Black Music and Black Muses

Enshrined

Notes on the makings of shrines and one more for D'Angelo

Nov 4 • 

Harmony Holiday

13

October 2025

Ritual in Translinear Shadow

D'Angelo's version of the National Anthem vs. His Revolutionary Songbook

Oct 31 • 

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52

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Another Life

Abridged elegy for D'Angelo and my first fur coat

Oct 15 • 

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94

5

A Partially Actualized World

On the new documentary about Ye, composed like visual requiem for a man so doomed he's free

Oct 11 • 

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63

7

Baraka on Film

And a quiet tribe of poets looking toward cinema

Oct 8 • 

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32

3

The Stranger, The Dreamer, The Golden Dream

Reminiscing in Tempo on reading Camus at sixteen, my first infatuation, and my Grandma's hands

Oct 5 • 

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30

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Fire Watching

A vigil in every direction at once—For Assata, for cinematic absolution, for my Grandmother, for my thawing heart

Oct 1 • 

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62

6

September 2025

Dance with me

Lighthearted, heavy-hearted musings on Bjork's first band, Laura Nyro, J Dilla, Nina Simone, and the Lotus Sutra.

Sep 16 • 

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52

3

September Notebook

Obama era raps and the rapture

Sep 5 • 

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33

2

Mukbang, Forever

On hunger in the age of the eating show

Sep 1 • 

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73

8

August 2025

Never skip a hopecore video

On Earl Sweatshirt's new album

Aug 29 • 

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85

Unruly

Brief meditation on Lil Nas X in exile

Aug 22 • 

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78

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