getting high on my own supply - 19. danny devito

December 6, 2024

"danny devito" (november 2007) this song was inspired by a) me, unemployed and watching late night television, having seen the movie swingers for the first...

getting high on my own supply - 18. ugly

December 5, 2024

"all the ugly people in the world should be shot" (october 2007) "mannequin" (february 2009) the next song i recorded is called—and i wish i was making this...

getting high on my own supply - 17. hillssongs pt. 1

November 27, 2024

"won't you please be friends" (november 2007) at this point it becomes necessary to communicate that at the time of this song's recording in the fall of the...

getting high on my own supply - 16. scorpio season 2024

November 22, 2024

"phoning it in" (october 2007) (web) i have not had the energy to write or play music for the past couple weeks as my body mysteriously broke down in new and...

getting high on my own supply - 15. in the box, in the cave

November 13, 2024

"after a lot of people" (september 2007) read and listen on the web i have always recorded my music on computers. as a classic rock fan, i've read many...

getting high on my own supply - 14. end of the world

November 10, 2024

read and listen on the web "imitation of life" (REM, october 2007) i have an extremely good memory and always have had all my life (the fact that i have also...

anniversary

November 5, 2024

i'm thankful that today is the ninth anniversary of this newsletter (the first note) and am so thankful to you for reading, however long you've been reading....

getting high on my own supply - 13. some rap songs

November 2, 2024

listen and read on the web "t.s.a" (oct 2007) "tell me when to go" (oct 2007) the first CD i bought with my own money was the soundtrack to the 1999 remake...

getting high on my own supply - 12. lunch poems, pt. 1

October 28, 2024

(i've been working on a little web page for reading and listening to these (still WIP, thanks to deborah for the hero image and icons)) "having a coke with...

getting high on my own supply - 11. "won't you be in a cage with me"

October 22, 2024

episode 11 - "won't you be in a cage with me" (sept 2007) we're finally caught up on new episodes of from, a show where people are stuck in a purgatory (if...

getting high on my own supply - 10. the strokes (part 1)

October 18, 2024

episode 10 - "12:51" (the strokes, august 2007) "the modern age", (the strokes, august 2007 (glitch ending)), "the modern age" (the strokes, august 2007),...

getting high on my own supply - 9. "retouch me"

October 16, 2024

episode 9 - "retouch me" (august 2007) like "dear abby" this song is about a nontraditional relationship, in this case between a person in a picture singing...

getting high on my own supply - 8. "dear abby"

October 15, 2024

episode 8 - "dear abby" (summer 2007) i missed a day of these emails last week because we went to see clairo again wednesday night and got home late....

getting high on my own supply - 7. "someday", "take care"

October 12, 2024

7. "someday" (sugar ray, summer 2007) "thirteen" (big star, summer 2007) "take care" [big star, summer 2007) i think these are the last recordings i made the...

getting high on my own supply - 6: "if"

October 11, 2024

episode 6: "if" (spring 2007) the most represented subject in my catalog is not sex or drugs or god or revolution but instead, unfortunately (for both me and...

getting high on my own supply - 5. "u"

October 9, 2024

episode 5: "u" v1 (spring 2007) v2 (spring 2009) deborah's hairdresser pitched the show from to her and i was skeptical despite wanting a new drama to watch...

getting high on my own supply - 4. "WMD LUV"

October 8, 2024

episode 4: "WMD LUV" (spring 2007) i thought of myself as "very liberal" when i was in college in the mid aughts and that mostly manifested in not being...

getting high on my own supply - 3. songs about food (and sex) pt. 2

October 5, 2024

episode 3: "candy, darling", "i wanna frost your cheerio", "pie" (spring 2007) i was still a virgin when i recorded these songs. i kept doing food songs but...

getting high on my own supply - 2. "tigerbeat"

October 4, 2024

episode 2: "tigerbeat” (spring 2007) i got my first guitar for my sixteenth birthday. it was a black and white ibanez stratocaster copy that came with a...

getting high on my own supply - 1. songs about food pt. 1

October 3, 2024

episode 1: "ketchup" / “yogurt” / "snowcone” (spring 2007) i don't know if i'll stay roughly chronological with these or jump around but these are the next...

getting high on my own supply - 0. "content"

October 2, 2024

[i'm kind of stuck artistically lately and i want to try something else (deborah is also starting a month of daily comics, so i'm inspired to try to do...

i'm good at all the narcissisms, pt.2

September 23, 2024

the word "apricate" which means "to bask in the sun or sunbathe." as a person who has resisted sunscreen for sensory reasons my entire life having found the...

i'm good at all the narcissisms

September 17, 2024

today is the last day of my month-long sabbatical and tomorrow i go back to work and so of course i am experiencing the biggest sunday scaries ever but...

psycho of love

September 2, 2024

as deborah lay in bed waiting to have sex with me on saturday morning, i gripped a bag of ice in the freezer to chill my hands, then rushed in and embraced...

good natural light

August 20, 2024

i'm thankful that on friday t tested negative for covid and on saturday we celebrated by going out for tortas for lunch. i'm thankful that deborah wore a...

celebrating leo season

August 9, 2024

beautiful new newsletter from deborah celebrating leo season, her seat of power, “the glorious thick of summer, when it’s so hot that the evening cool air,...

the distance from the sentence to your eye

July 24, 2024

i mentioned it once already but two more episodes dropped yesterday and seriously do not sleep on the boyfriend (netflix), it has an all time great main...

sweet and soft and warm all the way through

July 14, 2024

that though the air conditioning for the train to seattle on friday afternoon was broken, they got us on a bus and it was fine (and had air conditioning and...

clairo is your brandi carlile

July 11, 2024

i'm thankful that tonight is the release of charm, the new album by clairo, whose previous album, sling, is deborah and i's shared favorite album as a...

it's like croutons as chips

July 10, 2024

it has been too hot to make art (a convenient excuse), but the worst of it has broken and the heat advisory has been lifted. another summer of keeping the...

head vampire of scorpios drake

July 3, 2024

there is so little to be grateful for in the wider world lately and i don't want to write and every day i'm more "behind" on the notes that support these...

see also the concept of original sin, which don't even get me started!

June 19, 2024

latest additions to list of Things Reasonable People Love That I Hate: crème brûlée, which i've been thinking about a lot because of using a blowtorch daily...

"havering" is synonymous with "yapping"

June 14, 2024

one of those workdays where it feels like you're stuck and accomplishing nothing followed by a day where you have a series of small triumphs that you...

all over each other in the stretch hummer

June 12, 2024

in terms of great single episodes of reality tv, i recommend the real world season 31 episode 10 (mtv, paramount+), which we watched last night and i am...

addicted to reality

June 7, 2024

all fours by miranda july which i am constitutionally a person who when a bunch of other people experience something supposedly great before me and hype it...

[fiona apple voice] drain the chickpeas

June 2, 2024

on friday, i finally took the thirty seconds necessary to hide all the hundreds of files on my desktop after months ago when deborah saw the buildup (which...

the circus

May 30, 2024

i made a video of kenneth koch reading his poem "the circus" set to clips of late 50s new york. (previously: on khloe kardashian and "the circus")

just him telling various zionists "fuck you"

May 17, 2024

deleting the threads app off my phone, which like i had given up on actually really using threads almost immediately post launch but i still kept the app...

champagne problems version of this take i know

May 14, 2024

feel like i haven't written in here in a million years and have a million things to write about which will take a million hours to complete to do any sort of...

spring asparagus

April 26, 2024

things i've been watching: the zone of interest (now streaming on max if you missed it, haunting and i appreciate jonathan glazer as a director who is still...

not something i'd experienced in carrot cake before

April 22, 2024

i'm thankful that it is light out earlier now, that instead of it immediately being time to get up the first moment i open my eyes, i open them and see that...

tavi gevinson doing i love dick on taylor swift

April 17, 2024

"fan fiction: a satire", which is tavi gevinson doing i love dick on taylor swift (my original elevator pitch reference point was marie calloway but tonally...

what's crackalackin

April 16, 2024

the show couples therapy which i had avoided because it seemed like it might be a downer and sometimes it is but mostly it's just very entertaining to...

another bespoke mental illness i have recently discovered

April 12, 2024

snuffle mats, if you don't have a dog, are an alternative to a dog's food bowl (usually a cloth mat with lots of frills and pockets for food to hide in) that...

she said to me condescendingly

April 5, 2024

at work we had a long guild discussion about the fraught relationship between engineering and design, which was enriching and also hilarious because usually...

deborah's march vlog, a highlight of my life

April 2, 2024

it's time for another monthly vlog from deborah, here is a short concrete description of every shot in the video. i watch rough cuts of this video all month...

out of memory

March 29, 2024

i had a pretty good day on wednesday and because i want to record it as a kind of talisman to grasp on bad days and also i think it's interesting to read...

frank o'hara's walk poems

March 25, 2024

i'm thankful that though i had a really weird and unpleasant spike of nausea on friday afternoon that made it impossible for a while to think of anything but...

the dream of spoiler-free search

March 22, 2024

miso went to daycare yesterday because they were supposed to mulch the stump of the tree they unnecessarily cut down in our backyard (they didn't end up...

not afraid to be servicey

March 21, 2024

i'm really sorry to do this to you but i have been living with this inside me for so long and i wonder if in the tradition of email chain letters / curses in...