Collected Works on Music

Essays, Mixtapes and Poetry

Nervous system, from Camillo Golgi’s Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso (1885) on Public Domain Review

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Non-fiction & Mixtapes

Songs for January

Phil Spector’s Christmas

Can’t Stand the Rain

In the Next Pile

The Hallowe’en Mixtape Pt. II

In The Pile

Low’s Sonic Lexicon

Meanwhile

September’s Album of the Month Club

The Riff’s Greatest Hits

Plants and Animals

1998

The Hip

Double Drumming

A Mix of God and Monkey

Rushmore

1989

How To Disappear Completely

High on the Sound

The Hip

Soup

Crafting Unconventional Mixtapes

The Summer Wasting

Transport Me From This World And Its Troubles

Smokey Songs

The Hallowe’en Mix Tape

Sweet Secret Peace

Adventures in Lo-Fi

I’m Playing John Prine For You, Dad

Poems on Music/Ekphrastic Poetry

Synthesize

Heartache

The Day’s Blue Ballast

Opera

A Forest

Moments in Love

Frisson

Ice Machine

Pictures of You

Playback

ROYGBIV

Stagelight Blue

Desperado Landscape

Arpeggio

Urban Lovesong

Neon Lights

Space Companion

Harmonic Tilt-a-Whirl

Lost Records

Across the Graveyard

A Broken Piece of Time

In My Room

Structure and Sound

Jazz Is Night

To Still the Speed

The Song Paints Me In Love

To Have, to Hold

Perfect Midnight

Radian

Descent

At the Edge of Things

Shine On

Mother of the Sea

Waters Of March

When The Stars Were Bright

31 Days of Bossa Nova

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