People have been mistakenly calling me “Karen” my whole life, and I don’t mind correcting people, but in an age of karens it is a bit tiring, gotta say.

Suddenly remembered this Big Star song I was obsessed with 10-15 years ago. All of my favorite songs are love songs youtu.be/utOb0JRLH0A?...

Emily Skaja’s got the juice.

This Horse Feathers cover of Nirvana came out in 2010 and I’m sad I didn’t know about it, a great song to slow down: youtu.be/3-FO0HaVc0Y?...

Fiona Apple and Jon Brion covering Buddy Holly. I love this song, would 100% sing it to a baby: youtu.be/IJGZImkXMVc?...

From Safe Word by Donald Dunbar:

Maybe mostly everyone has seen it by now, and Fallon sucks, but this song by Hayley Williams is really kind of great, calls out white southern christofascism and racism, more of this, please! youtu.be/sNNYei__joU?...

Incredibly rad and a jam, a real bop: youtu.be/vaG5tVnpkwc?...

“Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die,” sang Robert Smith, age 26. youtu.be/scif2vfg1ug?...

I’ve been sad lately about a lot of things, but annoying animal dance party protest makes me laugh, great tactic, I love it here, never leaving.

Sometimes all I want is to listen to some guitar chords and a little ditty, thank you, Arthur Russell: youtu.be/FjPhXjmrTPE?...

Transcribing that Jane Goodall interview clip into my poetry journal for future reference and thinking that slide guitar might be my favorite instrument (I thought it was theremin or handclaps). It is definitely Sunday.

Here for the mushroom-powered toilets: www.popsci.com/environment/...

About to go to the community arts and crafts store for some collage supplies here in war-ravaged Portland. 60 degrees and the sun is shining, an absolute hellscape.

From Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night by Morgan Parker:

Little bite from Paul Legault:

Feeling despair as AI increasingly takes over my writing dayjob opportunities and thinking of this panel with sci fi authors I went to back in 2019. I wonder what those writers are up to now that it’s fully taken over. slate.com/technology/2...

Up crying about the scourge of capitalism, wyd

Reading through poems on my shelf and found this little ghazal from Kaveh Akbar:

A wolf poem I like, from Ben Mirov’s Hider Roser.

Elliott Smith covering Waterloo Sunset on The Jon Brion Show, directed by PT Anderson: youtu.be/LFbQQzkZuqU?...

Saw Eddington last night and really enjoyed it, especially with a bunch of fellow Portlanders around me. Maybe my favorite of the movies I’ve seen in the theater this year (toss up with Mickey 17). I didn’t know Ari Aster’s mom is a poet, makes so much sense!

Doing some editing and realizing I should retitle a poem to “I Hate Wellness Influencers” because I really do (but maybe too on the nose).

While I’m on a covers kick, this Sharon Van Etten/Shearwater cover of Tom Petty/Stevie Nicks is also good. It sounds like they practiced: youtu.be/RbP3S4pRcTE?...

“The world holds you on its tongue/And no one can save you”—Dorothea Lasky.

I’m don’t seek out superhero movies, and lots of CGI is not something I find appealing, but the new Superman was thoroughly entertaining, especially on a big screen. Gunn’s vision really set the bar for me.

Saw a kid with an Aaliyah t-shirt and it reminded me to put this song (one of the better ones from the era) on my list. Timbaland is so good on this too. I didn’t realize it was made for the Dr. Doolittle soundtrack!: youtu.be/uTMuqL0qx08?...

Jean Valentine. poets.org/poem/love-5

Unacceptable to let any kids in any district go hungry. You want your precious test scores to go up? Feed students!

Forgot about the AV Club covers series. I’m glad they’re still online. Ted Leo and The Pharmacists covering Tears For Fears is particularly enjoyable: youtu.be/RM5LXO_F7lU?...

I can only cook semi-competently, but I love to pickle. Pickle all day.

Going to text my dad (originally from Jackson Heights) about how today is a great day for Queens specifically. So happy for NYC right now I want to have a party about it!

Listening to this very sad Daniel Johnston cover I just stumbled onto AFTER listening to some sad Iris DeMent songs, and now I’m weeping before workshop, oh no: youtu.be/ea1trsU3riU?...

Always finding a gem reading Eileen Myles:

“I wonder why we listen to poets/when nobody gives a fuck”https://youtu.be/-IKQkxnHp9U?si=RlPfEMzN-pLMRd7O

Feel like the riff in Woody Guthrie’s Tear the Fascists Down is unfuckwithable: youtu.be/-3xUPpkxAco?...

When I lived in NYC I was walking home from my shift at Sur La Table and almost ran over Sarah Jessica Parker while she was smoking a cig outside of a theater. Also Julianne Moore came into the store one time and I flirted with her husband before I realized who he was. They were both very nice!

RIP Brian Wilson, one of the greatest. All the good BW songs are being posted, so I thought I’d put my favorite Dennis song here to mix it up. Maybe they’re hanging out on a rainbow somewhere together now: youtu.be/PJKkJ8i66sw?...

Stephen Miller’s head looks like it’s going to bust out of his skull, MTV’s The Head style, but with something way worse inside.

Mm whatcha say

Fell in a YouTube hole and ended up rewatching The Devil and Daniel Johnston. Still sad and good. youtu.be/qXAwQAW7t54?...

Going to see Chantal Akerman’s 1975 film, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, tonight. It is almost 4 hours long so I hope it lives up to the hype and I stay jacked up on soda.

Reading Tilt today and then probably finally assembling my Cascadia earthquake preparedness kit. 😩

Going to see Pavements, eat pizza, and visit the bird sanctuary today. Respite from the horrors!

Heard about Alice Notley and went straight to the shelf where this poem, “I Think Fiercely,” was bookmarked. Too long to post in full, but I’m going to share it in workshop tonight. 💔

Even if I never like a new Green Day album again I will still have a crush on short king cute face Billie Joe Armstrong, who somehow stayed pretty punk and politically earnest through all his pop fame. A rarity!

Watching Love on the Spectrum and all I can think about is when I worked in east Portland high school special ed (in the middle of Covid) and how joyful it was, even though the kids had almost none of the resources the people on this show had and it was hard every day. RFK sucks.

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

Hate it when people call things Marxist (derogatory)…going to start using it for everything like the other side does, only positive: “‘mmm this food is so Marxist. The moon tonight? So Marxist.”

Incredibly grim. We need more fences on the bridges in this city along with more suicide prevention services. This is unacceptable. www.wweek.com/news/2017/09...