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Relentless Picnic @relentlesspicnic.com · Aug 29

here's another talk we want to share with you.

it's a few chats that all kind of converged around some form of nostalgia.

that, and trying to suss out what impediments in our lives are bc of our phones, and what might be just good old-fashioned self-defeat.

oh and tamagotchis — remember those?

A Master's Tools/Master's House Situation | Stanley Picnic

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Aug 10

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name @lazenby.bsky.social · Aug 10

TOMORROW comes a new Relentless Picnic

The Martín Ramírez Relentless Picnic announcement horn.

Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Aug 3

Magic Tuber Jam with Elkhorn, Powers/Rolin Duo, Liam Grant, and almost every other musician present at Fly Around Festival in Lansing, NC.

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Aug 2

Spending the last few days of summer up in the NC mountains, seeing a host of favorites at the inaugural Fly Around Festival.

Poster for the Fly Around Festival featuring the lineup:
Joan Shelley
Myriam Gendron
Magic Tuber Stringband
Powers/Rolin Duo
Elkhorn
Black Twig Pickers
Liam Grant
Trevor McKenzie and Steve Kruger
Sammy Osmond and the No Hellers
Devon Flaherty
Clover-Lynn and the Hellfires
Magic Tuber Jam

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is how I felt after finishing Vineland last week and now I’m reading Inherent Vice. They pair well together, so I second the Vineland rec.

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 27

Reading Inherent Vice at the local swimming hole

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 25

Dancing On The Edge is maybe my favorite album this decade, so I’ve been eagerly anticipating the new one. It delivers.

Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 25

Folgers coffee and a Krispy Kreme donut and the incredible new Ryan Davis album on the stereo this morning: sophomorelounge.bandcamp.com/album/ryan-d...

RYAN DAVIS & the Roadhouse Band "New Threats from the Soul", by Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band

7 track album

sophomorelounge.bandcamp.com

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Shane Parish @shaneparish.bsky.social · Jul 22

The great Ozzy Osbourne has gone through the final change on this plane of existence. Here is an arrangement of “Changes” by Black Sabbath that I humbly offer in tribute. RIP.

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Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social · Jul 22

And for anyone who wishes that someone had recorded a blissed-out 40-minute New Age version of Planet Caravan, I give you... tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/planet...

Planet Caravan, by Tuluum Shimmering

1 track album

tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 20

#NowWatching

One of our local venues runs a film series throughout the year, which is the only chance around Chattanooga to see some classic movies in a theater. Seeing this for the first time tonight.

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 19

Keep thinking about this Alan Shapiro poem that A.E. Stallings discussed in her talk on rhyme at the Sewanee Writers Conference yesterday. Never heard of Shapiro but immediately ordered one of his books when we got out.

Country Western Singer

I used to feel like a new man
After the day's first brew.
But then the new man I became
Would need a tall one too.

As would the new man he became,
And the new one after him
And so on and so forth till the new men made The dizzy room go dim.

And each one said, I'll be your muse,
I'll trade you song for beer:
He said, I'll be your salt lick, honey,
If you will be my deer.

He said, I'll be your happy hour,
And you, boy, you'll be mine
And mine won't end at six or seven
Or even at closing time.

Yes, son, I'll be your spirit guide;
I'll lead you to Absolut,
To Dewars, Bushmills, and Jamesons,
Then down to Old Tangle Foot.

And there I'll drain the pretense from you
That propped you up so high;
I'll teach you salivation's just
Salvation without the I.

To hear his sweet talk was to think
You'd gone from rags to riches,
Till going from drink to drink became
Like going from hags to bitches,

Like going from bed to barroom stool,
From stool to bathroom stall,
From stall to sink, from sink to stool,
From stool to hospital.

Now the monitors beep like pinball machines, And coldly the IV drips;
And a nurse runs a moistened washcloth over
My parched and bleeding lips,

And the blood I taste, the blood I swallow
Is as far away from wine
As 5:10 is for the one who dies
At 5:09.

Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 16

#NowWatching
In honor of Stanwyck’s birthday, my first King Vidor film

A poster for King Vidor’s Stella Dallas, featuring Barbara Stanwyck

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 16

Went into this with low expectations, given its reputation, but I ended up knocked out by it. Extremely funny, of course, but also mournful and angry. Has a sentence (or several) every couple of pages that I would just marvel at. I used to hate Pynchon but now I see how wrong I was.

An overhead shot of a Penguin paperback edition of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland on my desk

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Penguin Press @penguinpress.bsky.social · Jul 16

We’re thrilled to share the jacket for Thomas Pynchon’s highly anticipated new novel Shadow Ticket, coming October 7, 2025!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427...

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 11

Sat down this morning and made a list of my favorite albums this year. Hard to pick a singular favorite: maybe the caroline record, maybe The Tubs (certainly my most-listened this year), maybe the John Cage recordings, which sparked a small obsession with his music (the piece "Dream" most of all).

A Topsters chart of my favorite albums of the year in chronological order, including:
U.E. - Hometown Girl
Ambrose Akinmusire - honey from a winter stone
Oklou - choke enough
Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
Laurie Torres - Après coup
Frog Eyes - The Open Up
The Tubs - Cotton Crown
Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes - Uhlmann Johnson Wilkes
More Eaze - no floor
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Gift Songs
Circuit des Yeux - Halo On The Inside
Perfume Genius - Glory
Eiko Ishibashi - Antigone
John Cage - Chamber Works 1943-1951
AdriAnne Lenker - Live at Revolution Hall
Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas - Totality
Djrum - Under Tangled Silence
Maria Somerville - Luster
Billy Woods - GOLLIWOG
Water Damage - Instruments
Friendship - Caveman Wakes Up
Mariscos - 10 Canciones para Ir y Volver
Caroline - caroline 2
Purelink - Faith
Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms

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Mark Athitakis @mathitak.bsky.social · Jul 5

Proust on good books. From "Within a Budding Grove."

tl;dr: A good book doesn't echo other good books, but is something sui generis.

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jul 4

July reading plans, to keep me company while continuing to slowly work through Vineland.

Two books sit side-by-side on a desk: Peter Ackroyd’s “A Brief Life: Charlie Chaplin” on the left and Katherine Rundell’s “Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne” on the right.

Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Jun 24

In Atlanta for AP training this week and ended up at The Bug Club show tonight with four dear friends.

I liked The Bug Club, now I love The Bug Club.

Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · May 11

Wilco’s in town tonight, so Nels did a benefit performance for our local avant-garde space. Answered Qs for an hour: talked about drone and Coltrane’s “Africa,” playing with Frisell and Zeena Parkins and Julian Lage (and many others), guitar gear, Wilco…incredible way to spend an afternoon.

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · May 11

Nels Cline at Barking Legs Theater in Chattanooga, TN

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International Anthem @intlanthem.bsky.social · May 7

JP ETA IVtet @npr.org TD:

Jeff Parker ETA IVtet: Tiny Desk Concert

The band's mystical approach to improvisation never bends to one sound at a time.

www.npr.org

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · May 3

Etran de L’Aïr at JJ’s Bohemia in Chattanooga, TN

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · May 3

Rich Ruth at JJ’s Bohemia in Chattanooga, TN

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Garrett Peace @gjpeace.bsky.social · Apr 25

I asked students to memorize passages from Macbeth, a first for me, and today was the deadline, which means I had students approaching me throughout the day to recite Shakespeare. It was delightful, one of the best things that’s happened this school year.

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