artists dating artists is tricky business

I have a piece in the Fall issue of the Iowa Review. If you're near a newsstand, check it out!

heart tricky and important organ

i deplore surprises of any and all kinds

it is a gloomy new york monday and the office is so silent that when i accidentally requested siri i was so ashamed by the beep

Today's Special

The object will recede, so long as subject refrains from contacting, responding, indulging said object. Otherwise object will loom large, wielding unasked-for power and authority.

sneak

In an open plan office you can't do much

art cannot feed itself.

I am in NYC. It is hot, and sweaty, and greasy. The subway is uncomfortable and squished. Yet for once in months I did not nap.

i listen to soul

things friends say

'that's because of your floating woman need'

The call is coming from inside the house.

I have a tremenedous ability to break my own heart.

i loved that she rode shotgun the whole way, without even questioning whether anyone else might want to.

e-f

to get some reciprocity

il est ennuyeux d'aimer quelq'un qui ne t'aime pas.

for this

this is good. 

this makes me nostalgic

what's with the impulse to get closer to pain

i feel sad until i arrive at a point of ridiculosity. 

swimming through sick lullabies

you cant write new essays if you keep repeating history

thank Goodness for the national

tiny desk concert

this is so nice on a thursday morning

you came and you conquered

this song is so sexy

if

tiles

this is a very satisfying video to watch

holy smokes this is good

the one

Interview.

This week, I was interviewed on the progress-not-perfection podcast (full disclosure: the host is my brother!). Check it out here. 

Young Fathers is the new P.M. Dawn

this song slays me

expectations.

accountability = happiness

persistence of memory

technohead

What does one do with all the pain and suffering and injustice and sick, sick, sickness of the world.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/isis-burns-jordanian-pilot-alive.html

walls

are too thin

found

been looking for this remix for years, finally emailed the dj who mixed it and got it!

i want to read something delicious

insufficient

what if being happy can't make you happy

monday

how nice to know that we are united in the pleasure we derive from flipping the pillow to the cold side, and our mutual resistance to refilling ice trays.

why has my heart taken up residence in my head

 the utter shame of revelation is completely incompatible with every impulse i've ever had.

amazing sentence.

"'Fast go the dead,' as the German ballad has it, but so do the living, too."

--Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grâce

but what is 'oneself'

“The biggest danger, that of losing oneself, can pass off in the world as quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is bound to be noticed. “

-Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death

journalism

it is nearly impossible to control for distortion.

this is sexy

melodramatic auto-tuned shit that i love

probz