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Stuff I'm Thinking About - July 8, 2025

Fishmans, Backbeat ni Nokkatte (from Uchū Nippon Setagaya, 1997) -- really any summer-y song with dub drums: see Cleaners From Venus, Joy Division, PiL, The Pop Group) (OR for actual dub, King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown, LKJ's Dread Beat And Blood, and Prince Far I)

Late 90's John Fahey Bootlegs (Dutch Radio, 1999)

This old newsreel of Elizabeth Cotton playing for a bunch of elementary schoolers in Portland (recorded by Bill Fisher, 1978)

The Lemonheads, It's A Shame About Ray (Fire Records, 1992)

Richard Buckner, Impasse (Merge Records, 2002)

Trout Fishing In American by Richard Brautigan -- currently reading :D

Julio Cortazar, In The Name of Bobby (New Yorker, 1979)

John Updike, The Happiest I've Been (originally published in the New Yorker, 1959)