Browsing All Posts By Matt Marshall
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Music 48
An Absurd World: Bright Eyes and Meaning of Our Own Making
A few months ago, I visited some friends of mine. We all went out. Time means nothing at this point, so I’m not sure if it was six, ...
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Music 11
Folklore Proves That Taylor Swift Has Always Been This Good
Listening to Folklore, I’m rushed back to a trip to D.C. to see Taylor Swift on the Red tour. As an annoying pre-pubescent young lad, the fog of ...
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Music 2
Jason Isbell’s Reunions and the Ghost Stories of the Past
Jason Isbell has been telling stories for years. On 2013’s Southeastern, the stories he told centered around redemption and rebuilding. The record marked his first album since recovering ...
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Music 9
Joyous Melancholy: Mt. Joy and the Art of Beautiful Sadness
When I was in middle school, Foster the People released “Pumped up Kicks.” What a bop! The song rocked the gymnasium – I don’t remember a dance in ...
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Film/TV 21
Everything Is Fine, and Other Takeaways from The Good Place
The Good Place has a problem. Not the TV show, but the place. The heaven, per se, of the show’s universe isn’t actually making people very happy. They ...
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Music 1
‘Fore I Start to Think About the Future: Reflecting on Mac Miller’s Circles
I’m writing this while listening to Mac Miller’s Circles, which dropped after the untimely and tragic passing of an artist who sometimes got it and sometimes didn’t. I ...
