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For some reason my annual springtime Jay Som listen made me think of this album and 90s midwest emo in general, and I’m so glad I dug it out and listened to it. Somehow in the late 90s a track from this album got airplay on X-96 one evening in between “Bullet with Butterfly Wings” and “Loser” or whatever they were usually playing and still I think play 25 years later, and I happened to hear it. It stuck with me; I remembered the band name and that I liked it through two years of Mormon mission, but didn’t find or hear the album until college, when I was in the Graywhale by the University of Utah and found a section I’d never paid attention to with the strange-to-me label of “indie”, and there in that section was this album, with it’s ironic retro colorfulness and white CD case backing. This album was my conscious entry point to the world of “indie rock”, emo, Pitchfork, etc.

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1. If this note appears, I’ve figured out how to post a note to my website (static website run through Hugo/Github/Netlify) just by creating a note in my Obsidian vault. Cool.

Listening to a lot of Jay Som is a springtime tradition for me.

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Last December I opened a fresh notebook and started with this entry. It is kind of my current thesis statement for having a website, being on the internet, trying to make stuff, etc. I haven’t followed through with these ideas so far, but I feel like putting it up on the website is a start.

First album I’ve just flat-out loved this year. I could listen to this endlessly, and did for a week or two there, and then listened again through his entire back catalog.

Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes, words by Traci N. Todd, pictures by Shannon Wright There Was a Party for Langston, King o' Letters, by Jason Reynolds, with art by Jerome Pumphrey & Jarrett Pumphrey The Truth About Dragons, written by Julie Leung, illustrated by Hanna Cha Jovita Wore Pants: The Store of a Mexican Freedom Fighter, by Aida Salazar, art by Molly Mendoza In Every Life, by Marla Frazee Big, by Vashti Harrison How to Write a Poem, by Kwame Alexander & Deanna Nikaido, art by Melissa Sweet