The just-the-facts 2023 year-in-review: daniel.industries/2024/01/06/2023-in-review/
Ya'll who get your year-in-review posts out in the same year you're writing about are such overachievers...
"Paging through somebody’s CD book, in the mid-’90s, was the single most intimate activity you could engage in with another human being. It was like drinking beer out of someone’s mouth. Paging through somebody’s CD book was like 75 percent of the way to just making out with them. You might as well make out with them at that point. No modern equivalent."
I just made my wife read this excerpt and she said a mutual friend once leafed through her CD book and exclaimed, "How are you not a lesbian?!"
"I can't remember which section it was," she said.
"Oh, Ani DiFranco," I said.
"No."
"Indigo Girls."
"YES!"
At which point I put on "Closer to Fine" and realized that that chorus will give me goosebumps every. single. time.
"Consider the lillies of the goddamn field" might be the best slightly modified quote-as-dialogue ever written. I think about it often.
"...all manner of fanatics thrived in the contemporary chaos, exploiting the frightening complexity of the age to hawk their simplistic narratives, their archaic binaries that brooked no ambiguity"
"My life sounds like a Penderecki tune," she said.
"I like Penderecki," he said.
"But I love him because so much of modern philosophy or commentary or culture just seems to be strange adult individuals making shit up. None of it has any substance or truth, like none of it. Even the ones who seem to be contrarians, you know what I’m talking about? There’s so many of these talking heads and it’s all just…a waste of life. It’s just like pretentious like political or self-help goofballism."
"I’m a Gen-Xer who unapologetically loves postmodern shit like nonlinear stories and blog post series posted out of order"
daniel.industries/2024/01/03/2023-in-review-postscript/
I also just reworked my archive and category indexes. It was a journey.
I've loved this Elliott Smith cover by Chris Garneau since forever. "Recorded by Duncan Sheik" was unexpected new detail I learned today.
chrisgarneau.bandcamp.com/track/between-the-bars-elliott-smith-cover
