This entire album of Bowie covers, inspired by his appearance in The Life Aquatic, is really lovely — but Life on Mars? is one of my favorites. Several years back, he toured through the U.S. playing these covers and it was magical — especially when all of the Brazilians in the audience (and there were many) all sang along with him in Portuguese.
Feb 24, 2025
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I, like most Americans, had never even heard of this man and yet I've been transfixed the last week. Yes, fun songs, but what has really imprinted on my soul (and I'm not even joking) is the album art specifically for Sing When You're Winning and Life Thru A Lens. While the rest of his discography is full of campy photoshop nightmares these two fucking POP. The lighting? The coloring? No fucking idea why but it clicks. And I swear this isn't any covert Better Man advertising, I hate CGI monkeys.
Jan 20, 2025
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i made a playlist of some heavy hitters. sometimes you can just tell an artist covers a song and you know that it's because, in a different universe, they would have written it themselves. sometimes they take a bad/mediocre song and you realize that it pretty was good all along. sometimes someone will sing a song and you can hear the reverence in their voice and it makes you love the music with them. its incredible really. i like the idea of sharing in the act of creation like that. favs on the playlist are stevie wonder, lianne la havas and michael cera palin
May 4, 2024
ive listened to this album one hundred times over and it never gets old. beautifully joan baez joined in a couple songs at the end for some of the best duets ive ever heard. this album is also very fun to play on the guitar and that is good news for me. the lonesome death of hattie carroll and who killed davey moore rattle around perpetually in my skull.
i hope you are well, friend.
Feb 20, 2025
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Prescriptive gender is a prison. Rather than gender being a form of self-expression, gender is treated as a pass/fail test for how well you can conform to cultural expectations.
Since I was young, I remember feeling a great deal of pressure to conform to these expectations around what “men” are meant to be. You like sports, cars, womanizing, aggression, and not having feelings. I felt so distant from this ideal. I was sensitive and shy, and I preferred spending my time being creative in some way
For a long time, I felt like I was failing at “being a man.” In many ways I was! Because I didn’t need to bea man. All I needed to be was myself.
It’s taken me a long time to separate myself from prescriptive gender, sharpening in on which aspects of masculine energy I identify with and which I don’t. I’m not done yet. Maybe I will never fully be. The self continues to evolve over time, and I suspect aspects of my gender will too.
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“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
— Fred Rogers
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