Caine Blog

Just finished John Darnielle’s new book Master of Reality, and wow - what a potent little volume.  It’s certainly the most formally adventurous of Continuum’s 33 1/3 series; most of the authors in the series go about profiling their given album by way of Behind The Music-style rockumenting, with plenty of first-person pontification thrown in [...]

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There was a period - maybe in high school, or freshman year of college? - when I listened to a lot of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.  Perhaps you know the act.  “They” are really one guy, Owen Ashworth, who sings depressing songs about youthful indulgence, deflated post-collegiate dreams, and lost love, set to the [...]

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Have you ever been to a bar or a club or a music festival, hanging out and minding your own business, when suddenly some rando comes up to you and just starts talking and chilling? He’s going on and on, and you’re thinking what is happening why is this person talking to me will [...]

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So I’ve arrived in New York City, and am currently living in Queens.  I’ve had and will continue to have a pretty minimal internet connection, so these posts will by necessity be occasional.  Soon, though, I’ll move into a neighborhood with some good wi-fi to steal, and that’s when the blog will just fucking BLOW [...]

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This is an amazing piece by Malachi Ward.  It’s a testament to the power of maps to reorient and re-frame not just physical environments but also mental ones.

(from Pharyngula, Strange Maps)

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