Our Strangers
I’m on the train, traveling alone, with two seats to myself. I have to use the restroom. Without thinking about it carefully, I ask a couple across the aisle if they would please watch my things for me for a moment. Then I take a closer look at them and have second...
Dream Count
I have always longed to be known, truly known, by another human being. Sometimes we live for years with yearnings that we cannot name. Until a crack appears in the sky and widens and reveals us to ourselves, as the pandemic did, because it was during lockdown that I...
All Fours
My friends are always obliging me with ephemera like this—screenshots of sexts, emails to their mothers — because I’m forever wanting to know what it feels like to be other people. What were we all doing? What the hell was going on here on Earth? Of course none of...
Ninja Tune Bangers!
Following my crate-digger mix of old Ninja Tune tracks, I figured I'd better get with the times. This is the first in a pair of mixes of Ninja's more recent output. Basically a Ninja Tune sampler mix of tracks released in the last year (mixed in March 2025). This is...
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos
I was in that state between waking and sleeping. From there you can wander towards either of the two. You can go away in a dream or you can open your eyes, be aware of your body, the room, the crows cawing in the snow outside the window. What distinguishes this state...