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Just a quick note that today’s live stream show has had a last-minute time change!

I was not aware (and my co-organizers didn’t realize) that Italy began Daylight Savings Time last night, so to keep the 9pm time slot in Italy, the stream today is now at 3pm NYC time.

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How is it possible that I have not written to you since came out? It feels like many, many weeks have gone by, but it has in fact been only six days since last I emailed this list - the math doesn’t add up. And I’m a bit late in getting you this this morning, apologies ~

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I'm writing this to you at NIGHT in the DARK in my LIVING ROOM, instead of in the morning at my breakfast table. Its because I just saw one of the best shows I have ever seen in my many years of seeing shows like at least once a week, doesn't even matter who (it was Daniel Romano, appearing as Daniel Romano's Outfit). It was LOUD rock and roll stuff, like footage of the early Who or what I always imagine the band Quasi might sound like live circa 2010, but then they also had these utterly devastating country harmonies and they NEVER STOPPED they just kept playing, played the songs right back to back (very like the Who, but somehow way cooler, also?). Ended with a Ramones cover. I wrote one of those rental electric scooters as it started raining harder and harder and the rain was freezing, slapping against my face, stinging it, as I bore down faster and faster downhill, pushing the little wimpy engine as fast as it would go. I got home in eight minutes, I'm shivering, I feel like ripping apart all the furniture in my house with one arm tied behind my back. I'm very, very amped. I took a melatonin chewable and I poured a big sleepy time tea and hopefully this takes the spirit of the rhythm right outta me.

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Lately I have found myself so deeply enriched by the community of people I play music with and for, the shows at my house, the shows I play, the shows my friends play, and all the talking and hanging out and being in a room that all that entails. It’s been a big part of my life for a long time, but more and more I find real joy and ease and security within it. This weekly thing is a part of it, which means you are, too, and I feel a very strong desire to acknowledge this right now and also thank you. Thank you.

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I wanted to make something this week that sounded like it was just barely being held together, like a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter in the rain. I twisted the delay knob on my new little keyboard and let the notes warp. Almost a week later I wrote about hearing the sounds of people’s voices in the distance, bent by the speed of the roller coaster they were riding. I didn’t realize these things were similar until just now, when I brought them together for you. The image is from a long day of assembling LP inserts - - they’re almost ready for you.

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I’ve got a new single out today. It’s called “Am I Doing Right by You?” and you can hear it in all the various places:

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I dreamed last night that I was playing guitar in a dark, cabaret-type bar. There were two women singing, beautiful harmonies, and I was backing them up. Unexpectedly, they launched into a cover of a song I knew how to play but didn’t quite recognize at first. I strummed the chords, straining to remember. But when the big chorus came, I knew it was “. And I started crying, crying and strumming, crying harder than I can ever recall crying. At the end of the song the two women I was backing up turned around to ask me if I was okay and they were crying, too. Then I woke up.

Hello what's up with all of you ~

The music this week is the result of my shiny new synth-o-sizer which I have been enjoying immensely. Then I put this artificial tape cassette wobble on nearly everything and now it sounds poignant. Funny how that works, with a few certain chords and a few certain signifiers you can make something that sounds like the fourth act of a movie. I named it Key Food 2 because that's what my memo recorder has started calling all my voice memos, and it's nice - it's like, the music is key, the sounds are clutch, it is nutritional, twice.

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The music this week features very subtle background noise of the post-show kinda-party hang after the last Tortoise Town. Most parties sound the same, if you zoom out far enough, if you listen to every conversation at once. I had trouble with the music, it wasn’t doing what I wanted it to do, and I couldn’t articulate what that want was. Offhandedly I said to my roommate maybe I need to turn the delay up. He said try it, dude, and I did. And then it was done, simple as that.