To give me something to do with all the ANGST I feel about, you know, things, Iāve begun another playlist: Apocalyptic Summer Hellscape 2.0.
I recommend it for the following activities:
Rage running
Rage baking
Rage chopping wood to store in your bunker, that you are preparing for when we come to join you (because we share resources, we donāt hoard them, capisce?)
Rage masterbating
Rage postcard writing to GET OUT THE VOTE
Rage crying (I am expert level)
Rage ruminating about all the cool shit we could be doing by now if we had a functioning government
Rage hosing down the second to biggest fire in your stateās history
Rage napping and/or going to bed before the sun goes down
Rage donating all available income
Rage dancing with yourself
Rage defunding the police
Rage stamp buying to support the USPS
Rage meditating
Rage ____________ (fill in the blank in the comments šš½)
There are only 9 songs on the playlist, so this Fridayās question for you - what would you add?
šš½ What music, what song do you blast when you need to exorcise some pent up stuff?
Let me know below. Iāll add to the playlist and share it next Friday.
Keep going, yāall. I love you.
HELLA links below!
xxoodani
Sometimes the internet is so rad. Let me know what you digā
š„ Iāve been enjoying Rebecca Schumanās āThe 90ās Are Oldā series over on Longreads. This week she unpacks āthe Cool-Loser Dream Boy of Gen X Cinema,ā vis-a-vis everybodyās favorite Cool-Loser dream boy, Ethan Hawkās character from Reality Bites. As a child of the 90ās, I canāt get enough.
š Readers of this newsletter know I recently lost a beloved great aunt. I canāt stop thinking about legacy, and family history/mythology, and all that is left behind/hidden away/lost in the immigrant story of assimilation. I loved loved loved this essay by C Pam Zhang in the New Yorker about her reckoning with her familyās past after the death of her father.
š” Do you all know about Nadia Bolz-Weber? Sheās a (sober! tattooed!) progressive Lutheran minister who writes books and also a newsletter (she does other stuff too, heh) I highly recommend. This weekās postāa sermon on forgivenessāwas some good medicine. I love the way she links stories from the bible to the phenomenon of cancel cultureā¦
š Oh my god, if you read one link this week, I might suggest this one (Learning to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained For). Writer Jazmine Hughes weaves together her story of learning to swim at the age of 28, pushing back on stereotypes around black kids never learning to swim, pursuing a longing to swim in the ocean, and! her journey of coming out as queer. Itās so good, yāall.
āØ This concept is so beautiful it makes it hard to breathe. āEach author makes the trek to Nordmarka forest, high above Oslo and where 1,000 trees were planted in 2014, to surrender their manuscripts in a short ceremony. For the next century, the manuscripts will be sealed in OsloāsĀ DeichmanĀ public library until 2114, when the trees will be cut down to make the paper on which the 100 manuscripts will be printed ā and, finally, read.ā Ocean Vuong is next up!
And now, to close us out: āDancers Attempt to Stand Upright on a Giant Rotating Platform in a Marvelously Choreographed Performanceā Just trust me itās SO GOOD:
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Allow me to add "rage leaving work due to air quality" to this list.
Your playlist has many of my favorite angry songs!! RATM and The Coup always. My addition is "Nice for What" by Drake. Excellent for yell-singing along to after a rough day.
Naturally, 'Violet' by Hole (and Celebrity Skin, and basically the whole catalogue of their stuff). It may have been factor in the choice of my daughter's name, along with confit violettes and dusky purple roses in Paris while I was 5 months pregnant with her... I also like the whole album 'Undertow' by Tool for frustration, IDGAF by Dua Lipa, Combat Baby and Monster Hospital by Metric, and anything by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs because I love Karen O's wild manic abandon.
Allow me to add "rage leaving work due to air quality" to this list.
Your playlist has many of my favorite angry songs!! RATM and The Coup always. My addition is "Nice for What" by Drake. Excellent for yell-singing along to after a rough day.
<3
added. so good.
Naturally, 'Violet' by Hole (and Celebrity Skin, and basically the whole catalogue of their stuff). It may have been factor in the choice of my daughter's name, along with confit violettes and dusky purple roses in Paris while I was 5 months pregnant with her... I also like the whole album 'Undertow' by Tool for frustration, IDGAF by Dua Lipa, Combat Baby and Monster Hospital by Metric, and anything by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs because I love Karen O's wild manic abandon.
yes, thank you, added. you're such a badass btw
As are you lovely friend š
This is my response:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0UVZuTikuhK4hpridtnPAH?si=lX3WeN_QSuCpU8ivZ6_8ZQ
mujer! this playlist is the ish!!!
Well, Lose Yourself by Eminem just got me all fired the fuck up to run around and punch the air and stuff, so maybe that ;)
hell yes. added.