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‘Against your walls, against your rules, against your skin’

This song has been in my brain since we heard it at The Cove Friday night. (I’m partial to the alternate video but it cuts the song off at the end.) I went to bed early last night (1:30 is early for me), but ended up sleeping late anyway, and am now battling brain fog as I’m trying to get some freelance photo work done. Plus I need a haircut and an oil change and…

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‘But there is no treason where there is only lawlessness’

I got my hands on the new record, and it’s complex and sprawling and I have still not gotten to know it as well as I should have, which makes me love it even more. A girl doesn’t have to give up all her secrets the first time she’s asked, you know. Watch her performances. Here we have the rare female artist who is allowed to look weird and sound silly while making art. So…

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‘There is a barber who’s cutting and cutting away at my only joy’

I don’t have the album yet but I pine for it, especially after reading this. “Baby Birch” is more than nine minutes long but you’ve got to give it some time, be patient, and let it be. It’s gorgeous.

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Some weekends make run-on sentences

Sunday I slept and slept and woke and read and slept and put a pot of coffee on and stretched out in bed and smelled the coffee from across the house and drank the coffee and talked on the phone. I met up with the ladies. Had a big fat salad with fried things on it, and water. Monday I got up early and visited Ashley and Luke and Lilly and brought late Christmas and…

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