(Poem): Am I the Only One to Think It’s Crazy
Am I the only one to think it's crazy // To dream of Mars in a deep marble lapis?
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Why I’ve kept a tab on Subvert.fm for two years:
And what it spells for the future of independent music on the web.
5 Reasons Einstein’s Definition of Insanity is the Definition of Insane.
• Reason #1: Einstein didn’t say it. Though the quote is often attributed to him (and sometimes Mark Twain or Benjamin Franklin), there is no recorded evidence of Einstein himself ever having made this remark. In fact, the earliest documented instance of it being used is allegedly in a 1981 Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet. It also…
“5 easy dems” – 8″ Lathe-Cut Vinyl
In 2024, I put out a collection of one-off lo-fi iPhone Memo-demos made with a drum machine and looper setup called 5 easy dems on Soundcloud. Two years later, to put a new spin on the EP, the tracks were formally cut in a small batch of 25 8″ clear vinyl by Philly-based DIY outfit…
St. Patrick’s Day Limerick
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Here's a little limerick I wrote day of 03/17/2023. Cheers! 🍻🍀
(Poem): blue-eyed sky
My gaze scrapes the blue-gray skyline //
Over scores of peaks and bumps of shadow //
A reservoir peeks out like an alien-Lump, a stumpy kind of ship //
Sitting adrift there on the shore of the broken skyline
Album Roundup 2025
Hey, readers of (In)Sitze and music lovers! I made a list of my Top 10 favorite albums to come out in 2025, with listening links (YouTube or Bandcamp) for each one and brief writeups of my impressions. The format is similar to last year’s. There’s a broad variety of genres in here, so if you’re…
About My Roundabout Music-Listening MO
My first blog post on (In)Sitze was over two and a half years ago. I wrote it over a (perennial) family spring break trip to Pensacola, FL, in early 2023, at a time when both my position as a musician and values as a listener were beginning to clash with the state of the industry.…
Thank God we don’t live in a meritocracy (when it comes to music):
If technique were the only path to prestige, we would be suffocated by a pantheon of power players all getting their shred-on with no recourse to creative spirit. Granted, when it comes to music’s strength, part of that which mobilizes bodies to do more than dance, i.e., excites novel countercultural movements at large, has historically…
(Experimental Essay): Privilege of the Witness in Narratology
Sometimes, from my stream of consciousness, an idea will roil up from the depths that compels me to jot it down, usually in a half-formed iPhone Note that I won’t revisit for stretches at a time. Once I do, I usually discover that it has either a) expired in relevance, or b) incubated some insight,…