Tim Buchanan with Dusk – Grinnin’
Country music didn’t stay country for long. As soon as the Carters could rub two coins together, Maybelle and the girls left A.P. stranded on Clinch Mountain and decamped to the Nashville suburb of Madison, where their neighbors included Hank Snow and Colonel Tom...
Middle Relief – The OC
The world continues, and it continues because it is a repetition... If one does not have the category of recollection or of repetition, all life dissolves into an empty, meaningless noise. -- Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard contended that repetition - running the same...
The Earworm: Explained by SCIENCE!
Guest post by Gavin Baker Why is 'Ghost,' that song by Halsey, stuck in my head? Why do certain songs bore into our ears and latch onto our brains like musical maggots? It's a controversial question, involving individual tastes and preferences. But everyone can agree...
Christopher James – Night Songs from Here’s My Face
Excerpts from Typhoon, by Joseph ConradSoundtrack by Christopher James The steering-gear leaked steam, and in the confined space the glass of the binnacle made a shiny oval of light in a thin white fog. The wind howled, hummed, whistled, with sudden booming gusts that...
John M – Alive
In a certain sense the phrase 'I am still alive' can never be sent as it cannot be received by the addressee instantaneously. It is only valid at the very instant that it is being written, and in the very next second it is no longer a certainty... It is a sentence of...
There Once Was A Deer From Australia
An Original Limerick in Four Stanzasby Reverb Raccoon There once was a deer from AustraliaWho developed a taste for azaleasBut he couldn’t find noneFrom Perth to MelbourneSo he caught the next plane for Georgia Upon seeing the azaleas in bloomThe deer immediately...
Vary Landers – I Did I Do I Will
Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular. -- Søren Kierkegaard Kierkegaard proposed to Regine Olsen as she played the piano. 'Oh! What do I care for music?' he shouted over the strains of nineteenth...
Atomic Cafe – Peachy Keen
Aristotle defined a mixture as a substance whose ingredients alter each other until the individual elements cease to exist. Yet he also believed that it's possible to separate the components from the solution. Natural philosophers have struggled for the past...
Will Orchard – Drown the Whole World in Rain
Excerpts from Pnin, chapter four, by Vladimir Nabokov It rained all the way. It was raining when he arrived at the Waindell terminal... Pnin suggested leaving the luggage and walking one block - if Victor was not afraid of the rain (it was pouring hard, and the...
Five Songs to Fry Your Aux Cord
The blood and lifeline of a car trip, it is handed around the car so that all the homies can partake in playing their sweet jams until some shitter plays Nickleback then the aux cord is immediately yanked and not to be returned to said homie. -- Urban Dictionary,...
Low Horizon – All I Want
If you're three weeks into a relationship and haven't been ghosted, you're probably good for at least another month. Three weeks is long enough for your current interest to make a thorough background check on you, including the requisite stalking on social media and...
