Author Archives: Micah

The Sorrows of Young Whatever

Every­thing ever said about the rel­a­tiv­ity of time — be it seri­ous or jokey or wrong — is right. Short expanses of time can be unen­durably long, long stretches of time can pass by with­out notice, and now lasts for­ever while the past and the future never existed and never could or will. I whiled […]

best of 2009 music

March first is a good day to post this, right? I mean, the rush to get these out is gone, so now mine will appear more impor­tant for lack of com­pe­ti­tion. So, remem­ber how I did it last year? The tier­ing sys­tem, as opposed to rank­ings? Yeah, that’s how I’ve been rat­ing every­thing since then. […]

song of the day “bird, chrome”

under­world “beau­ti­ful burnout” blood on the tis­sue on the floor of the train sun goes down tem­per­a­ture drops beau­ti­ful burnout, beau­ti­ful burnout bird chrome that’s it. sim­plic­ity always cre­ates a stronger image.

2009 was a pretty straightforward year

…accord­ing to last.fm, any­way. my top 20 artists for the year: depeche mode pet shop boys brian eno coil the cure new order peter gabriel ein­stürzende neubauten the orb b! machine mus­lim­gauze the church cur­rent 93 and one front 242 de/vision the the project pitch­fork david syl­vian covenant part of me is a lit­tle let down that it […]

i can’t escape from you

i miss the pod­cast. i miss shar­ing music i like with my friends. le sigh. so… a lit­tle comp i pre­pared, in mem­ory of autumn. last day of novem­ber, last day that really is “autumn” as it’s emo­tion­ally defined. maybe you live some­place warm and sunny and you didn’t really get an autumn: this should help […]

song of the day “life’s an optical illusion, like other optical illusions”

damn. i miss doing the pod­cast. i also miss writ­ing here reg­u­larly. that hasn’t really hap­pened since i left NYC. i don’t doubt for one minute that the energy of the city made me more alive and more ener­getic. go ahead, go back to 2004, 2005 entries. the qual­ity and quan­tity of emblo­gena­tion there is […]

podcast…podcast?

well, maybe you’ve been won­der­ing what has hap­pened to my pod­cast. i talked a lot about hav­ing some excit­ing stuff planned for my 100th episode (and around then), but that was in july. months have passed, and noth­ing. well, all of the excit­ing stuff i wanted to do, i couldn’t get any­thing more than lukewarm […]

why i like the suburbs

maybe this is how i am unde­ni­ably amer­i­can. i see the sub­urbs as a very evoca­tive place. maybe it’s because i grew up there, and had all my most influ­enc­ing (?) expe­ri­ences in sub­ur­ban icons, but they’re really quite mys­te­ri­ous. david lynch would agree, no doubt. brian eno, too, prob­a­bly. the sub­urbs at night are […]

back to irregularly scheduled deprogramming

hey Blog. so i’ve got a wack­load of pic­tures from my august trav­els. (for me, a wack­load is a lot…like about 2 dozen.) first i gotta sort ‘em and tweak ‘em, so i’ll just leave you with a teaser. this is the view i had for a few weeks at my grand­par­ents’ on lake michigan: […]

home’s front door

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