References XV

Where I offer my best links and music recommendations on the June Solstice, 2024.

I post these lists alongside my equinoctial and solstitial personal newsletter.

music

My favorite music I encountered this spring, in no particular order:

1. Bright Future, by Adrianne Lenker
2. Earth Flower, by Earth Flower (pensive, beautiful)
3. Keeper of the Shepherd, by Hannah Frances (relaxing and reflective)
4. Fleeting Future, by Akusmi (jazzy but sharp, good work background music)
5. Little Arcs, by Little Arcs (rip, got to see their last show which was also a release show)
6. I Got Heaven, by MANNEQUIN PUSSY (defiant, smooth)

Also:

• I’m super exited for my friend Jake’s upcoming album - singles are out now!
• Permission is hereby granted (context)
• I came once more upon one of my favorite collaborative music projects, In B Flat. So soothing
• I know he’s playing stadiums, but I still love Fred again.. making music with so much joy
• My favorite concert of the year so far was getting to see Black Country, New Road (video)
• Took me way too long to listen to the full Köln Concert

links

This spring I learned about extreme ironing, magnet fishing, orgcore, Kyoto University’s graduation dress code, and that The Fig Man of New Mexico is selling his (fig) business.

And there’s plenty more where that came from:

• “Mark Zuckerberg is a small man — five foot seven, according to Google — but that is not very widely known, because the only images of him available to the public are carefully crafted to make him look taller” (a gem from 2018)
• "‘Every word,’ wrote Beckett, ‘is like an unnecessary stain on silence & nothingness.’ He doubled down on this commitment, with conclusive force, when he died."
• “Ime the first Lord in the younited States of A mercary Now of Newburyport it is the voise of the peopel and I cant Help it and so Let it goue”
• “Hey upper-east-siders, Gossip Girl here. Your one and only source into the scandals of financial capitalism.”
• “Windy x Meet The Grahams [is] what the NBA interwebs are all about”
• The world’s forgotten war, and the people striving for life
• “Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem”
• Why You Can’t Remember the Story of any Videogame
• “At three miles an hour, the world is a continuum”
• Incarceration in real numbers
• I heard you like polyrhythms
• The Diary of Tortov Roddle
• Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain
• Swampfest 2024

(Know something I would like? Share with me!)