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on my dad + music in memory

on my dad + music in memory

It’s 8:45 PM while I’m writing this but my laptop is an hour behind. I wasn’t aware it has manual time and date settings until I left central time and it never updated. I was aware my laptop shows a European date format but I was

on the weakerthans + being publicly emo

on the weakerthans + being publicly emo

I do discuss sexual assault within this newsletter. It’s not graphic and more about a response I had but, as with anything concerning the topic, I’d like to give a trigger warning. Welcome to my personal blog. Like and Subscribe and Smash That Notification Button. Yesterday was a

on twitter + fan culture

on twitter + fan culture

I am, by all measures, not twitter’s biggest critic. I have more positive than negative interactions on the site and have made great friends through it. Like with most social media, I firmly believe most people get the experience they set out to have and a lot can be

on sit resist by laura stevenson + sprawling by happy accidents

on sit resist by laura stevenson + sprawling by happy accidents

Despite a weekend of weird music writer discourse about newsletters (great bait for a newsletter topic), we return to my stated purpose: discussing an album from a while back that I’ve never heard and then discussing some new(ish) music I’ve really liked lately! This week it’s

on slow mass + being me or whatever

on slow mass + being me or whatever

This week on the something old newsletter I’m discussing something that isn’t old and my own very personal experience with music listening, obviously. All my writing is about me first, music second. Something New Slow Mass is, by a wide margin, my favorite band from my beloved home

on moving, god in chicago + friends i met online

on moving, god in chicago + friends i met online

for the three years i’ve known him in various stages of our knowing each other, north and south down lake shore drive and 55 to and from the suburbs, the man who is now my boyfriend has played a song called god in chicago. the first time he showed

on untitled by blink-182 because twitter is rotting my brain but like in a fun way

on untitled by blink-182 because twitter is rotting my brain but like in a fun way

Welcome back to Something Old, Something New. Today we’re discussing two albums that came out before 2005. Last week I made a shithead response to this tweet: james cassar @getcerebralspoke to twitter. they have this new rule where if you’re in diy and think blink-182 is bad they