Catwyrms
ISSUE #64
Meow.
Olivia Rodrigo’s universally acclaimed third album came out the same year the film Obsession made over $300 million dollars at the worldwide box office. This is nothing less than a fact, and the implications are far beyond the scope of this issue; nevertheless, it speaks to a generational changing of the guard, and the universal pattern of emotion and memory for our centennially challenged species.
Every year, the days get longer, pushing golden hour ever closer to midnight. This invites one of the great states of living—sitting around while the sun goes down. This is a playlist for those crepuscular moments.
There’s a new subgenre of IDM that I’ve discovered since last week’s Boards of Canada issue. IDM is the condescendingly named “Intelligent Dance Music,” which is rarely even danceable and came when electronic musicians looked past the dance floor to the more experimental realm of personal, quiet spaces.
About a month before I started cramming The Odyssey, I was halfway through a pocket-sized Macmillan Collector’s Edition of The Maltese Falcon. It was my first time reading it. I’ve actually never even seen it. But! I did study Hammett in a paperback class in college—he was the genesis of hard-boiled crime fiction, which was called noir when adapted to screen. His prose could be sharp as Hemingway’s, at his best.