Tag: music

  • That Misfit from Mars

    Like many of you, I woke up to the news of David Bowie’s death on Monday morning. Also like many of you, I never met David Bowie. I never even saw him live. But when I heard the news, I felt a strong sense of loss and disbelief. I read a story this week where…

  • P.O.S Is (Not) Ruining My Life

    I first saw P.O.S perform, when he opened for Cursive. It was May 2009, and I had moved to Minneapolis a few months before. P.O.S had just put out the album Never Better. But I didn’t know this. I didn’t know who P.O.S was yet. I had discovered The Current, a public radio station that…

  • Suffering Doesn’t Equal Great Art

    I fell in love with writing in the third grade. My teacher assigned us to finish a story- I think it was about camping- and I wrote page after page. I was hooked. When was in grade school, I liked to write longer stories. Around the time I was in junior high, my angst kicked…