The first night we spent in each other’s company, I slid into the passenger seat of his car and flipped through the songs on his stereo. He had one of those screens that was probably standard, but I’d never seen it before, having spent the past six years in the backseat of yellow cabs during . . . Read More
Articles tagged ‘pop music’
May 1, 2021
How Deep Is Your Love
On musical wonderlands, being the last two people on earth, and listening to the same song
May 7, 2020
The Moon, She Refuses to Be Captured
A morning ritual disrupted and a few of them kept
I woke up at 4:30am, cat in a C-shape beside me. Last night I finished edits on a magazine story, and I can never sleep long after that. My brain stays in hyper-vigilant mode, too much adrenaline I suspect. As I lay under the covers, I could see rivers of text on the galley proof . . . Read More
April 6, 2020
Someone to Love
On Fountains of Wayne, coronavirus, and the kick drum of the human heart
I was driving the long solitary highway to Alaska when the guy in the passenger seat asked if I knew Fountains of Wayne. Was that a statue? Was that a waterfall? It was a band, he explained, named after a store in New Jersey. That guy was not my boyfriend, but I hadn’t given up . . . Read More