When you’re a culture nerd who has built a life with another culture nerd, every surface has the potential to be a shelf. Which is why, when I read this essay by Gabe Bullard, I wanted to build something around it: “I’m staring at an odd corner in our apartment where two walls meet and […]
A year-end/year-beginning essay ft. aging out of oversharing, turning 40, parental death, reckoning with one's own main character energy and Frank Turner.
Back in October, Fiona Apple – whose Fetch the Bolt Cutters, released in April, captured a particular early pandemic mood – was interviewed by Emily Nussbaum for The New Yorker Festival. “I think we women should be marrying our friends,” she told the journalist. “We have sexual freedom! We have dogs! We have fun! We […]
After eight months at home, and with a long winter looming, I realise how much of my life was based around a) going to work; and b) going to gigs. Work was the thing that got me out of the house every day: the reason I kept active; the reason I was in town for […]
Lockdown birthdays might actually be the best birthdays. I drank custom cocktails from The Gate from a ridiculous Mickey Mouse Pride-themed tumbler my sister ordered. I got to see two of my best pals (separately, in the garden sufficiently distanced) for the first time in MONTHS, and video-chatted with my faraway family. My house ended […]
The glib advice, if you’re not happy with something in your life, is to change it – but what if there’s nothing in your life that you’re unhappy with but you’re still, you know, unhappy? I haven’t been feeling my best for… a good six months now, really, since we swapped my medication around and […]
Appearing on NPR Music’s legendary Tiny Desk Concert series back in autumn, Taylor Swift talked about how, in interviews over the years, she’d been asked a thousand variations on “what would you write about if you ever get happy?” “Would I not be able to do my favourite thing in the world anymore?” she mused. […]