Happy Thursday from cold and rainy New York. I did not pack an appropriate coat. I did however have a delicious ice cream sundae at the Odeon last night with the brilliant Mary H.K. Choi (have you pre-ordered her new book Pool House yet? Because you really should).
I have been here five days and have somehow not bought anything but beef jerky sticks and some questionable moisturizer. The night before last I got rockegnized at Takahachi (still honestly love when this happens even though I am severely luteal atm) while eating sushi with Alexis Page, who finally heeded the prayers of thousands and joined Substack. She is a genius in beauty and beyond, and is really one of the only people whose opinion I trust on skincare (and honestly, everything else). Her post today both guided me towards mollifying my chronic overwhelm and informed me of a new sauna opening in my hometown (if anyone at Bathhouse is reading this, I live nearby and am very interested in becoming a sweatfluencer).
Trying out a new format title (as I’m wont to do periodically because who cares, let’s have some fun). A few things that delighted or interested me this past week, plus five fab songs to listen to this weekend:
this Twitter account called CIGARETTEMOVIES which highlights “real smoker movies” and quantifies how many cigarettes per minute each film highlighted contains.
Grayson Haver Currin’s extremely detailed and lightly tragic profile of American Football for GQ
Turnstile covering The Stone Roses’ god tier song “I Wanna Be Adored” (ambitious tbh)
tasbeeh herwees’s Los Angeles Substack No Bad Days just gets better and better. This interview with former LA Times managing editor Sara Yasin about why she left the paper is incredibly. good. Tasbeeh is really making me (begrudgingly) re-fall in love with my city, warts and Maru Coffee and all.
An Australian artist I’ve recently come to adore, Spike Fuck, is playing some rare US dates this month: March 10th and 11th in New York at Night Club 101 and March 18th and 19th in Los Angeles (at Permanent Records Roadhouse and Silverlake Lounge, respectively). Do not miss this if you are in these cities.
LOOSIES (Five songs to listen to this weekend)
“WIRED” by Basement off their forthcoming album of the same name (to get the spirit ready to go out)
“Skygirl” by Josh da Costa (walking to wherever you’re going, anything is possible)
“ballet of the traitor” by NOTHING off their new album A Short History of Decay (good for hangover morning)
“Bad Moons” the new American Football song off their forthcoming album LP5 (this is eight minutes long let’s get in the bathtub)
“I Like You” by Cardinals (wrapped in warm towels, hot tea in hand, wistful, gazing out the window, tomorrow is a new day)
xx
Okay so Spike Fuck on 3/10 and 3/11 in NYC, also guess what - Glitterer on 3/11 in NYC, also guess what - those are weekdays and I currently get up at 5:30am for work 😭
Thankfully I am going to see Cardinals when they're here in May.
Honestly all I wanna do is go to shows, photograph shows, write about shows. In this, the Year of the Fire Horse, pray for me.
i’ll do something about Maru, just for you