Posted in Whathaveyou on November 25th, 2020 by JJ Koczan
Hey, it could happen. The vaccines could work and be properly distributed, and with social-distancing guidelines still in place and accounted for in the festival’s venue choice, SonicBlast Fest 2021 could very well take place next August. I think we all know the first lineup announcement comes with a big ol’ asterisk in terms of “well this is how it’s gonna go if the plague hasn’t swallowed us whole by then,” but with that caveat, it’s awfully nice to see a lineup announcement from a festival at all, let alone one that already has a bunch of cool bands set to play. Maybe Europe’s borders will be open to Americans next August. That’d be a dream come true.
SonicBlast of course did the virtual thing this year, as many other fests have done, and the fest’s YouTube still has a few killer performances up, including the one from South Africa’s Ruff Majik that you can see at the bottom of this post.
Tickets are available and I have to believe it’ll sell out:
SonicBlast Fest 2021: Aug 12-14
SonicBlast Fest is back!
We are so happy to welcome John Garcia & The Band of Gold and Psychlona among many others to announce soon
In 2021 we celebrated the 10th edition in a new enclosure, with a strong poster and we couldn’t be more satisfied!
Months and months of work arduous and several contradictions along the way, our priority was always to try to secure a good poster for this special edition and find an enclosure with the characteristics needed for this great celebration. And we did it!
The 10th edition of 10 takes place at Praia da Dune do Cauldron in Anchor (Walk), in a dream framing and in a compound that will have the same capacity but features a much greater area, ensuring your comfort and safety when travelling in August 2021 to the Anchor region for this celebration. Thank you in advance to Caminha Município for your help in finding the new location keeping it in our county, and Junta de Freguesia de Âncora and Âncora Praia Futebol Clube for the enthusiasm and availability to welcome SonicBlast Fest.
Line up, so far: John Garcia and the Band of Gold (usa) All Them Witches (usa) Brant Bjork (usa) Witch (usa) Causa Sui (dnk) Bala (sp) Psychlona (uk) … and many more to be announced
Posted in Bootleg Theater on October 19th, 2020 by JJ Koczan
If you’re the type who likes to chase down visual metaphor, you’re going to need more than the nine minutes of the song itself to wade through all the images present in the new video from Nashville trio All Them Witches. Directed by Drea de Matteo and the band’s own Robby Staebler — who in addition to drumming also handles the vast majority of their graphic art and visual presence; you’ll note his editing and color work here are on-theme for his/the band’s style — the clip is layered in narrative and duly emotional dystopianism. “Rats in Ruin,” and yes, there are rats, and plenty, plenty of ruin as well, on just about any level one might look for it; personal, global, environmental, etc.
The song, as it would, comes from their new album, Nothing as the Ideal (review here), which like every good record released in 2020 is a victim of circumstance in that the band who would otherwise I think be in Europe right now or just finished a tour there, can’t be on the road to support it. If “Rats in Ruin” is serving double-duty in promoting Nothing as the Ideal and giving the three-piece an outlet for the sit-on-your-hands restlessness they and so many others are experiencing over these last eight months, then it’s slow-motion freneticism only makes more sense. Coupled with the initially minimalist song itself — I keep relating it in my head to Nirvana‘s “Something in the Way” in how it channels a quiet sense of space — and its later melodic push, the video is a particularly immersive undertaking. It’ll make sense when you watch.
All Them Witches have some US dates booked for March — Columbus, Baltimore, Pittsburgh area, and so on — one assumes because optimism. I think those are rescheduled from this past summer. It’s kind of hard to keep track by now what’s happening that’s supposed to have already happened or whatever. If those happen, shit, I’ll drive to Baltimore at that point to see these guys. Or if they want to come do a socially distant outdoor gig in the parking lot across from my house, that’s cool too. I’ll get permits and everything. I wonder what their guarantee is at this point.
Anyhoozle, there are Euro dates next Fall that seem more likely, but only because it’s farther away. Who the hell knows anything about anything about what the world will be like by Fall 2021?
Written/Directed by Robby Staebler and Drea de Matteo Filmed by Robby Staebler, Ginger Gonzales, Alabama Jennings Edited and Colored by Robby Staebler Film Processing/ scanning by Spectra Film Lab
Posted in Whathaveyou on September 17th, 2020 by JJ Koczan
So that’s where we’re at. Tours announced more than a year in advance. Okay. I mean, you can’t hold that against All Them Witches, right? They just put out a record and they’re (normally) a pretty hard-touring band. They gotta announce something. And the early part of 2021 seems to be jam-packed with stuff that got canceled this year, so next Fall would seem to be a less crowded time. But seriously, fuck.
You know what the worst part of it is? Of course you do. It’s “Who the hell knows what things will look like in a year?” Will Americans be allowed in other countries? Will they be allowed to leave their own? Will tours even be happening in a way that’s fiscally sustainable? Can they? It’s so hard to guess at any of it at this point all you can really do is look at a list of tour dates, shrug, and say, “Gosh I hope so.” So yeah. Gosh, I hope so.
All Them Witches‘ new record, Nothing as the Ideal (review here), is out now on New West. Stream it at the bottom of this post.
Here are the dates as put up by the band. One imagines some of the days between will be filled by fests yet TBA:
JUST ANNOUNCED: 2021 EUROPEAN TOUR tickets on sale Friday at 10AM CET
SEPTEMBER 27th UK – BRIGHTON, Chalk Venue Brighton 28th UK – NOTTINGHAM, The Bodega 29th UK – GLASGOW, Saint Luke’s & The Winged Ox 30th UK – LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club
OCTOBER 1st UK – LONDON, Electric Ballroom 2nd Netherlands – AMSTERDAM, Paradiso Amsterdam 3rd Belgium – ANTWERP, Trix 6th Spain – MADRID, COOL Conciertos 7th Spain – BARCELONA, Sala Razzmatazz 2 9th Switzerland – LANGENTHAL, OldCapitol 10th Italy – MILAN, Santeria Toscana 31 11th Switzerland – ZURICH, Mascotte Club Zürich 12th Germany – MUNICH, Backstage Werk 13th Czech – PRAGUE, MeetFactory 14th Poland – WARSAW, Progresja 15th Germany – BERLIN, Huxleys Neue Welt 17th Germany, COLOGNE, Die Kantine 19th Germany, HAMBURG, Uebel und Gefährlich 20th Denmark, COPENHAGEN, Pumpehuset 22nd Norway, OSLO, Vulkan Arena 24th Finland, HELSINKI, TAVASTIA-klubi
All Them Witches is: Charles Michael Parks, Jr – bass, vocals Ben McLeod – guitar, vocals Robby Staebler – drums, vocals
Posted in Reviews on September 3rd, 2020 by JJ Koczan
A band in a place. When the news came through in early March that Nashville’s All Them Witches — the three-piece of bassist/vocalist Charles Michael Parks, Jr., guitarist Ben McLeod and drummer/tape-looper/graphic-artist Robby Staebler — were recording their sixth full-length at Abbey Road Studios in London, and further, that they were bringing producer Mikey Allred along to helm the recording, it was enough to ignite the imagination as to what ghosts they might be able to conjure in that space. Without a doubt, Nothing as the Ideal — the title-line appearing amid the chugging tension and restless-foot kickdrum of opener “Saturnine & Iron Jaw” — is the most nuanced recording All Them Witches have ever done.
In the intentionally-left-there slight crack of Parks‘ voice past the midpoint of “The Children of Coyote Woman,” in the balance between torrential rhythmic intensity and ranging guitar on “Lights Out,” and in the quiet, subtle crackle of McLeod‘s standalone guitar in the two-minute instrumental “Everest,” which might in another context have been an interlude, but through whatever probably-legendary amplifier he’s playing through offers one of Nothing as the Ideal‘s most gorgeous moments of tonality. Perhaps a curious highlight, but it tells a lot of the story of the band’s fourth LP under the banner of New West Records in that it captures a stirring performance in likewise stirring detail. It is high-fidelity, not in the same way as the lush-sounding Sleeping Through the War (review here) from 2017 that their fifth album, 2018’s ATW (review here), seemed to be reacting against, but in a way that is more about the band reaching into themselves as artists.
Staebler‘s experimental bent that’s now manifest as well in the side-project Uvways shows up in cuts like “41,” “Rats in Ruin” and in transitions between songs, taking the place that up to this point was filled by keys or other arrangement elements from a fourth member of the band, be it Allan Van Cleave or the shorter-tenured Jonathan Draper, who appeared on ATW only. McLeod‘s progressive, sometimes aggressive turns of guitar are writ large throughout in the full dynamic breadth of his work, from “Everest” to the lead wash and coming-apart-at-the-seams jam at the end of 9:50 side A closer “See You Next Fall” and the crunching fuzz reminiscent of 2013’s Lightning at the Door (review here) that shows up on second track “Enemy of My Enemy” and the later “41.”
He too has a side-project in the instrumental and more metal-leaning Woodsplitter. And Parks, who turns verses into poetry readings here more than ever, obscure in his images painting Romulus and Remus as good ol’ boys on “The Children of Coyote Woman,” seeming to critique touring life in “See You Next Fall,” leading an invocation of unplugged Nirvana in the early going of nine-minute finale “Rats in Ruin,” and layering his voice to make a single out of “Enemy of My Enemy” even as later he seems to refuse to be wholly caught int the shove of “Lights Out.” Anytime he wants to spend a year or two wandering in the woods and put out an experimentalist Americana/neo-folk record, one doubts he’d meet with argument.
Nothing as the Ideal draws together these different sides of these three players and builds itself as one entirely using elements of each persona. Allred has been a friend of the band of long-standing. He produced their 2015 New West label debut, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (review here), mastered the 2019 single “1 x 1” (discussed here) — among other works — and his knowledge of the band’s workings is all the more essential throughout these tracks as they recorded as a three-piece for the first time. It is no shock that the latest All Them Witches album sounds different from the one before it. They all do. But while they approach it with characteristic swagger and have perhaps inadvertently deflected the narrative via their choice of locale in Abbey Road, there’s no question that the former foursome taking on the task of presenting themselves as a trio is a big change.
They’re helped throughout by time they put in touring in such a configuration, as well as by Allred‘s work at the helm, and while Nothing as the Ideal takes the band to places they’ve never been in terms of aesthetic, it’s also more their own than they’ve ever been, transcending the heavy blues genre-forging of their earlier work while seeming still to draw from the abiding melancholy of Dying Surfer Meets His Maker and the organic weight of Lightning at the Door. This is coupled with the unmitigated, seemingly unceasing growth of Parks, McLeod and Staebler as creative individuals, and the coming together of the familiar with the new is perhaps as much a sonic signature as All Them Witches have, regardless of the lineup. From the ambient unfolding of “Saturnine & Iron Jaw” through the push and pull of “Enemy of My Enemy,” the resonance of “Everest,” the twists of “41” and the build of energy that seems to happen across that song and “Lights Out” leading to the quiet initial stretch of “Rats in Ruin” — which itself ends with a brief jam from the trio together that sounds like a coda for career to this point — Nothing as the Ideal wholly lives up to the standard its title sets.
It finds All Them Witches chasing not a preestablished idea of who they are or what their songwriting process is or should be, but their own creative impulses at the moment. They have excelled at this since 2012’s Our Mother Electricity (review here) served as their debut LP, and while their productivity in the years since is something in itself to be admired — six albums in eight years, along with EPs, live releases and countless digital one-offs, etc. — the expressionist aspects of their work, the continuing progression of their craft and the memorable impression their songs make all comes together on Nothing as the Ideal in what feels like an act of self-defiance as much as one of self-definition. As recognizable a band as they’ve become, one never knows what shape All Them Witches might take as they move forward. The fact that they’re still so rife with potential six albums into their career can only emphasize how special a band they truly are.
Posted in Features on August 20th, 2020 by JJ Koczan
Every now and again I get lucky and I do a bio like this, turn it in, and word comes back and it’s all, ‘hey that’s awesome all set on this end thanks here’s some cash.’ This was not one of those cases. I also wrote the bio for All Them Witches‘ 2018 album, ATW (review here), but still, this was a different story to tell and wanted to be told in a different way. The band had things they wanted to say. The label had things they felt needed to be said. And I had a few points as well to get across about Nothing as the Ideal, which is out Sept. 4 on New West Records, whether it was about their making an album as a three-piece for the first time, their ongoing progression, tape-loop experimentation, or the simple fact that they recorded at frickin’ Abbey Road. There’s usually a fair amount to talk about with these guys, but this time around it seems like even more so.
But we got there, which is what matters. In the end, I went through a couple of drafts, interviewed Robby Staebler and Ben McLeod both, then ended up completely scrapping what I had and starting over. That, of course, was the final version. It was my favorite too.
And here it is:
All Them Witches – Nothing as the Ideal bio
From the brimming light of the lead guitar on opener “Saturnine & Iron Jaw” to the mellow grunge unfolding in the finale “Rats in Ruin,” Nothing as the Ideal is a signature All Them Witches release, which of course means it sounds like nothing they’ve ever done before.
The Nashville trio thrive on contrast. Now six records deep into a tenure that began in 2012, they are unremittingly forward-looking, and while signature elements can be found throughout Nothing as the Ideal – from guitarist Ben McLeod’s prog-tinged explorations to the slacker-soul vocals of bassist Charles Michael Parks, Jr., to the restless energy and rhythmic nuance in Robby Staebler’s drum patterns – it is also their most experimental work to-date.
But contrast is the key: Tape loops coincide with unplugged minimalism. They recorded it in a strange place with a familiar producer. It’s their heaviest album marked by their broadest atmospheres, intimate and pummeling. It is unquestionably theirs even as it will no doubt engender ownership in anyone who hears it.
Nothing as the Ideal might forever be known as “the album All Them Witches made at Abbey Road.” Fair enough. You don’t record in a legendary studio surrounded by mics The Beatles used, sitting on the bench where John Lennon tracked the acoustic guitar for “A Day in the Life” without acknowledging that history. There’s no getting away from it.
Where Nothings as the Ideal triumphs, however, is in making that space and that history the band’s own. Working with Mikey Allred, who previously produced 2015’s New West label debut, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker, and has done other mixing and mastering along the way, All Them Witches not only did justice to the moment they were capturing – the sheer adventure of being there, doing that thing – but answered the call of their inspiration as they always do.
It wasn’t supposed to be that way. The idea was to take time, do it themselves. But after spending the early part of 2019 constructing a studio in a church outside Nashville where Staebler was living and writing, writing, writing, the band came up against the deadline of a 35-date European arena tour with Ghost and had the single “1×1” to show for it. They put that song out, did a video, and after the tour, redirected their purposes. With the momentum of playing every night behind them, Nothing as the Ideal at last began to take shape.
Abbey Road might not have been the plan, but with the harder deadline of recording dates locked in, All Them Witches were able to focus more clearly. It wasn’t about applying pressure, but about doing what best served the songs. With Allred as the trusted party at the helm, they succeeded in crafting a defining moment for who they are as a band, with each player’s personality coming together to create a fluidity that is unique unto them.
Whatever they’ve done in the past, whatever they’ll do next, Nothing as the Ideal epitomizes the literal and figurative journey All Them Witches have made, and it is to be treasured all the more for that.
All Them Witches, “Lights Out”
All Them Witches, “The Children of Coyote Woman” official video
This one gets heavy, and mean. A lot of both. The opening is kind of spaced out and rocking, and the end is all the way gone, but there’s that middle part where it’s just fucking nasty. Vile Creature through Bismarck — one after the other after the other. I was trying to make it abrasive, and then I snuck in Gral Brothers to let anyone listening catch their breath before Come to Grief just impales the eardrums.
So yeah, it was kind of a rough week, though honestly, things kind of turned around after I put this together. Catharsis? Probably not, but it’s a nifty idea. Either way, it was all hunky-dory by the time I went and recorded the voice tracks for the show, this time in the car while taking The Pecan to go look at construction equipment. Little dude is hitting the truck phase with everything he’s got. If you listen, you’ll hear him talk about dump trucks. Maybe excavators? I can’t remember. Something. Always something.
But you know, thanks for listening if you do.
The Obelisk Show airs 5PM Eastern today on the Gimme app or at http://gimmeradio.com
Full playlist:
The Obelisk Show – 06.12.20
ORGÖNE
Mothership Egypt
MOS/FET*
All Them Witches
Saturnine & Iron Jaw
Nothing as the Ideal*
Worshipper
Lonesome Boredom Overdrive
Lonesome Boredom Overdrive*
BREAK
Vile Creature
When the Path is Unclear
Glory! Glory! Apathy Took Helm!*
Bible Basher
So Samson Sang
Loud Wailing*
Earthbong
Weedcult Today
Bong Rites*
Gral Brothers
In Die Pizzeria
Caravan East*
Come to Grief
March of the Maggots
Pray for the End*
Bismarck
Oneironmancer
Oneironmancer*
BREAK
Centre El Muusa
Turkeyfish
Centre El Muusa
Tia Carrera
Tried and True
Tried and True*
Kamni
A.T.O.M.
A.T.O.M.*
The Obelisk Show on Gimme Radio airs every Friday 5PM Eastern, with replays Sunday at 7PM Eastern. Next new episode is June 25 (subject to change). Thanks for listening if you do.
Posted in Whathaveyou on June 5th, 2020 by JJ Koczan
All Them Witches will release their sixth long-player, Nothing as the Ideal, on Sept. 4 through New West Records. To go along with the album announcement, they’re streaming the opening song from the release, “Saturnine and Iron Jaw,” and you can find it below.
I recently had the pleasure of writing the bio for the album — still need to turn in the invoice, actually — and in talking to guitarist Ben McLeod and drummer Robby Staebler for that, it became even easier to get excited about the forthcoming collection. I’ll post that bio here at some point, and would do it now except I’m not sure if I have permission yet. So maybe later on. Still a while before September gets here anyhow.
Independent of each other, Staebler and McLeod both cited it as the work of which they’re most proud among their releases. Fair enough for any band with a new album, but the record is indeed progressive in ways they’ve never been before, their first recording as a trio allowing them to explore more direct, weighted tones, minimalist atmospheres and the use of ambient tape loops for an experimental feel throughout that ties seemingly disparate ideas together.
So, yeah, more to come. And of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t note they recorded Nothing as the Ideal at Abbey Road Studio in London. You might have heard of it, kind of a big deal. So there’s that too.
The announcement was basically the tracks and the song, and here it is:
ALL THEM WITCHES – Nothing as the Ideal
We all need to stand together. Higher sense of perception. Nothing. That’s the ideal. Gentle hand of confusion. Lead me back to myself.
Tracklisting: 01. Saturnine & Iron Jaw 02. Enemy of My Enemy 03. Everest 04. See You Next Fall 05. The Children of Coyote Woman 06. 41 07. Lights Out 08. Rats in Ruin
Produced by ATW and Mikey Allred Mixed / Mastered: Mikey Allred Assistant Engineer: Neil Dawes
All Them Witches is: Charles Michael Parks, Jr – bass, vocals Ben McLeod – guitar, vocals Robby Staebler – drums, vocals
Consider All Them Witches in 2014. The band hadn’t been touring for all that long. They had two full-lengths to their name, but what a two full-lengths they were in 2013’s Lightning at the Door (review here) — which was dropped digitally and wouldn’t see physical pressing until the next year — and the prior Our Mother Electricity (review here), which they put out on their own in 2011 only to have it picked up by Elektrohasch Schallplatten the next year, earning the Nashville then-foursome the honor of being the first and to-date only American band to be released by the German imprint. By the time they played the second of the two shows the recordings of which comprise early 2015’s At the Garage, they’d also released the Effervescent EP (review here), which they’d press to vinyl to take on tour, as well as their cover of Albert King‘s “Born Under a Bad Sign” (posted here), a jam called “George Dubya Kush” (posted here) and sundry other downloadable thisses and thats. They were still a relatively new group, though it was clear by 2014 that Lightning at the Door was resonating in a significant way.
At the Garage is comprised mostly of material from that now-essential second album; “Mountain” opens, and apart from “Elk Blood Heart” from the debut appearing in succession with “Marriage of Coyote Woman,” the only other non-LP track is “Born Under a Bad Sign,” which closes the set. Recorded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in March and September 2014, it flows as a single performance in no small part because of the flow in the songs themselves — a conscious drift given direction through each member’s contributions, whether it’s Robby Staebler‘s can’t-sit-still-and-don’t-want-to-try drum tension, Ben McLeod‘s classy-in-spite-of-themselves solos, the Fender Rhodes of Allan Van Cleave that was so crucial to the early impressions the band made, or the bass twists and slacker-soul vocals from Charles Michael Parks, Jr. — and captures a sense of spaciousness in a way that live albums can’t always do, the vocal echo seeming to reach out not just through the room but through the speakers as well. Highlights include the duel between McLeod and Van Cleave in “When God Comes Back,” the entirety of “Mountain,” Parks‘ starting “Charles William,” and, well, pretty much the rest of it.
The point of considering All Them Witches in 2014 is they were a band completely on fire. Confident and brash enough to have a firm sense of who they were as players, a couple tours under their collective belt in order to tighten up their performances and allow for some audience interaction — see the stop about halfway into “Charles William” — and an energy to their songs that was youthful even as it carried a heavy blues weight that was invariably older-feeling. Dynamic as players and more progressive than they let on, they were in a special place as a group, being newly locked in and on the cusp of realizing their potential. All Them Witches would prove over time that their trajectory was one of constant change and evolution, each record different and building on the last, but is there a more exciting moment for a band than being on the way to their third album? How many times has the story been told of an act with two full-lengths under their belt knuckling down, taking the lessons they’ve learned and applying them to the third? It’s one of rock and roll’s great tropes. Our Mother Electricity and Lightning at the Door were hardly warmups, but at the time, not knowing what was coming next, the air of excitement and anticipation is all over At the Garage, and it makes for a truly special listening experience with the context of hindsight.
One has to wonder if perhaps the band didn’t have that in mind when they released it. Again, think of the timing. At the Garage was released on Feb. 10, 2015. On June 18 that same year, they’d announce they’d been picked up by New West Records for the October release of their third album, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (review here). Sure enough, All Them Witches at this point had already done a fair amount of self-bootlegging of shows mostly from Summer and Fall 2014, but an actual live album, produced and mixed and mastered, is something different. One has to imagine that by Feb. 2015, they’d already been in talks with probably several labels, New West among them, and maybe — consciously or not — At the Garage is the band’s own way of realizing they were about to enter a new stage of their career. Maybe this is All Them Witches saying goodbye to their early days en route to something new.
Unlikely, to be frank. In my experience, All Them Witches have neither been that sentimental about their work or that calculating, but it’s something to consider even in terms of their desire to mark what was the beginning of their tenure as a touring band with a live record to look back on later. And that’s the whole point of live records anyway, right? To have and, as a listener, either say you were there — that show, that tour, that time — or you wish you had been? I don’t know. These five years later, it’s easy to look back on cuts like “Funeral for a Great Drunken Bird” and “Death of Coyote Woman” — which barely holds together on stage, but does — with a feeling of nostalgia. Long before the band toured with Mastodon or Ghost, long before they couldn’t just post one-off goofball jams for the hell of it anymore. That time. It was a special time. That’s all.
All Them Witches will release a new album later this year that they recorded at Abbey Road Studios. It’s the first studio work they’ve done as a three-piece and they tracked it with Mikey Allred just before the COVID-19 lockdown really took hold. I talked to Robby Staebler about it earlier this week and will be writing the bio for it I guess as soon as I have the time to do so. So maybe I’ve got the band on my brain, thinking of the places they’ve gone, the places they still can go with their sound, and the soul that still resides at heart in what they do.
More on that later, I suppose. For now, and as always, I hope you enjoy.
Thanks for reading.
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I slept last night, which was a welcome change. Kind of went nuclear with Xanax, ZzzQuil and melatonin over the course of the evening prior to bed, but whatever. Can’t argue with results.
I go back and forth between feeling like I’m cruising through the day and feeling like I can barely keep my head above water. I owe a lot of people messages and emails back. If you’re reading this, I don’t want to waste your time with woe-is-me bitching, but my awake-and-aware minutes are at a premium these days, it seems. Yesterday I was writing the Gimme Radio post from my phone at a sandbox. Right now, The Patient Mrs. has the Toddlerian Pecan while I’m typing this.
And the power just went out and I heard a boom outside, so this might be an interesting day.
…And it’s back on? Bizarre.
Anyway, she’s giving him breakfast, then we’ll go for a run. She has a meeting (virtual) from like 9:30 to 2PM or some shit and it looks like rain, so I don’t know what course the day is going to take, but going running helps even the kid out. Helps tire him out. We go up a big hill in the neighborhood here. It’s good for me too, but I can feel myself becoming compulsive about it, which is precisely why most of the time I try to avoid “exercising” as opposed to just being physically active in some way. Because I don’t need one more fucking thing to obsess about.
But we’ll get through the day, like we do. Bumbling and tumbling or not. I don’t know. We’ll figure it out.
New Gimme show today, if you missed the playlist. 5PM Eastern, listen at http://gimmeradio.com.
I hope you have a great and safe weekend. I hope you and yours are well and that you’re holding up, life and livelihood and all of it.
