Demerara

I remember I used to have a teacher who said you should add the title last, since most of us just stopped there, trying to frame the piece, and just get stuck. I’m not sure she added that it also freezes your piece, making it hard to expand some points and really form a cohesive [...]

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Août

It isn’t absinthe that brings forth thoughts but rather strong, sweet and iced black tea, clouded by condensation on the glass, a salute to the warm weather of this new month. June is always the foundling, stumbling uncertainly between spring and summer, followed by the mostly erect teenager July, with the odd mood swing veering [...]

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Your name is Deborah, it never suited ya

I listened to some track or another by Cut and Copy I think and thought they sounded like Pulp, though Pulp has a much stronger “earworm” quality, leading me to re-acquire (because I know I owned it once, though likely it is in a box somewhere) a set of tracks culminating with Disco 2000. The [...]

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