My brain works in cycles these days. . I have an ever-growing list of books I want to read. It exists alongside an identically organized (that is, whatever order I thought of them) list of movies and TV shows I want to watch, and a highly dissimilar (that is, painstakingly curated) list of stories that … Continue reading I’m Reading Too Many Books At Once (hooray?)
Tag: Nonfiction
Nonfiction: Grief Is Weird
If you would like to donate to a cause I have a lot of feelings about, here is one. . Grief is weird. . It’s like getting a repeat 404 error in your brain. “Error: person not found. Guess I’ll do the dishes.” Finding out you were gone was such a crazy experience that I … Continue reading Nonfiction: Grief Is Weird
That Time John Mulaney Went To Rehab
I was hiding in the freezer, because that’s where you go to have a breakdown when you work retail. It had been a particularly garbage day at bar none the worst job I have ever had. Here’s how early 2020 was going for me: I graduated with a post-baccalaureate certificate in March of 2020, just … Continue reading That Time John Mulaney Went To Rehab
Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: The Final Countdown
Two in one day again, for two reasons. One, the last entry was short, and two, I'm getting a little tired of this being the only thing on my blog. I had a lot of fun with this, but I'm at the very beginning of the site, and this is now like 90% of my … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: The Final Countdown
Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: The Songs A Lot Of People Yelled About
The songs in this segment are controversial for different reasons. Well, two are for the same reason. From the beginning of the genre as a recognizable whole, there have been arguments about what counts as “real” country. Those arguments have been wildly racist pretty much the entire time. We also very briefly touched on people … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music: The Songs A Lot Of People Yelled About
Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 8/10: That Good Spooky Shit, Which I accidentally skipped last time…
At the end of part six I said part seven was going to be ghost stories...and then skipped ahead to the wistful love songs. Oops. Well, the post was a day late anyway, and the love songs post was so short I was already considering a double feature, so we're going to loop back to … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 8/10: That Good Spooky Shit, Which I accidentally skipped last time…
Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music, Part 7/10: The Wistful Love Songs Are Back
This one is a day late, sorry lads. We had a couple of short, quick power outages on Sunday night that managed to fry my motherboard...where the fully edited version of this piece is saved. Oops. That's what I get for using a cheap surge protector. Thankfully she's still under warranty, so I was able … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music, Part 7/10: The Wistful Love Songs Are Back
Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 6: What are we doing? Oh, crime.
Yep, crime tales get their own segment. The murder ballad is a classic format, and the broader category of the crime song is as well. These are essentially musical crime fiction, with the unquestionably guilty as their protagonists. Johnny Cash had a lot to say about sympathy for the murderer, but he doesn’t appear in … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 6: What are we doing? Oh, crime.
Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 5: Story Time!
This is another large section, and rightly so, because it constitutes what I would consider the real tasty bit of the article. This is the thing that I think I like most about this genre, its great strength as a set of tools. These are the songs that exist to tell a short story, beginning … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 5: Story Time!
Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 4: Songs That Didn’t Have To Go This Hard But Did
We gave a little attention to the genre’s political origins back in the bluegrass section. Now we’re going to dive into that with more focus. The biggest subgenre you will find here is Fuck The Police, but it also dips into Be Better To Each Other and Fuck The Nazis (Woody Guthrie is back). The … Continue reading Country Music For People Who Hate Country Music Part 4: Songs That Didn’t Have To Go This Hard But Did
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