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Starting off my 2020 vinyl listening with one of my favorite records of 35 years ago: Talking Heads, Little Creatures. Wow, 1985 is 35 years ago now. #vinyl #vinyloftheday #talkingheads #davidbyrneGot an unexpected xmas gift from my mother in law: the new fka twigs LP. I can confirm that it is indeed sent from another planet. #vinyl #vinyloftheday #fkatwigsWaiting room No. 48Rainy first day of December 2019 in Fresno, CA and that’s a good day for a Niilo Smeds record #goldrobotrecords #niilosmedsI know I just posted about David Berman’s last record, Purple Mountains, but I can’t stop listening to it. What a staggering, unexpected, and tragic elegy. #davidberman #dragcityStarting my day off with some vinyl therapy, courtesy the Portland Latinx trio Sávila. Saw this band at Mississippi Studios in Pdx when they opened for the surf rock grrls La Luz two summers ago, and then this past summer I found a copy of their LP in the used bin at Little Axe Records in Pdx’s Hollywood District. They got the smoothness I need today. #savilabandI’m so glad I picked up this vinyl copy of Deerhunter’s 2010 masterpiece, Halcyon Digest. Used to play the hell out of this record when I had a college radio show. Feels as urgent and interstellar almost a decade on as it did then. #halcyondigest #4adrecordsA rare weekday afternoon to myself at home and I’m playing the last David Berman record and hanging with my dog and sometimes crying. Purple Mountains to the max. #davidberman #dragcity #purplemountainsNew #fresnowriters tees dropping real soonRecent Tweets
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Category Archives: Words
Creative Quest #3: To Box the Wind
I asked a poet friend recently– semi jokingly and semi seriously– if it was allowable to write a poem after Terrance Hayes, who wrote a poem after Federico García Lorca, when I haven’t studied the poetry of either writer very … Continue reading
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Creative Quest #2: Names of Old Friends
This month marks the five-year anniversary of The Perfect Peach, a collection of recipes and stories from the Masumoto Family Farm. It feels funny to say that a cookbook has deeply touched my life in all aspects. But in the … Continue reading
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Quest #1: Beauty in the Central Valley
So first, a collage poem, made from ingredients found in my neighborhood: What is beauty in this Valley? That’s hard. What kind of beauty? It could be any beauty you’d like. The mountains. Say more about why. You have a … Continue reading
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A Conversation with Nikiko Masumoto
I am happy to announce that I am the inaugural Masumoto Family Fellowship recipient, for 2017-18. To mark the public announcement of the fellowship, I had a great conversation with agrarian artist (and my dear friend) Nikiko Masumoto on Oct. … Continue reading
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On Eating Soyrizo
Oh Trader Joe’s, I owe you my deepest Pocho gratitude for your soy chorizo. “The authenticity comes from the spices,” you say, and I believe you. Who needs meat when fake meat tastes this good? After my Caucasian wife lovingly … Continue reading
After Reading Winter Stars on the Radio
After Reading Winter Stars on the Radio for Michael Luis Medrano The first time I read Elegy by Larry Levis, I didn’t get it. My poet friend who used to be a journalism major gave it to me as a … Continue reading
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Foreign Words
Foreign Words You apologized for the foreign words you wrote but I did not mind. The bare, ugly line about dobra pička cut like no English could. Supernatural, your cross-eyed, snorting laughter left us fortunate.
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