Browsing All Posts By Matt Marshall
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Music 1
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 0
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 6
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 ...
