Ana
@motherslug.bsky.social
Detroit writer. Books, jazz, records, eclectic music, bleak sci-fi, depressing and upsetting fiction and films, the works.
Read me in print media (Uncut Magazine & Maggot Brain), plus motherslug.substack.com and some other places when they will have me!
Read me in print media (Uncut Magazine & Maggot Brain), plus motherslug.substack.com and some other places when they will have me!
“The wind unrelenting all year long is believed by some to be the vestige of this free city that never came to be, as the breath of ghosts may sometimes be felt in haunted locations—a great history-wide sigh of unrequited political desire.”
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“The wind unrelenting all year long is believed by some to be the vestige of this free city that never came to be, as the breath of ghosts may sometimes be felt in haunted locations—a great history-wide sigh of unrequited political desire.”
My top 5 movie genres:
• Black comedies that skewer the media and modern life
• Existential journeys through the mind of the most neurotic person you know
• Ragtag crews investigating poorly understood phenomena
• Bleak sci-fi
• Sprawling ensemble stories with too many interwoven characters
• Black comedies that skewer the media and modern life
• Existential journeys through the mind of the most neurotic person you know
• Ragtag crews investigating poorly understood phenomena
• Bleak sci-fi
• Sprawling ensemble stories with too many interwoven characters
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- A meticulously planned heist goes horribly wrong;
- 1950s Mexican melodrama;
- Doomed romance, preferably 1940s/‘50s;
- Anything featuring Cary Grant;
- French noir, preferably with JP Belmondo, Lino Ventura or Alain Delon
#FilmSky
- A meticulously planned heist goes horribly wrong;
- 1950s Mexican melodrama;
- Doomed romance, preferably 1940s/‘50s;
- Anything featuring Cary Grant;
- French noir, preferably with JP Belmondo, Lino Ventura or Alain Delon
#FilmSky
- Films from 1932 in which three chorus girl gold diggers who share a flat try to survive the Depression
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
- Craggy former gunslinger bleakly confronts his life’s work
- Miscarriage of justice documentary
- Half-arsed ‘80s buddy comedy
- Holly Hunter whispering
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
My top 5 movie genres:
• Black comedies that skewer the media and modern life
• Existential journeys through the mind of the most neurotic person you know
• Ragtag crews investigating poorly understood phenomena
• Bleak sci-fi
• Sprawling ensemble stories with too many interwoven characters
• Black comedies that skewer the media and modern life
• Existential journeys through the mind of the most neurotic person you know
• Ragtag crews investigating poorly understood phenomena
• Bleak sci-fi
• Sprawling ensemble stories with too many interwoven characters
No one in Detroit is doing anything even remotely like MRKT, easily one of the best bands in the city right now. Experimental space-prog inflected with jazz fusion and krautrock, incredible jams and unusual time signatures, totally fantastic live. Link to their music in comments!
November 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
No one in Detroit is doing anything even remotely like MRKT, easily one of the best bands in the city right now. Experimental space-prog inflected with jazz fusion and krautrock, incredible jams and unusual time signatures, totally fantastic live. Link to their music in comments!
#NowPlaying The Natural Bridge is my favorite Silver Jews album, hard stop. Nearly every song embodies the psychic geography of eternal skin-ripping melancholy like nothing else except maybe all his other music.
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
#NowPlaying The Natural Bridge is my favorite Silver Jews album, hard stop. Nearly every song embodies the psychic geography of eternal skin-ripping melancholy like nothing else except maybe all his other music.
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Name the book this could be about.
November 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Name the book this could be about.
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Over at @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote about the Freedom to Spend/ @rvngintl.bsky.social reissue of Sister Irene O'Connor's 1973 LP Fire of God's Love, an album of experimental electronic folk-pop devotionals that has the power to thaw yr hardened heart.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/12/s...
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Sister Irene O’Connor :: Fire of God’s Love - Aquarium Drunkard
Originally issued by Phillips under the pseudonym Myriam Frances and long sought by vinyl collectors, Australian nun Sister Irene O'Connor's 1973 album Fire of God's Love sees official reissue this we...
aquariumdrunkard.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Over at @aquariumdrunkard.com, I wrote about the Freedom to Spend/ @rvngintl.bsky.social reissue of Sister Irene O'Connor's 1973 LP Fire of God's Love, an album of experimental electronic folk-pop devotionals that has the power to thaw yr hardened heart.
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/12/s...
aquariumdrunkard.com/2025/11/12/s...
How it feels to make a new folder in my Google Drive for a publication I haven't worked with before.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
How it feels to make a new folder in my Google Drive for a publication I haven't worked with before.
My latest review for Uncut!
November 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
My latest review for Uncut!
#NowPlaying New experimental ambient neo-classical drone out of Detroit. Michael Malis (pipe organ, piano, melodica) & Zara Teicher (French horn, harmonium, melodica) recorded this in St. Anthony’s Cathedral, w/the space as a third ensemble member of sorts.
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
Retreat, by Michael Malis & Zara Teicher
4 track album
lowversions.bandcamp.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
#NowPlaying New experimental ambient neo-classical drone out of Detroit. Michael Malis (pipe organ, piano, melodica) & Zara Teicher (French horn, harmonium, melodica) recorded this in St. Anthony’s Cathedral, w/the space as a third ensemble member of sorts.
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
lowversions.bandcamp.com/album/retreat
Does the inside count?
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Does the inside count?
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Detroit pianist Kenny Cox was born on this day in 1940. Cox made two excellent late-1960s albums for Blue Note with The Contemporary Jazz Quintet including his debut “Introducing Kenny Cox” which was reissued in our Classic Vinyl Series. Listen or get the vinyl here: bluenote.lnk.to/IntroducingK...
November 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Detroit pianist Kenny Cox was born on this day in 1940. Cox made two excellent late-1960s albums for Blue Note with The Contemporary Jazz Quintet including his debut “Introducing Kenny Cox” which was reissued in our Classic Vinyl Series. Listen or get the vinyl here: bluenote.lnk.to/IntroducingK...
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If yoire reading Patti Smith’s new memoir, BREAD OF ANGELS, & want to learn more about her life may I recommmend WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS, currently on sale (as all all UTP books!) for 40% off with the code UTXGIFTS utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
Why Patti Smith Matters
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found—what she fostered—was a cultural rev...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
If yoire reading Patti Smith’s new memoir, BREAD OF ANGELS, & want to learn more about her life may I recommmend WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS, currently on sale (as all all UTP books!) for 40% off with the code UTXGIFTS utpress.utexas.edu/9781477320112/
Hey, the Arkestra got a GRAMMY nomination! How about that! (Apparently it's their second; I missed the first one back in 2021.)
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hey, the Arkestra got a GRAMMY nomination! How about that! (Apparently it's their second; I missed the first one back in 2021.)
This beauty arrived today!
November 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This beauty arrived today!
#NowPlaying Undercurrent (1962), Jim Hall and Bill Evans. One of my favorite jazz guitar joints and a great autumn album, too.
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#NowPlaying Undercurrent (1962), Jim Hall and Bill Evans. One of my favorite jazz guitar joints and a great autumn album, too.
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NEW EPISODE! Detroit music writer & film buff @motherslug.bsky.social joins us on our podcast time machine to revisit the 2013 Coen Brothers' anti-biopic Inside Llewyn Davis.
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S2 Episode 2: Inside Inside Llewyn Davis with Ana Gavrilovska
Podcast Episode · The Female Bob Dylan · 10/24/2025 · 55m
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October 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NEW EPISODE! Detroit music writer & film buff @motherslug.bsky.social joins us on our podcast time machine to revisit the 2013 Coen Brothers' anti-biopic Inside Llewyn Davis.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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"I loved playing with Joe Henderson and them ... When you make another person feel good, that’s when it’s righteous. And not just me playing the drums, but when I can do something to make them feel good to play their instrument." – Roger Humphries
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
"I loved playing with Joe Henderson and them ... When you make another person feel good, that’s when it’s righteous. And not just me playing the drums, but when I can do something to make them feel good to play their instrument." – Roger Humphries
Blue Note, one of the most important sources of American music, being founded by a couple of immigrants is yet another reminder where the value of this stupid country really comes from.
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Blue Note, one of the most important sources of American music, being founded by a couple of immigrants is yet another reminder where the value of this stupid country really comes from.
Woody Shaw looking absolutely terrific in this Francis Wolff photo.
October 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Woody Shaw looking absolutely terrific in this Francis Wolff photo.
#NowPlaying This album was recorded in two sessions, one of which was HALLOWEEN 1963, which I personally find completely delightful. Do we think there's even a sliver (😉) of a chance that the Van Gelder Studio was decorated with some gorgeous Beistle cats and pumpkins?!
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
#NowPlaying This album was recorded in two sessions, one of which was HALLOWEEN 1963, which I personally find completely delightful. Do we think there's even a sliver (😉) of a chance that the Van Gelder Studio was decorated with some gorgeous Beistle cats and pumpkins?!
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Listening to @johnsemley3000.bsky.social's excellent Vineland podcast as I read the book and a lovely surprise to hear @motherslug.bsky.social sharing her thoughts
October 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Listening to @johnsemley3000.bsky.social's excellent Vineland podcast as I read the book and a lovely surprise to hear @motherslug.bsky.social sharing her thoughts
#NowPlaying Out in a few days, this terrific previously unreleased recording of Horace Silver & his quintet (incl. Woody Shaw & Joe Henderson) live at The Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, 1965. There's an almost 20-minute version of "Sayonara Blues" that absolutely fuckin' rips.
October 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
#NowPlaying Out in a few days, this terrific previously unreleased recording of Horace Silver & his quintet (incl. Woody Shaw & Joe Henderson) live at The Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, 1965. There's an almost 20-minute version of "Sayonara Blues" that absolutely fuckin' rips.
Saturday morning tunes.
October 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Saturday morning tunes.