Where do you start when you hear everything at once?
Bruce Chatwin’s fictionalized account of his travels in Australia tells of the Aboriginal belief that: In theory, at least, the whole of Australia could be read as a musical score. There was hardly a rock or creek in the country that could not or had not been sung. This belief is deeply felt, and lies [...]
“Too Drunk to Dream,” which you can download free and legally here, is the first release from Distortion, the new pink album by The Magnetic Fields. Here’s a clip of them performing it live March 3rd in LA, after about 45 seconds of typically awkward stage banter. It’s a little sloppy (it’s supposed to be, [...]
A good friend–and that’s the understatement of the year– is coming to visit next week. The 2+ years we’ve gone without seeing each other is a new record, and one I’m slightly troubled by, if only because it means we’re getting to that age where things move so fast we begin to ignore those “bff” [...]
Tangents for the Chasing
