Mike Barthel
@mikebarthelauthor
Writer/critic/researcher/musician in DC. Fiction lotsa places. Writing a road trip novel and a book for DUP “Singles” about “Party in the USA.” mikebarthelauthor.com Making music as APOPHRA
Obsessed with the absolute insanity of this Tumblr music chart. At number 80 we have Bach, at 79 we have balsa wood, at 78 PinkPantheress, at 77 Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys and at 76 a fish with amnesia.
7 miles north of downtown and it’s pretty loud here in DC at 12:15
This paragraph about how animals at the national zoo are staying cool sounds like it could be a product endorsed by Deathklok.
I think part of it was the lack of a sustained Santanaissance? Wanted to see if I remembered anything from the follow up album, and oh man, these guest artists…
Wait wait wait was the Backrooms thing supposed to be a Caretaker homage
I’ll admit this was inspired by kd lang’s Chekov’s harp on Larry Sanders.
Today’s “wanna feel old” moment is seeing Mandy Patinkin and Noah Wyle in 1995
Tiny uncanny arch / have you heard of the ides of March / you lack defining features / like a low-poly video game creature / in his dreams you’d inspire the nation / but your ratios were lost in translation
Going through covid photos trying to remember what we did for Thanksgiving 2020 and found this absolute banger
Taking this thing as a survey researcher was like listening to two tone deaf people try to sing the national anthem while each trying to match the other one’s pitch
Just became aware there’s a startup offering luxury restaurant reservations called Dorsia, as in the restaurant from American Psycho
I mean I guess in the grand cosmic scheme of things they’re similar?