Music

The Blues

Where has this music been all my life? Earlier this week, I was at my friend Greg’s house and he put a B.B. King record on. It was smooth and soulful and somehow relaxed but driven; it was steadfast but going somewhere; it was the blues and I loved it.

Frets

Violins don’t have frets. That isn’t to say they never worry, they just don’t have ridges across the fretboard like a guitar. Those ridges help to sustain notes after the strings are plucked or strummed, and they give the the fingers somewhere to go.

How to make a great playlist

Thanks to Spotify, the playlist has become the most important organizing device for music. The function that used to be done by albums and radio DJs — namely, grouping songs together — now happens in the playlists we build for ourselves.

2017

I wish there was a treaty we could sign.

It’s over now, the water and the wine.

We were broken then, now we’re borderline.

I wish there was a treaty, I…