Drew Daniel
@drewdaniel
Matmos guy with my husband @lordchiefjustice / English professor at Hopkins / also known as The Soft Pink Truth.
hey Bay Area people! MATMOS, DICK SLESSIG COMBO, and JEROD S RIVERA are all going to perform this coming Saturday night at @grayarea.org in the beautiful Mission district of San Francisco! You should come! bring all of your loved ones too!
the last night of the You and Me festival in Beijing took place in a (literally) underground location
I am « in my feelings » that this poetry anthology is going to come out after years of labor with my fabulous co-editors- I have some thoughts and more context which won’t fit in one post so I’ve written it all out below: 👇
If you read only one essay this year that features the words "seafood jacuzzi", let it be this one: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Greetings from the water park inside the New Century Global Center in Chengdu aka the world’s largest building
We found a “money tree” yesterday also! Wanted to give it a shake but it was under glass
Yesterday we put a human birthday in perspective by visiting a gingko tree that is more than a thousand years old
pstttt there’s a pretty sick deep techno party tonight in Shanghai at Heim
at Xi An Xiao Chi (« Xi An Snack ») in Shanghai there’s a bowl of raw garlic at every table and you’re supposed to peel a clove and nibble some of it between every delicious bite of oily spicy noodles
Posing up a storm at the Palgrave booth at the WSC conference because actual print copies of Catherine Bates and James Stone’s edited collection « Shakespeare & Psychoanalysis » (for which I wrote the afterword) have arrived. Embrace your symptoms, everyone!
Verona we are in you (I’m here for a week long Shakespeare conference and M.C. Schmidt is fancy free)
Sometimes you find a painting of the infant Jesus where he is just chilling so hard
Hey! Are you in Bologna this Friday? It will be my birthday and I will be playing a Matmos show at Rione San Nicolo as part of the BOtanique Festival! You should come! 🥂💋🇮🇹🍉🐈👍🎉🎂🥳🎈
It’s so nice here it feels hyperreal- we can see snow on the peaks of the opposite side of Lac Leman - one of the most stunning places I have ever been
just finished re-reading Kierkegaard / just started re-reading De Quincey (one of the pleasures of growing older is re-reading)
Just had a meet up with international man of mystery @fucktheory.bsky.social at one of Athen’s most elite new dining spots
Here’s an Anti-AI poster in the same zone- Google Translate says the headline is “we are not algorithms, we want free, unruly lives” - here’s its attempt at a translation of the body text
Not my picture, but this is a pic of a sign at a bar in the same Exarchia neighborhood- it’s a broadly held solidarity stance here.