Music
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Buzzed Books #16: Mo’ Meta Blues
Buzzed Books #16 by John King Mo’ Meta Blues by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson Memoir can be straightforward, once memoirists reveal their particular working premises, so as not to be seen as James Freying their mendacious way to the bank. Autobiographies, however, are fraught with more philosophical problems than memoir. When David Sedaris writes a book… Continue reading
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Episode 128: Michael Hearst!
Episode 128 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I interview the musician, Michael Hearst. Plus Danita Berg reads her essay, “A Note on my Skin.” TEXTS DISCUSSED http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CDSak1Pcbs NOTES The music accompanying Danita Berg’s essay is Carlton Melton’s… Continue reading
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Episode 127: Mixtape #2 (A Distance Coat)
Episode 127 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I offer TDO’s second mixtape. This one is vintage, from my M.A. years (circa 1996?). Enjoy! Continue reading
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Episode 120: Mixtape 1
Episode 120 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week’s episode, I offer TDO’s first mixtape. Enjoy! NOTES Check out the music of The Nekronomikids, The Intoxicators, The Wingdale Community Singers, Natacha Atlas, and the many other musicians referenced on this… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas # 49: Lana Del Rey Vs. The Cult of Authenticity
In Boozo Veritas # 49 by Teege Braune Lana Del Rey Vs. The Cult of Authenticity While I never went nuts for Lana Del Rey’s 2012 premier album Born to Die in its entirety, I did become obsessed with the single “Summertime Sadness.” I was captivated by a brand of pop-music that cannot be easily… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #34: Before the Tortoise Dons his Raincoat
In Boozo Veritas #34 by Teege Braune Before the Tortoise Dons his Raincoat: Preliminary Thoughts on an as of Yet Unwritten Piece of Music In the middle of my freshman year of college I met a shy young man named Nat Evans with whom I began a friendship after I wrote this haiku by Shiki on… Continue reading
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Episode 84: Rich Millman of Carlton Melton!
Episode 84 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. On this week’s show, I talk to the musician Rich Millman from the band Carlton Melton, Plus Kelsey Liebenson-Morse writes about reading Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The Florida Writers’ Conference goes from… Continue reading
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In Boozo Veritas #27: Some Velvet Morning
In Boozo Veritas #27 by Teege Braune Some Velvet Morning In the months after I first heard “Some Velvet Morning” I listened to the Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra duet easily hundreds of times. Unquestionably psychedelic in nature while existing firmly outside of the genre of rock ‘n roll, the song is simultaneously timeless and an… Continue reading
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Episode 61: Chad Benson, or Quinn W. Shagbark!
Episode 61 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. This week, I interview my friend, the fiction writer Chad Benson, who also happens to be a rock musician called Quinn W. Shagbark, plus Jesse Duthrie talks about John Barth’s The Floating Opera. TEXTS DISCUSSED… Continue reading
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