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Jazz that sounds good at the dinner table: Thelonius Monk’s Criss-Cross.
If you like raunchy high school comedies, Bottoms made us laugh a lot. I liked that it made me feel a little old, like I was getting a peek into the humor of a different generation. The great Marshawn Lynch stole every scene he was in. (I know I’ve recommended it here before, but Marshawn Lynch: A History is well worth a watch. It’s streaming on Kanopy.)
Books for the kids: Our boys, 8 and 11, love Lauren Tarshis’s I Survivedseries of books and graphic novels about terrifying events in history.
“I tried to be empty here [taps temple] because it’s the best thing for creative process. If you don’t have any information you can make many things, you can go in all 360 degrees of direction.” RIP Damo Suzuki, former frontman of the German band Can. My favorite album of theirs is Future Days — I put “Moonshake” on my February mix. I can’t get enough of this b-side, “Shikako Maru Ten.” (If you dig those tracks and want to hear more, try this mix by Electric Adolescence.)
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