Let me get the three-piece and a biscuit
hello,
It has been hot and humid in the UK. It is unsettling. Let’s hope, soon, we’re unsettled enough to do something.
This is a fantastic piece of music writing. It’s not criticism, it’s something else. Music generosity? But the TikTok version is complete genius. Succinct and dense. Informed enthusiasm. New ways to edit and play and present. It’s brilliant.
How to Grow Old by Sandra Cisneros (an extract)
Don’t fret about
the champagne-glass
neck.
Drink champagne.Inner-arm flesh,
crepe bat wings.
Train for night flights.Expect body hair
to
thin,
disappear,
Alpinize.
Trash tweezers,
shavers.In the bath,
discover a warm atoll
of flesh on the belly.
Cup gently in your hands
like raw tortilla dough.
Admire its satin finish.
Give thanks.One day you will wake
astonished as Gregor Samsa
and find you have
transmogrified into a volcano.Sometimes, Michael can be a bit much, but this video about Vibram is fascinating.
I suspect some of you are soft witches
“The actress Stephanie Hsu likes to call herself a “soft witch,” meaning that although she has some supernatural powers of perception, her intuition can be off by a few clicks. Case in point: last year, Hsu had a sudden vision that she would be cast in the Broadway hit “Oh, Mary!” as Abraham Lincoln. (The sight gag appealed to her: Hsu is five feet tall.) The next day, she heard from Sam Pinkleton, the show’s director, who wanted to discuss an opportunity. “I was, like, Sam, this is soooo spooky, but I already know you’re going to ask me to be Lincoln,” she said. “And he was, like, What the hell are you talking about?””
Goodbye long wave. Media archiving on ephemeral platforms. I wrote something about this.
SELF-PROMOTION
I get nice emails when I send this thing. It’s really lovely. If you’d like to say hello, please do.
I’ll give you back your day.
russell
(There are 1063 of you. “1×1063 is Archimedes' estimate in The Sand Reckoner of the total number of grains of sand that could fit into the entire cosmos”)