SLAY Don't Wait

the online process of Matt Slaybaugh

Some Favorites from 2017

These are just some lists of culture I encountered this year that I really liked and am happy to recommend to you. It’s not even all from 2017, necessarily. Back in the day, I used to create massive, well-considered lists. It was quite a joy for me. Ha! I guess I didn’t have enough to do!

Any strong recommendations from your 2017?

MUSIC
NEW MUSIC
– Susso, Keira – Oh please, please, please listen to this record. I love it so much. (Even it is from 2016.)
– Four Tet, New Energy
– Juana Molina, Halo
– Thurston Moore, Rock n Roll Consciousness
– Jlin, Black Origami
– Slowdive
– St. Vincent, Masseduction
– Binker & Moses, Journey To The Mountain Of Forever
– Milk Music, Mystic 100s
– Fleet Foxes, Crack-Up
– Kelly Lee Owens

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#1. Ritual [7 Elements of Great (Wrestling) Performances]

NOTE: This is something I wrote almost five years ago. I'm quite fond of it, so I'm adding it here.

About 10 years ago, I had a conversation with one of the great avant garde theatre directors of all time, Anne Bogart. (Hoo boy, not a great way to start a pro wrestling blog post, eh? Better insert a cool photo.)

That’s better.

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from Reality Hunger


by David Shields, 2010

The American writer has his hands full, trying to understand and then describe and then make credible much of the American reality. It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination. The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.

What friends do

Hypnosis by Gan Khoon Lay from the Noun ProjectI need therapy, apparently. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to. Therapy, or a coach. I need someone to talk to who doesn’t care how things come out. Who doesn’t have a stake in the outcome.

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