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Rumpus Mixtape

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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #11: Conversation Hearts

  • Anna March
  • February 8, 2012
Conversation Hearts Two Words. Infinite Meanings. True Love. Missed Connections. 50% Divorce. First Date. Happy Nights. Sad Days. Star Crossed. Wedded Bliss. Bad Breakup. Holding Hands. Making Out. Great Sex. Poly…
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #9: Chilly Scenes of Winter

  • Anna March
  • January 25, 2012
  You can see the architecture of things in winter. Structures glisten. Naked trees drip with clear popsicles. We find ourselves alone with ourselves. Everyone else has gone away to…
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Aural Fixations, the Rumpus Mixtape #8: Van Gogh

  • Anna March
  • January 20, 2012
  Van Gogh … beauty that breaks your heart. Vincent painting images that he had to view through the bars of the asylum.  Vincent eating his paints.
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #7: Revelry

  • Anna March
  • January 11, 2012
Revelry. A raw expression of joy. Delight. It’s loud, laughing, possibly bawdy, frequently boozy.
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #6: Drinking Red Wine

  • Anna March
  • January 4, 2012
There are picnics where people discuss how long the potato salad can be out in the heat and there are picnics where people discuss Wittgenstein. At Wittgenstein picnics, the people…
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #5: Maudlin

  • Anna March
  • December 28, 2011
Maudlin:  a feeling we don’t so much encounter as create.  A sad place with funereal bits and a ladle of self-pity. Darker than Fitzgerald’s dark night of the soul, it…
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #4: Reading Didion

  • Anna March
  • December 21, 2011
  Great writers wound us. Their words cut into our bodies; their ideas become notions of ourselves. Cue Joan Didion. She stitches sentences through your brain. You emerge exhausted and…
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #3: Revolution in the Air

  • Anna March
  • December 14, 2011
Revolution begins with devotion to a moral vision and a belief that egregious wrongs must be made right.  In this way all revolutions are a revolution within. These days, there is…
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Aural Fixations, The Rumpus Mixtape #2: Chicago

  • Anna March
  • December 7, 2011
  Chicago. Sometimes it gets overlooked as a great city as we tend to focus our energies on considering the coasts and leave the interior as a great blur in…
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