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2. Ducks Ltd. – "Grim Symmetry". The lead guitarist is Australian, the other guy was born in the UK, raised in the US, and they're now based in Canada. So why is their music the perfect expression of New Zealand-style jangle pop? You know what, never mind why. Just shoot this directly into my veins, please.

My Top 2 Songs of the Week (2024 Week 42):
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1. Greg Mendez – "Alone". Lo-fi indie folk from Philly, reminiscent of early Elliott Smith or Jeff Mangum. "I'm a lonely winter away from punishment".

Mike Watt on bass, drummer Chris Corsano, and Joe Baiza on guitar jam econo at The Miniplex in Arcata, CA. October 20, 2024.

The Fall 2024 issue of BlazeVOX includes 5 found photo-poems from my series Asemic Realizations. There’s a plant in my neighborhood whose leaves turn color creating a pattern resembling a psychedelic rock concert poster. Thank you to editor Geoffrey Gatza! Link in comments.

The poems in Broken Lens Journal are from the third book of Hypnopompic Diaries, subtitled Apophenic Epiphanies. Books 1 and 2 are available in a single volume published by Alien Buddha Press: amazon.com/Hypnopompic-Diaries

I read these poems live from my library back when I lived in Honolulu. The video is on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9i6m7KQQGjg

During the pandemic I started writing poems while half asleep, trying to catch the tail end of what that othermind that’s active when we’re asleep had to say. Broken Lens Journal has just published five more of my Hypnopompic Diary entries in their ninth issue. Link in the comments. Thank you to editors Adam Stutz and Heather Watson for including me!

You can read an earlier version of the poem in the Spring 2024 issue of BlazeVOX Journal here: blazevox.org/s/Spring-24-Steve (the last poem "When I hear It Don't Come Easy's..." was later incorporated into "Questions 70 & Up") 2/2

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Here's a playlist of all the songs referenced in my poem "Questions 70 & Up" from "Dreaming to a Click", my music-themed collaboration with Chris Stroffolino. 1/2

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4. GOAT – "Zombie". It's like a socially awkward guy at a party—loud as a plaid leisure suit and trying a bit too hard to be arty. But yet somehow it's also undeniably funky and makes the loud awkward parts work in that context.

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