Isolation Blues: a Playlist
It’s easy to get caught up in the negative, and music creates the kind of escape I need since I’m forbidden to leave my home.
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Month: May 2020
Lo-fi High Five Reviews: “Calypso” – David Sedaris (2018)
“Calypso,” in its montage of quirky essays, is also possibly David Sedaris’ most emotional collection after “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim” (2004).
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COVID-19 And Me: Alexa Henderson
I probably won’t see anyone new besides my family and my roommate for at least another month. I want people to stop feeling afraid, and the sooner we can get this beast under reigns, the better.
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Lo-fi High Five Reviews: “Horse Girl” (2020)
A Netflix Original, and a bizarrely different role for Brie, “Horse Girl” works in conjunction with multi-layered metaphors, though most predominantly the mental health/illness of the main character, Sarah (Brie).
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The Dragon’s Gift and the Eagles Promise II
In 1975, at the tail end of the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, Zhou Enlai proclaimed before the National People’s Congress and Mao Zedong his “Four Modernizations” whose focuses on material development were a stark contrast to “revolutionary” policy that focused on upending society to create an idealized revolutionary state.
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