S/Z: Recent Episodes
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Neutrals – The Iron That Never Swung
Humdrum – There And Back Again
Masters of the Hemisphere – Local Government
Ken Booth – Everything I Own
Primal Scream – Ready To Go Home
Studio – Origin
Colder – Crazy Love
Fat Dog – Peace Song
HALF-CENTURY SET: November
2014: TV On The Radio – Happy Idiot
2004: A Perfect Circle – Imagine
1994: Nirvana – The Man Who Sold The World
1984: Cocteau Twins – Ivo
1974: Brian Eno – Third Uncle
Joy Division – Transmission
New Order – Age of Consent
Visage – Clubscene
Heartworms – Retributions of an Awful Life
Suzi Quatro – 48 Crash
Death Valley Girls – Magic Powers
Velvet Negroni – Stinker
Failed Flowers – Faces
The Walters – Sweet Leaf
Billy Bragg – A New England
The Who – My Generation
Fontaines D.C. – Boys in the Better Land
Crocodiles – Degeneration
The Album Leaf, Bat for Lashes – Near
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – That Life
Orbital, Penelope Isles – Are You Alive?
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Rydeen
Yukihiro Takahashi, Steve Jansen – Betsu-Ni
David Sylvian, Ryuichi Sakamoto – Bamboo Music
Yukihiro Takahashi – Elastic Dummy
The Bangles – Going Down to Liverpool
The Raveonettes – Dead Sound
The Courtneys – Country Song
XTC – You’re the Wish You Are I Had
Devo – Jocko Homo
Sparks – Music That You Can Dance To
Rudi – Big Time
The Outcasts – Justa Nother Teenage Rebel
Stiff Little Fingers – Suspect Device
The Defects – Dance
De La Soul – The Magic Number
Vulfpeck – Sauna
Giorgio Moroder – What a Feeling Beach Messiah mix
Cerrone – The Only One Mercer club mix
Quasi – Queen of Ears
Adorable – Sunshine Smile
My Bloody Valentine – Thorn
The Knee-Hi’s – Beauty Queen
Belle and Sebastian – So In the Moment
China Crisis – King in a Catholic Style
Josef K – Sorry for Laughing
Tony Allen & Sampa the Great – Stumbling Down
Gil Scott-Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
A Certain Ratio – $ouls in the City Part 2
10,000 Maniacs – Scorpio Rising
Life Without Buildings – New Town
Lush – For Love
Frankie Rose – Anything
Lake Ruth – Strange Interiors
Fad Gadget – Collapsing New People
Bobby Nourmand – Distortion
Tricky – Fall Please
Eno/Hyde – Daddy’s Car
Death in Vegas – Dirt
Death and Vanilla – Looking Glass
Allah-Las – Polar Onion
Black Tambourine – Throw Aggi Off the Bridge
Beulah – Sunday Under Glass
Mavis Staples – The Chokin’ Kind
Mavis Staples – MLK Song
Ramsey Lewis Trio – Do What You Wanna [Another Voyage \ 1969]Gershon Kingsley – Pop Corn [Music to Moog By \ Audio Fidelity, 1969]RJD2 – The Horror [Deadringer \ RJ’s Electrical Connections, 2002]Jah Wobble’s Invaders of the Heart w/ Sinead O’Connor – Visions of You [Rising Above Bedlam \ East West, 1991]Phoenix – Tonight (feat. … Continue reading Play It As It Lays \ Episode 7 →
Artist – Song [Album \ Label, Year] The Smiths – The Queen is Dead [The Queen is Dead \ Rough Trade, 1986]Mark James – Suspicious Minds [single \ Sceptre, 1968]Mazzy Star – Blue Flower [She Hangs Brightly \ Capitol, 1990]Pale Saints – Throwing Back the Apple [In Ribbons \ 4ad, 1992]Melody’s Echo Chamber – Looking … Continue reading Play It As It Lays // Episode 6 →
Artist – Song [Album \ Label, Year] Four Tops – Bernadette [Reach Out \ Motown, 1967]US3 – Knowledge of Self [Hand on the Torch \ Blue Note, 1993]Bad Business Club / 79.5 – Silent Lies [single \ Bunnyman Bridge, 2022]Cerrone – Supernature [Supernature (Cerrone III) \ Malligator, 1977]Lene Lovich – New Toy [ep \ Stiff, … Continue reading Play It As It Lays // Episode 5 →
Artist – Song [Album \ Label, Year] Spain – Untitled #1 [The Blue Moods of Spain \ Restless, 1995]Luna – Fire in Cairo [A Sentimental Education \ Double Feature, 2017]The Beths – Future Me Hates Me [ Future Me Hates Me \ Carpark, 2018]Tommy James & The Shondells – I Think We’re Alone Now [ … Continue reading Play It As It Lays // Episode 4 →
Play It As It Lays airs Fridays at 8 p.m. PST on radio.3hive.com Artist – Song [Album \ Label, Year]1. Riki – Marigold [Gold \ Dais, 2021]2. Pool Kids – I Hope You’re Right [ Pool Kids \ Skeletal Lightning, 2022]3. Ultra Vivid Scene – Blood and Thunder [ single \ 4ad, 1993]4. Ride – Charm … Continue reading Play It As It Lays \ Episode 2 →
Play It As It Lays returns after a six year hiatus!!! New shows air Fridays at 8 p.m. PST on radio.3hive.com 1. Adrian Quesada – Hielo Seco2. Delvon Lamar Organ Trio – Fried Soul3. The Notwist – Al Sur w/ Juana Molina4. Launder – Intake5. Kitchens of Distinction – Drive that Fast6. No Age – Turned … Continue reading Play It As It Lays // Episode 1 →
FACT 1: When I was a kid and I needed help with my homework, I’d often ask my father who would sit next to me at the table and begin fumbling for paper and a pencil. I need a pencil, he’d say. I can’t think without a pencil. It rubbed off. I like taking notes. … Continue reading SQUIDD: an origin story in 10 facts →
We all fled to our homes, with little warning, and certainly without a clue that we’d never be gathered as a class, this class, ever again. We spent the first few days with our families, figuring out what this new normal looks like and scouring stores for toilet paper. Then I reached out to my … Continue reading COVIDucation →
I remember the epiphany well—the look in their faces, a mix of ennui, exhaustion. Exasperation. That class of seniors, the first time I had taught that level in six years, when I was student teaching, staring back at me, beat. We had read through Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Macbeth. I dutifully doled … Continue reading Minor Thoughts →
The other day a student asked me if it was okay to write an argument essay using the first person point of view. I’m used to the question at the beginning of the year when I first meet students in my AP Language and Composition class. For years they’re trained to avoid the first person … Continue reading Don’t Say I, OK? →
I love Austin Kleon’s advice on how to read more (although teachers work really hard at communicating to students how to avoid #4). Students in my 11th grade English class and I created photo illustrations for each piece of advice because we love to read! Dylan loves to read about tacos! Who doesn’t? Lizzie is … Continue reading How to Read More →
After seeing the above sketch in her Twitter feed a couple months back, my good friend and teacher-neighbor across the field, Seena Rich, sent me this response: @MrZiebarth @davidtedu @WickedDecent @amyburvall @gregsedu @Braddo @rushtheiceberg @MrJBarro @DCoffeen Curious,how has ur comp class changed — Seena Rich (@SeenaRich) September 29, 2015 While she did so gracefully, Seena … Continue reading What Are You Doing About It? →
When you read this bit of news I’m about to share with you, you’re either going to wonder: What took them so long? or What’s the world coming to? So what’s the news? Oxford Dictionaries announced their word of the year for 2015. All the dictionaries do it— choose a word that’s relatively new that captures … Continue reading Word of the year →
First came the music. It comprised a variety of instruments, perhaps imperfectly adapted to one another, and played with no great skill, but yet attaining the great object for which the harmony of drum and clarion addresses itself to the multitude,—that of imparting a higher and more heroic air to the scene of life that … Continue reading Scarlet Letter Soundtrack →
About a year-and-a-half into my teaching career I cribbed an in-class activity from Austin Kleon: newspaper blackout poems. But I didn’t want to do them exactly like Kleon. I wanted to tie it closer to my curriculum. At the time I was teaching juniors and freshman, and among lots of other things we read The … Continue reading The Catcher in the Rye: a blacked-out novel →