Wayne & Wax

@wayneandwax

musicologist at Berklee, farmer at Belmont Acres, amateur bassist, principiante jaranero, erstwhile DJ, reggaetonera hasta la tumba

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Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· 9d

just a random Saturday evening in the neighborhood. Ethiopian basslines resounding all afternoon. got as close to the soundsystem as the dog would let me. distorted Teddy Afro jams still ringing out as the sun set. even from a distance the bass warbled my camera.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· 10d

reading Pedro Páramo and learning cool new words

search results for "turicata," which is the Spanish -- and Latin! (Ornithodoros turicata) -- name for the relapsing fever tick. no duerma en ese rincón!

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· 15d

que capuchina tan colorida

a nasturtium flower with a stunning color combo: 5 creamy yellow-white petals, the top two have a maroon flare toward the center, while the bottom three are showing more of a bright magenta red. put it on a baseball jersey.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· 28d

e.g., bottom of page 7

a picture of the bottom of page 7 in The Sheep Look Up. the text reads:

"And now a police flash," said the radio.

Maskless, his expression revealing a trace of what? Surprise? Contempt?-something, anyway, which was a comment on this charley who couldn't even breathe straight air without choking, the nearest guard moved toward him, sighing.

"Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said. "I'll repeat that." And did, barely audible against the drone of an aircraft invisible over cloud. Philip piled out, clawing a five-dollar bill from his pocket.

"Take care of this thing for me, will you? I'm Mason, Denver area manager. I'm late for a conference with Mr. Chalmers."

He got that much said before he doubled over in another fit of coughing. The acrid air ate at the back of his throat; he could imagine the tissues becoming horny, dense, impermeable. If this job's likely to involve me in...

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· 28d

this 1972 printing is already pretty yellow, but I can't resist snapping a pic on a smoke-hazy day like today. I'm looking up too. pulled this one off the shelf for a re-read last week because it remains prescient, and hoo boy, does it ever.

me holding a yellowed copy of John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up in my backyard, which is lit at midday with an unnatural yellow haze on account of wildfires in Canada.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Jul 11

yo también

una capuchina con una gota de agua en una hoja

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Jul 7

I've always associated the "soul delay" theory of jet lag with @greatdismal.bsky.social 's Pattern Recognition (2003), yet here it is a decade earlier in a play by García Marquez!

a picture of part of page 21 in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado"; the text in question, about jet lag and delayed souls, reads: "El avión se parece a un milagro, pero va tan rápido que una llega con el cuerpo solo, y anda do so tres días como una sonámbula, hasta que llega el alma atrasada."

me holding a copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Diatriba de amor contra un hombre sentado"; a thin, black book with a picture of a sillón

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Jun 24

reader, he did. & it was legit picante.

me taking a selfie of me licking a spicy fence at the farm.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Jun 24

dime la verdad: would you lick-a the spicy fence?

a red warning sticker that came with some fencing we bought for the farm. the fence contains cayenne pepper to deter chewing and it is literally labeled as "SPICY FENCE"!

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Jun 4

read yr boy! (leame!)

a picture of my chapter in the TOC: Section VI: 21st Century Pop. my chapter is called "Spanish Pop's New Vistas: Mainstream Legibility in a Post-Reggaeton, Post-Regional Era"

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Jun 4

get a load of this absolute tome

me holding (with one hand, with some difficulty) the just-off-the-presses Oxford Handbook of Pop Music, edited by Eric Weisbard. this book is thick! as it should be.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· May 24

the cartoon Man in a Deep Depression by William Steig, showing a sorry looking guy sitting in a hole

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· May 24

novel gustatory experiences? bro, I just ate the same thing for breakfast and lunch. (delicious both times, would eat again.)

a breakfast plate with white beans (and sage), fried eggs, and two slices of olive sourdough toast. a cup of coffee to the right.

a lunch plate with white beans (and sage), fried eggs, and two slices of olive sourdough toast, darker than the morning's. a fork to the right. cider not pictured.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· May 18

just getting roasted over here by Zari #oldheads

a slide from Duolingo where Zari is saying "My grandfather played rap when he was young." so that's where we are.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· May 12

cybercriminals returning the hacked personal data

rudimentary digital drawing of a spider from that viral post from many years ago, when a guy tried to pay a bill with this image and then demanded it back

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· May 6

hello bluebook my old friend 🎶

me holding a stack of blue books -- the first exam, and hand-written one, I've given in many years. but here we are.

in the background is an upright Yamaha piano and a student working

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Apr 28

I was one of the 250 "music insiders" consulted for this piece (a full year ago!) and I'm cheered to see 14 of the 16 I listed here. (Joni was disqual'd for being Canadian; I knew that but cmon. Tom Waits was a long shot?) was afraid hip-hop & R&B folks might be overlooked and I'm glad they weren't.

screenshot of a form from the NYT for their Greatest Living American Songwriters feature. the main prompt reads:

Please list between 5 and 25 people that you think should be considered for this list. If any of these names are lesser-known, please tell us why you included them.

and my response:

These are all well known artists but might need more advocacy than the more obvious shortlist of legends: Tom Waits, Nile Rodgers, Babyface, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny. And in case the following don't go without saying: Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Carole King, Smokey Robinson.

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Apr 26

this is a laevis, yes?

amelanchier of some sort, probably Allegheny, just starting to leaf out with one big tuft of little white flowers

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Apr 14

we turn to hip-hop this week in my American Popular Music class, so you know I had to do it to em

today's teaching fit laid out on the bed: a Run DMC T-shirt, my vintage red black and green Cross Colours jeans, and a pair of red old school pumas

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Apr 10

and there are other fun oddities too, such as a Misfits briefcase and a Grace Jones tapestry

an outsider art style tapestry of that classic Grace Jones photo

long blue record bins filled with 12"s, on the right an orange Misfits face on a briefcase

Wayne & Wax@wayneandwax· Apr 10

went rooting around in the bins and found this fascinating 45 on Blue Caribe Records, made in Brooklyn by a calypso band, playing a Cuban jam by the author of the song that became "Louie Louie"! (he's got a nice stash of calypso 45s if anyone is interested, and he's looking to sell the lot)