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I’ve been listening to a lot of old My Bloody Valentine songs lately. I’m not sure what prompted this resurgence of interest. Back in high school, I picked up their Loveless album when it was first released. History has since determined that album to be a classic, which means I can claim to have owned [...]

I began purchasing music when I was 16, shortly after I started earning money from my first job. I had always enjoyed listening to music, but before I turned 16, I had been content to let the music stay on the radio. The setting: the tail end of the 80s. CDs were on the store [...]

When I moved to my new apartment a few months ago, I brought with me five or six boxes full of CDs. As I carried each box up three flights of stairs, the thought occurred to me: why I do I still have all of this? I had long ago transferred that music (everything that [...]

I’ve always loved listening to music, but when I became a teenager, I found myself listening to it more and more often. In the morning, when my clock radio alarm woke me up, I’d lie in bed for as long as I could, listening to my favorite radio station. Music also inspired me when I [...]

I mentioned in Part 3 that I started writing poetry in high school, producing no less than 200 poems before I graduated. Another reason why I started to write less and less prose after high school was because I became more and more interested in poetry. In fact, by the end of the 1990s, poetry [...]

Los Campesinos! performing “Don’t Tell Me To Do The Math” [via (Behind) Closed Doors]

“Good Times Are Gone Forever” by Two White Horses