References XIX
Where I offer my best links and music recommendations on the June Solstice, 2025.
I post these lists alongside my equinoctial and solstitial personal newsletter.
music
So much good music lately. Here are seven albums I enjoyed this spring:
- Forever Howlong, by Black Country, New Road
- caroline 2, by caroline
- Constant Noise, by Benefits
- Tether, by Annahstasia
- Jellywish, Florist
- Awareness of the Wind Within, by NTHNL + Sphente
- Plan 75, by The Orchestra (For Now)
links
A whole gaggle of links:
- “Lionized for their achievements and revered for their compassion, they bask in their status as society’s saviors. Meanwhile, the corporations they own extract wealth and externalize costs on a scale that dwarfs their largess. With one hand they generate supernormal profits by plundering society, and with the other they dole out a few crumbs to ‘save the world.’ But they never will. The math simply doesn’t work.”
- “Liberal democracy’s assumption that political parties must compete for votes in the same way that businesses compete for customers is a dangerous trap. It reduces voting to a mere transactional choice and erases the participatory vision of self-governance.”
- “People need joy, intimacy, and meaning as much as they need food and shelter, and they will often choose to go without material comforts to obtain them. It is only possible to forget this in the midst of the most vulgar sort of materialism.”
- “What might happen if we conceive oil beyond the pejorative, without judgement, attend it with a different kind of openness, even intimacy? What if we thanked it for its labour, blessed it back into the ground?”
- Sometimes the reason you can’t find people you resonate with is because you misread the ones you meet
- MUTUAL NON-SHARING AGREEMENT (AKA KEEP-MY-SHIT-PRIVATE-OR-ELSE CONTRACT)
- The welder-turned-poet who fell in love with words in a Glasgow shipyard
- For the Dogs Who Barked at Me on the Sidewalks in Connecticut
- The Ugly Truth About Spotify (maybe Subvert is the answer…)
- Youtube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem
- Can you throw your iPhone higher than me? (20.3 ft)
- “Started baking. Had a breakdown. Bon appétit!”
- I Tasted Honda’s Spicy Rodent-Repelling Tape
- Proxy Please: Help People Connect to Signal
- A coloring book about maintenance
- Why heroes don’t change the world
- Gaelic Football Is Something Else
- Ed Sanders - Henri Matisse
- Clocks made by Vasilis
- Venture Capital Status
- The Dril wiki
(Know something I would like? Share with me!)
