THIS solo episode comes from my car during my lunch break.

I talk about:

• Reading Black Metal Rainbows and the uncanny experience of enjoying reading about an art form more than the art form itself, though I'm still enjoying Dawn Treader's Bloom & Decay
• The images of Shaaban Ahmad via @letstalkpalestine and so many other places: a 19-year-old software engineering student burning alive in his bed in a hospital tent with IVs still attached to his arms as a result of IOF attacks on Gaza
• Why I refuse to make work that only looks inward
• This Instagram carousel from @visualizing_palestine
• Hanif Abdurraqib's and Johnny Cash's three themes of their work, and my own
• Being done coddling people with my speech, whether about the genocide in Palestine or the reality of long COVID and necessity of masking
• Serving you the meal while explaining the recipe
• Bizhiki's incredible album, Unbound, which I think I've recommended before
• The content of next month's solo episode!

I hope this episode can provide you some obsession in the best way. Thanks for listening. Please donate to a fund in the @fundsforgaza Linktree if you can. And follow/donate to the @scholarships4gh4zza initiative.

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All music by This Is Your Afterlife house band Lake Mary.

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