Very excited that @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social turned me on to marchxness.com.
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Very excited that @jamcharlesworth.bsky.social turned me on to marchxness.com.
#music #writing
“If you could choose how to spend your last year, would you pick falling in love?” Chelsea Biondolillo’s @marchxness.bsky.social essay is gorgeous & so sad.
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"One reason stories about heartbreak can be hard to sell is because, in love, while the specifics are the story, too many specifics don't leave room for the reader..."
If you read just one thing today, please make it my friend @cbiondolillo.bsky.social's beautiful & heartbreaking essay on Mazzy Star
My @marchxness.bsky.social essay (subtitled ‘how last summer went’) is live... Please vote for it! Here’s part of that long bank of windows with a sunset:
My @marchxness.bsky.social essay was not easy to write, but I’m hoping there’s some beauty to be found in it, along with the sadness. Chris was generally terrible at selfies. Here are some failed attempts that still make me laugh.
My @marchxness.bsky.social essay about Mazzy Star and The Little Prince and a particle physicist is live, y’all. It’s not really something I feel like I should hype up? I’ll probably just be posting some pics… Thank you for reading it and voting your heart! marchxness.com#/1stround-gi...
I knew the Skid Row song that time forgot would be a tough sell, but I'm glad I put it back out there a little bit. Congrats to Cicily and "Brick"!
I unironically LOVE Wasted Time. & @meganc.bsky.social's essay perfectly articulates the "stark & hopeless & specific sadness" of this "heartfelt & odd & angry" classic.
Still time to READ the essay, marvel at Sebastian Bach's "HOLY SHIT level vocal performance," & VOTE SKID ROW!!
“NOW you can pivot from Disney kid to sexpot, from harmless reality TV himbo to fascist political monster, from porn star to first lady. You can pivot and pivot until Words no longer mean Things.” I am so into @meganc.bsky.social ’s @marchxness.bsky.social on Skid Row. marchxness.com
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 5 HALFTIME(ISH) SCORES
Belle & Sebastian 51, Lauryn Hill 50
Des’ree 99, Goo Goo Dolls 79
Ben Folds Five 77, Skid Row 29
Lisa Loeb 65, Lee Ann Womack 27
Vote by 9am AZ time 3/6 at marchxness.com
Reminder to all of you in Baltimore that our Xness meetup is at 5ish tomorrow at The Pink Flamingo (300 W 30th) just up the street from the Xness event with @splitlippress.com at 6:30 at Greedy Reads REMINGTON
"There are sad songs for every nuance of romantic heartbreak, but there aren’t so many about the ways friendship can break your heart" @meganc.bsky.social bringing it hard in her @marchxness.bsky.social on Skid Row. Give her great essay a read (& a vote?):
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I was certainly an "I'll Remember You" fan — where are you Eiren Crawford? — but @meganc.bsky.social has me all into Wasted Time and her essay for this line:
How much friendship feeling is too much? Is it okay to be the one who cares more? Can a friendship be one-sided and still be real?
Sebastian (Bach) and I need your votes!
Surely we can get more than 29 votes for Skid Row &
“Wasted Time feels like an emotional rarity: a song about friendship & a song in which a straight man sings intimately & passionately about his feelings for another straight man…just anguish and worry distilled down into questions without answers”
My essay on Skid Row's neglected masterpiece, suburban basements, Dial MTV, and whether Liking Things really matters is up today! @marchxness.bsky.social
“I have written for this tournament six times, and nearly every single essay has, on some level, been about my fear of actually knowing myself.” It’s always a pleasure to read Moira McAvoy’s @marchxness.bsky.social essays & this year’s on “Iris” is no exception.
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You know how this household will be voting. Skid Row is so good even the ballads are good. It’s ridiculous that vocal style’s like Bach’s were dropped in favor to dudes doing bad Vedder impressions.
MARCH SADNESS 90S EDITION DAY 4 FINAL SCORES
Mineral 80, RHCP 60
No Doubt 90, Gillian Welch 82
Hootie 140, Morphine 134
Counting Crows 137, Savage Garden 33
New ones just tipped off: bote by 9am AZ time 3/6 at marchxness.com
Some tight games here, y’all!
Hey, anybody at AWP? I'm hanging out at Table 609 repping the Norton Island Residency. Stop by & say Hi & we'll chat re life & @marchxness.bsky.social essays & I'll tell you all about this residency on a remote island off the coast of Maine.
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I spent the first half of @kjmoulton.bsky.social's essay thinking "I can see how Darius went country listening to this song. Still don't like it, 'I Will Wait' is the best Hootie." Then that record scratch and DAMN, this is the essay that made me cry today.
Today’s 8 @marchxness.bsky.social essays have me seated and sad as hell with TWO asterisk power-pivots by BRITTNEY UECKER (“Max and I had a tumultuous, isolated relationship”) and KATIE MOULTON (“I wrote all this before.”) Katie’s “before” in italics!
I like my sadness to have a bit of an edge. Caterwauling, or a weird dissonance, say. Ergo, I’m honestly kind of pissed at @kjmoulton.bsky.social for writing such a fucking *killer* essay that I just voted for a band that’s bout as edgy as an avocado. I need to walk my vote off to some Supersuckers…
Listen, Hootie had my vote no matter what (my first concert!), but I just read @kjmoulton.bsky.social’s @marchxness.bsky.social essay and holy shit. That ending! Bringing the bangers, Xness crew. marchxness.com#/1stround-ho...
About to start reading @kjmoulton.bsky.social’s @marchxness.bsky.social essay & Nelly comes on over the Midway Airport food court PA. Seems auspicious.
“The most indelible art has something wrong with it, and the best pure-pop songs are logically incoherent.” I’m not a fan of Hootie, but I am a fan of @kjmoulton.bsky.social’s @marchxness.bsky.social essay about them! marchxness.com
I finished reading @kjmoulton.bsky.social's essay on Let Her Cry and had to step away from my laptop to pace around this hotel room, holy shit
"But the crows don’t sound sad at all. They caw and caw, calling to each other, a community whose collective word feels far too violent for its nature."
@mlfaliveno.bsky.social's @marchxness.bsky.social essay on actual crows & Counting Crows!
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Today’s the day! I’m repping Round Here by @countingcrows.bsky.social in this year’s @marchxness.bsky.social 90s Sadness edition! Read the essays and vote for adolescent loneliness & Midwestern drives & distance & memory & longing!