Esme Blegvad
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Allison Crutchfield’s Sewing Machine
When I’m away touring, my clothes are my connection to home, my way of feeling myself.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”
[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Kurt Wagner’s One-of-a-Kind Hat
I try not to think about fashion. It’s more that I want to settle on something to wear so I don’t have to think about it.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Lucy Dacus’s Journals
What I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thao Nguyen’s Release
The thing I want to talk about is something I’m not in possession of anymore, but of all the things I’ve lost it’s the thing I think about the most.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Jad Fair
If you’re doing what makes you happy, it’s easier for you to be happy, and if you’re lucky, to make others happy too.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Mike Adams’s Uncompromising Taste
This stuff is my favorite drink in the world, but there’s a lot more to it than that.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Laura Ballance’s Ghost Stories
There is one story that my mother used to tell me often, which has become in some ways a symbol of my childhood.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Torres’s Family Portrait
I’m constantly making up stories, and writing histories, even when I’m not putting them into songs.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Benji Hughes’s Pareidolia
Love is irrational and it’s supernatural. It’s also probably what we want/need most.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Mark and Frances Quinlan’s Favorite Things
What I want/need/love most is to be with my family.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Sonny Smith’s Skate Zine
In one way or another we all tell stories to ourselves about who we are.