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A.A. Bondy
September 2011
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Wisconsin Built | ”No Grey”
My friends Thom and Eric make some amazing music as Wisconsin Built. They just released a new Untitled EP. This isn’t from that (though I’d suggest getting it -it’s awesome), it’s from a record Eric made quite a bit ago, and it’s called Maps. It’s a beautiful piece of lo-fi indie pop and probably my favorite song by them.
What a sweetheart.
I wanted to write about the northwest and how there’s something in the way the weather sweeps in and rests. I wanted the earth to breathe in the same way that I breathed, didn’t I? Didn’t I want that? I thought life was revolving on a tilted axis or something similar and I didn’t think there was any other way. Turns out, we do things to do things and that’s it.
* with the Walkmen
# with Local Natives and Wye Oak
! with Local Natives
^ with Neko Case and Wye Oak
& with the War on Drugs
% with Sharon Van Etten
$ with So Percussion
@ with Wye Oak
One year ago today, I got in the driver’s seat of a car that my mother paid for and gave me and drove from Portland, Oregon to Los Angeles, California to (at most) flourish and (at least) not die. Ten years ago today, some normal-sized people hijacked some normal-sized planes and flew them into…