alternate title: You’re out of touch, I’m out of time Some people let their looks go after getting married. Me, I’m letting my taste in music go. I no longer need to win friends and lovers with an impeccably cool and expensively current music collection. I’m going to listen to Hall and Oates if I [...]
One of the colleges in town has a radio station that appears to run on autopilot. I have never heard a DJ, only a succession of songs from a catalog that stopped being updated in mid-1987, a recorded clip of a young woman telling me I’m listening to “The Awesome ’80s” and the occasional PSA. [...]
The project inspired by my past was interrupted by the present. In previous relationships, I talked incessantly about love theory: what a perfect love entailed, what it meant, and how it should manifest. The pair in this idealized and unconditional love would transcend the mundanity experienced by couples content to live with a blah, cliched [...]