-punk band Fireworks released their first album in nearly a decade, the brooding and expansive Higher Lonely Power. Alongside...
#18: An Ocean in Between the Waves
A couple of years ago, I started a column at The Alternative called “On Shuffle.” It’s all in the name — I’d put my library of songs on shuffle and write...
#17 You First
I don’t typically think of myself as a vindictive person, but every once in a while I am reminded of the feeling. I remember the songs I loved so much...
#16 Maybe I'll Write a Newsletter
It's been a little while. Hey. I said I'd get right back into writing when the semester ended but actually it turns out that you feel a little disoriented...
#15 Take a Walk
Well hi. Rainy slushy grey kinda week right? Not so bad I guess. Felt a little too slippy out yesterday to ride my bike so I took a pretty nice walk to...
#14: Introducing Last Ditch plus two more
Well well well. Well. Well well. Happy new year. Hope you're all doing well or on the way there. Paradoxically, as usual, it's been a while. Predictably, I...
#13: I intentionally wrote it out
I settle nicely into a routine. The moment I realize that my weeks are starting to look quite a bit alike is not usually the moment when I panic. I freak out...
#12: Point the Flashlight
Hey everyone! The newsletter lives, am I right? I think I start every one of these with some kind of assertion of the continued survival of this thing, as...
#11: Try Everything You Can
Bleed American turns 20 this weekend and I have been thinking for a while that I wanted to write about it, but I spent a lot of time last year working on a...
#10: Staying Warm
Welcome back. Or thanks for welcoming me back. I guess since this newsletter is presumably arriving in your inbox it’s your inbox who would be saying welcome...
#9: My Blue Heaven // Six EPs
[John Wilson voice] Hey, New York. [/John Wilson voice] It’s been a while. Here’s a little narrative in honor of the recent 15-year anniversary of Taking...
#8: Freddie
I am easily moved by the smallest of things. Little gestures from coincidental forces. A TV show character with whom I identify wearing the very same H&M...
#7: Balance
Hey hi how are ya? I was thinking a lot about Pedro the Lion the other day and I remembered something I had stowed away in my files that I realized I wanted...
#6: Whirlpool // Late LPs
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve returned to this space. All I can really say is that I’ve been trying pretty hard to claw my way back here through the...
#5: Last Year's Books, pt. 2
One of my favorite things about the first round of lightning book reviews I did last month was the way it brought me back to the different bookstores I used...
#4: The Shelves Are Full // Happy
It feels like my entire room is shelves, and somehow I’m still always running out of space. I squeeze books into the crevices above more neatly arranged (but...
#3: Ribbon Fair
Hey good morning. it’s chewsday @harrytuesdayAugust 4th 20204,360 Retweets16,223 Likes Thanks for coming back. A few different things for ya today. Let’s...
#2: Last Year's Books, pt. 1
Hello! Thanks for coming back to I Keep a Diary, I’m glad you’re here. Today’s newsletter is about books, but here are eleven songs before we get started:...
#1: Warming Up
Last year, I kept a diary. From May 2019 to September 2020, I opened up the same google doc maybe a billion times (I don’t feel like counting) and forced...
Building something, I don't know what, about books, music, and my complex feelings about being perceived.
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