"Liquor & Reptiles"
This week we got a mix, a photo essay, and some updates on the current fiber death work piece. Let’s jump in, because I talk too much.
Mix — 90s forever and ever
It’s been too long since I made a mix. I think its dumb that I have been putting the mix behind the paywall, so its upfront today. This week, while riding juniper to her sports camp, I had this absolute desire to listen to 90s music. Not out of the most recent generations need to find something real. No, it was a yearning for sounds that defined me. Somehow, Shirley Ann Manson’s, lead singer of garbage, singing, “pour your misery down on me,” is still tremendously relevant for the times we live in. Turns out, as much as technology, economics, and politics change, our culture still needs that same emotionality-soaked art that our hyper-capitalist simulation is trying to make a commodity out of. This 36-song mix somehow weaves a yarn through Hootie and the Blowfish, Smashing Pumpkins, Tool, Death, Nas, Portishead, and Sigur Ros. Some of the tracks are hits from the era. Others are hit adjacent. In almost all cases, they were songs that defined my radio, cassette, and cd listening during my adolescence. Enjoy the raw emotion that the 90s captured. Yes, I’m old.
As always, I think I get the most out of these mixes. I listen to them all the time as if I have them on a cassette mixtape. I hope you enjoy it too.
“Liquor & Reptiles” — a Photo Essay
This is a photo essay on my first attempt to ride from house out to Golden, CO, which is about 20-25 miles depending on your route. The specific route I rode took me past Crown Point Cemetery, where I saw someone doing a ritual for their loved one; down the clear creek right past the coors brewing facility, and right into golden and clear creek canyon. It was 48 miles of naked, mundane adventure.
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