This is Going to Be an Ebullient Year for Your Ears

Albums and Releases to be Excited About This Year: February 2/17 Sholi  “S/T” on Touch & Go March 3/10 Mirah “(a)Spera” TBA March – Bell — new single/EP as yet untitled TBA 2009 (Unconfirmed/Unofficial Supercosmic Jetset Wish List!) – Diane Cluck new full length – Dirty Projectors new full length Other Mentionable Releases 1/20 The [...]

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Cold December Flew Away

Batted my eyelashes and one year slipped away into the next.  All that was left of the yesteryear was smudged eyeliner on my cheek and this charcoaled best of 2008: Jetset’s TOP 3 ALBUMS 1. – Ra Ra Riot “The Rhumb Line” “Too Too Fast” by Ra Ra Riot 2. – Fire on Fire “The [...]

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On Searching for a More Apt Word Than FAIL: A Substitute and Not a Synonym

Time is up. NaNoWriMo has ended. December 1st has passed. We survived. And this, this is the story of survival. Survival begins much uglier than you might think. It begins with guilt and shame and a desire to fade into the white and the flurry of fragments — of self and storyline and understanding. The [...]

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