Hey y’all,
Next Wednesday (4/22) here in Austin, Texas I’m interviewing Hrishikesh Hirway (host of my favorite podcast Song Exploder) onstage as part of the release show for his new album. Details here.
Here are 10 other things I thought were worth sharing this week:
My 11-year-old’s take on crazy sock day feels deeply profound to me and relevant to contemporary life in ways I don’t want to ruin with explanation. “Out of the mouths of babes…” and tweens!
I am downright delighted by how many of y’all have picked up the pre-order goodies for Don’t Call It Art. I’m extremely impatient to have this book out in the world, so seeing the zines and posters printed out and in your spaces is a real treat…
One of my favorite parts of Don’t Call It Art is about “silly rituals” — the fun, goofy things we do in the studio to make our work feel more like play. (I always ask people if they have any silly rituals in my typewriter interviews.) I have quite a few, and one of them is weighing my notebooks when I start and finish them:
“You think you’re doing random stuff, but your unconscious is screaming out a kind of sense that others can see better than you.” —Brad Neely,