June 2009

Paul Auster, Brian Eno, and ambient writing

June 9, 2009

It’s grey and raining in Boston today. My calendar says it’s mid-June, but the chill feels like November. So I sit in my beautiful and bizarre brick house (pictured above — well, that’s actually an 18th-century Piranesi etching, but close enough), drink tea, and read books. I read the entirety of Paul Auster’s 1997 collection [...]

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June 2, 2009

Suddenly I find myself reunited with my vinyl records, for the first time in nearly a year. It’s like Christmas! I forgot I owned half this stuff! I just found the amazing mini-book that came with the Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense LP. I tranced out to all four sides of Metal Machine Music. And [...]

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