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… is the name of my next band / album / anthology 🤘🏽 📚

• Band names
• Album / anthology titles
• Epigraphs

Band names

• historical inertia and unexamined habit
  • From Eric Meyers’s “Blinded by the Light DOM” article
• an emotional understanding devoid of logic
  • From Redesigning Cormac McCarthy’s Brutal ‘Blood Meridian’ by Bobby Solomon (via Kottke)
  • I’ll say this could also be a very good anthology name
• Of a Patchwork of Extractive Regimes
  • From a tweet by Tressie McMillan Cottom in a thread about graduate degrees
• lil’ knock knock (from @elbow-jason in a work Zoom 🤣)
  • it seemed right to style it in all lowercase.
• The Curse of Dimensionality
  • @billylanchantin
• The Pyramids of My Insecurity
  • discussing making emotional progress on certain topics
• Serendipitous Spanners
  • from Jez Burrows’s Dictionary Stories Short Fictions and Other Findings
• Pessimism Barbie (🙋🏽‍♀️)
• A Heteroglossic Wonderland
  • from Lauren Michelle Jackson in “Poetic License”
• Viscoelastic Creep
  • from an article about stretching
• Paradigms of Control
  • industrial metal with synth pop B-sides, via Shane
• fiery bubbles of doom
• Empirical Accident
• Reading in 2012:
  • Victorian Middle-Class Shorthand for Madness
  • Workaday Paranoia and Aeronautic Abandon
• a trip to the museum:
  • Fragment of a Female Head
  • Packing for Martyrs
• Scuttlebut Grumps
• Freakishly Frivolous
• Atmospheric Menace
• Rigor of Pedagogy
• Syntactic Sugar
• A Distillation of Spite ❤️
• uninitialized constant
• Existentially Fraught Free Throws
• Humidity and Parsnips
• The Nihilistic Embrace
• Unkempt Nihilism
• Coronal Consonants
• Craven and Insular

Submissions!

• from JA:
  • Heathen Vision (Possible album title: Tombstones)
  • Mr. Mermaid (album: Jaunty Dolphin)

Album / anthology titles

• the bright and sustained return
  • Source: Icons of Sound: Auralizing the Lost Voice of Hagia Sophia, re: the way performers can make use of the Hagia Sofia’s design with their harmonies.
• In the Extraordinary Form of the liturgy
  • Source: reading about Pentacost on Wikipedia, this phrase appears in the description of Western churches’ Pentacost celebrations. How did I even get here? I was listening (again!) to auralization “Teleutaion” (hagiasophia.stanford.edu) and went looking up what “cathedral vespers on Pentecost” even means.
• a powerful quantum vortex in a tank of superfluid helium
  • Source: Kottke.org link about black holes
• in dialectical tension with each other
  • Source Jamelle Bouie’s TikTok on the interesting and contradictory nature of former President Lyndon B. Johnson (and why learning history on TikTok doesn’t absolve you of looking up sources
• My failures, quotidian and spectacular
  • Source It Took Me Nearly 40 Years To Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan
• the periphrastic construction of identity itself
  • source: From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again, NYT
• Synchronous Transition in Complex Object Control
  • The title of a paper linked in Food & Wine’s “How Humans Walk and Carry a Cup of Coffee Is a Bit of a Physics Mystery”, via Tom & Lorenzo’s loung post for September 9, 2021
• Instead I endured mere perfection.
  • From Bill Addison’s “Chez Panisse reimagined the way we eat. After 50 years, is that enough? in the LA Times; h/t a Helen Rosner tweet.
• Both a necessity and a terrifying liability
  • From the second installment of Anne Helen Petersen’s Peloton series in her Culture Study newsletter
• In a blistering amicus brief Friday
  • This is I’m guessing, an album full of wonderfully melodic singles with lyrics people don’t grok until a few listens in and then they fall out when it all clicks (from The Washngton Post: U.S. men’s soccer team backs women in equal-pay fight, saying USWNT should have been paid more
• The bourgeois cultural lingua franca of academia
  • Absolutely a punk album title (from Tressie McMillan Cottom’s newsletter issue, “Let’s Talk About Tenure”)
• An array of indifferent watercolors
  • from A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn
• The sonic energy exhaled in the interior
  • From the explanation on auralizations in a project about the Hagia Sophia
• A better line of work than motherfucking vigilance
  • From Dessa’s song “Fire Drills”
• a certain kind of suburban basement ethos
  • From New Republic’s article, “The GameStop Saga Shows How Casino Capitalism Is Eating the World”
  • This would definitely have to be a Stranger Things-esque vaporwave album, right?
• Your Systematic Overthinking of Superfluous Details
  • From the caption of horses in Andalusia in Magnum Photographers Turn Their Lenses on the Start of a New Year in Vogue
• In Argument of Perihelion
  • from general information about Planet Nine in the Star Walk iOS app
• Summoned into Sympathetic Vibration
  • from Robin Sloan’s newsletter, 23 Dec 2020
• Tasked with the job of municipal plunder
  • From Ta-Nehisi Coates’s essay “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration”
• A sea of empty posturing
  • from Jay Smooth’s “How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist”
• conducive to the outbreak of a revolutionary
  • From “The Technological Origins of Protestantism, or the Martin Luther Tech Myth” by @LMSacasas via Shane
• the molten, ever-present eye of a merciless star
  • From @panzer’s The 10th Anniversary iPhone Goes to Disneyland
• The Crux of Our Solitude
  • From Gabriel Garciá Márquez’s Nobel lecture in 1982)
• The Poetics of the Sustainable Kitchen (from Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
• From tweets (of mine) that no longer exist because Twitter (as I’d care to use it) no longer exists:
  • Pleasure of Intuition by Rigor of Pedagogy
  • preaching Serious Literature to the elbow patches
  • Clarification in the Abstract
  • unexplained and inexplicable
  • the catastrophic consequences of likeability
  • the ouroboros of inequality
• I like HTTP status codes over embedded success indicators
  • From @bleything
• Spill your impossible scripture
  • Dominique Christina’s “The Period Poem” via @keavy
• The bandwagon of my uncertainty
  • Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s “Like Totally Whatever”
• Human nature (together with the operation of time)
  • From The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures, via @tiffehr)

Epigraphs

• “Do not be wedded forever to fear”
  • From Maya Angelou’s “On the pulse of morning”
• “This is the ballad of aspirational bourgeois existence.”
  • From The Shopping Cure edition of Anne Helen Petersen’s newsletter, The Culture Study
• “…the mise en abyme of mimetic desire…”
  • from Dayna Tortorici’s “My Instagram”
• “So really, the contest comes down to two grown men squabbling over a shared delusion…”
  • from @claire_lampen’s “I Am Living for the Drama Over France’s Obsolete Throne”

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